July 28, 2024

KDE Snaps, Kubuntu, Debian updates and “Oh no, not again..”


Posted on July 28, 2024 by sgmoore

This week our family suffered another loss with my brother in-law. We will miss him dearly. On our way down to Phoenix to console our nephew that just lost his dad our car blew up. Last week we were in a roll over accident that totaled our truck and left me with a broken arm. We are now in great need of a new vehicle. Please consider donating to this fund: https://gofund.me/033eb25d . Kubuntu is out of money and I am between work packages with the ‘project’. We are 50 miles away from the closest town for supplies, essentials such as water requires a vehicle.

I have had bad years before ( covid ) in which I lost my beloved job at Blue Systems. I made a vow to myself to never let my personal life affect my work again. I have so far kept that promise to myself and without further ado I present to you my work.

Kubuntu:

  • Many SRUs awaiting verification stage including the massive apparmor policy bug.
  • sddm fix for the black screen on second boot has passed verification and should make .1 release.
  • See Debian for the qt6 Plasma / applications work.

Debian:

  • qtmpv – in NEW
  • arianna – in NEW
  • kamera – uploading today
  • kcharselect – Experimental
  • Tokodon – Done, but needs qtmpv to pass NEW
  • Gwenview – WIP needs kamera, kio-extras
  • kio-extras – WIP

KDE Snaps:

Please note: for the most part the Qt6 snaps are in –edge except the few in the ‘project’ that are heavily tested. Please help test the –edge snaps so I can promote them.

  • Elisa
  • Okular
  • Konsole ( please note this is a confined terminal for the ‘project’ and not very useful except to ssh to the host system )
  • Kwrite
  • Gwenview
  • Kate ( –classic )
  • Gcompris
  • Alligator
  • Ark
  • Blinken
  • Bomber
  • Bovo
  • Calindori
  • Digikam
  • Dragon
  • Falkon
  • Filelight

WIP Snaps or MR’s made

  • KSpacedual
  • Ksquares
  • KSudoku
  • KTuberling
  • Kubrick
  • lskat
  • Palapeli
  • Kajongg
  • Kalzium
  • Kanagram
  • Kapman
  • Katomic
  • KBlackBox
  • KBlocks
  • KBounce
  • KBreakOut
  • KBruch

Please note that 95% of the snaps are free-time work. The project covers 5. I am going as fast as I can between Kubuntu/Debian and the project commitments. Not to mention I have only one arm! My GSOC student is also helping which you can read all about here: https://soumyadghosh.github.io/website/interns/gsoc-2024/gsoc-week-3-week-7/

There is still much work to do in Kubuntu to be Plasma 6 ready for Oracular and they are out of funds. I will still continue my work regardless, but please consider donating until we can procure a consistent flow of funding : https://kubuntu.org/donate/

Thank you for reading and have a blessed day!


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