I restored Discover to my Bazzite install using a Systemd-Sysext. Essentially a sub disk image that is loaded during boot of the immutable system, that way you dont have to layer all the plasma components this would usually require!
Neat! No shade to the #bazaar devs
If people want instructions I guess I can write something up over the weekend
#bazzite #ublue #fedora #atomicdesktops #kde #kdediscover #flatpak #immutable #sysext #systemd
I don't understand the excitement for #bazaar the new #flatpak frontend created for #bazzite and #UniversalBlue.
It doesn't seem to do anything better than #kdediscover and looks extremely out of place on #plasma.
I'm kind of confused
The most annoying thing about these apps (#Vivaldi, but also #Tokodon, and who knows how many else), at least as installed from #KDEDiscover is that —I don't know if because of Flatpak or whatever— they complain about not having access to a vault or password manager or something like that (sorry, don't remember the exact phrasing and I'm in desktop mode now). This might be a limitation of the #SteamDeck gaming mode though, for all I know.
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This week's Linux and FOSS news:
LINUX NEWS
Cinnamon 5.4 will come with a refreshed, more modern default theme outside Linux Mint, the distro will get 2 new tools (Captain and Aptkit) for managing native packages:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/linux-mint-new-default-cinnamon-theme-more
(They should also include a pre-configured LightDM outside Mint because it's literally impossible to make it work manually...)
GNOME 47 RC is available for public testing, with experimental color management protocol for Mutter, initial PipeWire explicit sync support, functional drag-and-drop support between X11 and Wayland clients, improved File Chooser etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/gnome-47-release-candidate-is-now-available-for-public-testing
KDE Plasma 6.1.5 released with faster search feature in Discover, ability to drag-and-drop stuff onto a Plasma panel on Wayland when it’s in auto-hide mode, Weather Report widget let's to search for places which contain umlaut in their names etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-1-5-released-with-more-bug-fixes-for-plasma-6-1-users
KDE Plasma 6.2 beta released which lets to set brightness per monitor, override programs preventing sleep or screen lock, supports Wayland's color management protocol, full support for Sticky Keys on Wayland, provides official support for Discover on postmarketOS, option to reboot after installing offline updates, shows license info of programs more precisely:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing-heres-whats-new
KDE Gear 24.08.1 released, Spectacle now lets paste non-PNG screenshots from clipboard to other programs, other KDE programs also got several bug fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-24-08-1-brings-more-improvements-to-your-favorite-kde-apps
KDE Frameworks 6.6 released with desktop independent thumbnail generation, unified theming, other improvements:
https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-6-is-out-with-support-for-cross-desktop-thumbnail-generators
(Wow, 4 KDE news in a row! What a week!)
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For what it's worth, I have now filed a feature suggestion in the "Warehouse" #flatpak management app regarding the ability to manage extra languages for spellchecking & dictionaries, for those who use Warehouse as their primary tool: https://github.com/flattool/warehouse/issues/120
I still think it would make sense to also have this in #GNOMESoftware and #KDEDiscover for the majority of people who use those.
My proposal does not exist in the PLANNED & NOT PLANNED.md document I have not found any other opened issues on the same feature request I believe this fits within Warehouse's scope of Flatpak mana...
Ok, the laptop is finally up and running again. But what a journey!
I'm still not hundred percent sure what happened, but my guess is that #kdediscover (with integrated support for #lvfs) initiated a #bios update without me noticing the day before. And as I was in a hurry and distracted, I accidentally hard-reset the machine during the update that ran on the next boot and therefore corrupting the flash content.
I guess I will disable LVFS as update source in Discover for now...
If I look at flathub.org/apps/io.gitlab.lib… and github.com/flathub/io.gitlab.l… they say LibreWolf is at v121. Why does Discover keep wanting to downgrade it from v119 to v118?
Shout out to @matk who just keeps on solidly working through big features on https://github.com/ximion/appstream/ ready for the 1.0 release! 🥳
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