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Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead

Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead

Posted Oct 20, 2016 13:35 UTC (Thu) by jem (subscriber, #24231)
In reply to: Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead by mgraesslin
Parent article: Kügler: Plasma’s road ahead

> And completely unrelated: KDE Konsole is not part of KDE Plasma. So you are not reaching the right devs here anyway.

It's not always easy for the uninitiated to find out where to report a bug. Especially anything related to graphics depends on a lot of layers of software. If using Kicker causes the desktop to lock up under Wayland, is the fault in Kicker, Plasma/kwin, KDE libraries, Wayland libs, libinput, Qt, Mesa, Nouveau, some other driver, or the kernel in general? I still haven't reported this, but I'm planning to do so once I find the time to investigate a bit which component to blame. It also makes it harder to find out if a problem is known already, if you don't know which bug tracker to search.

Another example is that I can't write my name in non-XWayland applications, because dead keys don't yet work. I was told Qt is to blame for this, but this would have been quite hard to figure out that without a clear picture of how the input events are routed and processed up the stack to the application. (As an aside, I hope the Qt guys are aware of this problem.)


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