Will Plasma 5.5 be released in Leap 42.1?

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Maybe it’s a silly question, I don’t know, I’m not fully informed about openSUSE news…
But, since Plasma 5.5 fixes A LOT of bugs, is there a chance to be released for Leap 42.1?

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It is available through this repo:

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/

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Thanks for the feedback, will it arrive to the stable repos?

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The OSS (and non-OSS) repos of a specific openSUSE release will not change during their lifetime. This is not a rolling release (then go for Tumbleweed), but a fixed bunch of software that is tested together and stays together.

Security fixes and very important functionalty fixes (called “Recommended”) are released as retrofitted through the Update repos.

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Leap 42.1

Would this suit me also ? I have been experiencing frequent (Plasma) crashes, where it continually resets itself, just moving through directories, opening then closing image files.

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If you are having problems with plasma 5.4 then it makes sense to install plasma 5.5.

I installed plasma 5.5 yesterday (although using the latest tumbleweed rather than Leap) and it all works fine. Although I was not having any issues here with plasma 5.4.

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there is a bug with dolphin’s activities plugin that crashes dolphin, wolfi had a fix
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/510602-Dolphin-crashes-on-right-click?p=2735088#post2735088
disabling the activities plugin or using oxygen instead of breeze works too.

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Testing this suggestion - so far so good.

remove ~/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/

Logged out of Plasma 5 and logged into IceWM

Opened a console and using midnight commander - moved the kactivitymanagerd folder into /home.

Rebooted into Plasma 5

Tested opening image files in several hard drives. Seems to be working

Still testing …

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Also came across this log. Can anyone throw some light on this ? is it possible to install another version of libQt5Sql ?

kactivitymanage[1576]: segfault at 7fb33d5abd10 ip 00007fb33d7f269a sp 00007fff1877c3a8 error 4 in libQt5Sql.so.5.5.0[7fb33d7dd000+3f000]

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Not easily.
But Qt 5.5.1 has been submitted as update for Leap.

You can ignore that crash though. It’s a bug in kactivitymanager and probably fixed in 5.17.0. Shouldn’t cause real problems though.