Problems & (perhaps) bugs encountered with KDE Plasma 5

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Hi, my first post to this forum! :slight_smile:
I’ve been using openSUSE, & previously SuSE, for about 14 years.
I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed on a spare drive on another machine,
& found some problems (or maybe bugs) for which I’ve not found many
answers.

First of all:
On startup I get an HPLIP warning message:-
“No system tray detected on this system”
“Unable to start, exiting.”

Starting HPLIP from the Application Launcher menu, I get the same message.
Ticking the “Place in the systray” option, I get another message:
KDEInit could not launch ksystraycmd:
Could not open library ‘/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd’
Cannot load library /usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd: (/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
HPLIP is the latest version: 3.15.4

Running “locate libkdeinit5”, I get:
linux-tumbleweed:~> locate libkdeinit5
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kaccess.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kcalc.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kcminit.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kcminit_startup.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kcmshell5.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kded5.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_klauncher.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_klipper.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kmenuedit.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kmix.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kmixctrl.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_konsole.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_ksmserver.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kuiserver5.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kwin_rules_dialog.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kwin_wayland.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kwin_x11.so
/usr/lib64/libkdeinit5_kwrite.so

It appears that “libkdeinit5_ksystraycmd.so” is missing in kf5.
Whether this is deliberate, or an oversight, I don’t know.
But my guess would be that as it is missing, any other apps (such as Pidgin, Claws-Mail etc)
will be the reason why they also do not appear in the system tray?

Secondly: Although the Login sound is ticked in “KDE Workspace”, there is no sound.
Similarly on “Logout”. However all the other sounds are working ok.

Thirdly: The panel clock - it doesn’t seem like the font color can be changed in the right-click menu “Digital Clock Settings”, or that the
time can be changed to a 12 hour clock (instead of the default 24 hour clock) in System Settings > Locale.

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas?

System:-
openSUSE 64 bit
KDE Plasma Version: 5.3.0
Qt Version: 5.4.1
Kernel Version: 4.0.4-1-desktop
RAM: 8 GiB

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It is missing, yes. That’s deliberate. HPLIP’s option seems to be intended for KDE4 only.
And it seems to be not compatible with Plasma5 at all. I have heard of that problem, but don’t know whether there is a solution yet. Maybe a later version would work?
You don’t need hplip for printing anyway though.

But my guess would be that as it is missing, any other apps (such as Pidgin, Claws-Mail etc)
will be the reason why they also do not appear in the system tray?

No.
Plasma5 does not support old-style system tray icons at all any more.
See http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2014/06/where-are-my-systray-icons/

For some applications, installing certain additional packages might help, see that blog post.

Secondly: Although the Login sound is ticked in “KDE Workspace”, there is no sound.
Similarly on “Logout”. However all the other sounds are working ok.

That’s not implemented yet.
Will probably be in 5.4 though.

Thirdly: The panel clock - it doesn’t seem like the font color can be changed in the right-click menu “Digital Clock Settings”

That’s work in progress too.
See https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/507568-Plasma-5-3-Calendar-Widget-missing-information-and-functionality

or that the time can be changed to a 12 hour clock (instead of the default 24 hour clock) in System Settings > Locale.

Plasma5/KF5 just uses Qt’s locale support now (which in turn just uses the system facilities), instead of having its own thing.
At the moment you can change to a 12 hr clock by setting a time locale that uses a 12 hr clock.

Further improvements in this area are work in progress and depend on Qt5.

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I see. Thank you very much for your replies wolfi323.

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PS, regarding hplip (and a workaround for getting it to run) see also here:
https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/507479-HPLIP-and-plasma5?p=2714450#post2714450