From: field.engineer@gmail.com   
      
   On 7/17/21 1:18 PM, Michael Black wrote:   
   > On Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 10:30:02 AM UTC-4, Jimmy Johnson wrote:   
   >> In kde plasma 'Systemsettings' I use icon view, opening 'Appearance' I   
   >> see two 'Global Theme' modules and it's been giving me problems. I've   
   >> checked 6 installs all have the bug, all have duplicate global theme   
   >> modules.   
   >   
   > If you find a "bug" don't tell us, tell Slackware.  They want feedback,   
   especially at this time. They can't fix things they don't know about.   
      
   I fixed it here, by not using the the icon view. It is a plasma5 bug   
   that kde should to fix and kde has gone corporate, not much help there.   
      
   The legacy nvidia problems don't seem to be a problem if using the   
   breeze splash or any other installed splash or no splash, it's my   
   downloaded splash that's causing the problem with some bits not working   
   while using the legacy driver. Nvidia says their not going fix the   
   driver any more and I have no idea what slackware or any other distro   
   can do anything about it. I'm a old linux tester, was testing debian   
   until systemd and I've only been back testing slackware the last 4 yrs.   
   and I don't trust my judgement about contacting Patrick, I may interrupt   
   his dinner.   
      
   > If you actually read the changelog, it's routine to see something updated,   
   then a few days later a bug fix, sometimes with a thanks.  There are an awful   
   lot of tiny little things.  14.2 was missing something, something like a   
   parallel port descriptor,    
   and somehow it wasn't noticed until after the release.  A tiny little thing,   
   and just an oversight.   
      
   > At the same time, what may be a bug may be fixed very soon, because it's   
   been noticed, and fixed.   
      
   I would like to see 14.2 with kde4 maintained for a longtime, I like a   
   stable system and I have fond memories of kde4, I like using 'yawp'   
   weather widget and kdf and it was the kde4 release party where I met   
   Patrick and he installed version 13.* on my laptop and we hung out for   
   awhile. I was testing mepis, debian and kde at that time, working   
   directly with the developers while testing and helping get bugs fixed.   
      
   14.2 is missing ffmpeg, I started testing that yesterday, it seems their   
   maybe security problems with ffmpeg, I'm going to try as many versions   
   as I can, but the kde desktop sharing with the internet seems to not   
   help security at all.   
      
   Lost in Slackware,   
   --   
   Jimmy Johnson   
      
   Slackware64 Current - i7-2820QM - EXT4 at sda9   
   Registered Linux User #380263   
      
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