It will be in the kubuntu backports ppa
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+...untu/backports
Update to Plasma 5.8.4 are also likely to land with it. Hopefully.
It will be in the kubuntu backports ppa
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+...untu/backports
Update to Plasma 5.8.4 are also likely to land with it. Hopefully.
Regarding the backports ppa ...
Can someone please explain the "unsupported" and "untrusted" aspects ? Is it safe to install the updates from the ppa ? Will these updates eventually flow back into the official updates ?You can update your system with unsupported packages from this untrusted PPA by adding ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports to your system's Software Sources.
Please see the info on kubuntu PPAs here:
https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu/PPAs
Thanks for that. I guess the worst thing that can happen is that I apply the updates and then my Kubuntu may break. lol
I see that Kubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) is released. Possibly a lot of the Kubuntu backports re KMail, Plasma, etc are contained within that release ?
The KDE applications are, yes.
16.10 also has Plasma 5.7.5 vs Xenial's 5.5.5 (or 5.6.5) in the backports ppa.
However, as said if /when we move our testing packages into the backports ppa, that will be plasma 5.8.4 for both 16.10 and 16.04.
So if you can have a little more patience while we test, there should be no reason to jump ship from whatever version you currently have. Unless of course you want something else non-kubuntu that is only in 16.10 etc
Plasma crashes at least 30 times a day and KMail at least that many times. I assume if I don't want to add the Kubuntu backports or ppa, then I should go to vers 16.10 , is that correct ?
Well, if you want my advice - which you are free to absolutely ignore - if you want a stable KDE, you should use Debian 8, instead of Kubuntu. I'm not criticizing Kubuntu, rather I am simply acknowledging that Plasma 5 is still under development by the KDE developers upstream, and in spite of Kubuntu's best efforts, it still has a number of bugs to work out, especially with Kwin's compositor.
Debian 8 maintains KDE 4, which is probably the most stable version of KDE available at present.
If you want to stick with Kubuntu I recommend 16.04 LTS, and perhaps disabling the compositor. Either way, Kmail has a few longstanding bugs - which you can usually work around.
Last edited by T.J.; January 9th, 2017 at 06:30 PM.
T.J.
As time goes on, Debian 8 is becoming more attractive. Will it run KMyMoney, LibreOffice, Dolphin. VLC, KMail, Keepassx, Filezilla,etc ?
I assume I would be going backwards, in terms of versions though.
If Thunderbird or some other email client can do all that KMail can do, then I'd change over. To me, KMail is pretty much 'broken' in Kubuntu 16.04.1
* Constantly hangs or resource problems. ONLY workaround is exit KMail, then akonadictl restart, then back into KMail and hope it works. But many times it doesn't, so exit KMail, restart ......
* Searching does NOT work at all
* There are ghost emails in a number of folders ?
* Folders are often not updated
That's seems like 'broken' to me.
Having major problems with KMail/akonadi , and need to contact akonadi support. Have tried the KDE forums to no avail.
Does anyone know who I can contact in regards to akonadi support please ? The issue mainly is to get the akonadi db data in synch with the file system.
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