X11 regression

[chimak111]

Users who updated to Plasma 5.23.3 on some distros are having issues that, apparently, aren't related to the Plasma update itself but to X11.

There are some threads on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comment...thing_is_huge/
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comment...y_kde_related/

Related: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/.../-/issues/1241

[claydoh]

A reason to not use Arch-like systems, sometimes, since updating one's systems there has been considered a user error in some cases.
No Ubuntu version has this version of xserver.

[chimak111]

I was unaffected this time because I'm on Wayland in EndeavourOS. I did the update to Plasma 5.23.3 using pacman rather than Discover which I've disabled by deleting packagekit-qt5. (I can't get rid of Discover itself because I used the plasma-meta route to install KDE Plasma.)

But, yes, cutting edge can be bleeding edge

BTW, a Discover developer indicated that Discover's performance depends on how each distro manages the PackageKit plugin:

The truth is, Discover has an a very difficult job. It needs to aggregate data from multiple online sources (distro repos, Flatpak, Snap, store.kde.org) and display everything well, trying to de-duplicate cases of identical apps. It needs to handle network downtime for any or all of these sources. And for distro repos in particular, it needs to use an abstraction layer (the PackageKit library) to talk to the system's native package management system, because each distro has its own, and asking Discover to learn how to talk to all 20 or so of them is not feasible. So your experience with using Discover to get apps from your distro heavily depends on how well the distro's developers maintain the PackageKit plugin for their package management system. These range in quality from quite good to terrible.

It's just an inherently hard thing to get right. For what it's worth, GNOME Software (the GNOME equivalent) gets a lot of the same complaints that Discover gets, because it is trying to do the same thing and suffers from the same challenges. These are just hard problems to get right. More developers could help! Aleix is really the only one working on the backend; I mostly do front-end stuff, trying to make it prettier and improve the UI. But greater stability, reliability, and speed are also needed.

Source

This may also be worth a read.