| Summary: | Can't apply new themes anymore | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] systemsettings | Reporter: | Nate Graham <nate> |
| Component: | kcm_sddm | Assignee: | David Redondo <kde> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | grave | CC: | kde, null, plasma-bugs-null |
| Priority: | HI | Keywords: | regression |
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Blank error message | ||
David, could you have a look? Thanks! I tested again and it works but testing locally is a bit pelicular. 1. The usual kauth in a prefix things 2. Sddm uses config files in /etc and in /usr/lib but I am not sure what happens if sddm is also installed in a prefix. The kcm uses cmake to set the paths https://invent.kde.org/plasma/sddm-kcm/-/blob/master/src/CMakeLists.txt#L1 which will set them to your prefix if you install it to your prefix. I lack context to why this was done. 3. The blank error message is not good, we should probably fallback to errorText() if errorString() is empty and always print errorText() 1. I copy my prefix kauth stuff to / 2. I don't have a local SDDM build in the prefix path That's why I am suspecting it is not working. The kcm writes to the prefix (for example ~/kde/usr/etc/sddm.conf.d/) but your sddm reads only from (/etc/sddm.conf.d/) FWIW I was able to apply new themes with the old KCM even installed to a prefix. (In reply to Nate Graham from comment #5) > FWIW I was able to apply new themes with the old KCM even installed to a > prefix. Huh? The config file path generation and saving (via the helper) is the same as the old kcm. See the link above it uses CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_SYSCONFDIR and on my machine this evaluates to a path in my prefix One thing which then could be wrong is that we do not pass the correct arguments to the kauth helper, I will take another look I can repduce it but do not understand why it broke without touching the files Ok it worked for me, stopped working consistently (see above) and then I rebuild the kcm and kauth a bunch of times and it works again. I tested in a fresh neon unstable vm and there it works too Now that Plasma 5.21 is released, this is moot, since it works with released packages. |
Created attachment 134747 [details] Blank error message With the big new KCM rewrite, I can no longer apply new themes. This worked the first time I tested the KCM, but seems to have broken sometime between then and when it was merged. When I select a different theme and click on the "Apply" button, I get a blank error InlineMessage at the top of the KCM, and the new theme is not applied. See attached screenshot. Nothing particularly relevant is printed to the console.