Awesome!!!!

So would this ISO have KDE apps or GNOME apps? and would it have KDE Wallet? or KDE PIM? will it be stock KDE, or Solus styled, or a hybrid of KDE but GTK apps?

Adding myself. Said I'll test when it's published, will do so.

Is the Akonadi bug still a problem @sunnyflunk? I have it working on my install. Had to install Mariadb-server and do an 'update-mime-database' on the /usr/share/mime folder.

On the test iso all I had to do was run the mime update to get it working.

Seems the default settings are for MySql, and while akonadi is suppose to be able to work with sqlite3, I just couldn't get it to work on my installed Plasma. Stopped the akonadi server, deleted all the user configs (~/.config/akonadi & ~/.local/share/akonadi), installed mariadb & mariadb-server. Restarted akonadi, but it was still crashing with an error in ~/.xsessions-errors, "Wrong payload type (requested: sp(0)<QByteArray>". A little googling showed it was a mime problem, so ran the update. Tried that on the testing iso and it worked there too. It's all working now, calendar, to-dos, journal, etc. Reboot the system and it's still working, everything's there.

Have no interest in kmail or any of that, so I haven't tested them. But hope this helps.

BTW, if there's somewhere else you'd rather users report things for Plasma, please let me know.

@folcred indeed it was still an issue (and a full blocker at that). I did find though that building it with clang resulted in it working without the mime update oddly enough (though maybe not correctly). This could have an impact on other parts of the system, so will definitely follow it up.

If you have solid solutions like this, you can report it anywhere you like!

@sunnyflunk, if it helps, this is the link that put me on to the mime problem. It mentions a conflict between XDG_DATA_DIRS and ld.conf, so maybe that's why clang-built ones work?

So while we wait for this treasure, can you give us instructions to install Plasma on our existing Solus install?

@GNOME-IS-LIFE the easiest is to become a patreon ?

@GNOME-IS-LIFE, you can install if from the software center, just grab both KDE Desktop and KDE Desktop - Core System. But be warned, there will be problems. None of the current isos (Budgie, Gnome, MATE) were designed to accommodate Plasma, so there will be issues. Start-up daemons conflict, power management may or may not work... Plasma's default single-click won't work... themeing can be a problem... etc., etc.

If you know your way around a Linux system and know Plasma/Qt fairly well, all these issues are repairable. If not, I'd recommend waiting for a Plasma iso. I don't think it will be much longer, given the state it's in now.

Having said that, Plasma works great on Solus. I've been using it as my daily driver for about 6 weeks or more now. Once I got the problems I mentioned cured, it's been flawless. Of course, when a Plasma iso does come out, it won't have any of the problems installing on top of Budgie/Gnome/MATE has now, the iso will be built for it. That's why installing it on top of one of the others really doesn't help with bug hunting, most of the problems encountered aren't actually bugs, they're conflicts with the existing DE environment.

@sudopluto Ha well when I originally made this account, GNOME was life! but now, KDE is love! (Budgie is also good, but KDE has blur and global menu!!)

@folcred Could that be the reason I can't start KDE? 'Cause my main DE is Budgie but I've installed Plasma and all that is needed in order to launch a Plasma session and I have set SDDM as my DM (which works great btw), but Plasma fails to start. All it does is give me a black screen after choosing the Plasma session in SDDM.

I really can't say @Vistaus, I'm not familiar with SDDM. I use LightDM myself. I don't think the display manager would make a difference, but I don't know for sure. It shouldn't.

There's some possibilities that should be noted:

1. Plasma takes a lot longer to load up than it use to, so my guess is it's doing more behind the scenes, though I haven't bothered to find out what. This is a Plasma issue, not Solus. There's been quite a bit of talk about it from users on forums across the web.
2. When you start Plasma for the first time on a new install, it does a lot of setup and configuration, which adds to the startup delay. It should start, but waiting a minute or more, especially on a slower spinning drive, isn't that unusual.

Assuming you're giving it enough time to have configured it's user account defaults (and not gotten impatient and killed X to restart), the only thing I can suggest is checking the logs. There should be something in the journal that would tell why it's not starting, or what is failing/missing.

@folcred Thanks. I also can't get Plasma to start from LightDM.

1. Plasma may take longer to start, but even after several minutes it's still all black for me, the desktop doesn't ever load.
2. I have an SSD, but even so, it doesn't load even after several minutes of looking at the black screen.

What log should I check?

From a terminal run sudo journalctl -r. Normally you would just use journalctl to show your user's logs, but running as root will ensure you see all the logs. The "-r" switch tells journalctl to start from the last entries in the logs instead of the first. Depending on how much has gone on since you last tried, you may still have to scroll through a bit. You're mainly looking for errors from the DM, Plasma or Kwin, but any errors are worth noting.

If you want to learn more about the journal and journalctl, man journalctl will give you a lot of information.

@folcred Thanks a lot! That did help me to find some KDE(-related) errors. But I don't really know what to do next 'cause it seems to me like stuff is missing from the KDE packages. But I could be wrong. Maybe you could take a look? The journal was the most readable from a TTY, so I took some sharp photos of it.

https://s13.postimg.org/qrk90uxpz/IMG_20180127_142515.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/91ikfswzr/IMG_20180127_142540.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/6k6t8ipxz/IMG_20180127_142554.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/i9aswgtrb/IMG_20180127_142610.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/r4bn70l4n/IMG_20180127_142626.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/unxkwsszb/IMG_20180127_142729.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/jbkzf0s07/IMG_20180127_142808.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/k13rrfi9z/IMG_20180127_142823.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/4sdudmeav/IMG_20180127_142935.jpg
https://s13.postimg.org/42v21a0wn/IMG_20180127_142949.jpg

I don't understand this one at all @Vistaus. It appears that SDDM is killing the X server before Plasma even starts.
https://s13.postimg.org/jbkzf0s07/IMG_20180127_142808.jpg

In the first five lines things are pretty normal, then SDDM removes the main display and kills the X server! All the rest of the messages are things trying to connect to X which isn't there anymore. I've seen similar errors when X didn't start, but I've never seen a DM start and then kill the X server during a login.

In many of the other images there's lines that look like a bunch of Gnome/Budgie services are starting, which is blocking KDE's services, access to dbus for one.

How did you install Plasma? Did you do sudo eopkg install -c desktop.kde? It does seem like some things are missing too.

Also, have you tried from a cold boot? Power off and start again? Everything should be cleared from memory on a reboot, but with some hardware that doesn't always happen. A cold start will ensure memory is cleared.
I would suggest:

• If you haven't already, install desktop.kde
• Switch back to lightDM. You said earlier you tried it, so I'll assume you know how to switch display managers.
• With that done, do a cold boot. Power off, wait about 10 seconds, then power on.

If none of this helps, I'd file a bug report. These are the kinds of things sunnyflunk needs to know about before Plasma is considered ready. I'd probably file a bug report against SDDM anyway. I see no reason for it to be killing X during login.

@folcred Thank you so much! I've reinstalled KDE and it now finally works. Not sure what was wrong, maybe something got borked during the previous install but it's solved now. Plasma on Wayland isn't working though. I know it's experimental, but still. But the X11 session is working great now. Thanks again! :-)