On March 14, 2017 6:05:17 PM GMT+01:00, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 03/14/2017 06:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Eek. That's not nice. You have masked frameworks-5.32.0 and >plasma-5.9.3 >> packages (presumably you got all of them), and you missed something >in >> the huge chain that needs one or more of them. > >Oops, you are absolutely correct. In fact, what I didn't mask is >=kde-frameworks/plasma-5.32.0-r1. > >And here's the funny part: I specifically only masked =*/*-5.32.0 >instead of ~*/*-5.32.0 so that I'll know when the bug gets potentially >fixed; it would result in this exact kind of breakage I got, reminding >me to try the update again. > >So I'll be trying the update again to see if the plasma revbumb is >there >to actually fix the desktop again. (The issue was that hovering over >icons or other items would highlight them but they would stay >highlighted forever even after the mouse moved somewhere else or even >if >you click somewhere else. So everything would be full of highlighted >icons.) > >Moral of the story: more coffee before posting :-P
I have seen this happen on MS Windows machines. (Customer supplied ones) I think it is related to some accessibility thing that accidentally gets enabled. (I simply reboot Windows as I prefer not to fight my way through a stupidly locked down system) Could be a similar cause with your KDE/Plasma issue? -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
