On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 07:52:53 GMT Philip Webb wrote: > I manhandled a huge update of Qt + KDE last weekend > & am now using Qt-5.15.2 Frameworks-5.77.0 Plasma-5.20.5 . > It was necessary to unmerge the whole of Qt & remerge it > & ditto part of Frameworks : otherwise there were dependency conflicts. > Portage seems incapable of handling such situations by itself.
I did not encounter any such conflicts here, on a stable system. Portage updated Qt and KDE/Plasma unassisted by me. > The digital clock has disappeared from the panel. > I tried "add widgets" & can drag it to the panel, but it doesn't stay. > I tried another widget (simple calculator) as a test & can't remove it. > The icon for the clock in the "add widgets" menu has a small number > attached, which has now reached "10", suggesting that I've added 10 > versions, but none of them is viewable ; there is an invisible icon in the > panel which when R-clicked shows the display for editing the digital clock, > but when L-clicked shows a different widget. > > Gwenview now presents my ~/pix/ directory as "Pictures", > though its name remains the same in my file system. > > Has anyone else encountered these or other strange phenomena ? > Does anyone have a suggestion how to get back to normalcy ? Some packages have been updated again to later versions, e.g. dev-qt/ qtgui-5.15.2-r1, kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.20.5. Perhaps you caught portage on the hop at your last re-sync? I suggest you resync again and update @world.
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