First impression of ROME 24.07

Hello everyone,

There are some things not looking as they should in Wayland znver1 release, and they’re mostly regarding Welcome screen

  • the font is not being rendered correctly, at least not in 3440 x 1440
  • when installing some apps from Welcome, root passwd is required twice
  • would have been nice to cache the password temporarily, so that users wouldn’t have to enter it for everything
  • Gimp doesn’t have its name listed
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  • some apps have the same icon, the one used all over Welcome
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  • the only distro in the recent years that didn’t detect my wireless printers. Luckily Brother actually provides the Linux drivers, so that users don’t have to set everything up manually
  • mouse inconsistency when hovering over dnfdragora. Pointer size almost doubles, when scaling is involved
  • by default single click opens, does not only select
  • kdedevelop actually doesn’t install, it complains about a dependency

Buttom line, I actually really enjoy this release! It’s blazingly fast, not a heavy resource user (not light either), and really beautiful. Feels like a labour of love.
Also, it’s the first time in a long time since I haven’t encounter any showstoppers for me.

Great work!
Got it set up as my daily driver. I just hope I won’t regret using Wayland instead of X11
Ideas on setting up KDevelop will be greatly appreciated :slight_smile:

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A typo.
Fixed, thanks.

Does this help?
https://wiki.openmandriva.org/en/distribution/guides/how-tos/printer

IIRC for Brother you need
task-printing-misc
not sure though, let’s wait for someone who know.

That’s intended, easy to change.

sudo dnf --refresh install plasma6-kdevelop

It is :wink:

Thank you for the feedback

Thank you!
KDevelop installed without a problem with your help
For Brother I believe the easiest way is to just use their install tool. It works on OM

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