By: Nate

In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/08/this-week-in-kde-a-deluge-of-new-features/comment-page-1/#comment-39063">James Rutland</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I have no idea. There are many reasons why this could be, and you'll have to do your own research to find out for yourself which reason applies to your personal setup.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...

By: Nate

In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/08/this-week-in-kde-a-deluge-of-new-features/comment-page-1/#comment-39051">Blargh</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Of course there are actual bugs in KDE software, due to the incredible diversity of environments in which people use it which is vastly beyond what the core dev team can test. But we can't fix those bugs if we don't know about them, which is why we rely on bug reports.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...

By: Daniel

In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/08/this-week-in-kde-a-deluge-of-new-features/comment-page-1/#comment-39054">Sojiro84</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I assume you're using Arch Linux, correct?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If you are, that's why. The phonon-qt6-backend package should technically only require libvlc (and not the entire VLC program), but Arch does not split VLC into smaller parts, so you get the whole thing.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>A long time ago someone proposed the split of VLC, but it was declined: <a href="https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21934.html" rel="nofollow ugc">https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21934.html</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>If you are an mpv user (and that's why you see no need for VLC), you can install phonon-qt6-mpv-git from the AUR instead.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...