On Friday, August 15, 2025 3:37:19 PM Central Daylight Time Aurélien COUDERC wrote: > Dear Robert, > > Le 15 août 2025 19:14:50 GMT+02:00, "Robert B. Carleton" <[email protected]> a écrit : > >Over last weekend, I installed Debian 13 with KDE as a clean install. I had > >been using KDE on OpenSUSE and thought I might try Debian's take. Overall > >it's been a good experience. I don't know why I hadn't tried KDE on Debian > >before. There are some comments/questions however. > > Nice, welcome here ! 🙂 > > >I've become a devoted Kontact user. One thing I noticed moving over to > >Debian was the PIM Data Exporter not importing. It would let me select an > >import file, then select what I wanted to import. The Exporter complained > >that it couldn't find the file on the next step. I gave up and setup > >Kontact from scratch importing PIM data one application at a time. That > >did the job, but it took a little longer than I would have liked. Any > >chance that the PIM Data Exporter should be importing, or will support > >imports in the future? > > I don't think it is known to not work. Could you manage to get some logs or > any kind of message from it that would help diagnose the issue ?
I'll try to turn up some debugging and recreate the situation. It was a clean home directory created by the installer. I didn't try to start with my OpenSUSE home directory. > >The other question I have is about Falkon. It works well enough to do most > >of the non-commercial browsing I do, plus some news sites. I was curious > >how well its keeping up with security patching. I'm trying to get away > >from Chromium and Firefox when possible. Any caveats about using it? > > Falkon is using Qt's WebEngine module. > > For bookworm we had an LTS of Qt so it was easy to ship patch releases (it > currently has 5.15.18 and not 5.15.15 from the initial release). > > Not sure yet what will happen with Qt6 (I'm not the Qt maintainer, working > mostly on the KDE side of things). Security fixes are supposed to be public > but not the complete LTS releases from the Qt company, so shipping thesr > that would require a lot of backporting. > > And btw Qt WebEngine is embedding a snapshot of the chomium code so I'm not > sure falkon is the right candidate for your goal… I'm okay with the chromium core. I'd rather send KDE telemetry than Google any day, if I send any at all. > >Anyway, thanks to the Debian community for a terrific distribution. It's > >really terrific. > > Thanks, hope to see you around ! > (And although the packaging work is real, somewhat thankless and never > ending I'd still say we ship something terrific first and foremost thanks > to the excellent job done by upstream KDE !) > > -- > Aurélien I'll see you guys around. I think I'm going to be using Trixie for a while.
