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Following the manual instructions triggers a known bug #11

Open nerdfever opened 1 year ago

nerdfever commented 1 year ago

In section 3.2.1 ("Global themes") of https://github.com/kubuntu-team/kubuntu-manual/releases/tag/v22.04.1, the reader is advised to:

To change your global theme follow these steps:

  1. Open System Settings
  2. Left-click ‘Appearance’
  3. Now choose from the list of installed themes
  4. Pick from the default choices that are installed, or left-click the ‘Get New Global Themes. . . ’ button for more choices

If the reader follows those instructions, she will trigger a bug that turns the wallpaper black, removes text from underneath each desktop icon, causes windows to paint incorrectly, mouse droppings, and more.

Per arraybolt3 on IRC today, this is a known bug (and fixed in the latest version). But this is specifically the manual for 22.04.1 LTS, which has the bug. Therefore the manual probably should not direct the reader (by definition a new user) to do this.

nerdfever commented 1 year ago

I hate to add to anybody's workload, but actually testing the manual against the distribution would have caught this one.

ahoneybun commented 1 year ago

I can't seem to recreate this issue on my system with 22.04.2 at least.

ArrayBolt3 commented 1 year ago

This is my fault. I didn't check the manual closely enough.

The Global Themes instructions do, in fact, work and not cause a crash. What causes a crash is if you also check the "Use desktop layout from theme" box in System Settings when changing a theme. I forgot about that. I had been working on that crash bug for a while, and so I jumped to conclusions that I shouldn't have.