Bug 2175510

Summary:	Disable plasma-welcome for live environments
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Component:	livesys-scripts	Assignee:	Neal Gompa <ngompa13>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	38	CC:	awilliam, fzatlouk, kde-sig, ngompa13, travier
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Whiteboard:	AcceptedFreezeException
Fixed In Version:	livesys-scripts-0.4.0-1.fc38	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2023-03-07 19:43:44 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Neal Gompa 2023-03-05 13:11:33 UTC

Description of problem:
Plasma Welcome does a great job of introducing people to Plasma, but it also offers prompts and settings that are inappropriate when booted into a live environment. This is inappropriate and can give the user the impression they are configuring the environment that they'll use (though that's not true at all).

Plasma Welcome needs to be disabled in live environments to avoid this problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.27.1-1.fc38

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot a Fedora KDE live image

Actual results:
Plasma Welcome starts up and gives a tour while helping the user configure the live environment.

Expected results:
Plasma Welcome does not do this.

Additional info:
There is upstream work to add a live environment specific mode, but this will not be ready for Fedora Linux 38.

Comment 1 Neal Gompa 2023-03-05 13:13:14 UTC

Blech, I write this ticket and realize I should have just written it more simply for livesys-scripts.

Changing to livesys-scripts...

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2023-03-05 13:44:30 UTC

FEDORA-2023-c4c9ebd7b5 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 38. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-c4c9ebd7b5

Comment 3 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2023-03-05 13:46:58 UTC

Proposed as a Freeze Exception for 38-beta by Fedora user ngompa using the blocker tracking app because:

 Having plasma-welcome run in live environments is inappropriate and it'd be good to have this disabled before the official Beta release.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2023-03-06 02:26:07 UTC

FEDORA-2023-c4c9ebd7b5 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2023-c4c9ebd7b5

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 František Zatloukal 2023-03-06 14:09:03 UTC

Discussed in ticket: https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1073

The decision to classify this bug as an AcceptedFreezeException was made:

"This is an obvious wrong impression on live boot, can't be fixed with an update."

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2023-03-07 19:43:44 UTC

FEDORA-2023-c4c9ebd7b5 has been pushed to the Fedora 38 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.