Article 5K0N3 [SOLVED] KDE systemsettings5 Font Management "The shared library was not found"

[SOLVED] KDE systemsettings5 Font Management "The shared library was not found"

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Apologies in advance if this has already been posted, or if this is a KDE bug rather than a Slackware issue.

The Font Management section of System Settings (systemsettings5) has an error "The shared library was not found", I have attached a screenshot. When I run systemsettings5 from Konsole, I get the following output:

Code:$ systemsettings5
QQmlEngine::setContextForObject(): Object already has a QQmlContext
QQmlEngine::setContextForObject(): Object already has a QQmlContext
file:///usr/share/kpackage/kcms/kcm_landingpage/contents/ui/FeedbackControls.qml:28:1: module "org.kde.userfeedback" is not installed
QQmlEngine::setContextForObject(): Object already has a QQmlContext
kf.kcmutils: Error creating object from plugin "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcms/kcm_fontinst.so"The file "/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcms/kcm_fontinst.so" does not exist on my system. The following is the output of "grep -ir kcm_fontinst.so /var/lib/pkgtools/removed_packages/*"
Code:$ grep -ir "kcm_fontinst.so" /var/lib/pkgtools/removed_packages/*
/var/lib/pkgtools/removed_packages/plasma-workspace-5.21.2-x86_64-1-upgraded-2021-04-10,15:50:44:usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcm_fontinst.so
/var/lib/pkgtools/removed_packages/plasma-workspace-5.21.4-x86_64-1-upgraded-2021-04-20,19:37:36:usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcm_fontinst.so
/var/lib/pkgtools/removed_packages/plasma-workspace-5.21.4-x86_64-2-upgraded-2021-05-05,17:35:50:usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcm_fontinst.so
/var/lib/pkgtools/removed_packages/plasma-workspace-5.21.5-x86_64-1-upgraded-2021-06-10,19:41:35:usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcm_fontinst.soThe following is the output of "grep -i kcm_fontinst.so /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/*"
Code:$ grep -ir "kcm_fontinst.so" /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages/plasma-workspace-5.22.0-x86_64-1:usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcms/kcm_fontinst.soSymlinking /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcms/kcm_fontinst.so to /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kcm_fontinst.so makes the error go away and the Font Management panel function in a way which appears normal (I have not tested thoroughly but nothing looks terribly unusual).

Has anyone else observed this? The more I look at it the more it looks like a KDE issue rather than a packaging issue but I wanted to run it past the users here.

I am running (mostly) stock Slackware64-current up to date as of 10 June, and I am running kernel 5.12.4.

Edit: a reddit poster has said that this is fixed in a commit which should be backported by packagers for release: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comment...er_in/h14l8dy/ (can't find any other details elsewhere on the Internet)
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