Speaking personally, I've been using 0.6 since at least late-2018; and started doing so because I wanted to create a plugin to provide functionality I desired and - considering that the internals are substantially different between the two versions - didn't want to end up having to vastly rewrite it when 0.6 was eventually promoted to master.
I transitioned to using 0.6 fairly quickly, so don't have much experience with 0.5 to compare with; however I do sometimes "revert" briefly so as to aid the debugging of issues raised by other users, and find that of the two the UI of 0.6 is better. Certainly less monochromatic! I also don't think 0.6 (in its current state, anyway) is any more prone to crashing than 0.5 is; and 0.6 is certainly better featured.
It is worth noting that quite a few of the issues raised and feature requests made against 0.5 over the past couple of years can be resolved by using 0.6 instead (which is where the lack of cross-compatibility with regards to show-files is unfortunate).
That said: 0.6 is the current edge of development of the software; so there is some level of inherent instability in the fact that the code changes every so often - sometimes causing config files to be reset to defaults, and sometimes breakage in functionality. (Though this can be mitigated by only updating to the latest 0.6 state when safe: e.g. at the start of rehearsals, and not right before a performance...)
linux-show-player --log debug and post the output?
File "/usr/bin/linux-show-player", line 3, in <module>
from lisp.main import main
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lisp/main.py", line 30, in <module>
from lisp import modules
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lisp/modules/init.py", line 23, in <module>
from lisp.ui import elogging
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lisp/ui/elogging.py", line 28, in <module>
from lisp.ui.widgets import QDetailedMessageBox
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lisp/ui/widgets/init.py", line 1, in <module>
from .cueaction_combobox import CueActionComboBox
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lisp/ui/widgets/cueaction_combobox.py", line 25, in <module>
from lisp.cues.cue import Cue, CueAction
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lisp/cues/cue.py", line 25, in <module>
from lisp.core.fade_functions import FadeInType, FadeOutType
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lisp/core/fade_functions.py", line 32, in <module>
from lisp.core.util import FunctionProxy
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lisp/core/util.py", line 22, in <module>
from collections import Mapping
ImportError: cannot import name 'Mapping' from 'collections' (/usr/lib/python3.10/collections/init.py)
I just switched to Linux Mint 21 and after installing linux show player, nothing happens when I click on it to run it.
Do you have any advice for me?
well here is what works for me (it's ok, I got out of it ;-) :
it works with appimage 0.52
it doesn't work if you use the version that is available in the linux mint library or if you install it with the synaptic manager.
I have installed by hand the version 0.53 and it works fine.
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