Seems unusable in neovim-qt

[stephematician]

I'm testing out various neovim (frontends) + IDEs

• A clean install of Ubuntu MATE 25.04 (inside a VM)

NVIM-QT v0.2.19.0
Build type: Release
Qt Version: 5.15.15
Environment: 
  nvim: nvim
  args: --cmd let &rtp.=',/usr/bin/../share/nvim-qt/runtime' --cmd set termguicolors

NVIM v0.9.5
Build type: Release
LuaJIT 2.1.1737090214

1. I get an error straight away about trying to access the get_clients field, which is nil.

   

   How can this error be avoided/fixed?

2. Continuing from there; this is what I see:

   

   Each panel has a glitchy-looking Bufferlist row - this appears in both (plain) neovim, and neovim-qt; is there a list of neovim frontends that nvim-ide has been tested with?

3. I can't seem to interact with the Explorer successfully; I tried something like :Workspace Explorer Focus, then using the arrow keys navigate to some item followed by :Workspace Explorer Expand but I get this:

   

   Is this the correct way to expand a folder? I don't see a lot of information about each command in the help/documentation.

4. Unlike the Workflow video - I don't have fuzzy matching and help strings appearing. What is needed to enable those?