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Need help with building TDE sources
by Jan Stolarek 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Dear TDE devs, I would like to try my luck (and skills!) with fixing some of the bugs I've been experiencing with TDE. I need help with making my first steps though. I already have the TDE sources cloned from git repositories. Now I need help with the build process. Ideally, I would like to be able to build a Debian package on a VM dedicated to development, and then install and test that package on my primary desktop machine. I found build instructions on the wiki, but I don't know to what extent these are up-to-date: https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/How_to_Build_TDE_Core_Modules I am confused about the Suggested Build Order section. Do I need to find each of the mentioned components and build it in the listed order? How do I build each of the components? Should I follow with the incantation in "Performing a cmake Build with Ninja" section for each of the components? How to rebuild if dependencies change? If I modify, say, dbus-tqt, do I need to manually rebuild everything that's listed below it in the dependency list? Lastly, once a certain component or application is built, how do I package it? I have no doubt, that the build instructions on the Wiki make a lot of sense for someone who already knows how to build TDE, but for a beginner they feel slightly incomplete. If anyone has the patience to guide me with my baby steps I will greatly apprciate it. Best regards, Janek

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Question about TDE branches
by Jan Stolarek 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

I have a quick question about branches in TDE repos. I see that at the moment repositories have two primary development branches: master and r14.1.x. My understanding is that the former is used to provide PTB, while the latter provides PSB. What I would like to know is the development flow. Is the primary development happening on master and then changes are selectively cherry-picked to r14.1.x? What is a logical distinction between master and r14.1.x? From my work in other projects, I would expect that a branch such as r14.1.x will only receive bugfixes, while master will be used as a base for new release branches in the future. That is not how things seem to work in TDE though. Looking at the commits, r14.1.x seems to receive both new features and bugfixes and it seems as if all (?) of the development made on master eventually makes it to r14.1.x. This makes me confused about the intended purpose of the master branch. Also, is there any tentative roadmap for TDE? Is the plan to just continue working on r14.1.x, or are there plans for r14.2.x somewhere down the line? Cheers, Janek

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[François] [openSUSE] [TW] errant new selinux dependencies?
by Felix Miata 16 Nov '25

16 Nov '25

It seems TW's switch to selinux from apparmor as default wants to install two otherwise unneeded *selinux* packages, selinux-tools & python313-selinux, or else remove most trinity packages. Why, when only non-removable libselinux1 is the only bit of selinux that the OS requires to remain installed? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Debian Trixie FTBFS multiple packages
by deloptes 15 Nov '25

15 Nov '25

Hi, I did a fresh Trixie install for chroot. I don't remember to have done something special on Bookworm in order to build properly. Here I attach a file, so that you can see where what problem I faced. The question is why I did not have those issues in Bookworm, but I face them in Trixie. -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0

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[François] [openSUSE] [TW] errant new selinux dependencies?
by Felix Miata 13 Nov '25

13 Nov '25

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XDG Desktop Portal
by update 12 Nov '25

12 Nov '25

Hello, I am very pleased from the portal implementation and its usage in firefox etc. But one annoyance is that in the save dialog the initial filename is deleted whenever the folder is changed. In kmail and other native tde applications the initial filename survives the folder change. Can this be implemented in a similar way? Thanks.

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[François] [openSUSE] new Leap 16.0 released 01 Oct.
by Felix Miata 11 Nov '25

11 Nov '25

François, latest openSUSE Leap 16.0 went GA two days ago. 15.5 support expired about last January, so http://tde-mirror.yosemite.net/trinity/rpm/ could use an update. Are you planning for 14.1.5 release to be ready before building again? -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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TDE R14.1.5 released!
by Slávek Banko 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Hi all, for those who are not subscribed to tde-announcements, you might be interested in information about the release of R14.1.5: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Release_Notes_For_R14.1.5 Cheers Slávek --

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R14.1.5 libksquirrel
by Ray Vine 02 Nov '25

02 Nov '25

libksquirrel has been uploaded as https://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/releases/R14.1.5/main/librari… Is this final ? in which case I'll need to modify my build script, or an oversight - libksquirrel-trinity-14.1.5.tar.xz pending.

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FTBFS wv2-0.4.2.dfsg.2 (Debian 12)
by deloptes 23 Oct '25

23 Oct '25

Does anybody has the same issue? I guess since testing is enabled per default now, I get this failure. Testing writing for SEPX: Sorry, testing dynamic structures isn't implemented, yet. Testing writing for STSHI: Passed. Error: Couldn't open the storage! make: *** [debian/rules:38: common-build-arch] Error 1 dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2 debuild: fatal error at line 1182: dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -ui -b -j4 failed -- FCD6 3719 0FFB F1BF 38EA 4727 5348 5F1F DCFE BCB0

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