My first usability test of Trinity was in a virtual machine. Trinity loaded just fine --- but ignored all of my previous ~/.kde profile settings. Hey! What? :)
Not to mention the evil bouncing mouse cursor! Okay, I can solve that irritant when I build the package.
What happened with my desktop?
First clue: Trinity is using ~/.kde3 rather than ~/.kde. Yet my $KDEHOME environment variable is set to ~/.kde. Hmm. Where is this being ignored or overridden?
Yes, I can rename ~/.kde to ~/.kde3. But I should not have to. Trinity should honor my $KDEHOME variable.
First suspect: /usr/bin/startkde. I have some proposed patches for startkde, but that can wait for another thread. Nope. Not the culprit because I exited KDE, restored my ~/.kde profile, renamed the new startkde, and restored my old startkde. When I started X, Trinity again created ~/.kde3 and ignored my ~/.kde profile and $KDEHOME variable..
What is hard-coded to create and use ~/.kde3? A .desktop file somewhere?
~/.kde3 is set in kstandarddirs.cpp and also in startkde. startkde now has a fix to honor the $KDEHOME environment variable, and kstandarddirs.cpp has always had code to honor it.
Been a looooong time since I wandered around with the KDE startup sequence.
Second, there are folder icons on the desktop for every directory in the root level. They are not device icons and I don't know how to disable that effect. I also have lost my previous desktop icons.
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I am looking into this one, which fortunately I am still able to replicate on the older machine I mentioned earlier. Something is messed up with the XDG desktop paths; on my system "kde-config --userpath desktop" returns "/".
Tim
OK, I think the problem has been fixed in revision 1176159. Slackware must not set up XDG correctly; Trinity needed some default settings added to handle this particular case.
Update kdelibs and kdebase, and recompile/reinstall both. Hopefully that will get you a functional desktop, and the minor issues can be debugged more easily.
With respect to ~/.kde3, how did you set HDEHOME? On my systems I would do this in the terminal:
export KDEHOME=~/.kde /opt/kde3/bin/startkde
Once kdebase has been updated it should respect the above sequence (I will check it myself after recompilation is finished).
Tim