Are there plans to get TDE out of /opt and back into /usr?
The topic was discussed a decade ago:
https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1934
For the past year or so that I have tried to return to TDE, I keep running into nuance issues. Things that motivate me to avoid TDE. Most of these speed bumps are caused by environment variables, mostly XDG related. I remember at the time everybody working on starttde trying to anticipate the many ways living in /opt could break and to avoid conflicts with KDE.
My guess is many TDE users do not see these issues because they do not have a multi-user system with multiple desktop environments installed. Likely many to most TDE users are like other DE users -- just stick to familiar territory and ignore other DEs and potential conflicts.
I think the easiest approach is renaming binaries with a tde- prefix. The MATE folks did this many years ago and continue the convention.
I do not have a full TDE install, but on my system I found 30 files in /opt/trinity/bin that have the same file name in KDE. I know there are more because, for example, I do not have tdegames installed.
Anyway, just curious, nothing else.
Thanks.
On 2024/03/09 12:57 PM, Darrell Anderson via tde-devels wrote:
Are there plans to get TDE out of /opt and back into /usr?
The topic was discussed a decade ago:
https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1934
For the past year or so that I have tried to return to TDE, I keep running into nuance issues. Things that motivate me to avoid TDE. Most of these speed bumps are caused by environment variables, mostly XDG related. I remember at the time everybody working on starttde trying to anticipate the many ways living in /opt could break and to avoid conflicts with KDE.
My guess is many TDE users do not see these issues because they do not have a multi-user system with multiple desktop environments installed. Likely many to most TDE users are like other DE users -- just stick to familiar territory and ignore other DEs and potential conflicts.
I think the easiest approach is renaming binaries with a tde- prefix. The MATE folks did this many years ago and continue the convention.
I do not have a full TDE install, but on my system I found 30 files in /opt/trinity/bin that have the same file name in KDE. I know there are more because, for example, I do not have tdegames installed.
Anyway, just curious, nothing else.
Hi Darrell, the idea to move back to /usr is definitely still on the plate, especially if we want some major distro to include TDE. I don't expect we will do any work on it at least until we complete cmake migration for the remaining modules and we drop admin module. Cheers Michele
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