I am shortly giving a talk on TDE. Any points that people particularly think
I should mention? In fact, any pointers?
I love the light flexibility and the marvellous configurability. Its single
biggest plus for me is the set-up wizard. I *love* it. I can get rid of the
moving, transparent etc. bits _before_ I even log in for the first time, so
that I never have to see them. I may see them for the first time during my
talk!
What about the rest of you?
I shall use TDE 3.10.13.2 on Wheezy. I considered upgrading to 14, but if it
goes wrong I haven't a lot of time to reinstall and reconfigure (because I am
a bit over-stretched at the moment.) I need to use my own desktop because
some of the things that I want to demonstrate I can't really set up anywhere
else. E.g. KMail. I need mail!
I am open to contradiction on that. But I am so familiar with 3.10.13.2, and
it is mostly going to be a live demonstration. I don't want to do too much
"eerm...." "let me see ......" I am bound to do some!
Thanks.
Lisi
First, the configurability. In TDE, I can configure all things in a
system. Toolbar in Konqueror doesn't have a button I want? I can add it.
I need specialized toolbar in specific place? No problem.
And I can configure GUI in the setup-level - before first run.
Another thing is this inflatable part on the left side of Konqueror
window. I have e.g. two directory trees there to quickly switch
between my "private" directory and "public HTML" directory when I
develop PHP pages.
A very good thing is the configuration center, especially custom
keyboard actions/shortcuts panel. I have this device:
http://mcbx.netne.net/computers/newspix/progkey.jpg
configured for unused ctrl/alt/Menu shortcuts. With TDE, I can start
programs with one (literally said) button.
TWin is another program which is a major TDE's advantage. If I have
a network monitor plot window, I can configure it to be bound to one
screen, on the top in one place and it won't be accidentially moved.
TDE is really fast in older computers. Generally, I had it running
without problems on 768MB RAM and Pentium 4 1.5GHz.
TDE has a good set of programs for common tasks (Multimedia, e-mail,
communication, text editing) sharing common parts, so they can share
data without conversion.
MCbx
Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz(a)gmail.com> napisał(a):
> I am shortly giving a talk on TDE. Any points that people
> particularly think I should mention? In fact, any pointers?
>
> I love the light flexibility and the marvellous configurability. Its
> single biggest plus for me is the set-up wizard. I *love* it. I can
> get rid of the moving, transparent etc. bits _before_ I even log in
> for the first time, so that I never have to see them. I may see them
> for the first time during my talk!
>
> What about the rest of you?
>
> I shall use TDE 3.10.13.2 on Wheezy. I considered upgrading to 14,
> but if it goes wrong I haven't a lot of time to reinstall and
> reconfigure (because I am a bit over-stretched at the moment.) I
> need to use my own desktop because some of the things that I want to
> demonstrate I can't really set up anywhere
I'm running Slavek's very excellent TDE 14.0.1-pre on Debian Jessie,
and I use the TDE CrystalSVG icon set. I recently noticed an unusual
icon on one of my folders. It could have been like this for a while as
I don't often use this folder, but can anyone tell me what the "plug"
icon in the following screenshot signifies, please ?
http://www.leverton.org/temp/TDE%20folder-with-plug%20icon.png
I have checked in Properties that it hasn't been manually set to
this. It hasn't, and I can't see a "plug" icon or overlay anyway.
The folder has the same filesystem attributes, extended attributes and
user attributes as its siblings, so I think it must be some property
only known to TDE that's causing the plug overlay to be added. It's no
problem to me, but I'm curious to know what property that might be.
Nick
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Hello,
I like this old method of starting the graphic Desktop,
by booting Linux to the the konsole text mode, reaching to
the login and password as user :
$ startx [entry]
but I fall on a black screen or I receive an error message,
that X server cannot be launched.
Which informations do I have to type in my /home/<user>/.xinitrc,
to boot directly on TDE ?
Which informations do I have to add in others file ?
Good evening for the west european people,
and have a good day for the others.
André
Hi all!
As it is indeed quite quiet on the mailinglist I thought I might share my 4 months of FreeBSD Desktop here :-)
What I especially like on *BSD is that there are no surprises. Things simply work as doctumented. There is valid documentation and a handbook that covers almost all things you'd want to know. But if an application is not in ports, things get ugly. And that's the down side of FreeBSD: no TDE.
In quest for a usable desktop environment I went over GNOME (argh! Now I know again why I hate it) over XFCE (too gnomish) to LXDE (too windows like) and KDE4 (yes, that was a rainy day full of desperation. Just like visiting a home-improvement market: you almost get what you need, but in the end of the day you've spent a lot of time and mony and didn't get the job done).
Days got better after purging these nice DEs: openbox was an improvement but in the end FVWM came and stayed. Now my FVWM looks quite simillar to my TDE setup on wheezy :-)
But there are some things that I cannot quite replace:
kmail: the one and only mailclient that has a working maildir implementation and usable GUI. This is the one and only application I did not find a usable replacement for.
kpdf: slim, working PDF viewer. I've also tried mupdf (very good and fast, but I cannot mark and copy text), epdfviewer (ok, but quite broken copy function, hangs on pdfs with big images), okular (slow like a slug, pulls in 1GB dependecies, full of clutter, otherwise ok) and evince (well, GNOME), non is a match. I use mupdf+epdfviewer for now.
konqueror: pcmanfm is a usable replacement, but needs quite a bit of work till it does it's job.
So, it's 30°C outside, rainy days all gone, and I'm here on FreeBSD with FVWM and kmail running in a VM ... and desperatly waiting for Slavec to sort out the -fPIC compiler issue on FreeBSD :-)
Nik
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Hello all,
This is possibly (probably?) not TDE related, but I hope someone understanding
more about the matter on this list can help:
I've decided to upgrade TDE to R14 on y laptop runing wheezy. Everything went
fine and I did not upgrade Debian (I did update, however).
I get a message that no public key is available for two key IDs - I'm not 100%
sure it was not allready so before the upgrade. When I try to import these
keys I get the answer that the key was not changed (so the error remains).
So I've got two questions that "googling" could not answer:
a) how could I get an information about what repositories these missing/wrong
keys are associated with?
b) what happens if I simply ignore this sort of message (apart from the fact
that some sources are not fully secure)?
Thierry
Am I right in thinking that settting Control Center - Window behaviour -
Moving - Placement to Random results in cascaded windows, and setting it to
Cascaded results in Random placement?
And what I would really like is one that creates a new window under where the
cursor is. Any votes for that?
cheers
ant
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