27 May
2020
27 May
'20
2:38 a.m.
On Tuesday 26 May 2020 19:10:47 gomadtroll wrote:
So far, the netinstall Devuan CD works best for me, but it doesn't offer TDE
as one of its default choices for desktop; only KDE, Mate, XFCE, LXDE, etc.
Other options to install TDE from a CD or DVD have been found wanting:
ExeGnuLinux, Q4OS and others have been tested, but in one way or another they
all misbehave or fall short of my expectations.
My Christmas wish for this year is the same as last year (if Santa reads the
mailing list); which is a Devuan netinstall CD with TDE offered as a default
choice.
There are ways TDE could be installed using the netinstall CD, but it would
require my adding the sources.list manually, from the command-line; or, I
could specify the location of my own TDE packages, but my present setup would
make that option too cumbersome. So for now, I install using Mate, and
install TDE (as well as Open Office) from within Mate, which is the least
irksome of other DEs.
In any case, I can put up with a few minor bugs or issues, as I could never
have kept patience with using another desktop. And if I had to keep using the
newer KDE Plasma krap, I would probably have given up on using computers
altogether, and instead I would now be living in a cave somewhere up in the
mountains.
Bill
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On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 2:54 PM, William Morder via trinity-users
<trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net> wrote:
On Tuesday 26
May 2020 13:33:47 E. Liddell wrote:
I cannot find anything from KDE4/5 in my system. It could be that there
are some configuration files (or what-not) lying round, since I used to
run KDE3, then adapted my preferences to TDE. But so far as I can tell,
there is nothing of KDE anywhere, in either programs or dependencies.
As for the hacky and hackier tricks ... I'll see if they help. For now,
this is just an annoying bug; it slows down my startup time with error
messages, but that is about it. Everything else runs fine, as usual.
The only real bother is why something would overwrite my changes with KDE
again. If that is not a security issue, then I suppose that I can live
with the bug.
Thanks for everybody's observations and suggestions.
Bill
Late commer, sorry for any redundancies,pendantic remarks. Debian stable
(10) + TDE 14.0.8 (stable) afaikt:
Not a fan of installing Trinity from live cd's of some one elses making. My
canonical install distro ofchoice without Xinstalled (gui). Add TDE sources
. No chance of mistakesby others, Yikes.
Purging everything re KDE, does not ouch the home directory. If you are
like me my home directory lives on a separate hard drive through numerous
installs of Trinity. Trinity changed all references from "K"to "T"
long
ago. I had some issues with kmail.
Retiring my work station, moved to a laptop, added a fresh user, clean home
dir, TDE14.0.8 is the best yet.
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greg On Tue, 26 May 2020 11:53:49 -0700
"William Morder via trinity-users"
trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
Has
anybody yet come up with a quick fix for this bug? or even a slow
fix? I have read all the comments in this thread, and also follow
Michele Calgaro's instructions about changing the lines (from kde to
tde) in that file:
~/.config/menus/applications-tdemenuedit.menu
However, when I reboot, I still get the same error messages.
Are the menu entries still flagged if you delete then recreate them?
Here are some suggestions of last resort:
The hacky fix is to trick the script into thinking that it's already
run to completion by editing ~/.trinity/share/config/kdeglobals. The
section you want would look like this:
[R14 XDG Updates]
Updated=false
Version=201412270
Flip the "Updated" key to "true" and the script shouldn't fire
again
until you update TDE and it installs a new version of the script.
The even hackier fix is to edit starttde and prevent the script from
running at all.
Don't do either of these if you care about the minor housekeeping
fixes the script makes. They are not the "correct" answer, just a way
of getting the script to shut up if everything else fails.
E. Liddell