On Tuesday 26 May 2020 19:10:47 gomadtroll wrote:
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On Tuesday, May 26, 2020 2:54 PM, William Morder via trinity-users
trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net wrote:
On Tuesday 26 May 2020 13:33:47 E. Liddell wrote:
On Tue, 26 May 2020 11:53:49 -0700 "William Morder via trinity-users"
trinity-users@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
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.
greg
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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