10 Mar
2023
10 Mar
'23
9:23 p.m.
On Thursday 09 Mar 2023 21:21:58 Dave Close via tde-users wrote:
I made these comments in response to a different topic
and suspect
they were overlooked as a result. Hence, another attempt. On a Fedora
37 system with KDE (5) working, I installed TDE. All of it except
the applications.
Having KDE 5 installed before installing TDE seems to have resulted
in some confusion. The DE startup splash screen, for example, says it
is starting Plasma by KDE. Once started, it does appear to actually
be TDE.
But some parts of TDE don't work as expected. For example, the TDE
Control Center doesn't start if selected from the start menu. Nothing
at all happens. Starting kcontrol from a shell does start what appears
to be the program but nothing in it works. On exit, the shell reports,
"WARNING: No TDE menu group with X-TDE-BaseGroup=settings found |
Defaulting to Settings/".
Is this sort of installation expected to work? Would it have been
better to start with a fresh install?
I am using TDE installed after KDE-4 all the time, and I love it. I can get
the best of both worlds, using KDE-4 apps in TDE when I prefer them to the
Trinity versions, and using the Trinity versions when I prefer them. However
this is an old system, installed around March 2017, with Trinity installed
over a late Debian Jessie system that came with KDE-4. I installed TDM, so
that is what I log in with. I actually work in TDE all the time, unless I
have to use one of two programs that used not to work in Trinity. I just
started one of those programs, Geomview, in Trinity just now, and to my
surprise, it opened some windows. So perhaps I might even be able to use that
in Trinity now.
Regards, Chris