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