Happy and stunned to say that the de-Ubuntu-ization has been going better than I had any right to expect. The whole setting up of "sudo" was a pain -- not stuff you're likely to remember when you do it once every many years -- and some various flaky stuff. Otoh, the easiest nvidia driver install in history, so I'll take it. Many, many things I expected to be hell to reconfigure . . . made it through the switch. My background is xplanet, as always, with a high-res moon picture that I see has a timestamp of Dec. 26, 1998 -- I seem to be set in my ways.
One surprise is that may be a bug. In the reduced version of the preview TDE, KMenu does not seem to be installed by default. I do not know whether that was intentional -- can't imagine it would be -- but unless one knows to go to the panel applets and find and put it on Kicker, there's no application menu.
Now, a question: Where is the Basket note pads application for TDE? Has its name changed? It is one of those applications out with which I cannot do. (Clear back to DOS, when I was addicted to InfoSelect -- indeed, many of the notes there were transferred from InfoSelect to something else inferior on Linux before Basket came along.) Is there a version, for TDE, someplace?
Related, what's a good repository browser? I've used Synaptic for the 20 years I used Kubuntu, and, well, Ubuntu. Anybody have recommendations?
Thanks!
On 9/13/24 9:37 PM, dep via tde-users wrote:
Now, a question: Where is the Basket note pads application for TDE? Has its name changed? It is one of those applications out with which I cannot do. (Clear back to DOS, when I was addicted to InfoSelect -- indeed, many of the notes there were transferred from InfoSelect to something else inferior on Linux before Basket came along.) Is there a version, for TDE, someplace?
It has to be there. I've got 20 years of notes squirreled away in basket notepads. By far the slickest quick note preserving app ever devised. Cherrytree is the only other non-tde app that comes close, but basket is a thing of beauty.
(only time manual intervention was required was when a font used was no longer on the next install -- you can edit the notes w/sed replace to correct :)
Related, what's a good repository browser? I've used Synaptic for the 20 years I used Kubuntu, and, well, Ubuntu. Anybody have recommendations?
What distro? If it's apt based a simple apt-cache se from the command line works or dpkg -l for local installed info.
said David C. Rankin via tde-users:
| It has to be there. I've got 20 years of notes squirreled away in basket | notepads. By far the slickest quick note preserving app ever devised. | Cherrytree is the only other non-tde app that comes close, but basket is | a thing of beauty. | | (only time manual intervention was required was when a font used was no | longer on the next install -- you can edit the notes w/sed replace to | correct :)
It is a dandy application, essential to me, too. I've tried basket-tde, and just plain basket. The latter gave me something from a later version of KDE, which is okay, but I prefer TDE when possible.
| > Related, what's a good repository browser? I've used Synaptic for the | > 20 years I used Kubuntu, and, well, Ubuntu. Anybody have | > recommendations? | | What distro? If it's apt based a simple apt-cache se from the command | line works or dpkg -l for local installed info.
Debian Tapeworm. I'm looking more for something that lists what's out there, rather than what I have installed.
On 9/13/24 10:31 PM, dep via tde-users wrote:
Debian Tapeworm. I'm looking more for something that lists what's out there, rather than what I have installed.
$ apt-cache search "search term"
Will list all packages out there that match search term, e.g.
$ apt-cache search tesseract gimagereader - Graphical GTK+ front-end to tesseract-ocr libavfilter-extra7 - FFmpeg library with extra media filters - runtime files libtesseract-dev - Development files for the tesseract command line OCR tool libtesseract4 - Tesseract OCR library lios - Linux intelligent OCR solution ocrmypdf - add an OCR text layer to PDF files ocrmypdf-doc - add an OCR text layer to PDF files - documentation pdfsandwich - Tool to generate "sandwich" OCR pdf files python3-pyocr - Python wrapper for OCR engines (Python 3) python3-tesserocr - Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API (Python3 version) slimrat - GUI application for automated downloading from file hosters slimrat-nox - CLI application for automated downloading from file hosters tesseract-ocr - Tesseract command line OCR tool tesseract-ocr-afr - tesseract-ocr language files for Afrikaans ...
I always found that fine, and you can pipe it to grep to refine the results :)
said David C. Rankin via tde-users: | On 9/13/24 10:31 PM, dep via tde-users wrote: | > Debian Tapeworm. I'm looking more for something that lists what's out | > there, rather than what I have installed. | | $ apt-cache search "search term" | | Will list all packages out there that match search term, e.g.
Aha! "basket" brings no joy, nor does "basket-tde" but "basket-trinity" did the trick. Thanks!
On 9/14/24 1:12 AM, dep via tde-users wrote:
Aha! "basket" brings no joy, nor does "basket-tde" but "basket-trinity" did the trick. Thanks!
Bummer!
Worse case you can always build from source. The source should be in the tde git repository (wherever that is today...) Slavek or Michele should be able to point you to it.
Since you are using Debian, I'm surprised it isn't already built. I'm using it on opensuse kde3 Tumbleweed right now, so there isn't a missing dependency issue with newer distributions.
The TDE build may need to be patched if your version of Debian is using gcc-14 or if some of the dependencies now require the -std=c++11 language specification (we ran into that with several packages on opensuse).
One thing we do know -- is the basket source hasn't changed :)
said David C. Rankin via tde-users:
| On 9/14/24 1:12 AM, dep via tde-users wrote: | > Aha! "basket" brings no joy, nor does "basket-tde" but | > "basket-trinity" did the trick. Thanks! | | Bummer!
I was unclear. I followed your advice, searching for basket, and found that the two things I had tried didn't work, because the name of it is basket-trinity. Did the usual using that as the package name and there it was!
| Worse case you can always build from source. The source should be in | the tde git repository (wherever that is today...) Slavek or Michele | should be able to point you to it.
I have, later today, to cobble together an excellent little photo metadata editor called Photini, which has hoops lined up like Torii gates in Kyoto, and I have to go through all of them. You would think there would be several good such applications, but this is the only one that does an actual good job. So I'm glad not to have to compile anything else for now.
Am actually kind of amazed at how well it has gone thusfar. Really puzzled, though, that while the drives are the same, and in the same physical locations, connectors, etc., but what was once sda1, my boot drive, is now sdb1, my boot drive. Which I discovered when I went to mount sdb1, which is 8 terabytes of photographs -- pretty much an entire career. Blood pressure rose until I got it figured out.
| Since you are using Debian, I'm surprised it isn't already built. I'm | using it on opensuse kde3 Tumbleweed right now, so there isn't a missing | dependency issue with newer distributions.
Fortunately, and thanks to your advice, it is found and home. For some reason I thought it was in one of the TDE meta packages. I must have installed it separately in the distant past.
On 9/14/24 3:10 AM, dep via tde-users wrote:
Am actually kind of amazed at how well it has gone thusfar. Really puzzled, though, that while the drives are the same, and in the same physical locations, connectors, etc., but what was once sda1, my boot drive, is now sdb1, my boot drive. Which I discovered when I went to mount sdb1, which is 8 terabytes of photographs -- pretty much an entire career. Blood pressure rose until I got it figured out.
Persistent naming is always a dice role. I've got to the point of using the UUIDs from:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/
and
/dev/disk/by-partuuid/
for fstab, etc...
Never have issues from then on. On openSUSE, my laptops has 2 SSDs (both Linux, one Leap, one Tumbleweed) and you can use /dev/sda, /dev/sdb -- but if I log out from sdb, that drive disappears from the identified drives. There is never any confusion when using UUID - except trying to make sense of the hashes ...
But that's what a quick
$ ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/
is for.
On Saturday 14 September 2024 04.37:54 dep via tde-users wrote:
Related, what's a good repository browser? I've used Synaptic for the 20 years
I use it too. And a search for "Basket" does give you the information you were looking for. Always loves Synaptic since I had to leave yast.
Thierry
said Thierry de Coulon via tde-users: | On Saturday 14 September 2024 04.37:54 dep via tde-users wrote: | > Related, what's a good repository browser? I've used Synaptic for the | > 20 years | | I use it too. And a search for "Basket" does give you the information | you were looking for. Always loves Synaptic since I had to leave yast.
I am an idiot. Of course Synaptic will work here -- it reads the sources from sources.list. I was so accustomed to seeing Ubuntu packages there that I forgot that it was because I was running Ubuntu.
Thanks for causing that light bulb to come on.
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