Hi, everybody . . . good to be back.
I've been playing with a Raspberry Pi 5 as part of my better smart television project. (https://ofb.biz/safari/article/1204.html if you're interested.)
It did not take me long to rediscover just how awful modern KDE is. Example: Try adding something to kicker on the PiOS desktop (after, of course, putting Wayland out of my misery). It is a multi-stage process with no guarantee of success and considerably possibility of breaking kicker and other things, which I've done repeatedly.
I was delighted to see today that there is TDE for Raspberry. Before I jump in, though, I thought it would be good to jump in and ask if there are any little landmines in it -- the default PiOS is nothing except landmines -- that I need to work around. Also, whether installation will bring along the applications I've already configured -- Firefox ESR, the WebApp Manager from Mint (and a bunch of webapps made thereby), and so on, as well as the GUI configuration stuff and menu items. Not a big deal if it doesn't, but I'd want to set aside time to come up with alternatives.
What need I know?
Hope everyone is well and happy.
On Sunday 12 May 2024 00.39:42 dep via tde-users wrote:
I was delighted to see today that there is TDE for Raspberry. Before I jump in, though, I thought it would be good to jump in and ask if there are any little landmines in it
I have TDE running on several Pi3 and Pi4 - athough I don't use them much, just for running a browser (as an interactive terminal) and a few tcl/tk programs, and doing some file management with konqueror.
I didn't step on landmine, but I did not venture in that part of the land that you seem to roam :)
said Thierry de Coulon via tde-users:
| I have TDE running on several Pi3 and Pi4 - athough I don't use them | much, just for running a browser (as an interactive terminal) and a few | tcl/tk programs, and doing some file management with konqueror. | | I didn't step on landmine, but I did not venture in that part of the | land that you seem to roam :)
Much of it is just based on running webapps for the verious channels (via Firefox ESR -- the current version has a bug such it doesn't tell the screen blanker not to blank the screen), but a few things are specialized, such as the application that makes the webapps.
It just now occurred to me that it would be easy to simply try to run everything I intend to use right here on the desktop machine to see if it works. (That it took me this long to think of that suggests I should not be allowed to play with electrical devices.)
Some nice discoveries include the fact that on-demand services accidentally skip over advertisements when I have a good ad blocker and enable DRM.
Gotta say that this thing with an SSD is really, really fast -- less then ten seconds from power on to functioning desktop.
I'll test a few applications on the desktop and if they play nicely with TDE I'll install TDE on one of the two Raspberrys later today.
I so look forward to dragging applications from the menu to kicker!
dep via tde-users wrote:
I so look forward to dragging applications from the menu to kicker!
To me there is no difference between TDE on i386 and arm64. The only reason I do not use the RPi4 is that I have a scanner that needs a 32bit firmware Otherwise I would have replaced the desktop for the RPi4
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