tde-devels March 2023

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14 discussions

Restructuring TDE donations - opinions wanted
by Michele Calgaro 01 May '23

01 May '23

Hi everyone, so far donations to the TDE project have always ended up to Tim. Although he is the founder of the project, he has not really been involved in the daily matters and development for several years. In the past there has been talks to establish a non-profit TDE organization, but this has yet to happen. With release R14.1.0 coming soon, I would like to propose for donations to be temporarily redirected to Slavek, till the TDE non profit organization is established. Once the organization comes to birth, the amount of donations can be transferred over to it. A transparent public account of donations could be setup, so everyone would be free to see how donations would be used. If Slavek needed to pay additional taxes due to the temporary donation income, I suggest those would be paid out of the donations themselves. What is your opinion? There is about a month before R14.1.0 is released, so it would probably leave just enough time to prepare the new setup. Cheers Michele

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Konqueror Sorting
by Darrell Anderson 27 Apr '23

27 Apr '23

I thought I had read that Konqueror will provide some new sorting options in 14.1.0. If correct where can I read about the new options? In particular I am hoping I can sort with the following alphabetical case sensitive order when using detailed list and tree view: * Unhidden directories * Unhidden files * Hidden (dot) directories * Hidden (dot) files An extra bonus if the hidden directories and files are tinted with less emphasis to indicate they are hidden. Thanks.

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Panel lock session applet
by Darrell Anderson 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Is there a panel applet to add only a Lock Session button rather than the combo Lock/Logout applet? Thanks.

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The upcoming TDE R14.1.0 entered the soft-freeze phase
by Slávek Banko 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Hi all, As developers, you are probably more involved, so information is important to you. If you are not subscribed to the tde-announcements list, you can find more information in the web archive: https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/announcements@trin… Cheers -- Slávek

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Konqueror List View Quirks
by Darrell Anderson 26 Mar '23

26 Mar '23

Would somebody please confirm the following two behaviors? One === * Configure Konqueror to detailed list or tree view. * Select a file. * Use the keyboard cursor keys to move up and down the list. The selection block follows the cursor keys but not the highlighting. The highlighting seems to follow the cursor keys in icon view. Two === * Create two empty files: 0001 and 0002. * Rename 0002 to 0000. Konqueror does not automatically refresh the list to resort the files. A manual refresh is required. History ======= As far as I can see in my KDE 3 VM, both quirks are inherited from KDE3. Would these issues be easy to fix before 14.1.0? Thanks.

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Tumbleweed has switched to GCC13 in 20230319. TDM loads, but doesn't respond to attempt to login.
by Felix Miata 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

# rpmqa gcc libgcc_s1-13.0.1+git6669-1.1.x86_64 TDM login greeter accepts passwd input, but doesn't respond to it via keyboard or mouse. Startx does start a functional TDE session. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata

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Ark and tar.lz
by Darrell Anderson 15 Mar '23

15 Mar '23

Does ark support tar.lz? Thanks. DA

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Arts not initializing
by Darrell Anderson 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

I installed TDE 14.0.12 on another system. Arts fails to initialize correctly in that attempting to use media players results in no sound. The problem seems unique to this system and only with TDE. I have tried fiddling with the various arts configurations in TCC. Sound issues do not exist on this specific system with other desktop environments. Sound issues do not exist in other systems with TDE. Comparing $TDEHOME config files with the functional systems has not found anything helpful. Any ideas how to fix this issue? Thanks. DA

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Embedding viewing
by Darrell Anderson 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Konqueror seems designed to view everything in an embedded viewer. I found this bug report: https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768 Is there an easy one-shot work-around to update konqueror so everything does not default to embedded view? Thanks. DA

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Configuring TDM
by Darrell Anderson 11 Mar '23

11 Mar '23

I am trying to configure TDM. The default is some kind of black background. The login dialog is so dark of a gray that I can't read the black text in the dialog. This seems to be an os_enterprise theme? Is this the normal default? Using the TCC Login Manager module I was able to get something usable, but I had to manually edit the tdmrc file to Theme= (nothing) to kill that dark theme. The login dialog has a title bar with a caption that says 'Login to TDE'. Looking at the code this seems hard-coded? Can this be changed? Seems the caption should say 'Login' or possibly be dynamic to whatever session the user selects? Regardless of whatever session I select I get dumped into a terminal window shell. Seems something is misconfigured and TDM is not sourcing any xsession files. Appreciate any help. DA

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gtk-qt-engine
by Darrell Anderson 04 Mar '23

04 Mar '23

Can someone verify some gtk-qt-engine package weirdness? * Ensure another DE is installed. * Remove any traces of TDE from /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig. * Disable related TDE /etc/profile.d scripts. * Boot into the other DE. * Launch a terminal window. * Ensure no traces of TDE are in the environment variables, $PATH, etc. * Type a GTK GUI command to launch. * Verify TDE is trying to intercept the command to control the GTK theme. In my case I was trying to launch meld from the command line. I repeatedly encountered a TDE crash dialog: TDECrash: Application 'python-gtk-tqt-application' crashing. The message is derived from the package qt_qt_wrapper.cpp. This happened to me in both KDE and Xfce. Removing the gtk-qt-engine package resolves the problem. Being buggy or stale code is one thing, but why is TDE and the gtk-qt-engine package even functional when using a different DE? DA

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Environment variables with root
by Darrell Anderson 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

What is the preferred way to configure environment variables for root? The starttde script establishes environment variables for the user's session, but those settings do not apply to root. Running su - results in the loss of these environment variables. The same happens when using the konsolesu.desktop and konquerorsu.desktop files. Environment variables such as $PATH do not include $TDEDIR/bin. So although the su - session is in a full TDE session, no TDE commands can be used unless typing full paths. When using konquerorsu.desktop, Konqueror launches okay but odd things happen. The Settings dialogs are empty. The Help button in those empty dialogs fails to find the Konqueror handbook. The handbook functions fine from the main Help menu. When launching Konq this way there seems to be something hard-coded to $HOME/.trinity. I have $TDEHOME configured to $HOME/.tde rather than $HOME/.trinity and $TDEROOTHOME configured to /root/.tde rather than /root/.trinity. These variables are exported globally on login through /etc/profile.d. Yet launching Konq as root results in these environment variables being ignored and $HOME/.trinity is created with default configurations. I do not mind learning I am doing something wrong but I do not know where to look. Thanks. DA

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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng
by Darrell Anderson 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

I am trying to create build environments. With some packages I am receiving the following fatal error: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng I can build the packages in another almost identical system. With respect to this error, the libpng packages are the same. I don't know what I should look for or what might be missing. Thanks. DA

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TDE file picker dialog
by Darrell Anderson 02 Mar '23

02 Mar '23

* Does the kgtk-qt3 hack(?) work with GTK3? * Are there plans to support the xdg-desktop-portal front end service? Thanks. DA

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