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Questions and observations from the Brazilian Portuguese translation review
by Sebastião Guerra 14 Aug '26

14 Aug '26

Hi all, I have been working on a fairly broad review of the Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) translation of TDE, and after spending some time with the existing catalogs I thought it would be useful to share a few observations and, more importantly, ask about the preferred workflow before I go much further. My initial goal was simply to review and complete the pt_BR translation, but the work has gradually become more systematic. I have been reviewing the PO files, checking Weblate warnings and consistency issues, comparing questionable strings with their source/templates, and also building the current TDE Git sources so that I can check translations in their actual UI context rather than only looking at the catalogs. One thing that became apparent is how much history there is in these translations. Some strings have apparently survived from KDE 3.x-era translations, sometimes with terminology or wording that no longer seems appropriate, while other inconsistencies seem to come from later revisions. In a few cases, what initially looked like a translation problem turned out not to be one. I have also encountered cases where the problem seems to be in the source translation template rather than in pt_BR itself. This includes inconsistencies in POT/PO structure, plural-related issues, unusual source strings or context, and cases where Weblate's validation exposes something that is difficult or impossible to fix correctly only from the translation side. This raises a question about how you would prefer these cases to be reported. If a problem is clearly in a POT/template or ultimately in the application source, should I open an issue against the corresponding TDE component, report it here first, or use some other workflow? I would like to avoid creating unnecessary issues while still separating actual translation problems from problems that need to be fixed upstream. I also have a question about reviewed translations. As I go through pt_BR, there are strings that I can not only translate but also verify in context in a current TDE build. Once such a translation has been reviewed and tested, is there any TDE policy or Weblate mechanism for considering it "reviewed" or "approved"? I do not mean making a translation immutable — there will obviously always be legitimate reasons to improve or correct it. My concern is avoiding unnecessary changes to translations that have already been carefully reviewed and tested in context. Does TDE make use of Weblate's review/approval features or permissions for this purpose? If not, is there an established convention among translation teams for this? There is one more part of the translation tree about which I am unsure: the documentation. I noticed that the DocBook documentation/manual translations do not seem to appear in Weblate, at least not in the same way as the application PO catalogs. I may simply have overlooked the appropriate project or workflow. What is the recommended way to work on those translations? Are the DocBook/manual translations managed through Weblate somewhere, or should changes to them be prepared directly against the TDE internationalization/translation Git repository and submitted as normal Git changes/pull requests? I am asking these questions now because I would like the pt_BR review to follow the project's preferred workflow rather than establish my own assumptions about how translations should be maintained. My intention is ultimately to leave the Brazilian Portuguese translation in a state where it is not only more complete, but also internally consistent and checked against the applications wherever practical. While doing this, I am keeping track of cases that appear to be translation issues separately from those that may originate in templates or source code. Any guidance on the preferred workflow for these cases would be very welcome. Thanks, Sebastião Guerra

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Re: Weblate Translation Workspace - 502 Bad Gateway Error
by Slávek Banko 13 Aug '26

13 Aug '26

On Monday 03 of August 2026 14:42:43 Mustafa Sezer Yılmaz wrote: > Hi TDE Team, > > I am trying to access the TDE Weblate Translation Workspace at > https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/ to contribute to the > Turkish (tr) localization. > > However, the server currently returns a "502 Bad Gateway" error and is > inaccessible. > > Could you please check the status of the Weblate server? Do you have an > estimate on when it might be back online? > > Thank you for your great work on the Trinity Desktop Project. > > Best regards, > > 3 Ağu 2026 Pzt 3:30 PM tarihinde <weblate(a)trinitydesktop.net> şunu yazdı: > > Your registration on TDE Weblate > > > > This is an automatic e-mail to help you complete your registration > > with TDE Weblate. Please click on the confirmation button below. In > > case it doesn't work you might need to copy the URL on next line into > > the browser address bar to proceed. > > > > https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/accounts/complete/email/ > >?verification_code=5b69ea3143904e1998057a0ed39c0526&partial_token=fc637 > >3cffa8a438bb10bd80f1f8ccd95 > > > > The confirmation link will expire after 48 hours. > > Confirm registration > > <https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/accounts/complete/email > >/?verification_code=5b69ea3143904e1998057a0ed39c0526&partial_token=fc63 > >73cffa8a438bb10bd80f1f8ccd95> > > > > If there is a problem with your registration, please contact us. > > <https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/contact/?t=reg> > > > > > > Weblate, the libre continuous localization system. > > <https://weblate.org/> > > > > Generated on Aug. 3, 2026, 12:30 p.m.. Hi Mustafa, all, similar to what happened with TGW some time ago, TWTW started to get overloaded with "awesome" AI agents. Because of this, the server could sometimes give 502. Yesterday I successfully activated the same solution as used on TGW - we added access throttling using Anubis. I hope this helps get the server load back to an acceptable level, and that TWTW will work well for users again. Cheers Slávek --

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Frequency of PSB package updates
by Sebastião Guerra 12 Aug '26

12 Aug '26

Hello, I am currently translating and reviewing the Brazilian Portuguese translations of TDE. In addition to completing untranslated strings, I am also working on terminology consistency across the different applications and components. I would like to know how often the preliminary build packages are rebuilt and published. After a translation is submitted and accepted through Weblate, approximately how long does it usually take for that change to become available in the preliminary build repositories? Knowing the usual update frequency would help me test the translations in a running TDE environment and identify inconsistencies more efficiently. Thank you for your help. Best regards, Sebastião Guerra

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tmix - replacement for kmix for pulseaudio.
by Calvin Morrison 11 Aug '26

11 Aug '26

hi guys, please see this repo and give feedback if you cane it is a pulseaudio based mixer for TDE. it's similar to kmix but not identical. It's similar to pavucontrol-qt but not identical. If you can build it, let me know, if you cannot build it, let me know if you like it... let me know! maybe it could go upstream at some point into tdemultimedia, it would take work, translations, a help guide, probably minimally also an ALSA backend as well. https://git.ceux.org/tmix.git/ thank you all

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[François] Mageia upgrade from 9 to 10 refuses to upgrade any TDE packages due to signature key not trusted
by Felix Miata 01 Aug '26

01 Aug '26

Mageia 10 was released yesterday, but upgrading from freshly upgraded 9 32bit, it refuses to upgrade any trinity rpm due to NOT TRUSTED signature key As urpmi --auto-update downloaded all v10 packages, I was able to force install them with rpm, which was very tedious, but TDE & TDM are working. -- 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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[devels] [OpenMandriva Cooker] signature verification failed; more
by Felix Miata 26 Jul '26

26 Jul '26

I'm trying to put TDE on OpenMandriva Cooker. It downloaded (some of) the packages to be installed, but wouldn't install them because it wanted a public key. https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Category:Installation has no instructions for OpenMandriva, so I'm sort of flying blind. Where is the public key it wants /supposed/ to come from (besides copying from another installation)? The Fedora instructions make no mention of any such need, though the key from it worked. :p Trinity-tdm installed fine, but trinity-tdebase dubiously /requires/ distro-release-theme, which /requires/ grub2, which I don't want installed and have no need for. Only one bootloader is required per GNU/Linux PC, and I'm not going to have every installed distro demand its own cluttering NVRAM. -- 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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Question to devs of TDE
by Alexander Orlovsky 26 Jul '26

26 Jul '26

Hi folks! Recently i have release my own custom version of T2 Linux OS, and i am pondering if i can include as window manager the TDE , i have written my thoughts about situation with X-Server in Linux community. https://github.com/orlovskyjavaprofi/t2customlinux/discussions/29 I would like to hear your comments or opinion on this matter, any feedback are welcome, and if you wonder what is custom t2 linux , you can watch this video https://youtu.be/5lWsozTy8iU Best regards Alexander -- Custom T2 Linux builder : https://github.com/orlovskyjavaprofi/t2customlinux -- Diese E-Mail wurde von AVG-Antivirussoftware auf Viren geprüft. www.avg.com

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PyTQt ... kind of a workround to get it working
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 12 Jul '26

12 Jul '26

Hi all, I kind of figured out how to get PyTQt working: The problem is this: $ python3 -c "from PyTQt import tqt; print('SUCCESS:', dir(tqt)[:5])" Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> from PyTQt import tqt; print('SUCCESS:', dir(tqt)[:5]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyTQt/__init__.py", line 52, in <module> from PyTQt import * ImportError: /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyTQt/tqt.cpython-314-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: _ZN7TQMutex6lockedEv The workaround that my AI helper found is this wrapper: // tqtmutex_wrapper.cpp // Wrapper for TQMutex::locked() ABI mismatch in python3-pytqt // // Problem: PyTQt expects _ZN7TQMutex6lockedEv (non-const member) // libtqt3-mt only exports _ZNK7TQMutex6lockedEv (const member) // // Fix: Provide a wrapper that delegates the non-const call to the const version // // Compile: // g++ -shared -fPIC -o libtqtmutex_wrapper.so tqtmutex_wrapper.cpp // extern "C" { // Forward declare the const version that exists in libtqt3-mt.so.3 bool _ZNK7TQMutex6lockedEv(void* this_ptr); // Provide the non-const version that PyTQt expects bool _ZN7TQMutex6lockedEv(void* this_ptr) { return _ZNK7TQMutex6lockedEv(this_ptr); } } With this wrapper I can run any of the exaples from "pytqt-doc" like this: $ LD_PRELOAD=./libtqtmutex_wrapper.so python3 /usr/share/doc/pytqt-doc/examples/tut1.py So my question here is: how can this be fixed the propper way? Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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kmail: symbol lookup error: /opt/trinity/lib/libtdepim.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN7TQMutex6lockedEv
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 30 Jun '26

30 Jun '26

Does anybody know what causes this and how to get rid of this? $ kmail kmail: symbol lookup error: /opt/trinity/lib/libtdepim.so.1: undefined symbol: _ZN7TQMutex6lockedEv [2026/06/30 15:11:40.387] [3967] ERROR: Communication problem with kmail, it probably crashed. $ nm -gD /opt/trinity/lib/libtdepim.so.1|grep locked U _ZN7TQMutex6lockedEv $ nm -gDC /opt/trinity/lib/libtdepim.so.1|grep locked U TQMutex::locked() $ dpkg -l|grep '$kmail\|libtdepim$' ii kmail-trinity 4:14.2.0~pre168-0debian14.0.0+12~b amd64 Trinity Email client ii kmailcvt-trinity 4:14.2.0~pre168-0debian14.0.0+12~b amd64 Trinity KMail mail folder converter ii libtdepim1-trinity-dev 4:14.2.0~pre168-0debian14.0.0+12~b amd64 Trinity PIM library [development] ii libtdepim1a-trinity 4:14.2.0~pre168-0debian14.0.0+12~b amd64 Trinity PIM library This occured afte I did an update today where a lot of tde stuff got replaced. As far as I can tell kmail is the only affectd application. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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Patch to remove non-existing icon positions in ~/.trinity/share/apps/kdesktop/IconPositions
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 17 Jun '26

17 Jun '26

Hi all, This is a simple patch against .trinity/share/apps/kdesktop/IconPositions growing indefinitly. Mine was almost 500MB and contained stuff from the last decades - so not very useful, but TDE has no way to clean this file. The patch goes against kdesktop/kdiconview.cpp. It changes the baviour to only save icon positions when the file/directory acually exists on the desktop. Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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