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TDE Benchmarks
by Darrell Anderson 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

This might be a controversial topic and might bring the wallflowers out screaming with high opinions, but has anybody tried to run meaningful benchmarks with TDE? I'm not talking about click-bait or hardware benchmarks. More like how snappy TDE actually is. Another benchmark is energy consumption. Both types of benchmarks probably need several days of data collection to be meaningful. Data that is collected with more than 10 minutes in a virtual machine and an author bio photo wearing sunglasses. I tinker with vintage computers. Earlier today I installed TDE 14.1.3 on some dual core clunkers with SATA II spinners. I do not expect spinners to impress anybody these days, let alone SATA II, but the desktop is way snappier than I was expecting. No hanging or stuttering. The most important benchmark is solitaire (KPatience) runs nicely. With these observations, I realized could survive for a while with these computers if my main rig bit the dust. (I am going to test TDE on some single core systems too. :-)) I am not much surprised TDE runs well on these systems. After all, KDE 3.5.10 was released in the same time period these computers were sold. With these spinners Konqueror responds nicely, even with network shares. And that raises a different topic to enjoy favorite beverages -- why are most GUI file managers/explorers so slow compared to Konqueror? Kudos to the devs, past and present. Yesterday I was doing some oddball testing of the dual batteries on my T580 laptop. Although the laptop was idle much of the day, I noticed overall energy consumption was low. I never really looked at that before with other desktop environments, but the trivia got me thinking. Is TDE more energy efficient than other modern desktops? Is that even measurable? So let the vampires and werewolves loose. I am not looking for mere confirmation bias slaps on the back. Let me know if you have some ideas how to test TDE in a meaningful manner. Yes, all things considered, nobody really gives a hoot. Just use whatever tickles your fancy. If you can't tell, I am going a bit stir crazy. Spring just refuses to come this year. :-(

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Scrollbar width redux
by Darrell Anderson 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

With respect to scroll bar widths, I'm looking for documentation and ideas how this design element functions. Except for Keramic, seems the built-in widget styles from tdebase mostly are inflexible except for common elements. Those common elements are the check boxes below the KControl Widget Style drop-down control. The challenge is I am the square peg in a world of round holes. Nothing new there, been walking through my life like that for many decades. I much like the simplicity of the TDE Classic widget style. To many people that style is boring, but I prefer boring in my desktop environment. I like the raised button look. I don't much like any other style. Not into fancy sheen, gloss, flatness, and all that. And my eyes scream at anything resembling a full dark theme. I almost get violent every time I visit a web site designed with dark themes. That crap hurts my eyes. I don't know how much effort is involved to get a scroll bar width control into TDE Classic. Probably too much. I'm guessing I need to create my own theme style, using one of the widget styles already supporting scroll width controls such as Lipstik, QtCurve, or Polyester. From there try to tweak the look-and-feel and raised buttons like TDE Classic. I don't have every single theme package installed. Perhaps there are more supporting scroll bar widths and raised buttons. Let the hounds loose. Share your thoughts. :) Thanks.

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Scroll bar width
by Darrell Anderson 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

I think I asked this question a really long time ago. Is there a way to adjust the width of TDE scroll bars? Is this theme dependent? Thanks.

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Error with QtCurve style
by Darrell Anderson 10 Apr '25

10 Apr '25

TDE 14.1.3, Slackware 15.0 64-bit. I built the QtCurve style theme. When I select the KControl Configure dialog I receive the following error: KLibrary: /opt/trinity/lib64/trinity/tdestyle_qtcurve_config.so: undefined symbol: allocate_tdestyle_config tdestyle_qtcurve_config allocate_tdestyle_config My limited understanding of C++ is the error implies something not declared or defined correctly in the sources. I presume the package functions correctly for you Debian folks, which implies some kind of adjustment or patch needed in Slackware. Help appreciated. Thank you.

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Reading epubs
by Darrell Anderson 09 Apr '25

09 Apr '25

Does KBookReader actually work? Or am I demonstrating Yet Another PEBKAC issue? The tool loads fine but when I open an epub all I get is gobbledygook. There is no handbook. Before any Horshacks respond, yes I tried TDE Ebook Reader ported from FBReader. Kind of user hostile with the non standard interface. The design seems to presume a user has create some kind of library. The formatting is less than pleasing. Installing both packages creates no epub file associations. Odd.

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Reordering konsole tabs with mouse
by Darrell Anderson 08 Apr '25

08 Apr '25

Konsole supports reordering tab sessions with keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+Shift+Left|Right) and the tab context menu. Is reordering possible with the mouse using drag-and-drop? I am unable to do that, but perhaps I have something misconfigured. Thanks!

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File Manager question.
by Γιώργος Κωστόπουλος 06 Apr '25

06 Apr '25

Hi! :-) I was looking for a tabbed file manager, with the ability to have open, at least 3 tabs. The obvious answer I suppose is Konqueror. I also looked at Dolphin, but it seems to be limited to 2 tabs (with F10). Is this correct? Any other options, you may know? TIA!!! :-) G.

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kuickshow
by Darrell Anderson 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

I'm trying to create a TDE build environment. I'm using old notes and the wiki. I seem to recall there was a separate kuickshow package. Not the one included in tdegraphics. Was the separate package dropped? If so when? Thanks.

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KFileDialog Speedbar
by Darrell Anderson 02 Apr '25

02 Apr '25

Is there no way to arrange the order of entries in the KFileDialog Speedbar entries (short of manually editing kdeglobals outside of TDE)? Adding a new entry places the new entry at the bottom of the list. Thanks.

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R14.1.3 and polkit?
by Darrell Anderson 01 Apr '25

01 Apr '25

I updated my system from 14.1.2 to 14.1.3. I no longer could launch tools as root using pkexec. Testing in the command line indicates some kind of polkit issue. Found some related discussion on the web but as usual, little help. I tested the same in KDE and had no problems. I noticed in KDE there is a polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1 process running. No such process in TDE, but I don't recall anything like that in previous versions of TDE. Kind of implies something in 14.1.3 changed to expect a polkit agent. On a whim I created a $TDEHOME/Autostart desktop file to launch the KDE polkit agent. I then could again launch tools as root with pkexec. I am going to presume I missed the memo somewhere. Did something related change in 14.1.3? The wiki seemed to imply there now is a TDE polkit agent but there is no such package here. Thanks.

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