On 2024/03/09 12:57 PM, Darrell Anderson via tde-devels wrote:
Are there plans to get TDE out of /opt and back into /usr? The topic was discussed a decade ago: https://bugs.trinitydesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1934For the past year or so that I have tried to return to TDE, I keep running into nuance issues. Things that motivate me to avoid TDE. Most of these speed bumps are caused by environment variables, mostly XDG related. I remember at the time everybody working on starttde trying to anticipate the many ways living in /opt could break and to avoid conflicts with KDE.My guess is many TDE users do not see these issues because they do not have a multi-user system with multiple desktop environments installed. Likely many to most TDE users are like other DE users -- just stick to familiar territory and ignore other DEs and potential conflicts.I think the easiest approach is renaming binaries with a tde- prefix. The MATE folks did this many years ago and continue the convention.I do not have a full TDE install, but on my system I found 30 files in /opt/trinity/bin that have the same file name in KDE. I know there are more because, for example, I do not have tdegames installed.Anyway, just curious, nothing else.
Hi Darrell, the idea to move back to /usr is definitely still on the plate, especially if we want some major distro to include TDE.I don't expect we will do any work on it at least until we complete cmake migration for the remaining modules and we drop admin module.
Cheers Michele
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