On Saturday 22 May 2021 09:40:33 E. Liddell wrote: > On Fri, 21 May 2021 15:37:33 -0500 > > J Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2021-05-21 15:16:33 E. Liddell wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 May 2021 21:26:32 +0200 > > > > > > "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <office@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Agreed. Aparently I don't know why /opt/trinity/bin/r14-xdg-update is > > > > not run by the postinstall-script. But then I have to admit I don't > > > > know this cute little program is doing at all :) > > > > > > Mostly, it adjusts some environment variables, config file locations, > > > and menu details for better compliance with the XDG specification put > > > out by freedesktop.org . It's a very long and ugly script that as far > > > as I can tell should have no real effect unless you're migrating a > > > profile from KDE3 or a version of TDE more than five years old. > > > > If that's so, it (at least test9) needs to be able to determine the > > previous level of Trinity and skip processing if it was less than two > > versions old. Maybe during the upgrade, a file containing the FROM level > > should be written for R14-xdg-update to consult. > > A closer look shows three sets of changes that apply to more recent > versions. They're labeled as follows: > > Rename/remove old link files in Konqueror sidebar network panel. [prior to > 2018 05 26] > > Rename startkde/exitkde events in /share/config/knotify.eventsrc [prior to > 2018 11 01] > > Remove Konqueror's icon cache entry for / (issue TDE/tdebase#1) [prior to > 2021 03 28] > > > How important are these things? Depends on the user, I guess. I > personally could not care less if there are broken links to things I don't > use anyway in the Konqueror sidebar, but I'm sure others do. > > In any case, none of those three entries have anything to do with what any > of the tests are looking at—they're all testing renaming stuff from really > obsolete versions, as far as I can tell, and yes, they should be gated > somehow. If I'm reading the script correctly, the needed version > information is already available. > > E. Liddell I will echo, and echo again, what some others have said. We all know that we are using a desktop that is still "in development"; it has improved greatly in the ten years or so that I've been a user, however we have a very small development team and limited resources. To myself, it seems a miracle that we can use TDE at all, especially when considering what other DEs are like. (Whenever I am forced to use another desktop, I feel handicapped, like being forced to type with my elbows while blindfolded.) So this thing, from my point of view, is a trivial bug, and doesn't disrupt my work or daily activities. I only deal with it once, whenever I reinstall my OS. (And even there, it has been more than a year or so, since I last encountered this issue. I thought it was gone for ever.) But then I run my script to overwrite and correct that file; now everything works fine again, and I forget about it. Or maybe Nik's suggestion will work even better? While I do appreciate Leslie's concern (that this may reflect some deeper issue - sorry if I am misparaphrasing), as a mere user, it does not interfere with my actual life, so it seems very remote and insignificant. I also wonder if there is life on Mars, but my curiosity does not impel me to go there to find out for myself. Unless one is a developer (or works, or used to work, in some related field), then this discussion is rather pointless; it keeps getting rehashed over and over (the third or fourth round on this same issue). The off-topic discussions are more worthwhile than this repetition and reduplication. Let's just let the developers do their jobs; I feel sure that they will come up with some kind of resolution, sooner or later. And in the meanwhile, post instructions for a quick fix, somewhere that everybody can find it, such as on the pages for installation instructions. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
