MX-19.2 KDE RC 1 Feedback Thread

[richb]

30 seconds isn't only long enough for you to change your mind and click cancel, it's practically long enough to go pour yourself a cup of coffee or tea while you're still deciding. Every other KDE distro I've used has the default and annoying 30-second pause. Let's be different.

Already said 30 seconds is too long. I just do not prefer an immediate action taken. No need to belabor this further.

[Eadwine Rose]

Indeed.. let's not get caught up with rehashing details like these. They have been noted.

[tony37]

(Thinking about it further, as it's a setting that's presumably in each individual look and feel's config file I don't think it can be made a change item in MX Tweak after all, but it can be make a wiki entry telling people how to change it for their particular look and feel.)

Can't you try to put these files by default in /home/user/.local/share ? I'll test this and see if it works when I create a new user.

update: I copied /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop to /etc/skel/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel, then I changed the timeout to 10 seconds (in /etc/skel), created a new user and it works. The /home/user/.local/share files override the /usr/share files (which I didn't change), so each user can change his own files.

@JayM: But rereading what you said, I see you meant something else, but I think all look-and-feels use the standard breeze one for logout. I tested this with McMojave and it has no logout folder as its own, neither has the MX look-and-feel btw
I was thinking of: how let a user change these logout settings without having them affect other users.

[dolphin_oracle]

(Thinking about it further, as it's a setting that's presumably in each individual look and feel's config file I don't think it can be made a change item in MX Tweak after all, but it can be make a wiki entry telling people how to change it for their particular look and feel.)

Can't you try to put these files by default in /home/user/.local/share ? I'll test this and see if it works when I create a new user.

update: I copied /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop to /etc/skel/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel, then I changed the timeout to 10 seconds (in /etc/skel), created a new user and it works. The /home/user/.local/share files override the /usr/share files (which I didn't change), so each user can change his own files.

@JayM: But rereading what you said, maybe you meant something else, but I think all look-and-feels use the standard breeze one for logout. I tested this with McMojave and it has no logout folder as its own, neither has the MX look-and-feel btw
I was thinking of: how let a user change these logout settings without having them affect other users.

do you have to copy the entire theme, or just the one changed file?

[tony37]

do you have to copy the entire theme, or just the one changed file?

I tested with copying only the logout folder but that doesn't work, my test user hangs when logging out.

One issue I can see is if there would be updates to the breeze look-and-feel, then the updates would be overridden by the .local/share files.
The latest update to the breeze package was January 2019, I don't think there will be updates here until you upgrade the Plasma version.
edit: I see these files are actually owned by the plasma-workspace package, so latest update February '19

[kangburra]

I have just finished installing on a Chromebook.
It's a bit sluggish when doing a few things at once but it is also 35C here today so I will let it off.

[j2mcgreg]

I haven't used KDE since MX was launched, so it may be just my ignorance showing, but, I can't find a way to toggle Conky off and have that setting retained from session to session. In standard MX, I can configure Conky as I like it and then toggle it off in the first session after the install and then activate it later on an 'as needed" basis. In the RC, I have to go to the Conky configuration utility and select Stop each session.

[chrispop99]

I haven't used KDE since MX was launched, so it may be just my ignorance showing, but, I can't find a way to toggle Conky off and have that setting retained from session to session. In standard MX, I can configure Conky as I like it and then toggle it off in the first session after the install and then activate it later on an 'as needed" basis. In the RC, I have to go to the Conky configuration utility and select Stop each session.

Conky Toggle works fine here.

Whatever state it is in at shutdown is maintained after reboot.

Note that Conky Toggle is in the Utilities menu.

Chris

[j2mcgreg]

Thank You

[junoluna]

just installed and had my first look ... i have been mainly using KDE/plasma for a while now and it is my favorite desktop environment

really nice to have a 'proper' MX KDE ready to go.

i think you have done a lovely job ...

thank you team