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boredsquirrel ,

For me its more "who are you" "I am on every system but you never use me"

vi, tac, less, more, ...

boredsquirrel ,

Less is for scrolling through output right? And what does more do?

I just use cat and a terminal emulator that can scroll lol

boredsquirrel ,

Nice

boredsquirrel ,

Nice thing: Cosmic Terminal just embeds Alacritty but adds the stuff like tiling and tabs. Match in heaven.

boredsquirrel ,

LXQt: continuation of LXDE with Qt

Hyprland: tiling/floating wayland-only window manager

Sway: same but slower and not controversial

Wayfire: floating/stacking window manager, used in RasperryPiOS

Alacritty: a terminal, in Rust, that lacks all the stuff that Desktop Terminals have, but it is aaaaaacccellerated

boredsquirrel ,

KDE has crazy complex apps like Krita, digiKam, KDEnlive, Kate, Konqueror, etc etc.

They went more minimal and dedicated over time

Amarok -> Elisa, Kasts

Konqueror -> Dolphin, Falkon/"just use Firefox"

I dont get why we have Gwenview, Kolourpaint, Spectacle edit and digiKam though, this feels absurd

boredsquirrel ,

Do you know if Elisa is related?

Crazy that we can use 3 forks alongside each other, feels wrong.

boredsquirrel ,

Yes and no. They should really separate the fancy stuff from the base stuff. Like have a kwin-wayland-base and kwin-wayland-extras.

I guess some other features are not easy to rip out, but having only simple animations etc would really make sense.

I will try Plasma 6 on an Intel core Duo in some time though, exited.

They have an issue with disabling not needed stuff. XWaylandVideoBridge, legacy app tray support, GTK global menu adapter, and other cool but edge case stuff is just always running in the background.

Same for accessibility, GUI keyboard and Orca, even though they will be somehow dynamically loaded, they are not controllable transparently by the user.

boredsquirrel ,

Yes baloo is a hog. Note that the background services systemsettings page will be hidden in the future but accessible from the global search.

boredsquirrel ,

I tried LXQt and damn that is ugly. Maybe with theming?

LXQt 6.1 will have wayland support and as compositor you can use sway, hyprland, river, niri, labwc, dwl, ...

boredsquirrel ,

Yeah Fedora KDE is very bloated.

But no, changing the default browser under "default apps" in the settings works very reliable.

NetworkManager should default to randomized MAC since F40.

Have a look at my debloat guide

boredsquirrel ,

Well thats not Plasma 6, but it likely didnt get worse.

boredsquirrel , (edited )

What is a SABnzbd ?

the MAC is randomized but static, so you are somebody else for every network, but then stay the same.

Full MAC randomization causes major breakages though, and should be avoided.

The default hostname is also really unprivate, change it to PC with sudo hostnamectl set-hostname PC.

boredsquirrel ,

xdg-open will open the default browser. This is likely an issue with that app having firefox hardcoded, or detecting it and using it when detected or some stuff.

I've had mac rando on on fedora in the past and am running Graphene with it on by default, no breakages so far in about 2-2.5yr

People that dont have problems dont have a lot to add in terms or arguments :D

There are 2 types of MAC rando, and GrapheneOS uses full per-connection rando by default.

If you are in networks where access is controlled via the MAC, this will break. Static randomized (in grapheneOS "per network") like on Fedora dont have this issue at all, this should really be default always.

But it does not protect against certain levels of tracking.

Also randomized MACs may fill up certain router softwares and cause DHCP to fail because it tries to remember every connected device "for security" (FritzBox in my case).

boredsquirrel , (edited )

Strange. Make sure to contact the devs though, as KDEs settings always worked for me reliably.

boredsquirrel ,

There is a new Qt app called Vvave, a tiny music player.

I also dont like Elisa, I personally use G4Music but also tried Strawberry.

There also is Qmmp, which is still developed and also pretty minimal

boredsquirrel ,

To be fair

  • GIMP is really good
  • GIMP is hella complex to use

For example there was a (now enshittified) tool on Android called "image attacher" or something, for making a long image from 2.

This is probably also pretty easy with some CLI tool.

I actually took the time to learn "how do I attach 2 images together" in GIMP.

Or "how do I create a textmarker".

And the stuff works, but its just very complex.

attach 2 images

  • Open 1 image
  • "open" "open as another layer" the second image
  • your canvas is as big as the first image. Guess how big it has to be when fitting them next to each other
  • know that there is a difference between "layer surface" and "canvas" for whatever reason
  • in the menubar, find the canvas options
  • find where to resize the canvas and make it bigger
  • click on the surface layer of the other image and move it so it fits where you want it
  • use "merge downwards" to make the 2 layer one. BE CAREFUL TO NOT USE ANY IMAGE PARTS
  • use the crop tool
  • crop the new combined images to the wanted size

This is sooo manual and seems very hacky. The difference between canvas and layer make no sense to me. The enlargement is "eyeballing". The cropping too. There is no snapping when placing next to each other. There is no "dynamically increase canvas size" option afafaik.

text marker / highlighter

Something with brush, make it bigger, yellow, reduce the opaqueness, change the paint mode to "only make darker"

GIMP is like using cat awk and tail to write an office document lol. It works but it is damn technical.

But if you know how to do it, you know how to do it.

boredsquirrel ,

Well, there were no real GIMP changes in that period lol

boredsquirrel ,

Yes its always just filters being individually applied.

I also think GPU acceleration is a huge issue in GIMP and I think GIMP 3 still dont really has it.

boredsquirrel ,

I will make a dolphin context menu from that!

boredsquirrel ,

GIMP needs more macros to do basic things. Like dont add more tools, but have a button "textmarker" that automatically selects all the things.

Is this possible via plugins?

This is just like documentation 2.0

boredsquirrel , (edited )

I have to try it but I am already on GIMP 3 from flathub-beta (see instructions in my flatpak remote repo)

This is probably pretty useful and I also dont really need the top right stuff but no idea how to remove it.

I dont know if this is some GTK2 style set and never did this, but porting it to GTK3 is VERY likely worth the effort, if it is possible.

Needs to be forked then though.

https://github.com/boredsquirrel/PhotoGIMP

I would remove the differnt launcher entry, even though maybe nice to have. The current GIMP splash screen is extremely ugly, that can go.

I dont like changing the name though.

Will try if it works on Gimp 3 and if not, see if this is fixable.

boredsquirrel ,

This is a joke, is it? Can you literally just cat the image files next to each other?

boredsquirrel ,

I also likely did too many steps. You dont need to merge layers on GIMP. It will also just get flat but I dont know if the cut feature would work.

It VERY likely does.

But having guides everywhere, snapping, is really important.

boredsquirrel ,

I absolutely want to learn GIMP. And as it is extensible, you could literally just implement feature-by-feature stuff like Photoshop, a finally working autoselect of objects etc.

Actually, I will open a feature reques to change the UI to the one of Photoshop. I looked at PhotoGIMP and this looks tooo much easier and more usable.

boredsquirrel ,

Update: PhotoGIMP still works on GIMP 2.99

The configs alone are a bit messy though, contain a lot of random stuff like the device config for the guys mouse.

I think the settings cause a small bug, apart from that I am cleaning them up and will push an initial release soon!

boredsquirrel ,

This is great! Why doesnt distros use this by default???

Just put plasmashell and a few in there and you will have a working oom killer. Finally.

I will install this the first thing tomorrow

Wait... Fedora has this since quite a while, strange.

boredsquirrel ,

Hm.... the process itself should not take that much RAM. I dont know if normally the OS should assign the max RAM to the program.

But this should not happen and I wonder how "just letting it freeze" works

boredsquirrel ,

Ok so killing is worse than just keeping alive.

This is a fair point.

I dont know a good solution for this, not killing but freezing is likely the best.

I dont know

boredsquirrel ,

Literally yes

This was pretty informative and shocking.

And then Chris Titus made this video

They literally record everything you do, at least if it is a "Copilot plus" PC with a "neural engine".

boredsquirrel OP ,

I think this is nice but also adds some bloat.

Like that OpenSUSE model only works if both use XOrg, so if XOrg breaks it doesnt work.

On Wayland, either DEs get their shit together and share libraries, or GNOME, KDE, Wayfire, labwc, COSMIC, and in the future XFCE, Cinnamon and more all use their own stuff.

This would mean you need to add another wayland compositor and the GUI stuff.

There is a bit of a lack of complete minimal DEs. Raspberry Pi has their stuff based on Wayfire, LXQt 6.1 will be wayland ready and can be used with many compositors.

These would be good candidates, but really what is a broken Desktop?

But I will do a post in Fedora discuss about this, even though I dont think the Atomic variants need it.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Thats why you have RedHat, SUSE, Canonical etc. Legal entities that offer warranty for that random bundle. Insurance that issues will be fixed.

Because if you are just "a racoon digging for free code" you have nothing to request from anyone.

boredsquirrel OP ,

You can just place this file to disable the component entirely.

The getnewstuff needs an overhaul, but not related to this. This is about the naming of global themes.

boredsquirrel OP ,

A "global theme" which is a set of themes, widgets, splash screens, cursors etc.

I dont think the inclusion of code is the problem, but that the bundle had a script for installation that was faulty.

Using [ -e $VARIABLE] && do something with $VARIABLE would have solved it.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Same, but a few Plasmoids are nice to have..

I also like it simpler than stock KDE. no sounds, no floating, no animations.

boredsquirrel ,

Another deltachat enjoyer?

boredsquirrel ,

I guess man tar is cheating, but it is a command involving tar. Not a command using tar, but a tar command...

boredsquirrel ,

True. But then I would use curl cheat.sh/tar

boredsquirrel OP ,

Yes, Gitea is a fork of Gog, and Forgejo is a fork of Gitea.

Gitea messed up their finance stuff, has a for profit company and did a lot of shady swaps without transparency.

Forgejo is sponsored by the nonprofit Codeberg [something] and is hosted on Codeberg.

boredsquirrel OP ,

I dont know how much it costs to host such a server, 10€ per month?

I mean if you dont even use your software for real work i.e. a big project, how do you test it?

boredsquirrel ,

This issue is meme enough

boredsquirrel ,

Good tip! Never gave it a better look. It solves a big issue I have, with centralized power. Local first is great!

boredsquirrel ,

I just tried it and it lacks some basic stuff like drag to edge for resizing. The apps are really minimalist though and it should really run everywhere.

boredsquirrel ,

I agree a lot. Had Vista and XP machines in the past.

Then mainly used Win10 and KDE Plasma was a solid upgrade.

But they really copied the Win10 look which is atrocious. I agree that WinXP and 7 and the era where way better.

There are themes for everything though. Its just theming. I dont know if all apps support it and have never dealt with it, as Breeze works pretty well with Adwaita and Electron apps too.

I think there are Kvantum themes for this?

boredsquirrel ,

I looked but couldnt find it.

Tbh I like some of the more modern things, and they are for sure easier to unify. When theming like that, you also need a GTK3 theme, a GTK4 color scheme, a firefox theme etc.

And many of these toolkits dont support big themes anymore, just swapping colors.

boredsquirrel OP ,

Yup but people dont read to the end of the thread

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