[SOLVED] MLED - Microlinux Enterprise Desktop - a full-blown production desktop (KDE or Xfce)
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Some news. I just spent the best part of the day doing some quality control: four different installations of MLED (KDE 32-bit, KDE 64-bit, Xfce 32-bit, Xfce 64-bit). Corrected some typos and other mistakes in the Installation Guide, added a few explanations here and there.
The KSCD audio CD player has been removed, since Clementine does a fine job reading Audio CD's.
KAudioCreator has been removed from the package lists as well as the tagfiles. Dolphin handles audio transcoding perfectly with various backends under the hood, and encoding raw audio into MP3, OGG, FLAC etc. works perfectly with a simple drag-and-drop operation.
Custom menu entries are now complete for both the KDE-based standard edition and the Xfce-based Light edition. Just run 'git pull' to update the scripts and run cleanmenu.sh again.
Now a question. How useful would it be to have a documentation for:
... turning an existing Slackware installation into an MLED installation?
Switching an existing KDE-based MLED into an existing Xfce-based MLED Light?
Handling of PTP-based photo cameras remains a problem for the Xfce-based Light edition. On KDE, Digikam handles PTP-cameras like my girlfriend's Nikon 3100 very well. Under Xfce, I could only access this camera's content using the command-line gphoto2 application (which works perfectly, BTW). On the other hand, I can't expect my customers to import their photos via the command-line. I've tried the Gtkam frontend, but it's only useless crap. And there seem to be no other frontends for gphoto2.
I have no specific knowledge of Digikam but googling suggests it handles PTP through a KIO slave. So perhaps you need to go to XFCE's Settings -> Session and Startup, go to the Advanced tab and check 'Launch KDE services on startup'
Apparently Digikam writes a log somewhere, which might be helpful.
Have you tried gwenview? I am not suggesting it as an application for your users, but as an experiment to see if it works in KDE but fails in XFCE. That would help to see if it is a problem specifically with Digikam.
Darktable frontends gphoto2, by the way, and is GTK not KDE. I don't know why anyone would ever use anything else
Thu Oct 9 07:27:00 CEST 2014
xap/gnote-0.7.6-i486-2_microlinux.txz: Added.
xap/winff-1.5.3-i486-1_microlinux.txz: Added.
WinFF doesn't have any particular runtime dependencies except ffmpeg, but
it's written in Free Pascal, so you'll need a Free Pascal Compiler on your
machine if you want to build it from source. Make sure to install packages
fpc, fpc-source and lazarus before launching the build. They're all available
on SlackBuilds.org.
Gnote is a C++ port of Tomboy. IMHO, it's the most functional note-taking application out there, and I'm even using it under KDE.
WinFF is a very flexible audio and video converter that encodes pretty much any file format you throw at it.
I didn't add WinFF's build dependencies to the repository, since they aren't needed at runtime.
What exactly does this library provide in functionality for AMule?
As one might guess, it gives aMule UPnP support, which provides dynamic port forwarding when router supports it. Some apps (like Transmission or Skype) have UPnP built-in, while others (like aMule) rely on external library.
I still request aMule to be rebuilt with libupnp support.
Right, here goes.
From the desktop-base repo:
Code:
Sun Oct 12 10:48:37 CEST 2014
l/libupnp-1.6.17-i486-1_microlinux.txz: Added.
+--------------------------+
From the desktop-extra repo:
Code:
Sun Oct 12 10:55:28 CEST 2014
xap/aMule-2.3.1-i486-4_microlinux.txz: Rebuilt.
This update provides UPnP support upon request from user fsLeg on LQ.
+--------------------------+
Here's how to upgrade:
Code:
# slackpkg update
# slackpkg install desktop-base --> this will fetch libupnp
# slackpkg upgrade-all
You don't have to wait, it's already there. I only quoted the 32-bit ChangeLog.txt, but when I add a package, I always provide it for both architectures.
Well, it wasn't there when I checked, which was about three minutes after your post. I got the package now.
My bad, I probably posted the message too early. I have a script that syncs my local repo to the public server, and it must have taken some time to upload all the stuff. I just checked, and everything's in sync now.
This is a bit off-topic, but today I've stumbled more or less by chance over a little distro that's not widely known from the public: SolydXK. I tested a few of their spins in a virtual machine, and I must say I was extremely pleased with the SolydK Business edition. What strikes me - and this is why I'm mentioning this here - is that this is more or less the KDE edition of MLED, only with Debian stable as a base... and I have to admit, they did a better job at sanding down the edges. Besided that, their choice of applications, the sober default layout are almost exactly the same.
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