Now that plasma as it's in the book is pretty much working, there are a couple of
issues I'd like to discuss.
First, is the issue of localtime. It needs to be a symlink to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/your/tz That breaks our ability to have a separate /usr
partition. One thing I though about is to copy the entire /usr/share/zoneinfo to a
location like /etc/zoneinfo and create the symlink to there. It's only about 5M so
the space really isn't an issue.
I have not tried it yet, but it's an idea.
In any case, where should this be discussed. localtime is initally set in LFS. We
could chage it there to a simple symlink with the explanation about a potential
separate /usr partition. Or we could put the explanation in the plasma page.
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Second, I ran into a minor problem with konsole. The menu shows several 'terminals'
includeing the kde4 an dkf5 version of konsole. Both work, but figuring out which
is run depends on whether /opt/kde/bin or /opt/kf5/bin comes in the PATH first.
Another solution is to make a symlink in /opt/kf5/bin/konsole-kf5 -> konsole. Then
edit the .desktop file to explicitly start konsole-kf5 and to change the Generic
Name to 'KF5 Terminal' or similar. Right now on my system I have 7 variatiosn of
'Terminal' in my start menu.
I think this needs to be addressed, but I'm not sure how or where. Each of the
terminals does essentially the same thing. One idea is to create an entity about
.desktop files and put that on each page that builds a terminal. Another would be
to create a separate section and put a link on each page to that.
Actually, I'd think a lot of users would just want to remove the extras and use one
terminal app. Very few users other than developers would have all or even most of them.
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How should we go on these issues?
-- Bruce
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