[SOLVED]Switching to KDE: Some issues.

alexcortes · Last edited by alexcortes on Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:19 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hello,

I switched from Gnome 3.4 to KDE 4.9.2 (I have near zero experience with KDE) starting from 'kde-base/kdebase-meta' and it goes almost smoothly, but I found two issues that I can't solve:

1 - Dolphin won't create any thumbnail:

alexcortes · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 2:58 am Post subject:

I found a related topic:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-930602.html

franzf · Advocate Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565

kscd seems to work only for a minority of users. Better stick to smplayer/vlc/qmmp/audacious/...
The posted QDbusConnection-warning is sort of annoying and stems from KUniqueApplication - every Unique Application (apps only allowing one instance, like kmail, amarok, ...) does produce that warning, but it won't affect usability.

Your HOME is specified in /etc/passwd. Edit manually using simply

alexcortes · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject:

Hello franzf,

Thanks for your comment.

I'll give up the Kscd for now. I'll stay with VLC since I'm using phonon-vlc.

My home is /home/$USER, it's correct. I also take a look on passwd and really match. Just on virtual terminals (only when using KDE) it's open at ~/Documents. Konsole, Guake etc.. :evil:

EDIT: paying more attention, the ~/Documents issue only happens on GTK based terminals. Tested: guake, sakura, tilda.

I get no thumbs, for nothing on Dolphin. If I try (i.e.) to add new wallpaper for the list, then I get the images thumbs on the file manager window used for that. But on 'normal' Dolphin none.

alexcortes · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 8:29 pm Post subject:

Here's go a strace of dolphin:

strace_dolphin.txt

ktraderclient --servicetype ThumbCreator

*I disabled 'semantic-desktop' flag at all due to seems I don't need this.

Thank you!

alexcortes · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:24 am Post subject:

About ~/Documents signed as $HOME on gtk based terminals:

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440344

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

I would hazard a guess that this is a feature not a bug. If it really bothers you, you can try renaming Documents to documents like this: mv Documents documents
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Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box.

alexcortes · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:14 am Post subject:

Hello Doctor.

If it's a feature, is a very odd feature IMHO! Since it's only happens on gtk terminals...

Thanks!

alexcortes · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 1:38 am Post subject:

I found it about the '~/Documents' thing:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201072

Thanks!

EDIT: as workaround I changed Documents path to $HOME.

baaann · Guru Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 558 Location: uk

For thumbnails have you tried

Control > Adjust View Properties

and set "show preview"

There is a check box at the bottom of the dialog to make it the default

alexcortes · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:16 pm Post subject:

franzf · Advocate Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565

I installed just for testing "kde-base/ffmpegthumbs" and video thumbs immediately showed up.

alexcortes · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:12 pm Post subject:

alexcortes · Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 4:24 pm Post subject:

Using media-video/kffmpegthumbnailer or/and media-video/ffmpegthumbnailer just works. But with kde-base/mplayerthumbs not.

*I'm using testing at all.

Thanks!