This thread is not about Flatpak or Appimages, it is about KaOS repositories, please keep the discussion to that.
Room for new packages
12 days later
Two new applications added, one is more a replacement. MystiQ is added to eventually replace Qwinff, latter seems pretty dead, last release was from 2015. See the post on Gitter from the MystiQ dev for more info.
Second added is Kvantum, it will be used to create a new Midna theme for 2020. Midna is now based on QtCurve, but that is quite dead too, so will be nice to base the KaOS theme on something actually maintained. Jomada will help with making a Kvantum based Midna theme.
tatizaffaroni Thanks :o)
22 days later
What about this? I think Android integration is good for the Linux desktop.
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/07/scrcpy-mirror-android-to-ubuntu-linux
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/scrcpy/
Thanks
7 days later
LostLombard Hay alguna diferencia con poner un servidor VNC en tu Android y listo? Porque parece lo mismo.
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Is there a difference with putting a VNC server on your Android and voila? Because it seems the same.
2 months later
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The pace is picking up for the python2 removal, so about a dozen packages left the repos last week alone.
Three new applications were added (which resulted in about 10 new packages, for new needed depends).
First is a plasmoid, systemd-plasmoid. With it you can easily maintain systemd services. The development for this plasmoid started just a little over a week ago, so it is not complete yet. Plan is for this to eventually replace systemd-kcm, since that one has been dead upstream for about 5 years.
Second is PDFreader, with it Falkon has native PDF support, will be part of the default install starting with the next ISO.
Third one took the most new packages, Spectral, a Qt5 based desktop client for Matrix. The needed libs added for this one were olm, libqtolm and libquotient. Those libs are the base for quite a few other Matrix clients. Spectral looks like the best fit for KaOS now, but with these depends in place it won't be hard to switch to another client should a better option become available.
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What about Ctrlr, a programmable (lua scripting) midi editor for hardware sequencers, written in Juce?
I don't know an alternative for this software in Linux.
The stable downloadable binaries (at ctrlr.org) are working without issues in Kaos, but maybe, when compilated from source code in Kaos, this software will be still more integrated in Kaos.
Another proposition: luatex.
Luatex offers pdftex enriched with the lua scripting language.
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thomaslemmens programmable (lua scripting) midi editor for hardware sequencers, written in Juce
Not a single person has ever mentioned using this for KaOS in it's seven years existence. Any added should have the potential to be actually used by more then one.
It is also fully GTK centered, seems LMMS (in repo and Qt based) has quite a few of it's features (MIDI VST editor for example).
This has been asked for twice now, still not something that looks desirable to many.
See post 76
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demm
Qtractor and lmms (via wine?) can load (some?) vst's (important feature to use only one midi port), but can not construct them.
Using Ctrlr, you can construct midi editors for nearly any midi hardware (sequencer, mixer, sampler., drummachine..) both as a standalone editor or as a vst-plugin. And this in different ways for every single machine (library, patch editor, mixer, sysex dump organiser ...). Ctrlr can output this drivers also as a xml file.
So Ctrlr can be a very useful auxiliary program for such software as qtractor , lmms or Rosegarden.
It features also the lua scripting language that still enhances its use in a steep way.
Nevertheless you are right to favour software used by many users.
And it is really a pity it isn't Qt centered. But I'm not aware of an alternative in linux
thomaslemmens Qtractor and lmms (via wine?)
Why wine? Both are in the repo.
https://kaosx.us/packages/view.php?repo=apps&name=lmms-1.2.1-3
https://kaosx.us/packages/view.php?repo=apps&name=qtractor-0.9.12-1
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mendez
Further checking showed fwupd is useful for many, added (though a bit limited for now, not all extra depends added, since it takes about 6-7 more to enable full UEFI & Dell support).
Fwupd & libxmlb are added (build repo).
https://github.com/KaOSx/main/commit/be814e378bc33747ada110e772429d62690f0d0c
thomaslemmens Linux LMMS installations require Wine
Please let me know it works if you add Wine to your install, then I will add that as a depend to lmms.
I failed to load a vst plugin (windows 32, win 64 or linux) neither in Lmms nor in Qtractor.
I've no idea why, I can only guess.
Maybe a compile option is missing.
The Qtractor manual list as one of the optional packages VST-SDK - Steinberg’s Virtual Studio Technology plugin format. The manual asks us to 'note that Qtractor can still use most VST plugins when using the included VeSTige reverse-engineered VST headers instead http://www.steinberg.net/'
Maybe in Lmms there is an issue because wine is called in Kaos by 'wine64' and not 'wine'
Maybe I did something wrong without knowing it.
demm ok to start a poll, but maybe add megasync and nextclod/owncloud together is the best way. I saw the price for these service for a year:
Megasync 400Gb or 2Tb 50€/100€
Nextcloud 100Gb or 200Gb 54€/108€
Pcloud 500Gb or 2Tb 50€/100€
Gdrive 100Gb or 200Gb or 2Tb 20€/30€/100€
but, Gdrive is built in plasma, Pcloud is an electron app. Just download and it works. Nextcloud have a very full service (calendar, mail, ecc) and megasync makes packages for a lot of distro. (great support for GNU/Linux).
My 2cents.
8 days later
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How about active window control widget for plasma?
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jomada Thanks a lot, that was a dumb question as always ...
Thanks a lot!
17 days later
KBlocks? I was inspired by the entry on Planet. 