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jeton

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Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Is it possible to change the launcher icon?
That little rocket looks too childish.

Last edited by jeton (2016-05-17 10:29:31)

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Is it possible to change the launcher icon?
That little rocket looks too childish.

Hey jeton. I'm not sure there's an easy way to change it... not that I know of.
Workaround that you could try:
1. mkdir -p ~/.icons/deepin-norocket/places
2. Copy your new launcher icon to that places dir as 'deepin-launcher.svg'
3. Save this as 'index.theme' to 'deepin-norocket' dir...

[Icon Theme]
Name=deepin-norocket
Comment=deepin icon theme with my custom launcher icon
Inherits=deepin

Example=x-directory-normal

Directories=places/22,places/24,places/32,places/48,places/64,places/128,places/scalable

[places/22]
Size=22
Context=Places
Type=Fixed


[places/24]
Size=24
Context=Places
Type=Fixed

[places/32]
Size=32
Context=Places
Type=Fixed

[places/48]
Size=48
Context=Places
Type=Fixed

[places/64]
Size=64
Context=Places
Type=Fixed

[places/128]
Size=128
Context=Places
Type=Fixed


[places/scalable]
Size=256
Context=Places
Type=Scalable
MinSize=16
MaxSize=256

4. Set your new custom icon theme which should have your new icon... (should work... ;-)

jeton

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Registered: 2016-05-04

Posts: 29

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Is it possible to change the launcher icon?
That little rocket looks too childish.

Hey jeton. I'm not sure there's an easy way to change it... not that I know of.
Workaround that you could try:
1. mkdir -p ~/.icons/deepin-norocket/places
2. Copy your new launcher icon to that places dir as 'deepin-launcher.svg'
3. Save this as 'index.theme' to 'deepin-norocket' dir...

[Icon Theme]
Name=deepin-norocket
Comment=deepin icon theme with my custom launcher icon
Inherits=deepin

Example=x-directory-normal

Directories=places/22,places/24,places/32,places/48,places/64,places/128,places/scalable

[places/22]
Size=22
Context=Places
Type=Fixed


[places/24]
Size=24
Context=Places
Type=Fixed

[places/32]
Size=32
Context=Places
Type=Fixed

[places/48]
Size=48
Context=Places
Type=Fixed

[places/64]
Size=64
Context=Places
Type=Fixed

[places/128]
Size=128
Context=Places
Type=Fixed


[places/scalable]
Size=256
Context=Places
Type=Scalable
MinSize=16
MaxSize=256

4. Set your new custom icon theme which should have your new icon... (should work... ;-)

Thank you for the reply.

I tried what you said, but it didn't work.
The icon is still the same!

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Thank you for the reply.

I tried what you said, but it didn't work.
The icon is still the same!

Sorry about that jeton. I installed DDE and made it work as you can see on the screenshot.

Here's the icon theme that is meant to override default deepin launcher icon.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fi … 5205855740
Download, extract it to ~/.icons dir, change the example arch logo to whatever you want and set it as you new icon theme. ;-)

jeton

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Registered: 2016-05-04

Posts: 29

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Sorry about that jeton. I installed DDE and made it work as you can see on the screenshot.
http://s32.postimg.org/5xdu1jzlt/Screenshot_20160521_134830.jpg
Here's the icon theme that is meant to override default deepin launcher icon.
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?fi … 5205855740
Download, extract it to ~/.icons dir, change the example arch logo to whatever you want and set it as you new icon theme. ;-)

Thanks, it looks awesome...

... it reminded me of something, when I take a screenshot with Deepin Screenshot, it creates duplicate files on desktop.

The files are identical, but one of them is not clickable.

jeton

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Registered: 2016-05-04

Posts: 29

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

I removed Firefox completely with -Rsn and deleted ~/.mozilla folder, but the Firefox icon keeps appearing in the start launcher.

Can somebody help me remover it?

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

I removed Firefox completely with -Rsn and deleted ~/.mozilla folder, but the Firefox icon keeps appearing in the start launcher.

Can somebody help me remover it?

Currently I don't have DDE installed... don't know, could be a bug... You can try manually removing the dde-launcher config files in ~/.config/deepin and see if it helps?

eazyarch

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Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 6

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

hi,do anyone have issue with cutting files from desktop to other location? when i make folder to desktop and make cut and paste it to other location,folder on desktop still remains,also same thing happens with files.

metak

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Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

hi,do anyone have issue with cutting files from desktop to other location? when i make folder to desktop and make cut and paste it to other location,folder on desktop still remains,also same thing happens with files.

Yes, it seems that ~/.config/deepin/dde-desktop.conf file is not being updated when files are moved from desktop.
When cutting files with file manager it works as it should.
I reported this upstream: https://github.com/linuxdeepin/develope … /issues/98

eazyarch

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Registered: 2013-06-28

Posts: 6

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

hi,do anyone have issue with cutting files from desktop to other location? when i make folder to desktop and make cut and paste it to other location,folder on desktop still remains,also same thing happens with files.

Yes, it seems that ~/.config/deepin/dde-desktop.conf file is not being updated when files are moved from desktop.
When cutting files with file manager it works as it should.
I reported this upstream: https://github.com/linuxdeepin/develope … /issues/98

Downgrading to nautilus-3.18.5-1-x86_64 fixes issue for me on deepin desktop

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Downgrading to nautilus-3.18.5-1-x86_64 fixes issue for me on deepin desktop

Apparently it's a bug related to Nautilus 3.20+, according to hualet (deepin developer).

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

HI Guys,

I am very impressed with this desktop .. runs very slick on my 8yr old Sony Vaio Laptop.
I installed by using "Arch Everywhere" ISO and selected the Deepin Desktop and extras. I found I had to improve font rendering by installing the freetype2-infinality package  from AUR,  and selecting either Ubuntu font or Lucinda Grande MAC font for all to look great.

My only gripes are:
1. The borderless windows are hard to see when they overlap ... i.e the Files application ..
2. Seems to be quite a delay when opening applications from the GUI (3..4 seconds), if I open them from the terminal, they take less than a second.

Otherwise I am really happy with the desktop

EDIT:
3. Just had deepin-metacity process lockup the desktop, was using 100% of one core, had to "kill -9" it ...
4. No image viewer or PDF viewer
5. The command "df" does not work, just hangs .. EDIT: On a reboot this started working again.

Last edited by bmentink (2016-07-23 04:05:09)

bmentink

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Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Hi all again,

I am seeing the following on GTK windows .. looks pretty horrible, any suggestions?
See Here

Last edited by bmentink (2016-07-27 07:48:16)

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Hi all again,

I am seeing the following on GTK windows .. looks pretty horrible, any suggestions?
See Here

Hello. That's probably due to gtk version. I believe their latest version of theme is for gtk-3.18 and lots of themes were broken due to gtk-3.20 transition. There is a branch for gtk3.20, but it's still empty?
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-g … ee/gtk3.20

You should probably use a gtk-3.20 compatible theme for now.

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Hi all again,

I am seeing the following on GTK windows .. looks pretty horrible, any suggestions?
See Here

Hello. That's probably due to gtk version. I believe their latest version of theme is for gtk-3.18 and lots of themes were broken due to gtk-3.20 transition. There is a branch for gtk3.20, but it's still empty?
https://github.com/linuxdeepin/deepin-g … ee/gtk3.20

You should probably use a gtk-3.20 compatible theme for now.

Thanks, any idea what those themes would be, or where to get them?
EDIT: Never mind, found a GTK3.20 compatible numix-light theme from AUR that looks ok. I guess they will eventually upgrade the deepin one.

Last edited by bmentink (2016-07-28 04:02:18)

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

It seems the Deepin Music player does not play ogg files out of the box, anyone know what codecs/plugins it needs?
I have all the usual ones installed i.e gst-* libogg etc ..and the files play just fine on other players like mpv

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

It seems the Deepin Music player does not play ogg files out of the box, anyone know what codecs/plugins it needs?
I have all the usual ones installed i.e gst-* libogg etc ..and the files play just fine on other players like mpv

I believe it needs 'gstreamer0.10-base-plugins' for ogg files.
Here's the bug report I filed for it.  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50193

bmentink

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Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Thanks metak

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Thanks metak

No problem. It appears that deepin-gtk-theme has been updated for gtk-3.20 with latest update. Try it now? :-)
(deepin-gtk-theme-15.12.6.20160714-1)

You also asked about image viewer above? It's coming, they're testing it right now...
https://en.bbs.deepin.org/forum.php?mod … 271&extra=

Last edited by metak (2016-08-01 10:30:31)

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Great .. works well.

On another issue with the Launcher/Dock.
It seems running Java apps that then launch there own windows don't behave well with the Launcher.

I created a desktop file and icon for a java app that is launched with " java -jar application-name" and the icon is present in the launch bar.
I click the icon and the program runs, then I get the program to open some windows .... all the windows appear when I hover over the icon in the launch bar as it should.

However, if I close the windows with the window close button, the window does not go away all the time in the icon, and even when you close the program down with the window button, the icon remains in the bar. You cannot now get rid of it, or un-dock it, you have to logout/in again ...

If instead of closing with the windows icon, I close with the icon hover close button in the dock, then everything behaves correctly ..

Any suggestions?

Last edited by bmentink (2016-08-01 21:14:26)

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Sorry, no idea. But that sounds like it could be a bug though.
Check over HERE if someone else has already reported it, and if not please you do it if you can.
Deepin developers over there are friendly and will try to help you.

p.s. check the relevant log files in .cache/deepin/dde-dock*  for clues?

bmentink

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Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Thanks, but it seems to be fixed in the latest code. I just did a full upgrade and it is all good.

EDIT: I take that back, it was all right for a while, then started doing the same thing. I will post a bug

Last edited by bmentink (2016-08-07 02:53:39)

zaxdan69

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Registered: 2016-06-04

Posts: 272

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Hello,
I just install DDE and I have some issues.
I'm trying to add some applications to autostart at login but it doesn't work at all. I used the context menu by right click on an app but it doesn't work. I read that is used ~./config/autostart folder, but it doesn't start any app which is there. I already have some app .desktop files there but none of them autostart. And all these start fine in other enviroments as cinnamon or xfce.
Also icons for apps that use tray don't appear(I tried gnome-pie, guake and a java app which I've create), only the icons of sound, poweroff and removable drives appear.

bmentink

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From: New Zealand

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 442

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

An update to my Launcher issue.

It seems the deepin-launcher is being mostly re-written due to all the issues with it. My icon issues in the Launcher has supposedly been fixed.

The next Arch update from a tagged release should hopefully pick up the changes.

EDIT: Can some developer on this thread please make sure that an update is done ASAP to pick up these changes.

This is the upstream developer thread I posted the bug to: https://github.com/linuxdeepin/develope … issues/111

Last edited by bmentink (2016-08-15 21:42:40)

metak

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Registered: 2009-09-27

Posts: 198

Re: Deepin Desktop Environment on Arch

Hello,
I just install DDE and I have some issues.
I'm trying to add some applications to autostart at login but it doesn't work at all. I used the context menu by right click on an app but it doesn't work. I read that is used ~./config/autostart folder, but it doesn't start any app which is there. I already have some app .desktop files there but none of them autostart. And all these start fine in other enviroments as cinnamon or xfce.
Also icons for apps that use tray don't appear(I tried gnome-pie, guake and a java app which I've create), only the icons of sound, poweroff and removable drives appear.

I just installed the latest packages and as you can see, there are tray icons, but they are in a kinda weird place?
Click on the blue circle in dock (shows current app with tray icon I believe) and a pop-up will open and show all the tray icons.
Also, I just copied qterminal.desktop file from /usr/share/application to ~./config/autostart and it auto-started the terminal.

Might be something wrong on your end? How did you install dde?

EDIT: Can some developer on this thread please make sure that an update is done ASAP to pick up these changes.

This is the upstream developer thread I posted the bug to: https://github.com/linuxdeepin/develope … issues/111

LOL bmentink. ;-) Archlinux maintainers are super ninjas and Felix Yan (TUS) who is maintaining DDE in arch is aka felixonmars (github username) and he already participated in your bug report. He keeps DDE on arch always updated since we finished porting it from our unofficial arch-deepin project. Since DDE's upstream development is moving so fast, archlinux is basically the only distro which offers it right now.