tracker: general user and simple system wide tweaks and fixes

[iaacornus]

to track issues for user and simple system wide tweaks

• Option: replace toolbox with distrobox #34
• Gnome: install Kate, both: uninstall default Editor [Optional] #50
• add MSFont and other fonts #55
• enable wayland rendering in either flatpak or rpm firefox #44
• installation of recommended apps (rpm) #13
• include sddm2rpm in recommendations for changing the sddm login screen #45
• installation of third party repositories #6
• installation of recommended flatpaks #7
• option to replace firefox (rpm) with firefox from flathub #33
• Flatpak styling #26
• Hardening of Firefox and Thunderbird #12
• suggestions to be included in recommedation list of repo/program #19
• tracker: general user and simple system wide tweaks and fixes #38
• Waydroid setup #22
• Setup Gnome Boxes #21
• variant based changes
  • kinoite
    - [ ] disable baloo
    - [ ] removal of flatpak preinstalled applications
    • removal of some base packages (kde) #36
  • silverblue
    • disabling of gnome software from autostart
    • removal of flatpak preinstalled applications
    • removal of some base packages (gnome) #37

[boredsquirrel]

Make Installation of GIMP Plugins easier by providing a script and putting that in the "Tools" folder? Just found out about it, will be lots of bloat because they are not tested, but GIMP needs more attention, so does KDEnLive, which doesnt seem to run on Wayland.

[iaacornus]

kdenlive doesnt run on wayland? im using it currently on my fsb 37 wayland.im not sure of the tools idea, since not everyone or alot of person would use those tools or scripts

[boredsquirrel]

Weird it works? Maybe it falls back to X11? Do you use the Flatpak?

The scripts integrate into the GIMP menu with GUI etc. But they are a lot, so optional of course.

[iaacornus]

Weird it works? Maybe it falls back to X11? Do you use the Flatpak?

yes

The scripts integrate into the GIMP menu with GUI etc.

this sounds interesting, if you can work on it, i can just integrate it in the program's option

[boredsquirrel]

Are additional RPMs here too?

I have some, because there are Dolphin dependencies:

nextcloud-client
# you get all Dolphin features like creating links and showing whats synced and whats not. This poorly doesnt work on the Flatpak

perl-Image-ExifTool
# for the "remove Metadata" extension, working really well. You could use jExifToolGUI (io.github.hvdwofl.jExifToolGUI) from Flatpak though and just execute exiftool from that container. Weird method, currently dont know how to install just that as flatpak. The Flatpak is also really nice!

pandoc
# there is an existing Dolphin extension, I created myself some I need to get icons working and will upload to pling. There currently is no flatpak for pandoc

I can try and replace the last two with direct container commands, but no guarantee that this will work, and it will slow down the addons a bit. But of course better.

[boredsquirrel]

gnome-boxes qemu qemu-kvm

The flatpak doesnt support USB for some weird reason (usb is a permission?) so no way to get windows running without that, guest additions, no internet, no clipboard etc.

[boredsquirrel]

stacer

is a really nice app, for showing systemd processes, cleaning temporary files (Gigabytes for me), some system stuff.

This may be replaced by KDE internal apps soon, but not yet and dont see it coming

[boredsquirrel]

selinux-policy-doc selinux-policy-sandbox

for some reason these are not installed. But I was too lazy to research what they do and if they are useful. SELinux = good Redhat happy

[boredsquirrel]

Shell replacement, keep in mind that it coould break the system, but this should work

#1. add fish to overrides

# 2.
lchsh -s /usr/bin/fish $USER

the lchsh is said to be a specific fedora command.

You could also only replace it in Konsole and Gnome terminal. Sed should be able to do that, if one file is not existent it should be skipped

1. what override works?
2. what causes least weird behavior?
3. sudo needed

some more problems on manjaro

Terminal emulator only:

# 1. overlay fish

# 2. add to configs
# kde
# gnome

to test: echo $SHELL

Configs needed?

mkdir -p ~/.config/fish
printf 'set fish_greeting ""' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

konsole -e fish_config #kde only, dont know a unified way for terminal emulators

a problem with Flatpak apps and fish, different ways of Flatpaks using it?

[iaacornus]

Are additional RPMs here too?

I have some, because there are Dolphin dependencies:

nextcloud-client
# you get all Dolphin features like creating links and showing whats synced and whats not. This poorly doesnt work on the Flatpak

perl-Image-ExifTool
# for the "remove Metadata" extension, working really well. You could use jExifToolGUI (io.github.hvdwofl.jExifToolGUI) from Flatpak though and just execute exiftool from that container. Weird method, currently dont know how to install just that as flatpak. The Flatpak is also really nice!

pandoc
# there is an existing Dolphin extension, I created myself some I need to get icons working and will upload to pling. There currently is no flatpak for pandoc

I can try and replace the last two with direct container commands, but no guarantee that this will work, and it will slow down the addons a bit. But of course better.

you can create a pull request for addition of the recommended rpm apps. To add it, you can just include it in config/app_for_install.json, it has a format of:

    "Mailspring": {
            "aid": "com.getmailspring.Mailspring",
            "sdesc": "A simple email client.",
            "source": "flathub"
        },

the source is either rpm or flathub, while the aid is the application id for rpm, it should be the name you'll include to install it, e.g., for stacer:

    "Stacer": {
            "aid": "stacer",
            "sdesc": "System monitor",
            "source": "rpm"
        },

[iaacornus]

selinux-policy-doc selinux-policy-sandbox

for some reason these are not installed. But I was too lazy to research what they do and if they are useful. SELinux = good Redhat happy

i'm not sure about this tho, since selinux is already installed and set up in fedora

[iaacornus]

Shell replacement, keep in mind that it coould break the system, but this should work

#1. add fish to overrides

# 2.
lchsh -s /usr/bin/fish $USER

the lchsh is said to be a specific fedora command.

lchsh is not included in fedora silverblue as well as chsh, and overlaying another program does not seem to be good idea for me, hence i plan to use usermod -s instead

You could also only replace it in Konsole and Gnome terminal. Sed should be able to do that, if one file is not existent it should be skipped

1. what override works?

2. what causes least weird behavior?

3. sudo needed

some more problems on manjaro

Terminal emulator only:

# 1. overlay fish

# 2. add to configs
# kde
# gnome

to test: echo $SHELL

Configs needed?

mkdir -p ~/.config/fish
printf 'set fish_greeting ""' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish

konsole -e fish_config #kde only, dont know a unified way for terminal emulators

a problem with Flatpak apps and fish, different ways of Flatpaks using it?

the shell will be changed using usermod, which is the proper way, it should not break the system from my experience. the breaking of system is due to symlinking the binary of fish to bash, which is improper method.

[boredsquirrel]

add #32 to the list? its a list on its own but fits here

[boredsquirrel]

add cache-cleaner #85