caseyweederman

Not for AI-generated JPEGs and YouTube ads, sure.
For organizing and communicating what actually matters? It’s plenty.

Doom door/elevator woosh

Bobcat growl

Sure, blame it on your ISP!

Oh nice, I think I’ve used that theme.
I was imagining something a little different.
I had in mind something like xfce’s XML files where settings can be locked at the system level, so when they’re generated at the user level, those individual settings refuse to be masked.
I think for Plasma I’d need a script that runs after the theme has been changed that flips the “group-by” setting back to “never”.

You’re doing it right now but your brain filters it out.

I just need to run a pacman -Ql on the package. I’m guessing it takes the normal sequence of ~ dotfiles if present, else etc, else var lib.
I looked it up, there’s some promising stuff in qmls in /usr/share/plasma, desktop configuration in plasmoids, but that includes a panel configuration qml higher up.
Even if I do tinker with that, an update would wipe it out. I wasn’t able to find any equivalent in etc, maybe as with most things on Arch it’s “some assembly required”.

Oh shoot, while we’re at it, is there a way to change default settings for things? I’m not even sure where to start looking, documentation-wise.
I want my taskbar to never group by names, but I regularly need to set that again each time I theme-hop.
It’s got to regenerate that from somewhere, right? Feels /var/lib-esque, I’ll look there

Your lungs have a smell

Wait, is Gnome really still default?

Conceptually Bright

What about Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040?

Man door hand look car door

Waylon Jennings Live on the album In League with Dragons

In the Apocrypha, childhood Jesus got mad at another kid and turned him into a tree.
Now, I’m not saying they’re the same tree. But I am saying I can do whatever I want in my own headcanon.

2 And when Jesus saw what was done, he was wroth and said unto him: O evil, ungodly, and foolish one, what hurt did the pools and the waters do thee? behold, now also thou shalt be withered like a tree, and shalt not bear leaves, neither root, nor fruit.

http://www.gnosis.org/library/inftoma.htm

I can’t argue with that.
With the systemd example, they’ve put the bus in /run, but with different sessions and slices and environments (which could all be concurrent), they’ll spawn a new bus, so there’s no general way to tell it which bus you want.
If you have a cron job (sorry, a systemd-timer job) set up to project your mailbox to your bathroom mirror on the hour, you’d want that isolated from your regular user bus.

I love where Plasma is these days (check out the Tiles editor with Meta+T), but I do wish it was easier to pick only the desktop elements I want. It feels like it’s all-or-nothing.

Whatever i3 is using underneath, somebody put a line somewhere to tell everything where to find the bus.
If you’re not using a full desktop environment then you’re choosing to cover the features you’ve opted out of.
I respect that choice, and I’m glad our ecosystem allows it. But also I understand that you’re not going to get the full benefits of a desktop environment without the desktop environment.

Yes, so it knows where the bus is. That seems… normal?

Pretty sure the systemd command you’re talking about just adds the bus to PATH. You very likely could just do that yourself.

Oh, that makes sense.
For a quick and dirty fix, you might be able to define columns using a multiplexer like gnu screen or tmux. I think I know how to do that using byobu (a screen/tmux config wrapper), so that it would come up by default with three panes set up like columns, with the first and the third being narrow to create faux margins, and the middle pane running your top of choice.