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Video info for MKV files is gone

Starting to get real sick of Dolphin constantly shitting itself. First the seconds get taken away, now MKV files stop having any information (e.g., duration, dimensions, or anything else useful). No issue with MOV, AVI, or any other container I've used, just MKV. At this point, I might as well just build my own file explorer, with how utterly inept the Dolphin team is. It's one shitshow after the other, retrieving bugs that have been fixed for years, just for the hell of it.

Edit: Confirmed it's an issue with some part of KDE. Ffmpeg returns the info normally, but kfilemetadata_dump6 outputs only video/matroska for MKV files. Notably, zero info aside from that; other files give the dimensions, bitrate, etc., but MKV gives just the mime-type, which is also incorrect since file --mime-type reports video/x-matroska, so some part of kfilemetadata is for sure fucked.

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u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 1 day ago
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How the hell do I get rid of this garbage?

No fucking clue where it came from, but I just can't get rid of it. I do not understand what I need to do, because it's not a Wine program, it's not a .desktop file, and it exists nowhere on my machine. Yet dozens of files have this shit associated with them. Trying to launch it just says that the application doesn't exist, so why the fuck is it still polluting my entire system.

u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 2 days ago

Any modern mice without a scroll wheel?

This is going to be very niche and specific, but are there any mice that just flat-out don't have a scroll wheel, but instead either a middle mouse button, or buttons for scrolling up/down? It might just be my autism, but I don't like the wheel, and prefer physical buttons. But I know there is absolutely zero innovation anywhere these days, so it's unlikely my niche even exists.

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u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 3 days ago

Box is rated for 25kg (~55lbs), good for a 5kg (10lbs) fan?

As the title says, just wondering if it can hold the fan when taking into consideration the spinning blades. So far hasn't dropped on my head, but would like to ensure my skull stays free of fan blades.

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u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 21 days ago

Did anyone else find the Shuttered Rift challenge boring?

To be clear, I don't mean to be unfair; I found the Rift very cool in terms of design and overall aesthetic feel. It just wasn't an actual challenge, and I don't really know why it's listed as one. Just unlocking the damn thing was more challenging, which I think is a massive shame, because I expected a lot more from it. Instead, my experience was a snooze fest to the disc, and maybe two tough jumps on the way back vendorless. It was just generally tedious, and I think it should be listed as an event, not a challenge. Am I in the minority here?

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u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 25 days ago
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Let us configure custom CSS for things like Dolphin

I'm sure this isn't a big request, and it would improve the customisation by a thousandfold. Simply make it possible to load custom CSS (or something similar), at least in Dolphin.

As an example: I would love to have either the information panel's "show item on hover", or the view tab's "show item information on hover" settings enabled, but in either case they pop-up almost instantly, and make it extremely annoying. Still, I would love to have either one enabled, since I very often need the information, and can not access it (e.g., due to having multiple other files selected).

Since we'll never get to change something so simple via settings (which KDE has made abundantly clear; see, for example, how long ISO-8601 has been requested for Dolphin), why not simply give us the option to load custom CSS, or something akin to it, to allow full surface-level access to such simple changes? KDE gets to keep its facade of being "for customisability" (a claim which, in time, you'll find to be entirely BS), and users get to actually achieve the look they want.

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u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 27 days ago

Comms Array just sucks

(Edit: Don't take this too seriously, I'm just airing out my frustration in an exaggerated way)

The Comms Array challenge is just genuinely the worst, and it fucking sucks. Yes, it's a skill issue; yes, I suck at the game. It's still objectively just utter shit. Fuckwit angles that make it impossible to grab obviously grabbable surfaces; bullshit lightning RNG; everything placed just far enough that you fundamentally CAN'T DO IT if any of the boosts ever wear off; pixel-fucking-perfect disc insertion. It's easier to insert you back into your mother than to get the fucking disc to go in. Every single other challenge is a fucking breeze to get platinum; fuck the tower. Tearing my own skin off is a far more enjoyable experience. I do not understand what more the fucking thing wants from me.

Anyway, love the game, it'll be the death of me one day; I'll be in the Comms Array challenge if anyone needs me. White Knuckle 100 years.

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u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 1 month ago

I HATE how IT (derogatory) talks

The spoiler in question: NoA.

I understand that this might be an unpopular opinion, but somehow the way NoA speaks is scratching just the right part of my brain to make me absolutely fundamentally despise it. Like, I'm not sure I could put into words the amount of vitriol I feel every single time NoA speaks. Might just be the intro, or maybe I'm just robophobic, but if that effect is intentional, they did a phenomenal job.

Obviously, I want to stress that this doesn't affect my gameplay experience, since I find it very fun. It's just something about NoA's way of speaking that makes me HATE it, and that hatred compels me to do everything possible to act against it.

u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/kde

This has been a constant issue, and since I personally haven't been able to find a single shred of discussion on this specific behaviour, I decided to just give up and try to see if anybody here has any clue on how to fix this.

If I ever dare to put my PC to sleep, Baloo/Dolphin will refuse to display tagged files. Doesn't matter how many times I refresh, or how many times I close and re-open Dolphin. The tags exist, the tag tree is browsable, they can be assigned to files without any issue; can't see the tagged files.

I've tried every Baloo trick I know, but nothing has helped since the files haven't changed in any way. They just won't be displayed, no matter what I do. Mind you, if the PC never sleeps, I can browse the tagged files without issue until the sun explodes. Restarting the PC or purging Baloo's index works, but neither is an actual solution.

I know Baloo is a broken mess, and I would absolutely love to just turn it off, but it's the only thing that allows me to browse xattr tags as far as I know (alternatives are very welcome), so it's pretty critically important to me on a daily basis.

Edit: I should add, if I create new tags, the fragments are correctly created and displayed (e.g., giving a file the tag Important/ABC will correctly create the fragment ABC inside Important). Still won't display anything, despite being a brand new tag branch.

Edit 2: With some more testing using baloosearch6, the issue seems to be with files that are anywhere other than ~. That makes no sense, because it works without issue before sleep, I have explicitly told Baloo to search these directories, the home directory has links to these directories, it clearly has the files in the index since the tags of those files are still created, and nothing has changed. File in just /home/? New line. In /etc/ which I've explicitly marked to index? New line. If it's not directly under ~ (or /home/usr/), it's a new line.

u/Ok-Huckleberry-916 — 2 months ago