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https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/311/pipelines
Preinstall btrfsmaintenance (!311) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
Preinstall the btrfsmaintaince services but dont enable them. Allow the user to opt in by manually enabling or enabling in BTRFS Assistant once installed by...
merge requests kdelinux gitlabpreinstall311
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/461
Enable pwfeedback for sudo (!461) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
Adds a nice asterisk display when you type your password into sudo. This might be controversial, but I think this is a useful change because:
merge requests kdelinux gitlabenablesudo461
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/448
Live session: do not check for updates on live system (!448) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE...
merge requests kdelive sessioncheckupdatessystem
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/311
Preinstall btrfsmaintenance (!311) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
Preinstall the btrfsmaintaince services but dont enable them. Allow the user to opt in by manually enabling or enabling in BTRFS Assistant once installed by...
merge requests kdelinux gitlabpreinstall311
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/310
Add a "command not found" handler (!310) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
KDE Linux doesn't include some tools that are commonly known or referenced online. We can to provide a bit of education right at the point of possible...
merge requests kdelinux gitlabaddcommandfound
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/366
Pre-install vulkan-swrast for legacy and virtual GPUs (!366) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE...
Enable Vulkan via CPU fallback on older AMD, Intel, NVIDIA hardware and in VirtualBox/VMware environments.
merge requests kdepre installvulkanlegacyvirtual
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/308
Pre-install more filesystem support for Partition Manager (!308) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE...
Otherwise it won't be able to handle exFat or XFS volumes, or resize FAT volumes. e2fsprogs is already pre-installed because it's a dependency of something...
merge requests kdepre installpartition managerfilesystemsupport
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/287
Enable pcscd.socket by default (!287) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
This is required for accessing smart cards.
merge requests kdelinux gitlabenablesocketdefault
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/447
libimobiledevice and usbmuxd for iOS via USB (!447) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux ·...
Manipulating photos/files on an Apple iOS/iPadOS device over USB requires these tools. They are ~6.3MB installed, but I think the user experience of being able...
merge requests kdevia usblibimobiledeviceios447
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/448/diffs
Live session: do not check for updates on live system (!448) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE...
merge requests kdelive sessioncheckupdatessystem
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux-packages/-/merge_requests/78
Build package-compatibility-helper (!78) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux Packages · GitLab
merge requests kdebuild packagelinux packagescompatibilityhelper
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/333
Pre-install Qrca flatpak (!333) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
merge requests kdepre installlinux gitlabflatpak333
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/467
Configure cp and rsync to preserve metadata by default (!467) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE...
Metadata is data; losing it by accident when using common command-line tools is data loss. Let's harden against this by aliasing mv and rsync...
merge requests kdeconfigurecprsyncpreserve
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/340
Use the Zen Kernel (!340) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
merge requests kdelinux gitlabusezenkernel
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/431
Work around upstream AMD driver issue (!431) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
Many AMD systems are affected by a total system freeze that requires a hard reboot. This is reported upstream at...
merge requests kdework aroundlinux gitlabupstreamamd
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/267
Pre-install kdialog (!267) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
A surprising number of people use this to put together fairly sophisticated local automation systems. It's also made by KDE, so it helps to showcase how kool...
merge requests kdepre installlinux gitlab267
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/338
Pre-install pipewire-roc and pipewire-v4l2 (!338) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
There are the last two pipewire audio support packages that we weren't pre-installing. This will increase the image size by 4.8 MiB. Resolves
merge requests kdepre installlinux gitlabpipewireroc
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/335
Add openrazer-daemon (!335) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
Preinstalls the drivers and deamons for razer hardware. Closes
merge requests kdelinux gitlabaddopenrazerdaemon
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/319
Pre-install fzf (!319) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
fzf is a fuzzy-finder tool that can integrate with zsh and other shells, which can be used for example searching your shell history
merge requests kdepre installlinux gitlabfzf319
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/277
Don't pre-install Icon Explorer (!277) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
It's on Flathub now! So developers and designers who need it can grab it from there. We have to delete its files rather than stopping installing...
merge requests kdepre installlinux gitlabiconexplorer
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/412
Let Flatpak download all language files at once (!412) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux ·...
This is an alternative to !407 . Basically we'll...
merge requests kdelanguage filesletflatpakdownload
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/453
Increase default boot timeout (!453) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
For people like me with displays that take a few seconds to show the boot menu (mode switch?) leaving little to no time for us to react if...
merge requests kdelinux gitlabincreasedefaultboot
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/420
Make ydotool a system-level service (!420) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
This can be an attack surface, but because it's shipped with a user-level systemd service, it gets enabled by default. That's not ideal. Instead make it...
merge requests kdesystem levellinux gitlabmakeydotool
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/395
Add word navigation and support for comments to default terminal (!395) · Merge requests · KDE...
Add support for word by word navigation using Ctrl + Arrow Add support for comments in commands
merge requests kdeaddwordnavigationsupport
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/etc-factory/-/merge_requests/3
service: do not run when erofs fails to mount (!3) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / etc-factory ·...
also, make extra sure that the factory directory actually exists this prevents problems where we factorize out of nothingness and break the existing /etc by...
merge requests kdeservicerunfailsmount
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/408
Make homebrew safe to use (!408) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
Homebrew by default will add itself to the system $PATH if you follow the official installation instructions from their website and will override important...
merge requests kdelinux gitlabmakehomebrewsafe
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/346
Automatically hide systemd-boot menu on blessed boot (!346) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE...
Adds a service which checks if the boot was successfully blessed and if the user does not have any other operating systems installed. If this is the case,...
merge requests kdeautomatically hideboot menusystemdblessed
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/299
Add support for Yubikeys (!299) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
This adds support for using a Yubikey for unlocking a FDE partition or being a second factor of authentication for anything using PAM. Also includes is...
merge requests kdeadd supportlinux gitlabyubikeys299
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/362
feat: preinstall plocate for faster file locating (!362) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux ·...
plocate is a fast and efficient file locating tool that improves upon the traditional locate command. Database is updated daily or on demand by running sudo...
merge requests kdefaster filefeatpreinstalllocating
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/449
Live session: disable screen locking (!449) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
Fixes #279 Draft because for...
merge requests kdelive sessionlinux gitlabdisablescreen
https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/318
Pre-install lvm2 (!318) · Merge requests · KDE Linux / KDE Linux · GitLab
Needed to access partitions managed using a Logical Volume Manager
merge requests kdepre installlinux gitlab318
https://invent.kde.org/websites/kde-org/-/merge_requests/
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