KDE Neon ISO but set up already for development? (lemmy.world)

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I am just a regular Linux user with a bit of additional interest in customizing. I can install things from the store, change settings in the GUI comfortably etc.

Occassionally there are things I am looking for are not available already but could be with few simple tweaks. For eg. right now I am looking for an analog clock widget different from the standard one already available. I need to reduce its size and/or change its background.

I believe this could be done by changing the clock source and building a new clock.

Currently I am not knowledgeable enough to do that and also with insufficient free time to learn everything. I would try if there is a standard pre-built ISO configured to this need with all tools pre-installed.

Is there such an option available?

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[-] arran4@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago

Using Gentoo might work if you enable the KDE overlay: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Ebuild_repository

Gentoo supports slots; which allows for concurrent installations of things like desktop environments. Not sure if it's configured that way right now though.

If you use BTRFS you could install gentoo on a subvolume and boot into it when needed too.

[-] diazona@techhub.social 0 points 3 days ago

@arran4 @voracread With some specific packages there are conflicts between different versions, so you can only have one at a time installed even if they have different slots. I think a few of the core KDE packages are like that. I know that I had to remove some parts of KDE 5 when I installed KDE 6 on my Gentoo system.

[-] arran4@aussie.zone 1 points 3 days ago

I've only recently moved back but I was using it before the KDE4 release and you could do it with 3.x. Shame

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago

You want kdesrc-build for that. Installing it is not really easy, there should be a package at least on KDE Neon repos.

https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdesrc-build/-/tree/master/

[-] voracread@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks, I may try it sometime. I have a Neon installation in one of my partitions already.

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