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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40293009

2025-06-16 - Peter Jung

We are transitioning the wine and wine-staging package to a pure wow64 build. This change removes the dependency on the multilib repository for wine and wine-staging.

The main reason for this is to align with upstream Wine development, which simplifies packaging and the dependency chain.

Potential Issues:

• OpenGL Performance: A known limitation of the new WoW64 mode is reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly
• Breaking Changes: Existing 32-bit prefixes needs to be recreated

If you are facing issues with 32 bit prefixes, please recreate these and reinstall the application.

2025-06-16 - Peter Jung

We are transitioning the wine and wine-staging package to a pure wow64 build. This change removes the dependency on the multilib repository for wine and wine-staging.

The main reason for this is to align with upstream Wine development, which simplifies packaging and the dependency chain.

Potential Issues:

• OpenGL Performance: A known limitation of the new WoW64 mode is reduced performance for 32-bit applications that use OpenGL directly
• Breaking Changes: Existing 32-bit prefixes needs to be recreated

If you are facing issues with 32 bit prefixes, please recreate these and reinstall the application.

How would you name your own country?

Really insightful video on how ambitious TES II was and how it still can be enjoyed with various QOL improvements made by the community. Also a nice suprise to see that you can get it for free (?), haven't actually tried getting it myself, but it is listed as an option nontheless. Anyways, watch this if you're interested in deep diving into one of the biggest RPGs of the 20th century!

Hi everyone! I recently created a custom service menu for the Dolphin file manager, but unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be working as expected.

My goal is to have a menu to convert image file formats quickly with image magick.

Here is the .desktop file I managed to arrange

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
Name=Convert Image
Icon=gtk-convert
MimeType=image/png;image/jpg;image/jpeg;image/ico;image/heic;image/svg;image/webp;
Actions=topng;tojpg;toico;towebp
X-KDE-Submenu=Convert Image

[Desktop Action topng]
Name=To Png
Exec=sh -c 'FILE="%f"; DIRECTORY="$(dirname $FILE)"; FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; magick "$FILE" -format png "$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.png"'

[Desktop Action tojpg]
Name=To Jpg
Exec=sh -c 'FILE="%f"; DIRECTORY="$(dirname $FILE)"; FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; magick "$FILE" -format jpg "$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.jpg"'

[Desktop Action toico]
Name=To Ico
Exec=sh -c 'FILE="%f"; DIRECTORY="$(dirname $FILE)"; FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; magick "$FILE" -format ico "$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.ico"'

[Desktop Action towebp]
Name=To Webp
Exec=sh -c 'FILE="%f"; DIRECTORY="$(dirname $FILE)"; FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; magick "$FILE" -format webp "$DIRECTORY/$FILENAME.webp"'

When I right-click on an image my custom menu item appears as expected. However, when I click on the menu item, nothing happens. There are no error messages or any indication of what might be going wrong.

I made sure the .desktop file is executable and the sh script works when using it on the command line, so I'm out of ideas for what could be going wrong.

Are there any logs I can check to get more information about what's failing? I'm using plasma 6.3.3 on Arch btw

Edit: To answer how to troubleshoot custom service menus (specifically .desktops) the desktop-file-validate cli utlility checks all the syntax errors and can provide solutions to what's wrong. For my use case though, using a script file for the Exec line and avoiding any double quotes was the practical way of assuring my service menu works.

Actually vlogging before it were even a thing!