Hi everyone!

I’m a 90% satisfied Gnome user only looking for more customization possibilities.

I had tried KDE on a VM, but, since I have a Steam Deck (Steam OS), I thought I should try to fully make it usable as a computer in case I’d need it.

I kind of managed to recreate the Gnome workflow where you switch between workspaces.

I’ve also set up kwin rules telling, for instance, Firefox to open on workspace No 2 on startup.

I don’t know why, but that doesn’t work for 2 of my main applications.

I use Evolution mail and it always starts on the wrong workspace. Same for OnlyOffice, but for this one I can’t even create a kwin rule as I don’t have that option while right clicking on the far right of the app. They’re bot installed as Flatpaks.

I wanted to take a screenshot of the issue, but Spectacle doesn’t allow me to take a screenshot when the right click menu is open…

Also, Evolution can’t seem to remember my passwords despite allowing them to be saved in the keyring. Since I have around 10 calendars, it means entering 10 passwords at startup…

Suffice to say that my experience with KDE isn’t great so far even if I’d really want to try it a bit more…

Does anyone knows how to solve these issues?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: In the end, using alt+F3 did the trick in order to apply window rules to OnlyOffice (but not to Evolution) and I switched to Thunderbird for my KDE install in order to avoid the keyring issue

  • D_Air1@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 days ago

    It certainly isn’t a permission issue like others are claiming at least for the window rules. It could be a bug, but as far as I know the steam deck does not use the latest version of kde, so it may already be fixed and isn’t worth reporting.

    As for onlyoffice, if I had to guess. It is forcing its own window decorations and therefore you don’t get all of the same options as with windows that use the breeze decorations from kde. However you can still create window rules for these window. If I recall correctly. The default shortcut is alt + F3 which should work regardless of which decoration the window is using.

    What does the kwin rule for evolution look like?

    Lastly, the password thing is the only one that could be related to a permission issue. I however don’t believe you should start mixing keyrings. kwallet is probably already installed and running. Like I replied to one other person already. Both gnome-keyring and kwallet use the secret service standard. The only reason it could not work is if evolution hardcoded gnome keyring instead of relying more generally on secret service. However, I doubt that. You could even use keepassxc as a secret service provider if you wanted to. Although it is a bit more annoying in practice.

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.worksOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      Oh thanks for the alt + F3 tip as it worked for OnlyOffice.

      Now I just have to solve the issues with Evolution, so its keyring issue and the fact that it deletes the kWin rule every time.