History of Desktop configuration

<h2>Hardware</h2>

<ul>
<li>Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics</li>
<li>Memory: 27.3 GiB of RAM</li>
<li>Graphics: AMD Radeon Graphics (integrated)</li>
<li>Motherboard: Micro-Star MS-7C95</li>
<li>Storage: 1Tb SSD, 8Tb SATA</li>
</ul>

<h2>Software</h2>

<ul>
<li>Linux: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250502</li>
<li>Kernel: 6.14.4-1-default (64-bit)</li>
<li>KDM Plasma: 6.3.4</li>
<li>KDM Framework: 6.13.0</li>
<li>Qt: 6.9.0</li>
<li>Graphics: X11</li>
</ul>

<h2>((Display Configuration))</h2>

<p>The fun with sorting a desktop display setup is documented on the linked page, but here I&#39;m logging just what I am using currently for reference.</p>

<ol>
<li>Plasma Theme - default openSUSE</li>
<li>Application Style - qt6ct-style</li>
<li>Windows Decoration - Plastik</li>
<li>Icons - Papirus-Light</li>
<li>Cursors - Breeze</li>
<li>Colours - Breeze Light</li>
<li>Text &amp; Fonts - 16pt</li>
</ol>

<p>Not so critical ... Splash Screen - openSUSE and Login Screen - Breeze</p>

<h2>Support applications</h2>

<p>(as of 04/05/2025)</p>

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<caption>Active Applications</caption>
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<th scope="col" style="width:50%">Application</th>
<th scope="col" style="width:25%">Display</th>
<th scope="col" style="width:25%">Notes</th>
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<td>Avidemux - 2.8.1<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/">Avidemux</a> is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.</em></span></td>
<td>System settings</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td><a href="https://lsces.uk/wiki/Tools-BeyondCompare">Beyond Compare</a> - 5.0.7<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://www.scootersoftware.com/">Beyond Compare</a> handles a wide variety of comparison tasks. It has specialized views for different kinds of files and different approaches to reconciling differences.</em></span></td>
<td>System settings</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>calibre - 7.26.0-x86_64<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://calibre-ebook.com/">calibre</a> is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager</em></span></td>
<td>System settings</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td style="background-color:#ff6600"><a href="http://Base Development Platform">Eclipse IDE for PHP</a> Developers - 2025-03 (4.35.0)<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://www.eclipse.org/">Eclipse development</a> framework <a href="https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/release/2024-12/r/eclipse-ide-php-developers">tools for PHP</a>, including PHP language support, Git client and editors for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and XML.</em></span></td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>A Tumbleweed updated caused eclipse to stop working although I suspect it is just the PDT extension that is actually having trouble, so I was forced to switch to VSCode</td>
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<td>Firefox - 138.0 (64-bit)<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em>Web browser from <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/">Mozilla</a>&nbsp; that works transparently across all devices. Tabs on mobile phone can be followed up on desktop.</em></span></td>
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<td>Windows bar is locked off, and the replacement right hand corner icons are then rather small.<br />
Internal Theme - System theme - auto selected</td>
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</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td><a href="https://medw.uk/wiki/FreeCAD+Crib+Sheet?highlight=FreeCAD">FreeCAD</a> - 1.0.0<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em>A multiplatform, customizable and extensible <a href="https://www.freecad.org/">software</a> that allows you to design and modify 3D models with parametric features.</em></span></td>
<td>System settings and application icons are matching side.</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>Gwenview - 24.12.3<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://apps.kde.org/gwenview/">Image management software</a> that is a dafault on the KDE desktop.</em></span></td>
<td>System settings</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>JOSM - 19342<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://josm.openstreetmap.de/">JOSM</a> is an extensible editor for ​<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreet</a>Map</em></span></td>
<td>System settings but applicationicons a little small</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>KiCAD - 9.0.0<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://www.kicad.org/">KiCad</a> is a free software suite for electronic design automation. It facilitates the design and simulation of electronic hardware for PCB manufacturing.</em></span></td>
<td>System settings on containing windows, but application windows too small.</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>Libreoffice</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>MakeMKV - v1.17.9<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://www.makemkv.com/">MakeMKV</a> is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere.</em></span></td>
<td>System settings</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Picard - 2.13.3<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://picard.musicbrainz.org/">Picard</a> is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the <a href="https://musicbrainz.org/">MusicBrainz</a> database</em></span></td>
<td>System settings</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>PDF Arranger - 1.11.1<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger">Small python-gtk application</a>, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.</em></span></td>
<td>Windows bar is locked off, and the replacement top bar icons are then painfully small as are other icons.</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>qBittorrent - 5.0.4<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em>The <a href="https://www.qbittorrent.org/">qBittorrent project</a> aims to provide an open-source software alternative to &micro;Torrent</em></span></td>
<td>System settings</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>Thunderbird - 128.8.0esr (64-bit)<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/">eMail client</a> that used to be integrated with Netscape browser before that was forked to Firefox</em></span></td>
<td>Windows bar is locked off, and the replacement right hand corner icons are then rather small.<br />
Internal Theme - System theme - auto selected</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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<td>Visual Studio Code (VSCode) 1.99.2<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/">Visual Studio Code</a> is a free code editor which can be extended to support different programming languages. <a href="https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=DEVSENSE.phptools-vscode">DevsensePHP</a> extension is being used to provide verification support for PHP8.4.</em></span></td>
<td>Windows bar is defaulted off, but the replacement right hand corner icons are then painfully small.</td>
<td>Having lost access to eclipse which I&#39;ve been using for many years, I was a little loathed to switch especially since VSCode is linked to Microsoft but while I am still learning all the quirks that are second nature for eclipse it is actually working very well.</td>
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<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
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