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: 6.15.1-1-default (64-bit)</li>
<li>KDM Plasma: 6.3.5</li>
<li>KDM Framework: 6.14.0</li>
<li>Qt: 6.9.1</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 - Fusion ... for it&#39;s scroll bar</li>
<li>Windows Decoration - Plastik ... for it&#39;s clean windows header bar</li>
<li>Icons - Breeze</li>
<li>Cursors - Breeze Light (54pixel) ... for it&#39;stext cursor visability</li>
<li>Colours - openSUSE with a yellow accent</li>
<li>Text &amp; Fonts - 16pt with 192DPI</li>
</ol>

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

<h2>Support applications</h2>

<p>See ((Application catalogue)) for more details</p>

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

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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>
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<td><a href="https://lsces.uk/wiki/Tools-BeyondCompare">Beyond Compare</a> - 5.1 (build 31016)<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>
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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>
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<td>Dolphin 25.04.0<br />
<em><span style="font-size:10px">Default file manager on the KDE desktop with add-ons for additional file processes.</span></em></td>
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<td><a href="http://Base Development Platform">Eclipse IDE for PHP</a> Developers - 2025-03 (4.35.0)&nbsp;<span style="background-color:#e67e22"> No longer functional !</span><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>
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<td>Firefox - 139.0.1 (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><a href="https://medw.uk/wiki/FreeCAD+Crib+Sheet?highlight=FreeCAD">FreeCAD</a> - 1.0.1<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>
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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>
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<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>
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<td>KiCAD - 9.0.2<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><br />
wxWidgets 3.2.8,&nbsp; FreeType 2.13.3, HarfBuzz 11.2.1, FontConfig 2.16.0<br />
libcurl/8.14.1 OpenSSL/3.5.0 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.7 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.5 libssh/0.11.1/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.65.0 OpenLDAP/2.6.8<br />
Boost: 1.88.0, OCC: 7.8.1, Curl: 8.14.0, ngspice: 43</span></td>
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<td>LibreOffice - 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community<br />
<span style="font-size:10px"><em><a href="https://www.libreoffice.org/">LibreOffice</a> is open source alternative to Microsoft Office and in many cases handles even older Office documents cleaner than Office does itself.</em></span></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>
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<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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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<td>Visual Studio Code (VSCode) 1.100.3<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><br />
Electron: 34.5.1, ElectronBuildId: 11369351, Chromium: 132.0.6834.210, Node.js: 20.19.0, V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0</span></td>
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