My two propositions to make solus os even more user friendly

MyNameIsArko

Hi, recently I started using Solus with Budgie Desktop and I found two things that if possible to add would make OS more out-of-the-box experience:

I really love that you made Qt Creator install with qmake (or maybe it is in the system from the beginning?). On other distros I would need to go to their website and download it from there to make it see and work with qmake, because when installed by the software centers it installs only Qt Creator and it doesn't work because it doesn't see any qmake configurations on the system. However by default it uses x-terminal-emulator to run app and it doesn't work with the budgie desktop (it shows and immediately closes). You can go to Options->Environment->System and there change terminal from x-terminal-emulator to gnome-terminal. But not everyone would know about it. Would it be possible to make it choose the right terminal during Qt Creator installation process?
After installing steam, steam controller is detected and works in big picture, but when starting any proton games, steam overlay works, but controller is not detected by the game. To fix this user must create rule in /etc/udev/rules.d and name it 60-steam-controller-perms.rules and inside have:

Valve USB devices

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"

Steam Controller udev write access

KERNEL=="uinput", SUBSYSTEM=="misc", MODE="0660", GROUP="input", OPTIONS+="static_node=uinput"

Valve HID devices over USB hidraw

KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="28de", MODE="0666"

Valve HID devices over bluetooth hidraw

KERNEL=="hidraw", KERNELS=="28DE:*", MODE="0666"

then user must add itself to input group (group can be changed by changing group here: GROUP="input") by: gpasswd -a <user> input
After that and restart, game should recognize and work with steam controller
Would it be possible to add this rule automatically during steam installation (and adding user to the corresponding group)?

By the way Solus OS is the only distro that adding rule and adding myself to input group made not only steam games runned through proton works, but also non-steam games runned through proton works (!). On other distros only steam games worked.
Thank you for making this great distro!

brent

MyNameIsArko You can go to Options->Environment->System and there change terminal from x-terminal-emulator to gnome-terminal. But not everyone would know about it. Would it be possible to make it choose the right terminal during Qt Creator installation process?

If you go to choose your term. emulator default in the install then you are semi-married to that terminal? Or if you regretted your decision you could still go options/enviro/sys and change? Same chasing-of-one's-tail but it would save steps, I know.
By the same token, having the terminal emulator listed in default system settings could be an idea, too.

BUT---there has to be a way to make terminal X the default terminal for Creator, isn't there? Re-writing a line of program code somewhere or editing a package file? Someone here always has a good workaround--good luck.
(I know nothing of your #2).

Girtablulu

as far as I can see, qt-creator should see gnome-terminal and use it, maybe ask upstream if there is maybe a bug around?

MyNameIsArko

I don't know if this is a bug, because on Arch there was the same problem, but for example Fedora sets gnome-terminal as default automatically.
Also for my second proposition I saw, that on Ubuntu (more precisely on Debian and it's derivatives) there's package called steam-devices that when installing provides that udev files. Package description is:

This package provides udev rules for various Steam-related hardware devices such as the Steam Controller (gamepad) and the HTC Vive (virtual reality headset).

This package is copying these github files to rules.d: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-devices
and set something (I don't know what) to system, because github rule doesn't use group to work and simply copying it doesn't seem to work. So for now I'll stick with approach found on gentoo (method I described)

Girtablulu

okay, maybe I need to keep looking if something is missing with qt-creator

The steam part we already ship it but I see an error with it (Perm mode is wrong), going to fix it

E: pushed a fix my xbox controller was working so far in witcher3

MyNameIsArko

Fix for the steam rules is working flawlessly! Good job!
It's strange that Qt Creator by itself is picking xterm as default terminal. On my Arch install that was half a problem because I had it installed too in xorg package. It's interesting how Fedora bypass this problem. I've checked other distros and all I tested: Arch, Ubuntu, Pop-Os, (now testing on OpenSuse), have the same problem with Qt Creator.