G. Solis Gabriel-Solis
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G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-05 14:14:15 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

Blender 4.1 is coming in two weeks, and the blender devs are focused on that at the moment. I've reached out to them in the chat (#docs, in blender.chat) and…

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:51 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

I can't see anything in red. Are the parts supposed to be in red the ones inside single-quotes?

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:51 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

To be fair, /usr/local is a pretty popular location as well.

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:51 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

These instructions have been long due, so thanks for that.

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:50 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

I guess everything under /usr/share/icons/ is freedesktop-compliant, but based on what other apps on my machine do, I'd go one level further still: /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/.

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:50 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

"This may be true"? Perhaps "This should work in any modern..."

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:50 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

The formatting makes it seem like this is another command, not an output from the previous command. You could put the prompt sign $ before every command, or write about the expected output here in text, out of the code-block, or something else. I'd favour the first option.

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:50 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

Is this needed? Mine seem to have worked out-of-the-box.

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:50 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

Is this necessary? If so, perhaps it'd better be addressed in the preceding text ("if you happen not to have /opt, then you're free to create it/use the appropriate folder for your setup.").

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:50 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

You can substitute the existing link in a single command, with ln's -Tf flags:

G. Solis commented on pull request blender/blender-manual#104718 2024-03-02 02:00:50 +01:00
Add instructions for installing Linux desktop icons and integration

Should this step be placed somewhere else?

G. Solis opened issue blender/blender#109624 2023-07-02 19:50:35 +02:00
Cycles: no light transmission through sharp "Refraction BSDF" for point-lights with zero radius.