[community] Forum-scout — an arch based forums search tool. Available with yay

Extra has the latest release. Official manjaro repo. Mabox is behind :face_holding_back_tears:

2 extra/forum-scout 0.6.5-1 (59.2 KiB 110.6 KiB) 
    Arch focused forum search tool
3 extra/forum-scout-qt 0.6.6-1 (56.0 KiB 103.5 KiB) (Installed)

PS The QT and GTK are more ore less the same. The release nr. differs.

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Not anymore…

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@SauronsMouth
Do you have the latest ~/.config/forum-scout/forums.conf

Default .conf.

 cat /usr/share/forum-scout/forums.conf 
# Forum Scout — forum registry
# One entry per line. Fields:
#   name    display name (required)
#   type    discourse | mediawiki | ddg (required)
#   url     base URL (required)
#   color   hex color for the checkbox label (required)
#   on      true/false — default checkbox state (default: true)
#   group   distro | wiki | de — which row in the forums bar (default: distro)
#   page    mediawiki only — URL template for article links (optional)
#
# To add or remove forums, edit this file directly.
# To keep your changes across package upgrades, copy this file to:
#   ~/.config/forum-scout/forums.conf
#
{"name": "Mabox",        "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.maboxlinux.org",       "color": "#c49000", "on": true,  "group": "distro"}
{"name": "EndeavourOS",  "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.endeavouros.com",       "color": "#0891b2", "on": true,  "group": "distro"}
{"name": "Manjaro",      "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.manjaro.org",           "color": "#16a34a", "on": true,  "group": "distro"}
{"name": "CachyOS",      "type": "discourse", "url": "https://discuss.cachyos.org",         "color": "#7c3aed", "on": true,  "group": "distro"}
{"name": "Garuda",       "type": "discourse", "url": "https://forum.garudalinux.org",       "color": "#db2777", "on": true,  "group": "distro"}
{"name": "Arch Wiki",    "type": "mediawiki", "url": "https://wiki.archlinux.org",          "color": "#2563eb", "on": true,  "group": "wiki"}
{"name": "Manjaro Wiki", "type": "mediawiki", "url": "https://wiki.manjaro.org",            "color": "#22c55e", "on": true,  "group": "wiki",   "page": "index.php?title={slug}"}
{"name": "CachyOS Wiki", "type": "ddg",       "url": "wiki.cachyos.org",                    "color": "#7c3aed", "on": true,  "group": "wiki"}
{"name": "Arch BBS",     "type": "ddg",       "url": "bbs.archlinux.org",                   "color": "#ea580c", "on": false, "group": "wiki"}
{"name": "Artix Wiki",   "type": "ddg",       "url": "https://forum.artixlinux.org/",       "color": "#c6b9d8", "on": false, "group": "wiki"}
{"name": "KDE",          "type": "discourse", "url": "https://discuss.kde.org",             "color": "#1d99f3", "on": true,  "group": "de"}
{"name": "GNOME",        "type": "discourse", "url": "https://discourse.gnome.org",         "color": "#3584e4", "on": true,  "group": "de"}
{"name": "XFCE4",        "type": "ddg",       "url": "https://forum.xfce.org/",             "color": "#ea580c", "on": false, "group": "de"}

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No, I do not. Fixing now.

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Update: v0.6.6

I saw the gtk version did’t ship the latest forums.conf.
No need to do something extra with a fresh installation.

For an installed version, do…

yay -Syu forum-scout
cp /usr/share/forum-scout/forums.conf ~/.config/forum-scout/forums.conf

Really glad forum-scout is being used! :tada: If you’d like to support the project:

- Vote on AUR: AUR (en) - forum-scout (gtk)

- Vote on AUR: AUR (en) - forum-scout-qt (qt)

- Star on GitHub: https://github.com/musduz/forum-scout (gtk)

- Star on GitHub: GitHub - musqz/forum-scout-qt: Qt/PyQt6 port of Forum Scout — multi-forum search tool for KDE and Qt-based desktops · GitHub (qt)

Since a view day’s, also available in Chaotic-AUR repos.

Thanks everyone! :penguin:

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I updated the package according to your instructions, but I do not see all the options. While I don’t use missing desktops in the screenshot, it seems that something didn’t update well.

Hi @danielhb,

Do you have

$ ls /usr/share/forum-scout/
forums.conf  translations

copy forums.conf to config dir

cp /usr/share/forum-scout/forums.conf ~/.config/forums.conf

I’ve done it several times, but it’s still the same.
It’s not something that worries me, but the error is there…

Sorry this should be :melting_face:

cp /usr/share/forum-scout/forums.conf  ~/.config/forum-scout/forums.conf
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Same result…
I’ll try uninstalling it completely, deleting its settings and reinstalling it, to see what happens.



I did it… nothing