On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 19:47, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable@...> wrote: > I realize everybody involved here is busy in one way or another. I appreciate all efforts. > > Despite my recent impatience, Trinity is my hope for a usable desktop environment in free/libre software. > > For the past several days I have been exploring Xfce and KDE4 as desktop alternatives. (I never have been a Gnome person.) Just exploring the option because I never used either in any meaningful fashion. > > I find myself repeatedly agitated and frustrated by both desktops. A desktop should never get in the user's way. Ever. > > Xfce is impotent. Simple configuration options such as setting the menu to include descriptions or disabling tool tip popups are either impossible or must be performed with a text editor. > > KDE4 is a nightmare of complexity that a significant number of everyday users never will need or even fathom. > > Trinity has an opportunity to be a splendid desktop for the masses. > > I realize much work remains to port the Trinity build process to cmake. There also is a large list of bugs that need quashing. > > I will do what I can to build and test packages. > > I will continue waddling along the next few months until the cmake transition is complete and a major bug quashing effort occurs. Yet I hope in a few month's time I find myself tickled pink from using Trinity 3.5.13. With the major effort in cmake, Trinity should remain usable and buildable for a long time. > > I hope Trinity becomes successful. > > To those of you involved in this process, please keep up the good work! :) > > And thank you! > > Darrell > > It'd be great if you could mark your progress here: http://lincom.ietherpad.com/9 and then if you could mark available times here: http://www.doodle.com/2arwhkrdzenzkzdg Hopefully, with the notes we have gathered, when I set up a date and time for a meeting, we can discuss future steps. -- later, Robert Xu