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.
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> Despite my recent impatience, Trinity is my hope for a usable desktop environment in free/libre software.
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> 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.
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> I find myself repeatedly agitated and frustrated by both desktops. A desktop should never get in the user's way. Ever.
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> 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.
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> KDE4 is a nightmare of complexity that a significant number of everyday users never will need or even fathom.
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> Trinity has an opportunity to be a splendid desktop for the masses.
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> I realize much work remains to port the Trinity build process to cmake. There also is a large list of bugs that need quashing.
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> I will do what I can to build and test packages.
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> 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.
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> I hope Trinity becomes successful.
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> To those of you involved in this process, please keep up the good work! :)
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> And thank you!
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> Darrell
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>

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