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Month: May 2018

Re: [trinity-devel] proposal for a new strategy

From: wofgdkncxojef@...
Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 19:25:47 +0200

On Saturday 26 May 2018 08:40:41 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2018 schrieb wofgdkncxojef@...:
> > [...]
> > The core idea, is to offer something that distros will not refuse.
> > If trinity gets in distros, then it gets more exposure and more devs.
>
> Well, yes, but ... devuan would like TDE, but TDE would have to be build
> within the devuan duild infrastructure. I thought, well, no big deal, fetch
> the git repo, push it to devuan build server and we'r done. Not so easy, as
> it turned out. Keeping the two repos in sync and mantain a seperate
> patchset for devuan cosmetics is challanging, at least for me.

All distros have annoying little differences.
It's a disease, it's called "not invented here" NIH.

> > It needs a bit of polish, and to put forword the best parts.
> >
> > the whole thing, makes me think of the joke about
> > the UI designed by a bunch kernel developers.
>
> There should at least be more screenshots in the screenshot section and a
> way to download themes, styles etc. tcontrol links to "themes.kde.org", but
> there are no TDE/KDE3 compatible themes any more, so a themes-section on
> the tde main site beside the "screenshots" would be a nice thing to have.
>
> nik