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Month: July 2011

Re: [trinity-devel] A users perspective on Trinity

From: Nicolas Bercher <nbercher@...>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:05:35 +0200
On 05/07/2011 16:36, /dev/ammo42 wrote:
> With the drawback that it will load both kdelibs3 and kdelibs4 into
> memory. If you have enough memory to accommodate the 2 versions of
> kdelibs, you have probably enough memory to run KDE4.
Oh come on!  Please, do not answer things like that.  There are so many different people 
on Earth and we all have so many different choices & reasons for doing things or not doing 
them.

I tried KDE4 for a few weeks, maybe 2 months.  And it was just too bad for my needs. 
Before using it, I thought about somethings like "KDE4 must be KDE3 with more glossy 
graphics rendering and *upgraded packages*", and I also thought I could disable almost of 
the graphics stuff, but, no.  KDE4 missis some basic options KDE3 had, and KDE3 had them 
for good reasons (I just think about alt-f5 shortcut (show all windows list) that is no 
more available in KDE4 *if* you don't own powerful 3D graphics card).

Then, I found Trinity, installed it and was sooooooooooooo happy!  I kept some KDE4 apps 
for a while (kpdf, amarok2, etc.) but it was kind of a mess.  So I finally removed all of 
them and get back to my beloved "KDE3 desktop".  Just what I wanted while upgrading to 
Debian Squeeze.

BTW, re-thank you so much for doing Trinity!

Nicolas