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

From: Katheryne Draven <borgqueen4@...>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:18:11 -0400
Who is this guy?


On 7/7/11, PICCORO McKAY Lenz <mckaygerhard@...> wrote:
> I disagree with everything he says this guy's mail.
>
> It is clear that this person keep a different perspective to that of a linux
>  user wants, (i must cited kde was a desktop in a UNIX-Like filosophy,
> everithing its configurable and integrate-able),* as** most of all mortals
> are windoseros who worry about these problems that this guy cited, in
> particular* I do not use any tools and formats cited by this man.
>
> *Another thing that he did not note, is the maintenance work desk, saying
> "is
> a simplekde3" or "No names have been changed" does not take into account
> that
> few people in trinity against the many that was in KDE series 3. Besides, it
> is easy to critics but nothing of work apported, this men is a simple
> windozer criticizing but does not provide any of contrib work.*
>
> Although some notes are considered, but I think are not necessary at this
> time, as a contribution I'm trying to do a live more lighter than the
> current winbuntu that is available in oficial trinity downloads (it is
> very good
> but consumes a lot of ram and the boot is not so fast).
>
> ..guys, everibody are doing a great job!
>
> I could not resist and had to make an entry in my blog this anti windoseros
> .
> http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com/2011/07/windoer-notes-about-trinity-notas-de-un.htmli
> hope finish at this mail send.
>
> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Katheryne Draven
> <borgqueen4@...>wrote:
>
>> I fully agree with you Darrell there is no need to try and replicate
>> kde 4 in doing so you would just be heading in the same direction as
>> them trinity should be finding its own path those who want all the
>> kde4 features are still free to chose kde4 there is no need to turn
>> trinity into another kde4 and doing so would be a mistake in my
>> opinion.
>>
>>     I completely agree.
>>
>> You people miss the point: there is no other office suite in the world
>> which
>> is so closely integrated with KDE3 as KOffice. For instance, it provides
>> KParts
>> which are used in say, Konqueror, that's why you can open a text document
>> in Konqueror like a web page. You can imbed web pages in your documents
>> as well.
>>
>>     Unfortunately this is true.
>>
>>    Also true is how difficult it would be to maintain koffice with
>> such a small devel group. Its likely the most immediately effective
>> solution is to leave koffice as is, and use an up to date OOo (or the
>> like) as possible until the project has enough devel to tacle the
>> koffice problem.
>>
>>    Logic dictates; work with the problems you can reach first, the
>> rest will fall into reach, if any remain.
>>
>> Kate
>>
>>
>> On 7/6/11, Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@...> wrote:
>> > On Wednesday 06 July 2011 05:00:07 Robert Xu wrote:
>> >
>> >> > KOffice: I never piped in on that debate, but I see no reason to
>> >> > maintain
>> >> > most of KOffice. LibreOffice is more than acceptable as a
>> >> > replacement.
>> I
>> >> > do
>> >> > think the wiki needs to be updated with instructions how to build
>> >> > LibreOffice to ensure native KDE3/Trinity file picker support (using
>> the
>> >> > --enable-kde build option). I think a handful of apps from KOffice
>> >> > should be
>> >> > maintained, such as Kivio, Krita, etc. I don't see a need to maintain
>> >> > the
>> >> > main apps.
>> >>
>> >> When you put it that way... Is it possible to maintain a subset of
>> >> KOffice? Like Darell said, only a handful of apps? Or is it all or
>> >> nothing?
>> >
>> > You people miss the point: there is no other office suite in the world
>> which
>> > is so closely integrated with KDE3 as KOffice. For instance, it provides
>> > KParts
>> > which are used in say, Konqueror, that's why you can open a text
>> > document
>> > in Konqueror like a web page. You can imbed web pages in your documents
>> > as well.
>> >
>> > There is no such thing in Libre/Open Office. There was a project named
>> > Cuckooo,
>> > but it does not build now
>> >
>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=cuckooo&project=home%3AAnsus%3AKDE3
>> >
>> >
>> >
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