tde-devels February 2016

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Visual facelifting proposals
by Thomas Maus 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Conversative stance and traditions not withstanding, TDE might profit from some visual improvements, IMHO. Nothing fundamental, just some low-hanging fruits. Perhaps worth considering: The icon sets from "http://www.ravefinity.com/". They claim to do only Open-Source work, so this should be feasible -- either for direct inclusion, or as a theme source. The "vibrantly simple" icon set works very well vor me, for example. Over the years I've collected a lot of Xcursor icon sets for various purposes and reasons: * color variants of classic sets, better harmonizing with my colorscheme(s) ** Oxygen -- wide spectrum of colors, some slightly textured ** DMZ -- small spectrum of colors ** Komix -- wide color spectrum, somewhat flippant, but excellent in combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set, and quite usable ** Popsicle -- wide color spectrum, quite flippant, but excellent in combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set * dynamic/pulsating cursors, easier to locate (helpful accessibility feature for some people) ** e.g. "flame" rotating pseudo-3D object, but not to fidgety ** "GreenLight"-series, slowly pulsating glow, in the actual color of the cursor (not necessarily green ;-) ** "Pulse-Glass"-series, slowly pulsating glow ** "bCircle" and "Tanga" -- very unusual, but interesting design, with very strong visual cues maybe helpful in terms of accessibility I attach a few (static) screenshots of the cursors -- if there is interest for some of them, I can dig into the license issues ... Some of the icon sets have problems, e.g. * TDE-LoColor -- does this actually has still an use-case? your are not aiming at car dashboard display, aren't you? it is very low-res, too. * iKons -- IMHO nice, but quite incomplete? * Tango -- only apps icons!? You might ask "so what?". Well, they might scare off some users, before they find the more pleasing themes. For discussion: What about having a kind of "tag mechanism" for artwork? We could then tag artwork as "colorful", "dark theme", "light theme", "monochromatic", "accesibility optimzed", "nostalgia", "kids", "modern", "conversative", "flippant", etc. (multiple tags can be applied to an artwork!). The user might set preferences in the control-center, which limit the artwork actually presented for selection -- this would be innovative, improve the harmony of the resulting setup, reduce the clutter in the selection lists and would enable a harmonic co-existence of old and new visual styles, without need to drop legacy artwork. Finally, about the TDE/Trinity logos, which are still very KDE-ish: If that is wanted -- OK. If more visual distance would be welcomed, have a view at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion Would some simple, color-ramped (to stay clear of well-established meanings) Triquetra or Triskelion be of interest? I can draft those on positive feedback. Best regards, ThoMaus

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Git mirror to use
by Fat-Zer 17 Mar '16

17 Mar '16

I'm wondering, if something changed over years. Which mirror I supposed to use for scripts which meant to be used to build trinity on end-user machines from source (gentoo ebuilds)? Now I use http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/<package name>. Is it correct, or there is something better? I don't think it will make a high load any day, unless TDE will become anyway popular, but you never know and it's better to ask...

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[Patch] tdegames: initial cmake conversion
by Fat-Zer 14 Mar '16

14 Mar '16

subj; Build files are mostly identical but usability test are required.

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[patch] Initial cmake convertion for k3b-i18n
by Fat-Zer 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

subj;

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[patch]Initial cmake conversion for k3b
by Fat-Zer 13 Mar '16

13 Mar '16

Unlike autotools this one doesn't installs headers. Why may we need k3b headers in system? Is there something linking against it? If so, I'll add install statements for them... Also it doesn't installs k3bsetup2 by default because mostly every modern linux have sane permissions to allow user to burn cd's whithout such hacky crap. +musepack is disabled due to k3b doesn't builds against recent versions (tested with 465)

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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.3 Released!
by Timothy Pearson 29 Feb '16

29 Feb '16

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Trefoil knot
by Baron 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

HI all, FWIW I like the "Trefoil Knot" as a new logo for Trinity. Sure it needs to reflect the right style and colours. My 2p worth. -- Best Regards: Baron

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TDE Powersave -- some clarification needed (not only in my mind -- in the docs too)
by Thomas Maus 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

TDE Powersave offers 4 states according to the source (factually 3 on my system): * Suspend2RAM -- this is obvious * Suspend2Disk -- obvious, too * Freeze -- hmm, anybody knowing what this actually is? (in the code it uses the Suspend2RAM icons but calls it's own method) * Standby -- according help this is either a DPMS screen standby with the system otherwise running on power or combined with a Suspend2RAM??? What is it really? And I'm wondering where my most favourite suspend mode is hidden: "Suspend2Both" aka "Hybrid Suspend" This mode sets up the swap area as for Suspend2Disk AND then does a Suspend2RAM. The net effect is, that you normally have quick resume from RAM, but should power fail, nothing is lost as you can resume from disk. Essentially a failsafe suspend ... Its the only suspend-mode I you for desktop systems, and my prefered mode for laptop lid-close action as it always does "the right thing" (at little cost). So, is "Freeze"="Suspend2Both" or can we introduce "Suspend2Both" (if the machine and swap configs allows)? ciao, ThoMaus

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How to add trinity into a pxe install
by Mario Fetka 27 Feb '16

27 Feb '16

at the moment i am setting up a new school server (debain edu) based im jessie the last install was a debian 6 install where the package names still where the same as the kde that was integrated into squeezy so the pxe kernel paramter desktop=kde still worked but now with jessie this has changed. so i am asking the devs that might know what i have to change in the debian so that it works again to use trinity desktop thx Mario voluntary sysadmin

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[patch] filelight initial cmake conversion
by Fat-Zer 24 Feb '16

24 Feb '16

Subj. See the attached patch.

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