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FAQ DRAFT (trinity.etherpad)
by Patrick Serru 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Hi, Having a look at http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/24 (FAQ DRAFT), I would like to find this question (-: and response!): « Will my personal home directory, created and actualy used by KDE3, be compatible with Trinity? That is: will I keep KDE3 themes and all my settings for the differents KDE softwares? In that context, what will appen if I compile Trinity as is, now? Hoping that the author(s) will understand my "basic user"'s preoccupations... Sincerly Patrick NOTE: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/releases.php -> error 404

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Trinity User's Guide
by Darrell Anderson 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

We have none. :) In the past I mentioned my background in technical writing and an interest in coordinating a user's guide. No promises but I want to get something moving. I have PDF copies of three KDE3 user guides. All are licensed to allow using the text in other documents. KDEUserGuideFinal.pdf: Published by the United Nations Development Programme’s Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP)Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (heavily focused on PCLinuxOS) opensuse110_kdequick.pdf opensuse110_kdeuser.pdf Although I could convert those documents to text files with various conversion tools, I would like to find the original source files. For you OpenSuse folks, you might be able to find those two document source files. The Kubuntu people at one time had a KDE 3 user's guide. I can find HTML remnants of such a guide on the web. Tim, as the one-time Kubuntu coordinator for KDE3 I'm hoping you might be able to find sources for that document. Long term I want to establish a process to single source the text to various mediums: a PDF, HTML, wiki, etc. Single sourcing text files long been has the Holy Grail of technical writing and frankly, no optimal solution yet exists despite what anybody might claim. DocBook, DITA, XML all were supposed to provide that single source miracle but none have fulfilled any tech writer's dream. Nonetheless, if we get our hands on the original source files for these documents we then find a big step in the right direction toward providing a much-needed Trinity user's guide. If not we still can convert the information using raw conversion tools. Thanks! Darrell

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Re: [trinity-devel] Trinity User's Guide
by Marvin L. Jones 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Calvin Morrison wrote: >But if we are suggesting that our users are incapable of editing markup >of any kind, I seriously doubt their ability to use patch, diff, and >git commands. You expect _users_ to be doing patch, diff, and git commands? I don't think so. Is it too late to put in a request to do documentation in WordStar? Now, there's a markup language _I_ know! :-) (I have it running here on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS...) Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | OS/2 __ 38.238N 104.547W | config.com | DM78rf | SK

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Re: [trinity-devel] evil defaults :)
by Werner Joss 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:26:12 Werner Joss wrote: > I just saw that the default templates for answering in kmail > are set to top-posting > (%CURSOR is first line). > should be corrected, IMHO.. (double post because original had 2004 time stamp) werner

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Re: [trinity-devel] evil defaults :)
by Werner Joss 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

On Thursday 17 November 2011 15:02:07 Julius Schwartzenberg wrote: > I'm not sure if everybody will see your mail. It seems it was sent with > a timestamp in 2004. Maybe you need to verify your system clock & resent > the mail. okok, folks, you're right :) the mail in question was from a fresh installed computer with empty batteries before having installed ntpdate ... werner

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Re: [trinity-devel] evil defaults :)
by /dev/ammo42 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Le Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:26:12 +0200, Werner Joss <werner(a)hoernerfranzracing.de> a écrit : > I just saw that the default templates for answering in kmail > are set to top-posting > (%CURSOR is first line). > should be corrected, IMHO.. You should adjust the date of your computer; receiving an e-mail dated from 2004 trashes the date-sorted views a bit :). > > werner > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read > list messsages on the Web archive: > http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >

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Saving your settings...
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

If I have sessions disabled, then when I exit TDE and see the "Saving your settings..." dialog box, exactly what is being saved? Darrell

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T-Menu [KDE4] Items
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

In 3.5.13, with KDE 4 installed, all of the KDE 4 apps appear in the T-Menu with a [KDE 4] identifier. If somebody on the Trinity team did this then kudos. Nice touch! Can I go further and not have any KDE 4 items show at all --- without creating a custom menu, removing all KDE 4 packages, or editing every *.desktop file? Darrell

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New About Web Site Page and FAQ
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi folks, Just in case this slipped your mind, you're new, or did not know, we have an updated About page for our web site. The new page contains an FAQ too. This draft document is open to peer review and changes. Whereas I am acting as final editor-in-chief, the document is something everybody here is encouraged to review and help write. We need a good document and we need fact checkers. The draft is available in etherpad: http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/24 Please find two pennies or euros and help. :) We would like to post the document soon. Thanks! Darrell

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Quality Assurance
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

In light of recent public criticisms about Trinity's stability, do we have a plan or do we allow for sufficient time for usability testing? The focus seems to be about patching, packaging, and releases. Perhaps with the next release we should introduce a fixed time for serious usability testing? Proverbially, we all eat our own dog food before releasing the software? If a wider window for testing means a shorter window for code hacking then I vote for that. We don't adopt a testing window and code freeze as long as a large project like Debian, :) but we should officially promote a wide enough window to eat our own dog food. :) We touched upon this topic yesterday but I want to bring the topic to the table in a more "official" manner. :) Darrell

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