25 Dec
2013
25 Dec
'13
7:11 p.m.
I am fine with both versions. I think the second one
misses the
point that TDE is a DE which puts productivity before fancy-
useless-bothering visual effects, which I think is the main reason
why people use TDE. Perhaps the following version is a little
better:
I understand your feelings. :)
A goal of a press release is to offer a positive spin and focus on
the announced product rather than what other products lack. We want
to refrain from KDE bashing. If you browse the dev mail list
archives from a while ago, you'll discover that a couple of KDE
devs invited themselves into our mail list and started a nasty
spitting contest. Got rather heated. Nobody won and one of the KDE
devs took to his blog to continue bashing Trinity. He stopped that
public campaign when a lot of people posted comments to his blog
entry to leave us the hell alone, that the free/libre software
philosophy allows and embraces forking. He was reminded that we
were not harming anybody. After those public rebuttals he stayed
away, but I have not forgotten him or his tirades.
I'm not afraid of bashing KDE4, especially the piece of shit known
as akonadi, or the obvious relentless fan-boyism that permeates the
entire KDE culture. Yet I'd rather we follow the advice of
Voltaire's Candide and just "tend our own garden."
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"Recently I discovered Trinity. I immediately felt at home with
this traditional computer desktop environment, which focuses on
productivity rather than the latest development in visual effects.
In these days of tablets and smart phones, traditional desktop
environments still play important roles. The TDE development team
is friendly and anyone such as myself may contribute to preserve
and enhance this fantastic desktop environment." --- Michele
Calgaro, Italy
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Feel free to massage it again if you find it appropriate.
Looks fine and thank you. Subject to final review by other team
members of course. :)
Darrell