5 Jul
2011
5 Jul
'11
1:27 p.m.
On Tuesday 05 July 2011 11:58:01 Timothy Pearson wrote:
I received this Email recently from a Trinity user,
and am reposting it
here so that we all can get a better bead on what our users are wanting to
see.
Tim
Needs serous rebranding, since packets are still
marked as kde3,
until rebranding is done trinity will be considered a KDE3.5 keep alive
and not a separate desktop environment. This will prevent it from
gaining popularity for example as lightweight alternative to kde4, gnome
or other interfaces.
Untrue. KDE is a more recognizable brand. If "Trinity" was invented as a
separate DE without any
connection to KDE3, it would still be unknown.
It's unnecessary to keep KOffice alive. KOffice
is outdated and
anyway incompatible with file-types most people use (those of MS Office
or OO.org).
Untrue. It has a basic support for ODF/ODT, and better support can be ported from KDE4.
We have OO.org and it's derivate. At most, taking
oo.org and
making a fork in qt4 would be reasonable
Untrue. OpenOffice is not Qt4-based. Porting it to Qt is an enormous work
(already attempted by a team, unsuccessfully, now abandoned).
For maintenance reasons, and to simplify work on
upgrading trinity
some of the original kde3.5 apps should be abandoned.
DE without apps does not make sense.
next would be digikam
which has newer versions for kde4.
Dikikam's KDE4 version is closely integrated with KDE4. It is impossible to use it
without
installing KDE4. The same is with all other KDE4 applications.
The main problem behind maintaining and creating
trinity versions of
some apps from kde3.5 which now have versions for kde4 is that if they
are kept the two projects will end having apps which are or totally
different (and maintained by different teams) and have same names
This is already the case, blame the KDE4 team. You cannot reconcile the two:
KDE4 apps use KDE4 libraries and cannot be separated from KDE4.