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Desktop backgound colour unstable
by ajh-valmer 23 Nov '19

23 Nov '19

Hello, I configured my desktop with the background dark blue colour, without a picture of ...trinity/share/wallpapers (no picture). (desktop configuration). At each reboot of TDE desktop, the colour is light blue. If I click on the nvidia icon, it regains with the dark blue colour. What could happen ? Regards, André

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How to configure the Calendar that Clock pops-up?
by Michael 23 Nov '19

23 Nov '19

Hi All, In KOrganizer you can select the Holiday Region (in Time & Date), so that Sat, Sun and all [US for me] holidays are shown in red. The panel app Clock will pop-up a Calendar when you click it, but it doesn’t seem tied to KOrganizer? Every day on it is black. Is there a way to get whatever runs the pop-up Calendar to do the same as KOrganizer with day colors? Or better yet, have Clock pop-up a mini KOrganizer calendar (so all the days are color coded and you only have to maintain one configuration)? Thanks, Michael

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] TDE featured in german magazine
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

> The question is rather: why is it so difficult to convince others of these > facts. If one main distribution included TDE, I'm sure many more people > would "rediscover" why KDE 3 was good. > > Thierry > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Here here old man :) Kate

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[OT] On topic vs. Off topic posts (and Subject mangling)
by Michael 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

{Moving to new thread} On Thursday 21 November 2019 07:57:05 am William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > On Thursday 21 November 2019 02:24:09 ajh-valmer wrote: > > > On Wednesday 20 November 2019 16:23:06 Slávek Banko wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > > I think we are an interesting friendly community of peoples (and > > > > others) who think similarly, have similar opinions, and we simply > > > > talk about all things together, even if it's not strictly technical. > > > > I think it creates a better friendly atmosphere here. > > > > On Thursday 21 November 2019 00:29:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > +1 Slavek, thank you, even if my keyboard can't spell your name. > > > > A technical and friendly list is not incompatible. > > The friendly side is a good "motor" to help much better. > > > > The desktop is very important to manage the system. > > The fact that people are fan of TDE, make them happy on Linux, > > contributes to increase GNU/Linux and the free-opensource software. > > > > I don't understand some displaced reactions. > > I suggest that we develop some kind of consensus on how to handle this kind > of situation. I do not wish to feel uncomfortable, nor do I want others to > feel so. After we have participated in this list over several years, some > of us have got to know one another better than others, but somehow we are > expected to interact like AI bots without emotions. > > All the same, let's not keep going round like this. Let's just agree to > take it private once it starts to go off-topic. Personally I find the Off topic posts more interesting that the On topic posts, so forcing people to go private just for list’s appropriate etiquette sake seems a bit too far? Obviously anything actually private should go private, or we possibly end up with annoying sales pitches. In that regard here’s a proposal? - If you’re going off topic, add to the subject “[OT]” (positioned about where whoever adds [BULK] *). (If someone went OT, be nice and add it for them in any OT replies.) - Continue using the original thread just for on topic posts. Okay, we’ve got Bill’s and my proposals (and de.bug’s I guess), everyone toss out what you’d like to see. That way we can come up with a definitive “way we do it here” statement. So people don’t get butthurt and leave in a huff ;) . (Or maybe she/he thought I called him stupid for being young? Lacking quality education yes, stupid, no... If they have the desire, anyone can open a book and make up for any educational lack.) I’ll shut up now. Best, Michael * Speaking of the [BULK] thing, whoever keeps adding that would you please edit your subject before sending the email to remove it? Better yet, edit your rule/filter so it’s never added. Highly annoying that.

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Yearly open source donations
by Michael 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

{Moving to new thread, might have snipped too much} On Thursday 21 November 2019 08:51:24 am William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > On Thursday 21 November 2019 06:25:42 Felmon Davis wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, William Morder via trinity-users wrote: > > > As for that lost donation, perhaps I will find warmth in my heart, and > > > enough money in my account, to make up for the creepy insincerity of > > > the previous retracted-but-never-truly-offered donation of others. I > > > can't promise anything now, but maybe in another couple months. I will > > > put my money where somebody else only talks. > > > > been thinking of sending something anyway, but retirement puts a crimp > > in one's wallet. besides I sent something a yr ago and got no > > acknowledgement which makes me worry about our founder. > > There are worse things to invest in, than having a computer desktop that > actually works. Years ago I decided I was going to donate $200 per year to some open source project. Occasionally I’d split it up, but most often it went o Drupal, as that is (was [1]) the open source project my business relies on. Last year I sent it to TDE. This year I’m splitting it between TDE, MX Linux, and Backdrop CMS. But, like Felmon, I received zero acknowledgment it was received. (To be fair, I’ve never received any acknowledgment from any donation I’ve made to people at xda-developers either, so maybe it’s just a sole proprietor thing?) I’m pretty sure donations to TDE don’t make a dent in Tim’s account receivables, but . . . Questions: - Has anyone ever received a donation acknowledgment from Tim? - Is there a donation acknowledgment page somewhere? - Do we, the donators, think we should get one? - Tim how are you doing? (Talk to us man!) OT Questions: - Does anyone else make a set amount of donations per year? - Pro’s? Con’s? - What other methods do people use for rewarding open source? Best All, Michael [1] In case anyone cares (this was the last ‘prediction’ for the next year thread), here’s a overview explanation I did 2 years ago: https://www.drupal.org/forum/general/news-and-announcements/2018-02-11/pred…

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TDE featured in german magazine
by Thierry de Coulon 21 Nov '19

21 Nov '19

Hello all, To my surprise TDE was featured in the latest issue of the german "Linux User" magazine! The article is not bad and may induce users who might not know KDE 1 to 3 to take a look! Thierry

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] TDE featured in german magazine
by BorgLabs - Kate Draven 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

> I think we are an interesting friendly community of peoples (and others) > who think similarly, have similar opinions, and we simply talk about all > things together, even if it's not strictly technical. I think it creates a > better friendly atmosphere here. > > Cheers > -- > Slavek > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Agreed :) Kate

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Re: [trinity-users] TDE featured in german magazine
by midi-pascal 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

On 2019-11-20 2:24 p.m., Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Wednesday 20 November 2019 20.02:57 ajh-valmer wrote: >> TDE is not really for the nostalgic of KDE3, >> but made for those who want a light desktop, >> and nevertheless, with many rich options. > I totaly agree. However I think many on this list are "experienced" computer > users (I mean "old" :). > > We come from a time where computer ressources were scarce (few hundred KB of > RAM, few Megabytes of harddisk - if any haddisk at all). What we wanted - and > still look for - was efficency and stability. > > Modern geeks want screen effects, animations, videos instead of reading text > files, "wizards" instead of learning how to do things. Any program that has > not been "updated" for a few month is considered "unmaintained" on Android. > So a Desktop environment that seems to have stayed the same for 10 years is > for "nostalgic" people. > > I belong to those who are proud of knowing the value of things. I could run > a "modern" DE on my computers, but why? TDE gives me everything I need, and > Konqueror. > > The question is rather: why is it so difficult to convince others of these > facts. If one main distribution included TDE, I'm sure many more people > would "rediscover" why KDE 3 was good. > > Thierry > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-postin I totaly agree, too. TDE has been my one and only everyday desktop environment for many years. What I like the most is its small footprint and so high customization capabilities (see the screenshot :-). I upgrade the OS using the TDE LiveCD on a new partition and then re-install the programs I use all the time and copy the personal data from the previous release. When all is running as I want, I delete the previous partition. I did this many times without any glitch for years. I love the Baghira theme and kooldock utility. I build them from release to release smoothly without any glitch. I speak of TDE to all Linux users I meet and do my best to propagate its usage. I tried many DE's during my long programmer life: nothing beats Trinity in term of configuration. Long life to TDE!

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I might have fixed kmail
by Gene Heskett 20 Nov '19

20 Nov '19

Greetings all; Despite asking repeatedly what was the largest count a maildirs index file could have, I've never been graced with an answer. But my inbox has been reimported as new installs took place over the years so that from 2002 to now there were quite a few messages carrying a file system date for Feb 5 thru Feb 6 2015, despite many of them carrying arrival dates in their headers that were much earlier, clear back to 2002. So just for S&G, I just moved all those to inbox subdir, killed the indices and restarted kmail. Initial blast of rebuilding indices, then settled to the bottom of the htop list. Maybe I was onto something, so I did the same thing with an even higher count of messages dated Feb 6 2015. Stopped, waited 30 secs and restarted kmail, good 45 secs to start as it did those indices new. But settled to bottom of cpu usage in another minute. Then to preclude any confusion about the years, I renamed the around 18 year only names for emc to emc-year, killed those indices and restarted kmail. Wash, rinse and repeat on restart. I have one more set of subdirs in the coco folder named only for the year, so I'll do the same thing there so they are named coco-year. I think I've found it. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Difference between TDE R14.0.x series and TDE v3.5.13.x
by ajh-valmer 17 Nov '19

17 Nov '19

Hello, What is the difference between : TDE R14.0.x series and TDE v3.5.13.x (for the sources.list). Thanks, regards. André

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