It seems to me that many distro projects customize their distros quite a bit, including the various DEs they use.  This doesn't seem to result in driving away most of their users.  At least not all of the time.  Does the official KDE4 PCLOS still provide the option of swiching to kde3 style menu, or kde4 style menu?  They used to.  Maybe they still do.  PCLOS still has a loyal following.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:10 AM, C W <elcaseti@gmail.com> wrote:
To clarify, I'm not suggesting that Alexandre (or anyone else) be encouraged to stop making his spin available to others.  I am suggesting that someone else may want to make another spin of PCLOS TDE in addition to Alexandre's version.



On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:00 AM, C W <elcaseti@gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe the best solution to this issue is for one or more of the TDE purists (who want TDE to be exactly like KDE 3.5.10, as far as I can tell), to make a version of PCLOS with TDE & nothing borrowed from KDE4.  The only downside to that I can think of would be possible fragmentation like Lisi mentioned.

Cheers,

Elcaset


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On 25/02/13 12:32, Alexandre Couture wrote:

Well that's getting a real joke! Once again!
I am not a software developer. I don't know how to make a computer program.
And you tell me that I have added an option to TDE? Certainly not.


You have changed the default settings. That is what I mean by adding an option.
My apologies for the confusion.

Alexandre, I am sorry that I have upset you. I think it is very important for
us all to be grateful for your efforts at packaging Trinity. Thank you again.

But gratitude is not "all, or nothing". I believe that we should be thankful
for your work in packaging Trinity, but *not* thankful that your package
makes Trinity more like KDE 4, and less consistent with Trinity on other
Linux distros.





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