Years ago I added a request for klcddimmer and they did add that which I am grateful for. I did open a feature request at one point for the Comic icons and honestly I don't know what happened to it I can't find it now. Was it closed did I do something wrong? I have seen others mention the mixed folders thing so I assumed they were aware of it as it even happens on 4.0.5. It maybe the type of disk I keep all my backups on an NTFS volume because I may need access to it someday and not have a Linux computer available like if there is a fire or something and it can be read from any type of system in emergencies, Plus I make duplicates of it for family members as it houses decades of family photos and videos that I would be crushed if lost.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 2:27 PM, William Morder doctor_contendo@zoho.com wrote:
On Wednesday 15 August 2018 11:14:29 Pisini, John wrote:
I'm with you Trinity makes a lot of sense on how things are put together and gives you as much or as little control as you want. I think the issue is the KDE devs talk down on TDE they don't like the fact that it was forked. I don't hear the same grumblings from Gnome devs they don't seem
to
care if you want to stay on Mate just leave them alone to do their thing. For me Trinity is one of the best Desktop environments out there. I don't care for how dated Konq has gotten and I wish they would add thumbnail support for new types of movies, epubs and other book formats, along with Comic archives such as CBR and CBZ myself. My only real issue is Konq is
it
always gets confused in tree view and mixes my external disks into the
tree
which is goofy as heck and makes moving tons of files beyond clunky. I am happy to stay with Trinity I don't need a wiz bang gui with wobbly windows and buttons that don't look like buttons, I need a window manager that manages windows and gets out of the way and Trinity does that very well.
You ought to submit a request for Konqueror to support those features. A few years ago I asked that two or three items were added to Trinity, and the devs came through in a couple weeks. Of course, your request is different than asking that some abandoned packages be redone and added to the Trinity repositories; but TDE needs to adapt to new things, so maybe they will come through for you on that. Otherwise, maybe it will spur them to create something new to replace Konqueror.
Bill
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 1:44 PM, William Morder <
doctor_contendo@zoho.com>
wrote:
On Wednesday 15 August 2018 10:08:38 Pisini, John wrote:
Yeah if it hadn't been for games I would probably not be a systems administrator today it got me interested in PCs. They also have made
my
relationship with my daughter stronger as we can talk about the same
things
and play together. I think the real issue with new games for Linux is the time it takes hundreds sometimes thousands of hours to make a decent products and with Linux most people are doing things in their spare time. So trying to find the dozen or so people that have all
the
skills needed and coordinate them all remote is very tough. It gives
a
greater appreciation for all the people that are keeping TDE alive.
Better start a new thread, as this shows signs of going far off-topic.
Very true about TDE. If it weren't for TDE, I would almost be inclined
to
give up computers altogether - even though I know that's a practical impossibility in this world. I dabble a little with other desktops, and occasionally must use a Windoze or rotten Apple computer, just enough to stay minimally aware of what's going on elsewhere. But honestly, it's only when I am running Debian/Devuan and TDE that I feel in control of my machine. I gave up
on
the 'Buntus because of privacy and control issues, and because they didn't seem to respect their users, and Debian is annoying with its systemd crap, but on the whole it's still pretty good, and Devuan is coming along nicely.
I know that there are other perfectly good distros and desktops out there, and I've tried quite a few of them; but for desktops, Trinity beats
anything
else, hands-down, no question. Anybody who says differently seems to be parroting some corporation's views, and are just showing loyalty to a brand.
In the Trinity desktop, I can make my computer do what I want (although it sometimes takes a bit of work ...); whereas anything else that is
even
close (KDE, LXDE, Mate, Gnome, etc.) frustrates me to no end. I spent about a year or so trying to make the new KDE Plasma as workable as possible, at
least
as a backup plan; but I always get the feeling that I don't really own my own machine, that somebody else has decided what I may or may not do;
for
example, even really innocuous stuff (such as customizing my themes, or preventing my network-manager programs from connecting automatically at startup) is difficult in other desktops, but relatively easy in TDE.
What Trinity needs is to get their desktop accepted into the official repositories; and I believe that it will happen, but it seems that
there
is a lot of opposition to its happening. I am willing to volunteer as a cheerleader, but I don't have the legs any more to wear a skirt.
Bill
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 12:24 PM, William Morder <
doctor_contendo@zoho.com>
wrote:
On Wednesday 15 August 2018 08:06:11 Pisini, John wrote:
I can only speak for myself but I like to play games and some are Windows only but a lot of them will run under wine. A perfect example is Doom
2016
there is no Linux client but it runs pretty well under wine and I am
a
huge
Doom/ID fan going back to the first release in the early 90s of Doom
1
and
even further back of the original Wolfenstein going back to the early
80s.
I don't trust Windows and I will go without a game rather than
install
it to play a game but if I can get the game to run then why not?
I
go the extra mile and buy Linux versions when they are available and I will
write
the company and ask (nicely) for a port, I just recently bought
the
last Tomb Raider as it didn't work well under wine unless you
had a
system
much
better than mine and they didn't have a Linux client. As soon as they did though I like the franchise and I am glad they did it
is a
really fun
game.
Ah yes, I ought to have guessed ... you are a gamer. And I am not.
I
mean, I did waste some time with Pac-Man when it came out, and there are a
couple
others that would come to mind if I thought hard enough on it. And
an
old
friend of my was a game designer, with numerous titles to his
credit.
So
while I am not totally unaware of computer games and gamers,
there's
a generation gap between us on that point, at least. I never got
into
that
stuff, and had other interests.
My son pretty much wore out my old Commodore Amiga 64 playing games on it. He was about 10 at the time, and imagined that pounding harder on the keyboard and mouse were the same as hitting a ball harder in the "real
world";
in
any case, computer games got him interested in computers generally, and he went on to run the IT department at the university where we both
attended
(though in different decades). And I know that computer games led to many more practical developments; without gamers, for example, our computers
would
probably still have 80 mb hard drives with 256k RAM (or something like that), and we would all be using dial-up to access the Internet.
What I don't understand is why gamers don't develop more games in
Linux,
or at least make them cross-platform. I suppose there are licensing
issues,
but
I would think Linux geeks are creative enough to find ways to make games that blow away Windoze and Apple versions.
Bill
On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 10:21 AM, William Morder <
doctor_contendo@zoho.com>
wrote: > On Wednesday 15 August 2018 05:38:30 Pisini, John wrote: > > Don't use Debian Multimedia with Jessie if you use wine it > > completely > > hoses > > > the sound in any wine programs. > > Better yet, don't use wine at all, as Linux usually has better > software than > anything in Windoze, so I don't see why anybody would take the > trouble
of
> trying to run wine to emulate them. But we all have different
needs,
so I
> will try not to judge.... > > ;-) > > Myself, however, I prefer VideoLAN or the MEPIS / mx / antiX > repositories. I > would use deb-multimedia as a last resort. Also you must be
sure
that
you
> get > the "genuine" deb-multimedia, not the fake site and repository > that somebody > else is hosting.
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