Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 19:15:18 +0100
From: francois.andriot@free.fr
To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Subject: Re: [trinity-users] Trinity packages for PCLinuxOS 2012

Le 12/11/2012 00:40, Alexandre Couture a écrit :

Thank you very much Francois!
I will try it this week. Just a question: Is it the complete environment (with the programs) or just a base package? I am currently removing KDE4 from a PCLOS KDE edition 2012. I will install icewm to have a window manager before removing kde. I will probably have to install another session manager since I will remove every kde4 packages.

Hello,

This is a build up to "kdebase" components.
You have a fully working desktop, including kdesktop, kwin, kicker, konqueror, kdm, kate, etc ... You need nothing from Gnome or KDE4 or any other environment.
But you have no extra application at all.

Francois


Thank you Francois!
It works very well. It is amazingly fast on PCLinuxOS and it is stable.
Here a 2 ''problems'' that are not that much important that I have found:
-It installs base packages of KDE4 as dependencies of TDE. It is not a big problem since I won't use KDE4 but it takes more disk space.
-On the login screen, it says Welcome to and after that there are system variables instead of just TDE or PCLinuxOS. I plan to use autologin so it will not even be seen.

I will need other packages such as KCalc, Ark, K3B, amarok, Dolphin and deKorator.
If someone can take all these packages and their dependencies from the Mandriva 2011 repo to copy them in the repo made by Francois for PCLinuxOS, it would be very appreciated. Since PCLOS, Mandriva and Mageia are in the same family, it think that these packages would be a direct fit without having to rebuild them.

I hope I can have my PCLinuxOS remaster before christmas to share it here. Upstream PCLinuxOS will probably not support it because main devs on their forum says the TDE will never be part of official PCLOS, but Linux is all about choice! We can have the choice to use a fast but feature-complete TDE instead of having to use incomplete and still slow smaller desktop environment on our computers!

Keep up the good work!
-Alexandre