22 Mar
2018
22 Mar
'18
8:47 p.m.
On Wednesday 21 March 2018 16:28:43 Felix Miata wrote:
William Morder composed on 2018-03-21 16:04
(UTC-0700):
Yes, well ... I can do a minimal installation myself, if I choose, when I have
an available Internet connection.
I am interested in seeing more people come to use Trinity, because I believe
that that is the only way to get TDE accepted into the repositories for
Debian, Ubuntu, etc. - that is, into the mainstream.
Otherwise, if you want to keep Trinity as a private club, open only to a few,
then keep on doing what you are doing. If, on the other hand, you want to
keep using Trinity into the foreseeable future (and not be forced to change
to other DEs), then I believe it is in the interest of all of us to make
these methods a little more accessible to the general public.
Maybe other people here are not aware that there is a widespread prejudice -
or perhaps smear campaign - against TDE-Trinity "out there"? The notion is
supposed to be that the KDE3 desktop was long ago discarded by the mainstream
Linux community, and that any attempt to revive it as TDE is both absurd and
pathetic: as though we were an Amish community of computer users; or perhaps,
digitally-impaired, cranky old-timers. (Apologies to any Amish geeks or
cranky old-timers out there who may be reading!)
By the way, if I can help, I am a willing volunteer. I am not complaining
about TDE; I just don't want to be forced to return to some other, lesser
desktop, merely due to lack of public interest.
Bill
By the way, on the Trinity pages, there is
nowhere that it describes how
to do a minimal installation (without other DEs), and just go straight to
TDE. It is probably there somewhere, but as others have also mentioned,
the site is a little disorganized, I think due to the fact that pages are
added on an ad hoc basis, and also that it's pretty much a volunteer
project without the resources of the bigger names.
We went through this here a month ago. Doing a minimal installation is
specific to each Distro, not TDE, so "it" would have to be a bunch of
pages, or a more complicated page few or no single people could make alone. For Stretch, the cmdline options I use on
http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::12201
that include string "install" will cause a truly minimal installation, to
which you need to add Xorg from Debian, to have a working base from which
to run TDE.
If Devuan's installer is Debian-based, likely the same options would be
applicable. If not, Devuan's own docs, help forum and/or mailing list
archive ought to address such need.