Hi folks
I was delighted when I heard about trinity as I still use kubuntu 8.04 and will never, until death or even beyond, use kde4 or any other developer ego-driven user-unfriendly DE.
I followed the instructions on the installation page: http://trinitydesktop.org/installation.php ubuntu section, and after installing ubuntu 11.10 on a spare partition, I entered the commands as instructed.
Firstly, there was the known problem with the sudo command which the developers have decided to keep a secret and not edit the installation instructions to add 3 lines of text to help the user. But I was pointed to the bug page and followed the instructions there.
I was able to download and start trinity (v3.5.13) and as soon as I clicked on the main menu button the system crashed and the whole panel disappeared leaving a totally blank desktop.
Here is here I get really confused.
I did have a look at the known bugs and this seems to be a know 'solved'? bug - I think. What is the point in having incorrect instructions to download and install a desktop which doesn't work?
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I am sorry that you are experiencing these problems. Please keep in mind that we do not have the resources of other larger projects, which slows development somewhat.
Have you installed Slavek's 3.5.13.1 packages? We are fully aware of the problems with 3.5.13, including the one you describe (which is incidentally a problem with the base system, not TDE itself), and are planning to release a Stable Release Update as soon as possible.
Tim