Congratulations and thank you

First off, let me thank Tim for taking on the project of keeping KDE 3.5 alive and to everyone who has helped in whatever capacity in this endeavor. I'm a refugee of KDE 3.5 who feels like he came back home again. I first adopted KDE full time during the 3.4 series which is when it matured enough to capture me due to eye candy and finally having hardware capable of a full desktop environment. This would have been late 2005 as I recall. I was quite satisfied with KDE3 especially once I learned all the neat things one could do with it that just blew me away (and I know that I barely scratched the surface). As the maintenance stopped on KDE3 and the rumblings of how fantastic KDE4 would be, I waited in anticipation. I tried some live CDs from the 4,1 release until Debian included 4.2 in its Sid archive. I did my best to make do and like it and stuck with it on my main desktop until late last year when I installed a dual port card and set it up for zaphod heads for two independent desktops and KDE4 turned itself inside out and proved unworthy of the setup. GNOME was a bit better but far from perfect. I found that XFCE handles the setup quite acceptably. In early 2010 I gave Linux Mint a try on my main laptop and was impressed with their implementation of GNOME and moved to Ubuntu 10.4 Until I opted to go back to Debian Wheezy late last year with XFCE. XFCE and GNOME were acceptable but never quite as complete as KDE3 and while I knew of the Trinity project, I didn't investigate it until late last week. I have since installed it on two Squeeze boxes (one a desktop and the other a laptop I keep in my pickup) and my main Wheezy laptop. Overall I am pleased and impressed with the effort. I can tell that improvements have been made. One chin scrather is why I get two WiCD icons in the system tray, but I'll figure that one out later. Keep up the good work! - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us