Hello,
alas I think their fifth rule eliminates the TDE remaster, as well as
many others...
5> the submitted remaster must not include non-repo packages nor any
non-repo scripts,
other than general in-situ configurations, themes and wallpapers
ie: if there is a particular app required - request its inclusion
into the repo prior
to submitting the remaster.
So, an official remaster is limited to changing visual preferences ?
According to their rules, the TDE remaster should stay "unofficial",
with a label "based on PCLinuxOS".
Francois
Hi everyone!
I'd say that PCLinuxOS dev team is probably not interested in TDE at all. With this,
it's pretty clear:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?topic=98961.0
You can see in this post that many persons loved KDE3, but they have been left back to use
PCLOS 2009, or use another distro. They don't care at all about TDE. While it is true
that PCLinuxOS implement KDE4 in a pretty good way (at least with a desktop that you can
put icons on it! Grrr!), KDE4 still lacks the performance of TDE and it has its own way of
doing things. Some pesons may like it, some not. At least for me, I'm always more
productive on TDE than on KDE4.
While it's true that Francois Andriot's packages are very good, they only accept
packages that are build by their team. I don't really care about making it officially
available on
PClinuxOS.com
The regular PCLinuxOS 2012 KDE4 starts in the same time as PCLinuxOS non-official TDE
remaster on my 2 test computers, but the one with TDE is a P4 with 768mb of ram and the
one with KDE4 is a Core 2 Duo with 2gb of ram. Also, my Asus EEE (first gen) with 512mb of
ram crash before getting to the desktop with KDE4 and is almost fast with TDE. For those
who haven't understood yet why I do this remaster, it is at least partly for that!
Have a nice day!
-Alexandre