All,
It's that time of year again! As we look toward the release of Debian Stretch and another version of TDE, I'd like to ask for your continued support to help keep TDE online.
I installed Trinity as an experiment 2 weeks ago, when I came across your website while looking for an old application, and it's so nice, I'm doing all my work in Trinity now.
I loved KDE 3.5, and I was sad when I had to leave it six years ago, to upgrade to Debian 6 and KDE 4. After upgrading from Debian 6 to Debian 8 a few weeks ago, two old favourites, Kasablanca and KHexEdit, were no longer available, and I could not even find the source code for KHexEdit, until I remembered reading about Trinity some years ago, and found your website. I think it's wonderful that you're maintaining the KDE 3.5 look and feel, functionality, and applications.
I have donated 30 dollars to Trinity via your donations page. I'm sorry it can't be more at the moment, money is a bit tight.
Konqueror has improved since KDE 3.5, but I can run Konqueror-KDE4 in Trinity from a menu item with the command /usr/bin/konqueror, and thus get the best of both worlds.
Some other KDE applications have sadly deteriorated in the later versions of KDE4. In particular, KolourPaint in Debian 8 has been damaged by a very bad revision, so I am using KolourPaint-Trinity now. It is far better.
When I installed Debian 8, I was offered a list of 7 desktop environments to install. I would certainly have tried Trinity at that time, if it had been on the list.
If Konqueror-Trinity and Konsole-Trinity need to be given new names in order to get Trinity into the Debian distribution, (to avoid a clash of names with KDE), perhaps I could suggest Clarity for Konqueror-Trinity and Simplicity for Konsole-Trinity, since these names rhyme with Trinity, and suggest some of the defining characteristics of TDE.
Yours sincerely, Chris Austin
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All,
It's that time of year again! As we look toward the release of Debian Stretch and another version of TDE, I'd like to ask for your continued support to help keep TDE online.
I installed Trinity as an experiment 2 weeks ago, when I came across your website while looking for an old application, and it's so nice, I'm doing all my work in Trinity now.
I loved KDE 3.5, and I was sad when I had to leave it six years ago, to upgrade to Debian 6 and KDE 4. After upgrading from Debian 6 to Debian 8 a few weeks ago, two old favourites, Kasablanca and KHexEdit, were no longer available, and I could not even find the source code for KHexEdit, until I remembered reading about Trinity some years ago, and found your website. I think it's wonderful that you're maintaining the KDE 3.5 look and feel, functionality, and applications.
I have donated 30 dollars to Trinity via your donations page. I'm sorry it can't be more at the moment, money is a bit tight.
Konqueror has improved since KDE 3.5, but I can run Konqueror-KDE4 in Trinity from a menu item with the command /usr/bin/konqueror, and thus get the best of both worlds.
Some other KDE applications have sadly deteriorated in the later versions of KDE4. In particular, KolourPaint in Debian 8 has been damaged by a very bad revision, so I am using KolourPaint-Trinity now. It is far better.
When I installed Debian 8, I was offered a list of 7 desktop environments to install. I would certainly have tried Trinity at that time, if it had been on the list.
If Konqueror-Trinity and Konsole-Trinity need to be given new names in order to get Trinity into the Debian distribution, (to avoid a clash of names with KDE), perhaps I could suggest Clarity for Konqueror-Trinity and Simplicity for Konsole-Trinity, since these names rhyme with Trinity, and suggest some of the defining characteristics of TDE.
Yours sincerely, Chris Austin
Thank you for your feedback on TDE! The names proposed are actually somewhat interesting; at this point I might be open to (slowly) renaming some of the larger more user-visible applications, although I don't think the cost/benefit is there for the minor applications that are being abandoned by KDE SC over time.
What is better about the KDE4 variant of Konqueror? We have brought over new features in the past from KDE4 into TDE, and it sounds like we might need to do so again.
As a general update:
After going through the bug requests for the fundraiser, I think one of the main ones I'll be looking into is BSD support. Fixing the lock screen may be a second one, but I'll let things play out a little longer before deciding.
Thanks again to all who have contributed!
Tim
On Friday 26 May 2017 18:37:32 Timothy Pearson wrote:
Konqueror has improved since KDE 3.5, but I can run Konqueror-KDE4 in Trinity from a menu item with the command /usr/bin/konqueror, and thus get the best of both worlds.
What is better about the KDE4 variant of Konqueror? We have brought over new features in the past from KDE4 into TDE, and it sounds like we might need to do so again.
Some of the improvements in Konqueror-KDE4, (in Debian 8.7), are that it can play YouTube videos, there seem to be some enhancements of JavaScript, because it can now handle MathJax, and display of some web pages, such as Wikipedia pages, is improved.
On the downside, Konqueror-KDE4 seems to use substantially more memory than Firefox, and occasionally, (perhaps once per month), unexpectedly uses so much memory that I completely lose control of my netbook, (with 1GB memory), due to paging, and it can then take 15 minutes or more to get that Konqueror window closed, and regain control of the netbook. Konqueror-KDE4 also sometimes drops the connection during a long download, (for example during the download of a 10MB .deb). This is a long-standing problem with Konqueror, so I usually use Konqueror for reading, because it seems more comfortable, and use Firefox for downloads.
If Konqueror-Trinity and Konsole-Trinity need to be given new names in order to get Trinity into the Debian distribution, (to avoid a clash of names with KDE), perhaps I could suggest Clarity for Konqueror-Trinity and Simplicity for Konsole-Trinity, since these names rhyme with Trinity, and suggest some of the defining characteristics of TDE.
Thank you for your feedback on TDE! The names proposed are actually somewhat interesting; at this point I might be open to (slowly) renaming some of the larger more user-visible applications, although I don't think the cost/benefit is there for the minor applications that are being abandoned by KDE SC over time.
Alternative rhyming names for Konsole-Trinity could be Facility or Utility.
Chris
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