25 May
2017
25 May
'17
11:01 p.m.
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
26 May
26 May
11:37 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Re: TDE Fundraiser
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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
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,
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30 May
30 May
5:57 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] Re: TDE Fundraiser
On Friday 26 May 2017 18:37:32 Timothy Pearson wrote:
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.
Alternative rhyming names for Konsole-Trinity could be Facility or Utility.
Chris
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.
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.
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