Hi Tim & All,
On Saturday 06 April 2013 03:59:48 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After discussions with the core development team, I have realised
> that I owe everybody a long overdue update regarding Trinity.
>
> I apologise for the relatively long term silence on these mailing
> lists. Like most people, I have to work in order to keep the lights
> on and the servers humming, and these commitments have taken time
> away from TDE. In particular over the past several months I have not
> had any spare time to dedicate to TDE, which is why most development
> (other than Slavek's tireless patching) had appeared to grind to a
> halt.
>
> The good news is that the work which had been taking most of my time
> is now easing up. I am currently diving into the bugtracker and am
> currently focused on getting R14.0.0 stabilized and ready to ship.
>
> Thanks to several other dedicated individuals involved in the Trinity
> project, progress has continued while I was away. R14.0.0 is looking
> good overall, and the R14.0.0 road map and long term TDE road maps
> have been updated on the Etherpad to more accurately reflect our
> goals.
>
> Despite my absence I am encouraged that TDE will continue to move
> forward.
>
> After some discussions with the core developers of TDE, I have begun
> to realise that the project's top priority from now on needs to be
> resolving bug reports. Other work will continue, including
> enhancements and feature requests, but bug quashing will need to
> remain a top priority to ensure TDE's survival and success.
>
> Secondly, Trinity has much in common with other "secondary" desktop
> environments. We never will have the developer power or userbase of
> KDE, GNOME, or Unity, but like our cousin "secondary" desktops, TDE
> has a vtal role to play in the free/libre software world. We should
> strive for excellence within our particular software design model,
> and not worry so much about what the Big Three desktops are doing at
> any given instant.
>
> My motivation for using and developing Trinity is to create a desktop
> that functions the way I think it should function. How people believe
> a desktop should function varies widely and this is why so many
> exist, along with many window managers. The Trinity philosophy does
> not embrace certain popular elements now available in other desktops,
> and those elements are unlikely to ever become a part of Trinity.
> That kind of focus is neither "bad" nor "good." We live in a large,
> varied world and there is plenty of room for all of these varying
> opinions and designs. This is also part of the method why free/libre
> software will succeed in the long run: by encouraging choice and
> freedom of opinions.
>
> Continuing Trinity is not about "us" versus "them"; instead, we are
> simply exercising our freedom of choice by improving our software as
> we see fit. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
> Thank you so much for being patient the past several months. I know
> it was difficult for many of you, but rest assured that work on TDE
> will pick up again, especially with your continuing support!
>
> Timothy Pearson
> Trinity Desktop Project
Seconded:
I would like to add my thanks to all those developers for their good
work. They are achieving things that I am not able or skilled enough
to assist with. My gratitude to them is well deserved.
Thanks guys !
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Best Regards:
Baron
On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 03:12:06 -0500 "Jean Milot"
<milot.jean(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have set Iceweasel to open URL link.
>
>If i create a link on my desktop (right clic), i can't open it if
>i put in my kdeglobals :
>
>[KDE URL Restrictions][$i]
>rule_12=list,,,,http,,,false
>rule_13=open,,,,http,,,false
>
>
>These lines are for forbidden http / https in konqueror.
>
>How i can do ???
>
>Thanks for your help.
This type of question probably is more appropriate for the users
mail list, but look at tdelibs/tdecore/README.kiosk:
http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/tdelibs/tree/tdecore/README.kiosk
The purpose of those rules and the kiosk framework is to restrict
user access to various components. The reason you can't open the
desktop link is one of the restriction rules is preventing that
from happening. Figure out which specific rule is doing that. :)
Darrell
Hello,
I have set Iceweasel to open URL link.
If i create a link on my desktop (right clic), i can't open it if i put
in my kdeglobals :
[KDE URL Restrictions][$i]
rule_12=list,,,,http,,,false
rule_13=open,,,,http,,,false
These lines are for forbidden http / https in konqueror.
How i can do ???
Thanks for your help.
Sincerely,
Jean
Hello,
I noticed two problems with the name of distribution and its location in
the version number of packages.
1) We can soon expect: Names of distributions are not ascending. After
Wheezy will follow Jessie => packages with ~jessie in the name will be
considered older than ~wheezy (and also ~squeeze).
2) It is a real problem already now: Before the name of the distribution
is in the version of package 'packaging-release' number by tde-packaging.
After split folder for new distribution this number is *always lower*
than the previous distribution. This now makes it impossible to do
dist-upgrade for many distributions.
My suggestions are:
1) Use the version number of the distribution instead of the name.
2) Move the distribution version number before other numbers.
For example, from:
14.0.0-0debian12+r789+pr42~wheezy
Change version to:
14.0.0-0debian12.7.0+r789+pr42
And in the future (to allow switch format from native to quilt):
14.0.0~r789-0debian12.7.0+pr42
Note: I noticed that the same use version number of distribution can be found
even in the standard ubuntu packages - such as firefox.
Slavek
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