Conversative stance and traditions not withstanding, TDE might profit from some
visual improvements, IMHO. Nothing fundamental, just some low-hanging fruits.
Perhaps worth considering: The icon sets from "http://www.ravefinity.com/".
They claim to do only Open-Source work, so this should be feasible -- either
for direct inclusion, or as a theme source.
The "vibrantly simple" icon set works very well vor me, for example.
Over the years I've collected a lot of Xcursor icon sets for various purposes
and reasons:
* color variants of classic sets, better harmonizing with my colorscheme(s)
** Oxygen -- wide spectrum of colors, some slightly textured
** DMZ -- small spectrum of colors
** Komix -- wide color spectrum, somewhat flippant, but excellent in
combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set, and quite usable
** Popsicle -- wide color spectrum, quite flippant, but excellent in
combination with e.g. the "Kids" icon set
* dynamic/pulsating cursors, easier to locate (helpful accessibility feature
for some people)
** e.g. "flame" rotating pseudo-3D object, but not to fidgety
** "GreenLight"-series, slowly pulsating glow, in the actual color of the
cursor (not necessarily green ;-)
** "Pulse-Glass"-series, slowly pulsating glow
** "bCircle" and "Tanga" -- very unusual, but interesting design, with very
strong visual cues maybe helpful in terms of accessibility
I attach a few (static) screenshots of the cursors -- if there is interest for
some of them, I can dig into the license issues ...
Some of the icon sets have problems, e.g.
* TDE-LoColor -- does this actually has still an use-case? your are not aiming
at car dashboard display, aren't you? it is very low-res, too.
* iKons -- IMHO nice, but quite incomplete?
* Tango -- only apps icons!?
You might ask "so what?".
Well, they might scare off some users, before they find the more pleasing
themes.
For discussion: What about having a kind of "tag mechanism" for artwork?
We could then tag artwork as "colorful", "dark theme", "light theme",
"monochromatic", "accesibility optimzed", "nostalgia", "kids", "modern",
"conversative", "flippant", etc. (multiple tags can be applied to an artwork!).
The user might set preferences in the control-center, which limit the artwork
actually presented for selection -- this would be innovative, improve the
harmony of the resulting setup, reduce the clutter in the selection lists and
would enable a harmonic co-existence of old and new visual styles, without
need to drop legacy artwork.
Finally, about the TDE/Trinity logos, which are still very KDE-ish:
If that is wanted -- OK.
If more visual distance would be welcomed, have a view at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetrahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskelion
Would some simple, color-ramped (to stay clear of well-established meanings)
Triquetra or Triskelion be of interest? I can draft those on positive
feedback.
Best regards,
ThoMaus
I'm wondering, if something changed over years.
Which mirror I supposed to use for scripts which meant to be used to
build trinity on end-user machines from source (gentoo ebuilds)?
Now I use http://scm.trinitydesktop.org/scm/git/<package name>. Is it
correct, or there is something better?
I don't think it will make a high load any day, unless TDE will become
anyway popular, but you never know and it's better to ask...
Unlike autotools this one doesn't installs headers.
Why may we need k3b headers in system? Is there something linking against it?
If so, I'll add install statements for them...
Also it doesn't installs k3bsetup2 by default because mostly every
modern linux have sane permissions to allow user to burn cd's whithout
such hacky crap.
+musepack is disabled due to k3b doesn't builds against recent
versions (tested with 465)
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HI all,
FWIW I like the "Trefoil Knot" as a new logo for Trinity. Sure it
needs to reflect the right style and colours.
My 2p worth.
--
Best Regards:
Baron
TDE Powersave offers 4 states according to the source (factually 3 on my
system):
* Suspend2RAM -- this is obvious
* Suspend2Disk -- obvious, too
* Freeze -- hmm, anybody knowing what this actually is? (in the code it uses
the Suspend2RAM icons but calls it's own method)
* Standby -- according help this is either a DPMS screen standby with the
system otherwise running on power or combined with a Suspend2RAM??? What is it
really?
And I'm wondering where my most favourite suspend mode is hidden:
"Suspend2Both" aka "Hybrid Suspend"
This mode sets up the swap area as for Suspend2Disk AND then does a
Suspend2RAM. The net effect is, that you normally have quick resume from RAM,
but should power fail, nothing is lost as you can resume from disk.
Essentially a failsafe suspend ...
Its the only suspend-mode I you for desktop systems, and my prefered mode for
laptop lid-close action as it always does "the right thing" (at little cost).
So, is "Freeze"="Suspend2Both" or can we introduce "Suspend2Both" (if the
machine and swap configs allows)?
ciao,
ThoMaus
at the moment i am setting up a new school server (debain edu) based im
jessie
the last install was a debian 6 install where the package names still where
the same as the kde that was integrated into squeezy so the pxe kernel
paramter desktop=kde still worked
but now with jessie this has changed.
so i am asking the devs that might know what i have to change in the debian
so that it works again to use trinity desktop
thx
Mario
voluntary sysadmin
