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Re: [trinity-devel] evil defaults :)
by /dev/ammo42 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

Le Thu, 28 Oct 2004 04:26:12 +0200, Werner Joss <werner(a)hoernerfranzracing.de> a écrit : > I just saw that the default templates for answering in kmail > are set to top-posting > (%CURSOR is first line). > should be corrected, IMHO.. You should adjust the date of your computer; receiving an e-mail dated from 2004 trashes the date-sorted views a bit :). > > werner > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-devel-unsubscribe(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net Read > list messsages on the Web archive: > http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to > top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting >

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Saving your settings...
by Darrell Anderson 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

If I have sessions disabled, then when I exit TDE and see the "Saving your settings..." dialog box, exactly what is being saved? Darrell

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T-Menu [KDE4] Items
by Darrell Anderson 17 Nov '11

17 Nov '11

In 3.5.13, with KDE 4 installed, all of the KDE 4 apps appear in the T-Menu with a [KDE 4] identifier. If somebody on the Trinity team did this then kudos. Nice touch! Can I go further and not have any KDE 4 items show at all --- without creating a custom menu, removing all KDE 4 packages, or editing every *.desktop file? Darrell

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New About Web Site Page and FAQ
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Hi folks, Just in case this slipped your mind, you're new, or did not know, we have an updated About page for our web site. The new page contains an FAQ too. This draft document is open to peer review and changes. Whereas I am acting as final editor-in-chief, the document is something everybody here is encouraged to review and help write. We need a good document and we need fact checkers. The draft is available in etherpad: http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/24 Please find two pennies or euros and help. :) We would like to post the document soon. Thanks! Darrell

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Quality Assurance
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

In light of recent public criticisms about Trinity's stability, do we have a plan or do we allow for sufficient time for usability testing? The focus seems to be about patching, packaging, and releases. Perhaps with the next release we should introduce a fixed time for serious usability testing? Proverbially, we all eat our own dog food before releasing the software? If a wider window for testing means a shorter window for code hacking then I vote for that. We don't adopt a testing window and code freeze as long as a large project like Debian, :) but we should officially promote a wide enough window to eat our own dog food. :) We touched upon this topic yesterday but I want to bring the topic to the table in a more "official" manner. :) Darrell

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KDE vs. Trinity: Is One Really Better?
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/kde-vs.-trinity-is-one-really-better-… I always read Bruce's writings with a proverbial grain of salt. He tends toward sensationalism and likes to play a game of creating rifts like he did in this article. His journalism tends toward what used to be called muckraking. When he writes in that mode I remind myself that everything is his opinion only and subjective. Everybody has an opinion and a poop chute. Both often stink. :) Nothing he wrote requires or demands a public response. He has his opinion and we should let that be. So much for that. I am concerned about his reports of instability. We should receive such comments seriously. I hope he filed bug reports or contacted somebody on the development team. Even if he didn't this kind of publicity dictates that quality assurance must be a priority over release schedules. That means a lot of usability testing and not just pumping out code and packages. I hope everybody here receives his article in a constructive manner. :) Darrell

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November Meeting ACTION LIST
by Robert Xu 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Oh, come on, I needed a different name to call this :) I threw up this list also on Etherpad so that we can mark done/not-done/etc. And reevaluate next month. http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/26 It's also on email if you can't access it; see below. =========================================================================================================================================================================== #trinity-desktop-meeting: Trinity Desktop Environment - November Developer Meeting - please have http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/15 open so you can follow along =========================================================================================================================================================================== Meeting started by MutantTurkey at 16:39:33 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/lincomlinux/MeetBot/trinity-desktop-meeting/2011/t… Meeting summary --------------- * Roadmap (MutantTurkey, 17:04:42) * LINK: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/3_5_14_Roadmap (MutantTurkey, 17:05:33) * LINK: http://www.trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/3_5_14_Roadmap (MutantTurkey, 17:06:21) * all bugs should be reported and with patches for 3.5.13 in the bug tracker or on ML (MutantTurkey, 17:07:36) * darrell will continue to help testing on slackware, this will help eliminate bugs. (MutantTurkey, 17:09:09) * Packagers (MutantTurkey, 17:09:37) * Because of the migration to git, we will all need to rework our build specs (MutantTurkey, 17:10:33) * Packagers will have 1 week to package binaries. (MutantTurkey, 17:11:05) * HELP: waiting for Ark devels to be ready, then Piki will go ahead and make packages (MutantTurkey, 17:12:45) * darrell wants to have improved wiki regarding building packages (MutantTurkey, 17:13:07) * Darrell is also close to having packages ready for slack. (MutantTurkey, 17:13:16) * MutantTurkey has made Archlinux package available in the AUR. (MutantTurkey, 17:15:52) * Dealing With Damage Control (MutantTurkey, 17:16:31) * this is NOT us vsthem (MutantTurkey, 17:18:16) * LINK: http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/22 (MutantTurkey, 17:18:22) * ACTION: continue to improve FAQ page and then upload it to the website (MutantTurkey, 17:18:44) * LINK: http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/24 (MutantTurkey, 17:18:56) * Ignore martin and his bandits who seek to undermine trinity (MutantTurkey, 17:20:50) * ACTION: Add a kde4 vs trinity section to FAQ, explain alternatives (MutantTurkey, 17:21:38) * LINK: http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/24 (MutantTurkey, 17:21:49) * ACTION: rzs19 will continue to work on BLUEZ (MutantTurkey, 17:23:12) * Release Goals (MutantTurkey, 17:24:10) * main goals are; Bug squashing, Hald replacement, CMake conversion progress, (MutantTurkey, 17:25:08) * secondary goals include bluetooth and Qt4 conversion (MutantTurkey, 17:26:13) * ACTION: samelian is working on a Upower interface (MutantTurkey, 17:27:14) * ACTION: reduce papercut bugs (MutantTurkey, 17:27:21) * ACTION: fix all high priority bugs (MutantTurkey, 17:28:20) * kdebindings is a less important goal current (MutantTurkey, 17:29:35) * massive KDE to TDE renaming is also occuring, this means kwin is twin and kdebase is tdebase, etc. (MutantTurkey, 17:29:54) * ACTION: remove all kde references (MutantTurkey, 17:30:11) * ACTION: merge kdebindings patches into git. (MutantTurkey, 17:30:40) * LINK: http://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit (MutantTurkey, 17:30:51) * Binary Compat Issue (MutantTurkey, 17:32:15) * LINK: http://trinity.etherpad.trinitydesktop.org/24 (MutantTurkey, 17:33:28) * Please read the wiki page regarding binary compatability. (MutantTurkey, 17:33:39) * IDEA: go right to 3.6 and break compat (MutantTurkey, 17:35:10) * CMake Etherpad needs to be recreated (MutantTurkey, 17:37:24) * our cmake progress tracker disappeared when etherpad crashed, someone needs to recreate this checklist (MutantTurkey, 17:37:57) * ACTION: recreate checklist (MutantTurkey, 17:38:02) * Migration to Git (MutantTurkey, 17:38:24) * we are currently migrating to git (MutantTurkey, 17:39:09) * this will take until the beginning of december (MutantTurkey, 17:39:27) * ACTION: create documenation regarding git for developers and packagers (MutantTurkey, 17:39:42) * LINK: http://trinitydesktop.org/cgit/ (MutantTurkey, 17:39:53) * Git is better than SVN for our needs, it will help keep things working more consistantly (MutantTurkey, 17:40:57) * we will no longer be relying upon kde.org's SVN (MutantTurkey, 17:41:08) * this will open up the tree to other developers interested in getting involved (MutantTurkey, 17:41:16) * Website Improvements (MutantTurkey, 17:42:48) * create a FAQ page (MutantTurkey, 17:43:16) * ACTION: send in screenshots (MutantTurkey, 17:43:26) * increase wiki integration (MutantTurkey, 17:44:13) * ACTION: remove forum (MutantTurkey, 17:44:26) * ACTION: have darrell audit our website (MutantTurkey, 17:45:21) * ACTION: review site and make sure it is fufilling our needs (MutantTurkey, 17:45:33) * website is already simple php however, I wrote it. (MutantTurkey, 17:45:42) * IDEA: add website to our Git tree. (MutantTurkey, 17:45:50) * ACTION: everyone send ideas to for website to ML (MutantTurkey, 17:46:39) * artwork (MutantTurkey, 17:47:35) * Strangelv is our ideas guy for artwork/marketing (MutantTurkey, 17:48:13) * ACTION: create new artwork for 3.5.14 (MutantTurkey, 17:49:40) * look through kde-looks to get info (MutantTurkey, 17:49:46) * ACTION: have Strangelv look at making a mascot (MutantTurkey, 17:49:58) * IDEA: use a Clover or another 3 sided figure as mascot (maybe a trident?) (MutantTurkey, 17:50:16) * Strangelv put together a bisic idea of a prototype (MutantTurkey, 17:50:44) * create a nice 30 second promo about trinity (MutantTurkey, 17:51:12) * IDEA: have a video of people talking about how they use trinity (MutantTurkey, 17:51:55) * slap MutantTurkey for being an idiot (MutantTurkey, 17:52:25) * version numbers (MutantTurkey, 17:52:43) * IDEA: use R14.0.0 as next release (MutantTurkey, 17:53:38) * IDEA: what about 4.0 or 3.6? (MutantTurkey, 17:54:36) * AGREED: R14.0.0 is good (MutantTurkey, 17:55:29) * ACTION: we need a clear explination for this (MutantTurkey, 17:55:47) * AGREED: we are not going to use an ubuntu-like date system (MutantTurkey, 17:56:59) * AGREED: we cannot use anything with a 4. (MutantTurkey, 17:57:34) * ACTION: create a clear explaination AND a wiki page regarding our policy. (MutantTurkey, 17:58:23) * the remaining 0.0's can be used for SRUs and bugfix releases (MutantTurkey, 17:59:12) * IDEA: major,bugfix,securitypatches (MutantTurkey, 17:59:38) * AGREED: R14 it is (MutantTurkey, 18:06:58) * closing remarks (MutantTurkey, 18:07:51) * thank you everyone for showing up! (MutantTurkey, 18:08:18) * we will be conducting monthly meetings so see you in december (MutantTurkey, 18:08:36) Meeting ended at 18:11:07 UTC. Action Items ------------ * continue to improve FAQ page and then upload it to the website * Add a kde4 vs trinity section to FAQ, explain alternatives * rzs19 will continue to work on BLUEZ * samelian is working on a Upower interface * reduce papercut bugs * fix all high priority bugs * remove all kde references * merge kdebindings patches into git. * recreate checklist * create documenation regarding git for developers and packagers * send in screenshots * remove forum * have darrell audit our website * review site and make sure it is fufilling our needs * everyone send ideas to for website to ML * create new artwork for 3.5.14 * have Strangelv look at making a mascot * we need a clear explination for this * create a clear explaination AND a wiki page regarding our policy. Action Items, by person ----------------------- * darrell * have darrell audit our website * rzs19 * rzs19 will continue to work on BLUEZ * samelian * samelian is working on a Upower interface * Strangelv * have Strangelv look at making a mascot * **UNASSIGNED** * continue to improve FAQ page and then upload it to the website * Add a kde4 vs trinity section to FAQ, explain alternatives * reduce papercut bugs * fix all high priority bugs * remove all kde references * merge kdebindings patches into git. * recreate checklist * create documenation regarding git for developers and packagers * send in screenshots * remove forum * review site and make sure it is fufilling our needs * everyone send ideas to for website to ML * create new artwork for 3.5.14 * we need a clear explination for this * create a clear explaination AND a wiki page regarding our policy. People Present (lines said) --------------------------- * MutantTurkey (251) * kb9vqf-offsite (63) * darrell (61) * Z_God (59) * Strangelv (50) * Xu_R|School (19) * Piki (13) * rzs19 (10) * samelian (9) * msb (6) * hoernerfranz (4) * [lindaemon] (2) Generated by `MeetBot`_ 0.1.4 .. _`MeetBot`: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot -- later daze. :: Robert Xu :: rxu.lincomlinux.org :: protocol.by/rxu

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trinity version
by Werner Joss 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

hello all, I just want to add some thoughts on the version discussion that just happened on IRC. (I admit I'm just too slow in thinking an writing simultaneously in a foreign language, so I could not express much in there :) so here goes: the outcome of the discussion, naming the next version R14 or R14.0, seems not very attractive nor logic to me, it makes people IMHO think there have been 14 _major_ releases before. looks like the same versionitis that firefox, chrome or others use nowadays, in short: pretending huge changes happening every 6 months or so. not good. of course, there was also agreement that nothing with 4.x should be used, for obvious reasons ;-) same goes for 5.x, though. date based release numbers resemble too much to *buntu, not a good idea, too, agreed. so why not start over with 3.6 ? this would IMO be a clear sign for all users who still like kde 3.5.x, that this project stands in a direct relationship to kde 3.5, but at the same time, is _not_ just an incremental continuation like 3.5.13, but rather a new start, well based on 3.5, but bringing new technology and features as well, basically different from the kde4 approach, however. just my 0.02 € werner

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Official Mailing Lists
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

At our web site page for joining mailing lists, we have a section titled "Mailing List Etiquette." Should we expand that section with a short policy statement about expected attitudes? I don't want to discourage healthy debates and discussions, which always will include a wide range of opinions, but if we post a policy we establish nominal knowable boundaries and basic CYA. Perhaps in list messages we could add a reminder sentence in the footer with something to the effect about thinking positively and not to attack the goals of other projects? Just thinking out loud with respect to our recent "damage control" discussion... Darrell

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IRC Client
by Darrell Anderson 16 Nov '11

16 Nov '11

Not directly related to development but almost. :) Quite a few IRC clients available with Trinity. Recommendations? Darrell

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