On 03/25/2012 01:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> baho Utot wrote:
>> On 03/25/2012 12:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> Armin K. wrote:
>>>> It is not buildable with libpng 1.5 ... Also, 0.16 has qt3 support. See
>>>> if building with libpng 1.5 is fixed there. But if you are going to keep
>>>> KDE3 (Trinity), we could also keep GNOME2 (MATE) too, don't you say? I
>>>> say it's stupid to maintain two versions of them in the book, even if
>>>> it's developed by someone else. It's history - I doubt anyone will add
>>>> any new features except maybe bugfixes.
>>> Perhaps we should consider dropping Trinity from the book.  It seems to
>>> be more effort than it's worth.  We don't want to keep multiple versions
>>> of packages just to support Trinity -- especially since KDE4 is now in
>>> the book.
>>>
>>> I think I'm the only one who has used Trinity. Are there others?
>>>
>>>      -- Bruce
>>>
>> As you may well know I have used trinity quite a lot, and I will vote
>> for dropping trinity.
>>
>> I have switched back to KDE4 and it seems to work well for me now.
>> I have dropped out of the trinity arch linux team as well.  Trinity
>> offers nothing new and is not making good progress going forward.
>> Trinity still has problems existing with other desktop environments.
>> For me to recommend trinity it would need to install into /usr and have
>> no issues using QT4 apps,  in my opinion I don't think they are going to
>> get there anytime soon and I am not going to wait as KDE4 is making good
>> progress.
> It was a good idea, but I don't think the Trinity team has the resources
> to manage the large set of packages there.
>
>     -- Bruce

I fully agree

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