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
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