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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-desktop] Trinity (Was: phonon)
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:04:50
Message-Id: pan.2011.11.21.05.07.02@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: phonon by "E. Liddell"
1 E. Liddell posted on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:46:18 -0500 as excerpted:
2
3 > On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:39:00 +0100 Dominique Michel
4 > <dominique.michel@××××××.ch> wrote:
5 >
6 >> No. kaffeine for kde3 work fine here with my setup. What I want is to
7 >> find another good solution for watching and recording TV for the time
8 >> when this version of kaffeine will not work any more.
9 >
10 > The KDE 3.5 version of Kaffeine is one of the assorted auxiliary
11 > programs adopted by the Trinity Project, so there's still an upstream
12 > trying to maintain it and it will hopefully remain workable for some
13 > time to come.
14
15 Regarding trinity, what are the chances of having it appear in distros,
16 etc, at least after they finish porting to qt4 (or by then, possibly
17 qt5)? I don't expect it to ever make the big-2 into the big-3, really,
18 but having it appear in the second tier along side xfce and lxde, and
19 whatever they're calling the parallel effort to continue gnome2, could be
20 quite useful.
21
22 Except that I suppose kde3/trinity is still far bigger in terms of number
23 of apps/packages/size than most of the second tier. But has anyone
24 actually looked to see by how much? Are we talking 10X, 3X. 1.5X, or
25 1.1X? If it's 1.1X than I shouldn't think it'd be a huge problem. 1.5X
26 probably not either. 3X might be, but a stripped down (to say 1.5X)
27 version might ship, with perhaps an alternate, possibly community
28 maintained, repo/overlay/ppa/whatever for those who want the full deal.
29 10X... that's not realistic as a second tier. It'd have to be dedicated
30 distro, and perhaps get popular enough there to go first tier. But I
31 really have no idea. Does anyone?
32
33 Obviously in current context, "distros" refers to one particular distro,
34 gentoo, but I don't expect it to try it by itself.
35
36 What do the trinity folks base their own work on, distro-wise?
37
38 Are there any dedicated trinity distros in the wings?
39
40 Because, I really can't see trinity continuing "forever", unless it gets
41 some community support and eventually some new community blood. And
42 that's not going to happen, unless it's out there on the distros for
43 people to be exposed to.
44
45 I have a bit of a personal interest, even tho I'm on kde4 for both my
46 main machine and netbook atm, not only out of nostalgia as a former kde3
47 user, but because eventually, I can see myself deciding that my netbook
48 really doesn't run kde5 or whatever well enough to be worth the hassle,
49 and kde3 could very well be quite a reasonable fit, at that point. Plus,
50 I could lifestyle change at some point, and given that I've been with kde
51 since the kde2 era, if I downscale from whatever the current kde desktop
52 is at the time, I expect I'd be rather more comfortable with something
53 approaching a modern kde3, than with any of the other second-tier
54 desktops.
55
56 Mainly, I just like to keep my options open, and assuming trinity does
57 get the qt4/qt5/whatever port done at some point, that really does seem
58 to me to be potentially the most viable "intermediate weight" option I'll
59 have, given my own history and preferences. So naturally, I want to see
60 it continue and mature as a viable option, and the only way I really see
61 that happening, is if it ultimately finishes the qt4/qt5/whatever port
62 and gets reintroduced on the major distros as a second tier option, so I
63 really want /that/ to happen, and the above questions are because I'm
64 wondering just how close to reality that vision is.
65
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