Hi,

I've just upgraded a couple of my Debian Squeeze systems to Trinity V3.5.13 
and I've hit a couple of problems straight away, one very serious and the 
other less so.  I haven't checked the full Trinity/KDE suite yet for any 
other problems but the two I've had so far mean I'm going to have to 
regress - which will take a lot of time and will not be fun.

The lesser of the two problems is that ksysguard can no longer see the 
lm-sensors readings.  Xsensors still worked, confirming that lm-sensors was 
still ok, so I tried regressing ksysguardd & ksysguard back to V3.5.12, which 
was only partly successfull; whilst ksysguard V3.5.12 would now pick up the 
lm-sensors data when run as a desktop app, the panel applet failed 
completely, telling me I should check my installation.

The more serious problem concerns the changes to kdm and the kdm greeter.  One 
of the systems I upgraded is used primarily as a render node and has no 
keyboard, mouse or monitor attached to it - I maintain and configure it 
entirely via vnc.  I noticed that, after logging into it via ssh and 
running 'top', kdm_greet was 'thrashing', using ~99% cpu.

When I actually started a Trinity session kdm_greet cpu dropped to ~85% but 
artsd was now using ~10% cpu and kicker was using ~2% cpu.  After 
artsd 'timed-out' its cpu usage dropped and kdm_greet picked up the slack, 
rising back up to ~97% cpu.  Kicker cpu remained at ~2%.

I found the earlier thread in the mailing list archives concerning disabling 
the Ctrl/Alt/Delete 'feature' and while this does indeed stop the 
Ctrl/Alt/Del feature on the other system I upgraded, which does have a kb, 
mouse & screen, it did nothing to stop kdm-greet from thrashing the cpu on 
the 'headless' system.

This is a _big_ show stopper, for me at least, hence the _need_ to regress.

I'm also a bit perturbed as to why this change to kdm was made in the first 
place.  I moved to KDE3 because Gnome had been dumbed down too much and 
because the Gnome devs seemed intent on on forcing people to work in the way 
that _they_ thought people should work.  I subsequently moved to Trinity 
because of similar issues with KDE4 but now Trinity seems to be showing signs 
of following along the same path.

Whilst this new Ctrl/Alt/Del 'feature' may have seemed like a 'Good Idea' at 
the time it was not one of the original features of KDE3 and significantly 
changes its behaviour.  However, it was precisely because I wanted retain the 
original KDE behaviour that I switched to Trinity in the first place.  

Another change I noticed after the upgrade that showed similar signs of this 
trend was that the Reveal Desktop applet had been added to my Quick Launcher 
tray.  Now personally, I don't have _any_ desktop icons, precisely because I 
don't want to have to waste time revealing the desktop to get at a hidden 
icon and then have to re-show all the windows I had open, which is why I use 
the quick launcher in the first place (and in any case I wouldn't/don't have 
desktop icons for specific data items either because there isn't enough 
desktop real estate, even at 1920x1200 for all the different data items I 
use).

Sure, this one was easily fixed, first by making it removable (it was pegged 
as unremovable) and then removing it, but why was it force-added when, if I 
had wanted it, it would have already been there in the first place?

I'm now a bit confused about the purpose of Trinity.  I was under the 
impression that the project was started to so that people who knew what they 
were doing and knew how they wanted to work could continue to do so without 
having changes to their systems and workflows forced upon them.  In this 
context, it seemed that Trinity was never intended to challenge the other 
mainstream desktop environments, which have been dumbed down by their 
developers to force their [the developer's] ideas of best practice upon a 
perceived lowest common denominator user.  If this is/was the case then that 
old maxim applies - it if isn't broke, don't try to fix it.

Now whilst I have to admit that my first post to this list has been rather 
critical I'd like to emphasise that I'm not trying to flame anyone here; far 
from it in fact.  So far, Trinity has been a godsend to me, enabling me to 
carry on working how _I_ want to work, for which I am very greatfull indeed.  
However, I do need to decide though, whether I'm going to be able to continue 
using it for the foreseeable future.

Regards,

LeeE