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Re: [trinity-users] Furture of KDE3 questions

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:58:04 -0500
> On Thursday 14 October 2010 20:42:39 Timothy Pearson wrote:
>>  The Trinity project
>> needs to add support for multitouch, true window transparency etc. to
>> both
>> stay relevant on newer hardware and to improve performance of existing
>> components where possible.
>
> Please, please, if you do that, have Trinity set to ask what you want
> _before_
> the desktop opens for the first time.  I was so pleased when Trinity
> started
> up; for many reasons, but not insignificant is the fact that in KDE 3.5.10
> (and previous KDEs)  I never have to be subjected to all that awful glitz
> - I
> can turn it off without ever having been subjected to it.
>
> Lisi
>

No desire to change the defaults at all.  In fact, what I was mentioning
were primarily backend improvements; there are places (e.g. Konsole,
Amarok's OSD) where software transparency is used; I would prefer that Qt4
handle that instead of a buggy software routine in Trinity itself.

Tim