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Re: [trinity-users] Clarification announcement!

From: Robert Xu <robxu9@...>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 16:42:00 -0500
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 16:38, Thierry de Coulon <tdecoulon@...> wrote:
> On 1/25/11, Robert Xu <robxu9@...> wrote:
>> Hi all. This is a post to clear up any issues that people might be
>> confused with.
>> We've all agreed to this, so this is now here for reference.
>>
>> So, let me start of by saying:
>>
>> TRINITY IS NOT KDE3 (anymore).
>> KDE3 IS DEAD.
>>
>> And let me go a bit further with that.
>>
>> We are currently in an alpha stage of porting Trinity to cmake.
> (...)
>
> First of all I welcome this. the KDE team dropped KDE3, we don't need
> this legacy. What I hope is that we will be able to install Trinity as
> an alternate UI, and distribution could propose Trinity as a UI
> choice.

TQt - the brains behind Trinity, using Qt3 and (soon) Qt4 to render
our Desktop Environment.
If any app wanted to, they could start using TQt and then not worry
about Qt3 -> Qt4 -> Qt5 changes.

>
> Having to run a separate script to launch Trinity apps is a bit uncomfortable.
>

You have to run a separate script to launch Trinity apps? I have never had to.



-- 
later, Robert Xu