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Re: [trinity-users] Re: [trinity-announce] Trinity pre-release freeze

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:43:35 -0800

On Wednesday 22 September 2010 14:21:51 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 14:06 -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> > On Wednesday 22 September 2010 10:53:23 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > > I'm certainly looking forward to the stable release.  Thanks - John
> > >
> > > Due to testing other OS's I'm no longer running Lenny, I'm "looking
> > > forward" to a stable version of Trinity for the next Debian stable
> > > release "Squeeze", plus an installable ISO, I feel the Development of
> > > KDE3 for Squeeze is an important project.
> > >
> > > Thanks and keep up the good work,
> >
> > +1
> >
> > i only use bits and pieces of kde, the kontact/pim stuff.  This works on
> > Lenny and KDE 3.5.10. I use Windowmaker wm and am evaluating the switch
> > to Squeeze and the Trinity stuff. The concept is cool, in practice it
> > isn't integrating seamlessly yet.
> >
> > The trinity-desktop looks to be complete, though I don't want to switch
> > to a desktop environment.
> >
> > AFIKCT this list is the only support for Debian users. The
> > Kubuntu/Trinity stuff seems well supported. Are there more Debian uses
> > out there? I saw the original posts to debian-user but don't want to use
> > that list for Trinity stuff.
>
> We had originally only wanted to use KDEPIM.  Tim did a fabulous job of
> greatly enhancing the product to interoperate with Zimbra.  However, we
> (he and I) had so many problems with little niggly, hard to diagnose
> problems that we ultimately converted to the entire Trinity desktop.
> That solved most of the problems for us.  I would imagine it will take
> some concerted troubleshooting to figure out exactly which libraries are
> different in what ways to cause the problems we were seeing when picking
> and choosing. I know that doesn't really answer your question but
> thought that I'd at least share our experience - John

Thanks, actually that answers my question perfectly. I am having the same 
experience you did.

Entering the '(semi)concerted troubleshooting' phase, except without the skill 
level :-)  

thanks again.

-- 
Peace,

Greg