On 2022-06-07 21:00:55 William Morder via tde-users wrote: > On Monday 06 June 2022 08:50:49 am Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote: >> "Trinity dates from a time when functionality ... [was] more of a priority" One wonders if the author's mandate is to compare desktops' eye-candy and gee-whiz animations rather than their usability? > There is pressure to conform to the mainstream opinions and tastes, and > some people would rather fit in than to think too much. > > For me, with TDE, I can have whatever I want, limited only by hardware and > my own skills or lack of them. > > Also, in some places that retro look, the newfangled hipsters, are supposed > to be cool. But users can make their TDE screens look almost like anything > they want. Rather than having maybe a dozen bland prefabricated > configurations to choose from, TDE's old school interface offers infinite > possibilities for how we can make our desktops look; all it requires is a > little exploration and tinkering. Quite right; lots of options and a more straightforward configuration interface than most other desktops, which seem to be either overly complicated (Plasma) or overly simplified (Gnome); but even Gnome can be configured if one is persistent, though the controls are scattered in multiple programs. > > Maybe that isn't to everybody's liking, though I don't get why. But then, > for myself, I got used to being the minority opinion. Then again, we might > consider it as a problem of branding: the kids have got to be taught that > old school sometimes was really cool, and still is cool. > > Bill Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.11 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
