On Tuesday 02 July 2024 02:37:09 am Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote: > Hi Riley, > I am one of the main devs. > > TL;DR: TDE is here to stay and any contributions will help and will be > welcomed. > > TDE is pretty much alive. We have two regular releases each year and each > of them brings some enhancement, bug fixes, new apps and whatever is needed > to keep TDE running on modern distros. > > The place to be for developers is the TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW): > https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea. All code changes go through > there and if you "watch" the various repositories, you will have > notifications for the various PRs. Alternatively you can see the list of > commits at https://www.trinitydesktop.org/patches If you plan to contribute > changes, please do so using TGW (user guide at > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/TDE_Gitea_Workspace), I have made you a > Contributor so you can create PRs. Don't fork repositories, use branches > (see user guide). Thank you. > of bug fixes and the migration to > > > CMake are stalled indefinitely due to issues with adding support for > > Qt4? Why not drop it and try for Qt5/6 instead? > > All the code is in TGW, but some applications are part of bigger > repositories like tdelibs or tdebase for example. The guidelines for TDE > developments are (in order of importance): > 1. stability: we don't follow the latest eye-catching trend, we want a > system that is stable and doesn't force you to relearn all your key > shortcuts with every release > 2. keeping pace with time: things in distro change all the time, so we want > to make sure TDE can keep running when that happens > 3. enhancement/new functionality: when possible we improve things or add > new applications, but we try not to alienate users (see Windows 8 and the > start menu experience or the KDE 4.0 release experience for how NOT to do > it.) I agree totally. The beauty of Trinity is that it's a traditional desktop environment that still works with modern applications (to the best of it's ability), stability and reliability over trends and gimmicks. ------------------------------------------------- This free account was provided by VFEmail.net - report spam to abuse@xxxxxxxxxxx ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options! ____________________________________________________ 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
