Trinity Desktop Environment

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is a fork of K Desktop Environment 3.5, organized and led by Timothy Pearson, who had coordinated Kubuntu remixes featuring KDE 3.5, after Kubuntu switched to KDE Plasma 4.[3] The project aims to release continuing bug fixes, additional features, and compatibility with recent hardware. Trinity is packaged for Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu and various other distributions.[4] It is also used as the default desktop environment of at least two Linux distributions, Q4OS and Exe GNU/Linux.[5][6] Since version 3.5.12 (its second official release), it uses its own fork of Qt 3, known as TQt, so as to make it easier to eventually make TQt installable alongside later Qt releases.[7]

Trinity Desktop Environment
Trinity R14.0.5 Development
Developer(s)TDE development team
Stable release
R14.0.8 / 29 April 2020 (2020-04-29)[1]
Preview release
14.1.0 Development / 1 January 2020 (2020-01-01)[2]
Written inC++ (TQt)
Operating systemUnix-like with X11
Available inMultilingual
TypeDesktop environment
LicenseGPL and other licenses
Websitetrinitydesktop.org
Trinity 3.5.12 for Kubuntu
Trinity 3.5.13.2 (Traditional Chinese localisation)
Trinity R14.0.4, Kubuntu version

Releases

Early releases of Trinity used a versioning scheme based on that of K Desktop Environment 3.5, from which it was forked. The R14.0 release adopted a new versioning scheme, to prevent comparisons with KDE based on version number alone and a new visual theme.[8] This new visual theme was based on the "KDE Lineart" background included in the wallpapers package for KDE 3.4 and covered the desktop background and was named "Trinity Lineart" along with the splash screen, "application info screens" (for some apps like Konqueror and Trinity Control Center), and banners (for some other apps like KPersonalizer and Kate).[9] The window, widget, and icon themes were left intact, aside from replacing all KDE logos with Trinity logos.

Prior to this, Trinity kept the KDE 3.5 visual theme, but replaced the "KDE 3.5" branding with "TDE" branding, in a font that is not the "Kabel Book"[9] font KDE used, although the K-Menu had its side image branded as just "Trinity" instead of "TDE". Kubuntu versions, on the other hand, used the included "Crystal Fire" background as the default desktop background, along with the K-Menu "side image", larger menu items, and menu layout from Kubuntu 8.04.

History
Date[10] Event
3.5
29 April 2010 3.5.11 Maintenance release.
3 October 2010 3.5.12 Maintenance release.
1 November 2011 3.5.13 Maintenance release.
12 October 2012 3.5.13.1 Maintenance release.
21 July 2013[11] 3.5.13.2 SRU release
14.0
16 December 2014[12] 14.0.0 release
30 August 2015[13] 14.0.1 release
28 November 2015[14] 14.0.2 release
28 February 2016[15] 14.0.3 release
7 November 2016[16] 14.0.4 release
18 August 2018[17] 14.0.5 release
30 March 2019[18] 14.0.6 release
30 December 2019[19] 14.0.7 release
29 April 2020[1] 14.0.8 release

References
  1. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.8 Released!". trinitydesktop.org.
  2. "Nightly Builds". Trinity Desktop Project Wiki. Archived from the original on 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  3. Byfield, Bruce (29 June 2012). "Trinity KDE: KDE 3 Zombified or Resurrected?". Datamation. QuinStreet Inc. Archived from the original on 21 January 2012. Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  4. Trinity Desktop Project. "Trinity Desktop Environment". Retrieved 3 November 2012.
  5. Smith, J, ed. (26 August 2017). "DistroWatch: Exe GNU/Linux". DistroWatch. Copenhagen, Denmark: Unsigned Integer Limited. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  6. Smith, J, ed. (26 August 2017). "DistroWatch: Q4OS". DistroWatch. Copenhagen, Denmark: Unsigned Integer Limited. Retrieved 8 September 2017.
  7. "Release Notes For 3.5.12 - Trinity Desktop Project Wiki". wiki.trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 2017-08-26.
  8. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.0 Released!". trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  9. "KDE - Clipart". www.kde.org. Retrieved 2017-08-17.
  10. "Trinity News". trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  11. Pearson, Timothy (21 July 2013). "Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13.2 SRU Released!". trinity-announce (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 2013-08-02.
  12. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.0 Released!". Trinity News. 2014-12-16. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-02-29.
  13. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.1 Released!". trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  14. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.2 Released!". trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  15. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.3 Released!". trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  16. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.4 Released!". trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 25 June 2017.
  17. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.5 Released!". trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  18. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.6 Released!". trinitydesktop.org. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
  19. "Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.7 Released!". trinitydesktop.org.
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