Trinity Desktop Environment

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) project is a feature rich desktop environment for Unix-like operating systems with a primary goal of retaining a traditional, efficient and productive user interface.

TDE was born as a fork of the K Desktop Environment version 3.5, which was originally written by the KDE Team, a world-wide network of software engineers committed to Free Software development. The name Trinity was chosen because the word means Three as in continuation of KDE 3. Since then, TDE has evolved to be an independent and standalone desktop environment project. Over time, continued development has polished off many rough edges that were present in the final release of KDE 3.5.10 and many new and useful features have been added to keep the environment up-to-date.

Current release

Official Instructions Distribution Latest Debian R14.1.3 Devuan R14.1.3 Fedora R14.1.3 RedHat R14.1.3 Ubuntu R14.1.3	Community Instructions Distribution Latest Distribution Latest Arch Linux R14.1.3 MX Linux R14.1.3 FreeBSD R14.1.3 OpenSUSE R14.1.3 Mageia R14.1.3 PCLinuxOS R14.1.3 Slackware R14.1.3 Raspbian R14.1.3
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The current stable release of TDE is R14.1.3. The key highlights from this release are:

• initial integration with the XDG Desktop Portal API
• TDE Control Center module for touchpad settings
• new mallory twin theme
• support for window tiling through context menu
• tde-ebook-reader, a TQt port of FBReader
• Solarized color themes for Konsole
• support for back/forward history mouse buttons in various applications
• support for Python 3.13
• a TQt for of UniversalIndentGUI to ease source code formatting
• SFTP connection option for knetattach
• khotkeys running as a kded module rather than standalone
• ksirc functional again
• various enhancements or bug fixes to TQt3 and various applications

Refer to the full release notes for further details and screenshots.

Contributing

The TDE development team is small but friendly. Anyone wanting to join the development process and help create the next TDE release is welcome!
You don't need to be a programmer to do so: you can contribute translations, artwork or other stuff! If you wish to participate, please take a look at the following links:

• TDE Gitea Workspace: this is the main place for developers and for contributing code.
• TDE Weblate Translation Workspace user guide: this is the main place for translations.
• Developers section on Wiki
• Get involved page on the main TDE website.

If you want to contribute to this wiki please read the formatting guidelines first. Consider updating pages that contain KDE3-specific or outdated information.

Donating

Please consider helping with a small donation on our donations page if you wish to support the TDE project and its infrastructure, Without your financial assistance, TDE would not be possible!

Roadmap

See the TDE roadmap on this page.

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