Trinity Desktop Environment

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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
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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
Building from source code: base | extra Try a LiveCD

The current stable release of TDE is R14.1.0, which brings along several improvements and new applications over the previous releases.

This release marks the switch from the R14.0.x series to the newly started R14.1.x one. R14.1.0 comes with support for LUKS disks throughout the whole desktop, new notification system for storage device plug/unplugged events, basic support for PulseAudio and support for PKI infrastructure. It also ships with a new bluetooth GUI (tdebluez), a new multimedia player (kplayer), some new icewm based themes and a new session management and panel in Kate. Several configuration dialog and usability improvements have been made throughout the system and support for Python 2 has been dropped in favour of Python 3.

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 Get involved page.

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 Consider updating pages that contain KDE3-specific or outdated information.


Installation Community
Documentation about installing and setting up the Trinity Desktop Environment. This category contains community-generated content.
Releases Developers
Category for release notes (and lists of releases, release history, and anything else that seems approriate). This category contains development-related and API documentation for the Trinity Desktop Environment.


Tips And Tricks Packagers
This page is meant as a container of tips and tricks collected over time, addressing topics and issues brought up by TDE users. This category contains information useful for people who want to package Trinity for their distribution.
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