Release Notes For R14.0.0

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!!!NOTE!!! This page is still under construction. TDE R14.0.0 has not yet been released

2014.xx.yy (TODO: Insert final release date): TDE R14.0.0 is now available for download!

The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is happy to announce the immediate availability of the new R14.0.0 release.


R14 has been over 2 years in development. Such long development period has allowed us to create a better, more stable and more feature-rich product than previous TDE releases. R14 is brimming with new features, such as a new hardware manager based on udev (HAL is no longer required), full network-manager 0.9 support, a brand new compositor (compton), built-in threading support and much more!


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Trinity R14.0.0 Desktop


Installation instructions

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Installation instructions and binary packages are available for Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat/CentOs, Fedora, Mageia, OpenSUSE, PCLinuxOS.

Live CDs are also available following the instructons at this page.


Major Improvements

The following is a list of the major improvements TDE R14.0.0 brings along.

  • New HAL-independent hardware support based on udev. HAL support is still available for those systems (such as *bsd) that require it.
  • Switched compositor from Kompmgr to Compton.
  • Significant renaming of applications, libraries and packages to avoid conflicts with other desktop environments (most notably KDE) allowing TDE to be installed in parallel with other DE.
  • Switched from 'plain' Qt3 to the 'new' TQt3 interface, an enhanced version of Qt3 with a particular eye on improved stability and multi-threading support.
  • A new TQt interface layer between TDE libraries/applications and TQt3. This allows selective adaptation of some Qt4 programming widgets.


Other important changes

This is a non-comprehensive list of other significant changes made in R14.0.0.

  • Migrated the TDE source repository to GIT.
  • Significant branding overhaul.
  • Further improved XDG compliance.


A full list of changes can be found on the full changelog.

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