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| Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.13.1 released! |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by OSGuy on 2012-10-15 23:22:32 |
| "The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 3.5.13.1 of the Trinity Desktop Environment. The Trinity Desktop Environment is a complete software desktop environment designed for Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software." Not the first time we mention TDE, but it's basically the continuation of KDE 3.x. There's a market for this. |
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| RE[2]: Trinity vs. MATE |
| By r_a_trip on 2012-10-16 06:45:35 |
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> Unfortunately, the Ubuntu PPA packages conflict with KDE4, so you can't install them both to test. This might be one of the reasons Trinity doesn't get more love. MATE extensively renamed applications and libraries so they don't clash with the newer equivalents in Gnome 3. I can imagine that distro maintainers aren't too keen on a DE that wreaks havoc with one of the major ones. |
 - Score: 3 |
| Comment by marcp |
| By marcp on 2012-10-16 07:43:08 |
| It seems to be cool and nice project. It gives you KDE 3 experience [which - in my opinion - was just great], it will be fast, responsive and clean, BUT ... what about GTK3/QT4 integration? Besides - they are not releasing it on a regular basis, which - in my case - is not a good thing. I require regular releases to plan internal stuff. And I don't trust projects which do release their stuff at any time. It just gives you a good overall view of their internal structure. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE[4]: ... |
| By NuxRo on 2012-10-16 08:15:11 |
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> Anyway, they were able to do it with GNOME 2 (MATE); why would a KDE3 fork (Trinity) be able to work as well? Because KDE3 did not have as much traction. Redhat/Fedora and Ubuntu focused on Gnome2. It's just a question of popularity. Edited 2012-10-16 08:19 UTC |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[4]: ... |
| By NuxRo on 2012-10-16 08:18:24 |
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OSnews fix your comment system! Edited 2012-10-16 08:24 UTC |
| - Score: 0 |
| Should the Trinity project stop? |
| By toast88 on 2012-10-16 08:23:35 |
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I'm surprised noone mentions this blog post: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com... Obviously Trinity is everything but not a successful fork. Adrian |
| - Score: 7 |
| RE[5]: ... |
| By Anonymous Penguin on 2012-10-16 08:24:24 |
| Ubuntu or Fedora weren't/aren't everything in the Linux world. What about OpenSUSE, Mandriva/Mageia, PCLinuxOS, Kubuntu... |
| - Score: 5 |
| Support for Debian Testing |
| By Anonymous Penguin on 2012-10-16 08:26:34 |
| I wish Trinity supported Debian Testing. By now it is reasonable to assume that most Debian users use Testing. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE: Trinity vs. MATE |
| By toast88 on 2012-10-16 08:28:01 |
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> Now, first I'll start by saying that the subject wasn't meant to be a comparison between the two. I was actually equally interested in both right from the start when KDE and GNOME decided to make such a major upgrade. Problem is, it seems that the Trinity desktop is barely getting any support; almost no distributions seem to support it in any way, let alone provide packages. There is a simple reason for that: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com... The Trinity project has forked Qt3 which all major distributions are getting rid off. It's absolutely naive to think that a handful developers can maintain something as large as Qt and it's even more naive to think that Debian and Co will re-adopt Qt3 just for the sake of Trinity. Adrian |
| - Score: 5 |
| RE: Support for Debian Testing |
| By toast88 on 2012-10-16 08:29:41 |
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> I wish Trinity supported Debian Testing. By now it is reasonable to assume that most Debian users use Testing. Debian is currently completely getting rid of Qt3. It's more likely that hell freezes over than Debian Testing getting any support for Trinity. Adrian |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE: Support for Debian Testing |
| By BluenoseJake on 2012-10-16 11:19:41 |
| I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. A lot of people use Stable plus backports (I do) A lot skip testing and jump right to Sid. I believe (I may be wrong) that Sid users out number Testing users, as most of the time the software in Sid is newer. |
| - Score: 4 |
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