Trinity Desktop Environment
The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is a complete software desktop environment designed for Linux and Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software. Born as a fork of KDE 3.5 in 2010, it was originally created by Timothy Pearson, who had coordinated Kubuntu remixes featuring KDE 3.5 after Kubuntu switched to KDE Plasma 4.
Trinity R14.1.0 | |
| Developer(s) | TDE development team |
|---|---|
| Stable release | R14.1.1
/ October 29, 2023 |
| Written in | C++ (TQt) |
| Operating system | Unix-like with X11 |
| Platform | FreeBSD and Linux |
| Predecessor | K Desktop Environment 3 |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Desktop environment |
| License | GPL and other licenses |
| Website | www |
TDE is now a fully independent project with its own personality and development team, available for various Linux distros, BSD and DilOS. It is currently led by Slávek Banko.
TDE releases aims to provide a stable and highly customizable desktop, continuing bug fixes, additional features, and compatibility with recent hardware. Trinity is packaged for Debian, Ubuntu, Devuan, Raspberry Pi OS, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mageia, OpenSUSE, Slackware and various other distributions and architectures. It is also used as the default desktop environment of at least two Linux distributions, Q4OS and Exe GNU/Linux. Since version 3.5.12 (its second official release), it uses its own fork of Qt3, known as TQt3, so as to make it easier to eventually make TQt installable alongside later Qt releases. Trinity also maintains its own versions of several KDE software applications using TQt3, while still providing feature updates and ensuring compatibility with recent distributions and hardware.