Time does not stop for anything or anyone, and as someone who does not want things, Trinity Desktop celebrates its tenth anniversary today. It also does so with the launch of a new version, although this vestige of the past still seems to be in perpetual fallow.
For those who are lost, Trinity Desktop is the forced continuation of what was once KDE 3; the equivalent of precarious MATE, and is that unlike the GNOME 2 fork, Trinity Desktop never enjoyed the widespread interest and since its inception until now, nothing has changed.
Those responsible for the project, however, have another conception of the facts and so they transmit it in the launch announcement of Trinity Desktop R14.0.8, the version with which they sweeten the reminder that concerns us:
“Ten years ago today, the first version (3.5.11) of Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) was released. A lot has happened since then, but TDE has continued to grow and flourish over the years. Today the project is healthier than ever, with dedicated self-hosted servers, regular releases, modern collaboration tools, and a vibrant community of users and enthusiasts, ”they point out.
Trinity Desktop R14.0.8 is the eighth maintenance update that the current version of the desktop environment receives and is focused on applying corrections and some other improvements, including translations, migration of more packages to the CMake compilation system, support improved in different components and other details. More information in the release notes.
The question is who uses this today. Because if in the case of MATE it is understood because its development endorses it and GNOME 3 took a long time to be ready for a majority of users and even so its break with the classic concept remains until today, the Trinity Desktop is much more complicated than to argue.
Like MATE, Trinity Desktop arose out of some users' dissatisfaction with the new versions of GNOME and KDE, but it did so later and never received the attention of the community. And over time it has gotten worse, of course, especially when Plasma 5 has managed to recover everything lost throughout KDE 4 in terms of user experience.
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