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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.
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.


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== Current release ==
== Current release ==


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The current stable release of TDE is '''R14.1.2''', which brings along several [[Release_Notes_For_R14.1.2|improvements and new applications]] over the previous releases. Some highlights from this release are:
The current stable release of TDE is '''R14.1.5'''. The key highlights from this release are:

* new graphical styles (Polyester, Fahrenheit, GTK-based Ia Ora) and six new color schemes
* twin: add support for tiling when multiple monitors are in use
* fixed resizing issues with various Virtual Terminal based applications, like xfce and mate terminals or gvim
* tqt: fix various event loop handling that caused 100% CPU usage
* several TQt3 memory leak and bug fixes
* kdesktop: improved stability and prevent situations where the lock would become unresponsive
* an overall of the sftp tdeioslave authentication methods
* kicker: various aesthetic improvements and new options
* visual feedback for volume level through new kmix icons
* krdc: add paste command, allowing sending clipboard content as text
* GUI option to allow selecting different shutdown dialogs
* add support for OpenLDAP 2.5
* notifications for keyboard layout switch
* improvements to various TDE-branded icons/pictures/artwork and new Flying Konqi wallpaper
* DCOP extension for windows tiling
* tde-style-baghira: add option to center the popup menu
* enhancements or bug fixes for various applications
* tdepim: add support for libgpgme 2.0
* showfoto: fix application usability

Refer to the [[Release_Notes_For_R14.1.5|full release notes]] for further details and screenshots.


== Contributing ==
== Contributing ==
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== Roadmap ==
== Roadmap ==


See the TDE roadmap on [[Project RoadMap|this page]].
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== Browse the TDE Wiki ==


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Latest revision as of 23:28, 9 November 2025

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 R14.1.5
Devuan R14.1.5
Fedora R14.1.5
RedHat R14.1.5
Ubuntu R14.1.5
Community Instructions
Distribution Latest Distribution Latest
Arch Linux R14.1.5 MX Linux R14.1.5
FreeBSD R14.1.5 OpenSUSE R14.1.5
Mageia R14.1.5 PCLinuxOS R14.1.5
Slackware R14.1.5 Gentoo latest git
Raspbian R14.1.5
Building from source code: base | extra Try a LiveCD

The current stable release of TDE is R14.1.5. The key highlights from this release are:

  • twin: add support for tiling when multiple monitors are in use
  • tqt: fix various event loop handling that caused 100% CPU usage
  • kdesktop: improved stability and prevent situations where the lock would become unresponsive
  • kicker: various aesthetic improvements and new options
  • krdc: add paste command, allowing sending clipboard content as text
  • add support for OpenLDAP 2.5
  • improvements to various TDE-branded icons/pictures/artwork and new Flying Konqi wallpaper
  • tde-style-baghira: add option to center the popup menu
  • tdepim: add support for libgpgme 2.0
  • showfoto: fix application usability

Refer to the full release notes for further details and screenshots.

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 following links:

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

Donating

Please consider helping with a small donation on our donations page if you wish to support the TDE project and its infrastructure, Without your financial assistance, TDE would not be possible!

Roadmap

Version Date Roadmap Release notes
R14.1.4 2025-Apr-27 link
R14.1.5 2025-Nov-09 link
R14.1.6 2026-Apr-26 link
R14.2.0 2028-Apr-30 link


Browse the TDE Wiki

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.
Show all Categories in the TDE Wiki
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