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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:

TDE Gitea Workspace: this is the main place for developers and for contributing code.
TDE Weblate Translation Workspace user guide: this is the main place for translations.
Developers section on Wiki
Get involved page on the main TDE website.

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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-The '''[http://trinitydesktop.org 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.<br>
+The '''[http://trinitydesktop.org 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.
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-The current stable release of TDE is '''R14.0.11''', which brings along several [[Release_Notes_For_R14.0.11|improvements and new applications]] over the previous releases.<br>
-One of the most notable features of the R14.0 series is the implementation of the Trinity Desktop Hardware Library (tdehwlib) that did away with dependency on HAL. With the HAL dependency removed, R14's foundation now rests solidly on current and maintained libraries and dependencies. For systems still based on HAL (such as *BSD), HAL support is still available as a building option.
+== Current release ==
+<div style="float: right">{{DistroTable}}</div>
+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 [[Release_Notes_For_R14.1.5|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!<br/>
+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:
+* [[TDE Gitea Workspace]]: this is the main place for developers and for contributing code.
+* [[TDE Weblate Translation Workspace]] user guide: this is the main place for translations.
+* [https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Category:Developers#New_to_Trinity_development.3F Developers] section on Wiki
+* [https://www.trinitydesktop.org/helpwanted.php Get involved] page on the main TDE website.
+If you want to contribute to this wiki please read the [[TDE Wiki Style Guideline|formatting guidelines]] first. Consider updating pages that contain [[:Category:Pages with outdated information (KDE3)|KDE3-specific]] or [[:Category:Pages with outdated information|outdated]] information.
+== Donating ==
+Please consider helping with a small donation on our [https://www.trinitydesktop.org/donate.php donations page] if you wish to support the TDE project and its infrastructure, Without your financial assistance, TDE would not be possible!
+== Roadmap ==
+{{:Project RoadMap}}
+== Browse the TDE Wiki ==
-The TDE development team is small but friendly. Anyone wanting to join the development process and help create the next TDE release is welcome!  If you wish to participate, please take a look at the [https://www.trinitydesktop.org/helpwanted.php Get involved] page.
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