Release of the Trinity desktop environment 14.1.7, continuing the development of KDE 3.5

After six months of development, the release of the desktop environment Trinity R14.1.7 has been published, continuing the advancement of the KDE 3.5.x codebase and Qt 3. Binary packages will soon be prepared for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE, and other distributions.

Key features of Trinity include its own tools for managing screen parameters, a udev-based layer for hardware interaction, a new interface for hardware configuration, a switch to the Compton-TDE composite manager (a fork of Compton with TDE extensions), an improved network configurator, and user authentication mechanisms. The Trinity environment can be installed and used alongside the latest releases of KDE, including the capability to use already installed KDE applications within Trinity. There are also tools for properly displaying the interfaces of GTK applications without breaking the unified design style.

Key Changes:

• The konsole terminal emulator has added support for a protected paste mode from the clipboard, where after pasting, multi-line content is not automatically executed line by line, but highlighted and awaits the user to press the Enter key.
  

  The konsole now supports colon-separated subparameters in Control Sequence Introducer (CSI) and Device Control String (DCS) control sequences, as well as the SGR 1006 escape sequence for mouse click tracking (which resolved issues with clicks in htop) and SGR 58/59 escape sequences for changing text underline color. A 'Select All' button has been added to the menu to highlight the entire operation history or all screen content.

  
• In the kate text editor, the logic for setting the cursor position in the document has been unified.
• In the korganizer calendar planner, embedding of application calendars in events is enabled by default.
• In the konqueror file manager, an extended renaming mode has been implemented for viewing files in grid icon format.
• The character table viewer kcharselect has added a panel with categories of symbols.
• In the twin window manager, the noBorder setting has been implemented to hide window frames. Window titles have been enhanced with buttons to pin the window on top or bottom of other windows.
• The kicker panel now includes the option to select a color for the text on the buttons in the menu.
• The taskbar now supports scrolling with the mouse wheel and has added 'Raise All' and 'Lower All' buttons for window groups.
  
• The kickoff menu has implemented keyboard navigation through search results.
• Support for the lzip protocol has been added in tdebase and rusader.
• Printer settings have been improved in tdeprint.
• The selection frame for the screen area has become more noticeable in kmagnifier.
• An option to restore volume during a restart has been added in kmix.
• Support for libpqxx 8 library (API for accessing PostgreSQL) has been added in koffice.
• Support for decryption using the AES-256 algorithm has been added in kpdf.
  
• Support for Python 3.15 and OpenSSL 4 has been added.
• Support for Ubuntu 24.10, Fedora 42, and openSUSE 15.6 has been discontinued. Support for Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora 44 has been added.

Source: opennet.ru