Release of desktop environment Trinity R14.0.11, continuing the development of KDE 3.5

The Trinity R14.0.11 desktop environment has been released, continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x and Qt 3 codebase. Binary packages will soon be prepared for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and other distributions.

Among the features of Trinity, one can note its own tools for managing screen parameters, a udev-based layer for working with equipment, a new interface for configuring equipment, switching to the Compton-TDE composite manager (a fork of Compton with TDE extensions), improved network configurator and user authentication mechanisms. The Trinity environment can be installed and used simultaneously with more recent releases of KDE, including the ability to use already installed KDE applications in Trinity. There are also tools for correctly displaying the interface of GTK programs without violating the uniform design style.

The new version contains changes mainly related to bug fixes and work to improve the stability of the codebase. Improvements added include:

• New applications are included: TDEAsciiquarium screen saver (an aquarium in the form of ASCII graphics), a tdeio module with support for the Gopher protocol, an interface for entering a password tdesshaskpass (an analogue of ssh-askpass with TDEWallet support).
• For the Twin window manager, the DeKorator theme engine and a set of styles that mimic the design of SUSE 9.3, 10.0, and 10.1 are implemented.
• In the user session, the ability to change the DPI of fonts in the range from 64 to 512 was provided, which made it possible to improve performance on screens with higher resolutions.
• The media decoder in Akode has been moved to the FFmpeg 4.x API. Enhanced support for video in Kopete messaging software.
• The KWeather weather forecast panel has been redesigned in the Konqueror browser.
• Added additional KXkb settings.
• An option has been added to the "TCC —> Window Behavior —> Titlebar/Window actions" menu to change the scroll direction when the mouse wheel is rotated.
• The classic menu provides the ability to customize hotkeys.
• The KNemo traffic monitoring utility has been moved to the "sys" backend by default.
• Some packages have been transferred to the CMake build system. Some packages have dropped support for automake.
• Added support for Debian 11, Ubuntu 21.10, Fedora 34/35 and Arch Linux distributions.

Source: opennet.ru