After six months of development, the Trinity R14.1.5 desktop environment has been released, continuing the development of the KDE 3.5.x and Qt 3 code base. Binary packages will be prepared for Ubuntu, Debian, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Arch, 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.
Major changes:
- The Twin window manager now supports tiling in multi-monitor configurations. Configuring dividers for tiling has been simplified.
- Added options to the Kicker panel for using 3D frames when displaying the thumbnail widget. virtual desktops; Implemented settings for indents between icons in the system tray; the ability to rename virtual desktops is provided.
- Several panel background blur modes have been implemented.
- In krdc, the client to connect to remote desktop, added paste command to send clipboard contents.
- Support for the OpenLDAP 2.5 library has been added to libtdeldap, kcmldap, kcmldapcontroller, kcmldapmanager, and kerberostray.
- The tde-style-baghira theme now has an option to center pop-up menus.
- New Flying Konqi desktop wallpaper added.
- A mute/unmute button has been added to the volume control block in the Codeine multimedia player.
- Support for FFmpeg 8.0 has been added to k9copy, a DVD copying program.
- Support for libgpgme 2.0 (a wrapper for GnuPG) has been added to tdepim.
- Support for the unzip v6 format has been added to the ark archive manager.
- The TQt library (a fork of Qt 3) has resolved issues with event loop handling that, under certain circumstances, could lead to 100% CPU load.
- The digikam, krecipes, ksquirrel, and ktorrent programs have been converted to use the CMake build system.
- Added support for the following distributions: Debian 13 Ubuntu 25.10, RHEL 10, OpenSUSE Leap 16. End of support: Debian 10 Ubuntu 23.10, Fedora 41, OpenSUSE Leap 15.5. Updated build scripts for Gentoo.
Source: opennet.ru
