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Trinity Desktop Environment – a modern KDE3 fork

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Re: Trinity Desktop Environment – a modern KDE3 fork

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look like it’s frozen in time from the early 2000s in terms of sharpness/polish/slickness? That's a good thing.

I concur. And the unironically retro web site design made me as happy as anything I can recall this week.

Re: Trinity Desktop Environment – a modern KDE3 fork

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Sounds like this version finally has FreeBSD ports set up. That's a huge improvement; I suspect a lot of people who like Trinity would like FreeBSD and vice versa.

“How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?” :) https://web.archive.org/web/20190806200601/https://en.wikipe...

Re: Trinity Desktop Environment – a modern KDE3 fork

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KDE3 was the last Linux desktop environment I actually liked using, so I try to use this when it’s possible.

Their maintained fork of Amarok 1.x really makes it worthwhile for me.

Also, dcop is probably the best GUI automation tool I’ve used.

Re: Trinity Desktop Environment – a modern KDE3 fork

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I think it's a matter of taste; they all kind of blur together after a while and offer roughly equivalent functionality. And if I were to pick any macOS look it'd probably be from 5-10 years ago in terms of layout and use of screen space....

I miss the macos input controls about a hundred times more than I miss the window manager.

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