[HN Gopher] Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.9 Release Notes
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Trinity Desktop Environment R14.0.9 Release Notes
Author : pantalaimon
Score : 17 points
Date : 2020-11-01 20:27 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (wiki.trinitydesktop.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (wiki.trinitydesktop.org)
| jsiepkes wrote:
| Super cool people maintain and expand things like KDE 3 and Gnome
| 2 (Trinity, Mate)!
|
| However personally I don't feel the need anymore. Gnome 3 and KDE
| 4 are both quite usable. Which is a stark contrast from when
| Gnome 3 and KDE 4 came out. They were both nothing more then
| glorified beta's. The first release of Gnome 3 was basically like
| the first Windows 10 release with the Metro UI; Totally unusable.
| Not that surprising since both Gnome 3 and Win 10 were created on
| a "tablet first" (or at least "tablet prominent") mindset.
| kick wrote:
| Did you mean KDE Plasma 5? Plasma 4 was comparatively short-
| lived (and arguably, far from perfect).
| makapuf wrote:
| I think you're talking about win8, win10 was a return to saner
| defaults on desktop (ui-wise, let's not talk about privacy):
| start menu, by example.
| oofabz wrote:
| I use Mate and I think it's misleading to characterize it as a
| reheated Gnome 2. That's how it started, but the project has
| come a long way since then. Mate now uses GTK3 instead of GTK2.
| It supports GPU-accelerated compositing and Hi-DPI displays.
| Mate is a well-maintained modern desktop environment, not a
| historical curiosity.
| notankies wrote:
| It also plays nicely with tiling WMs; you can replace the
| default with i3 or Awesome or whatever and enjoy mate-
| settingsd and having a nice GTK3 panel that looks nice, but
| also tiling windows.
| RedShift1 wrote:
| Meh, depends on what you define as usable. KDE 3 ran fluently
| on my 2010 HP EliteBook 8540w but KDE 4 runs like a dog and you
| get nothing extra for it.
| zokier wrote:
| > Not that surprising since both Gnome 3 and Win 10 were
| created on a "tablet first" (or at least "tablet prominent")
| mindset.
|
| For Gnome I hear this claim often made (mostly by people who
| don't like Gnome), but is that actually backed by facts?
|
| Unlike Microsoft or Canonical (with their Unity), Redhat never
| seemed to have any particular mobile/touch aspirations, and so
| far I haven't heard any mobile adaptations of Gnome anywhere,
| like we have Plasma Mobile from the KDE camp.
| rayrag wrote:
| That's the ugliest GUI I have seen in a while. 1995 was 25 years
| ago.
|
| https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/images/4/44/TDE-screen1.png
| Gualdrapo wrote:
| That could be 2005 KDE actually.
|
| Things like that make me thing this can be arguably the biggest
| waste of effort of all FOSS development, all because "fear of
| the new" - Trying to keep the huge monstrosity of Qt3 which EOL
| was more than 10-15 years ago, the whole DE that was built on
| it and all of their apps, even developing new ones... Just for
| the appeal of few people with the nostalgia for that kind of
| GUIs. One could argue KDE5 is as stable or even more than KDE3
| ever was, and less buggy - not even mentioning the ability to
| replicate that interface with a few clicks and some fiddling.
|
| But whatever makes them happy.
| Darmody wrote:
| I see the Plasma team decided to keep the old ugly designs. Look
| at that Trinity Control Center window. More than a decade after
| and everything still feels the same.
| ubercow13 wrote:
| Doesn't really look the same to me, except that it uses the
| standard desktop widgets such as buttons, radio buttons, etc.
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