| I know it's mostly a one man show but I've been using trinity desktop for months and i recommend everyone to check it out. https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ You can see the screenshots here. First distro i used shipped with kde 3.5 so it makes me feel very nostalgic and i appreciate that. You can easily install trinity if you are on ubuntu by enabling the ppa and installing from the package manager. What do you think about it? would you switch to trinity desktop?? |
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| Wayland support would be a must for me these days, and I'm pretty invested in Sway. I have a lot of custom keybinds and things set up how I like. I'd need something else similar (tiling WM stuff) that also had Wayland support to make me switch away at this point. Trinity sounds like Mate in that it's trying to keep an old version of a DE alive (Mate being a fork of GNOME 2). I imagine it may get tough as time goes on and programs support modern GTK/Qt stuff and only test it on modern GNOME and KDE. Plus it's fairly niche in the first place, so I wonder how long they'll be able to find interested contributors and users for it. I haven't heard about Trinity before now, or not much at least. Maybe it could remain popular with people using old/weak hardware. If I were running OpenBSD or something where Sway wasn't readily available, I would consider trying Trinity. |
soundtoxin said: yeah you are right mate was a fork of gnome 2 but since it switched to gtk3 it is pointless now. just like xfce4. i'd like to mention that trinity configuration manager is very detailed unlike xfce or mate configuration managers. having the legacy kde stuff makes it really shine among these low-end desktop environments. it has even have a proper device manager can you believe it? it is just more detailed than other barebones desktops i used to use. is that too much to ask i just want a device manager and service configuration ui instead of running systemctl commands but no that's not going to work i just have to use the command line. most of desktops other than maybe modern kde feels like using a system from 80s. it is just outdated. i want to do everything i can do from command line with a gui but noone bothers with making those utilities i want to use.Wayland support would be a must for me these days, and I'm pretty invested in Sway. I have a lot of custom keybinds and things set up how I like. I'd need something else similar (tiling WM stuff) that also had Wayland support to make me switch away at this point. Trinity sounds like Mate in that it's trying to keep an old version of a DE alive (Mate being a fork of GNOME 2). I imagine it may get tough as time goes on and programs support modern GTK/Qt stuff and only test it on modern GNOME and KDE. Plus it's fairly niche in the first place, so I wonder how long they'll be able to find interested contributors and users for it. I haven't heard about Trinity before now, or not much at least. Maybe it could remain popular with people using old/weak hardware. If I were running OpenBSD or something where Sway wasn't readily available, I would consider trying Trinity. |
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Wayland support would be a must for me these days, and I'm pretty invested in Sway. I have a lot of custom keybinds and things set up how I like. I'd need something else similar (tiling WM stuff) that also had Wayland support to make me switch away at this point.
Trinity sounds like Mate in that it's trying to keep an old version of a DE alive (Mate being a fork of GNOME 2). I imagine it may get tough as time goes on and programs support modern GTK/Qt stuff and only test it on modern GNOME and KDE. Plus it's fairly niche in the first place, so I wonder how long they'll be able to find interested contributors and users for it. I haven't heard about Trinity before now, or not much at least.
Maybe it could remain popular with people using old/weak hardware. If I were running OpenBSD or something where Sway wasn't readily available, I would consider trying Trinity.
Trinity sounds like Mate in that it's trying to keep an old version of a DE alive (Mate being a fork of GNOME 2). I imagine it may get tough as time goes on and programs support modern GTK/Qt stuff and only test it on modern GNOME and KDE. Plus it's fairly niche in the first place, so I wonder how long they'll be able to find interested contributors and users for it. I haven't heard about Trinity before now, or not much at least.
Maybe it could remain popular with people using old/weak hardware. If I were running OpenBSD or something where Sway wasn't readily available, I would consider trying Trinity.
| At least Mate uses upstream GTK. Trinity also maintains a fork of an old Qt version. That said it's a nice desktop. |
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