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Trinity Desktop R14.1.4 Continues With The KDE 3.5 Codebase

Written by Michael Larabel in Desktop on 28 April 2025 at 10:15 AM EDT. 39 Comments
The Trinity Desktop Environment as a long ago fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop released TDE R14.1.4 on Sunday as the newest maintenance release with various bug fixes and minor feature improvements.

TDE R14.1.4 is another minor step forward for the Trinity Desktop for those wishing to relive the KDE 3.5 days. The updated Trinity Desktop has various bug fixes, Unicode improvements, tab support within KPDF, adaptations for Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 43, improvements to the Codeine player, and various other changes:
- support for Unicode surrogate characters and planes above zero (for example emojis)
- new modern vector wallpapers and new color themes
- new control module to manage deb/rpm alternatives
- tab support in kpdf
- better context menu for tderandrtray and fixes to the handling of gamma settings
- clickable links in calendar events
- support for transparency, top and shadow borders and inactive windows in Dekorator
- better integration of kxkb with setxkbmap, new options and various fixes for the tray feedback
- ability to create VPN connections in tdenetworkmanager once again
- several improvements to the codeine player
- support for Ubuntu Plucky and upcoming Fedora 43

Downloads and more details on the updated Trinity Desktop TDE R14.1.4 for Linux and BSD systems via TrinityDesktop.org.

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