If you could test it on your virtual sw 12.2 machine that would be great. Again, I did a fresh sw 12.2 install and unchecked KDE so there was no KDE originally.

I then went here:

http://mirror.ets.kth.se/trinity/tri...lackware/12.2/

put those files in a temp dir and installed via installpkg *.tgz

yeah, there is not much of anything on the T-menu, no apps or categories, just 'system' and 'run is about it ((

Woodsman, good day!

i'm try build tde-3.5.12 on slackware-12.2 (more mod & patches)

I will be grateful for the help

thanks

p.s.
a need rebuild/make this on my desktop/main-work/slackware (with many patches, packages & changes)
if not difficult, share your SlackBuild-s?!

It would be good to see a response from Woodsman in this forum. I haven't seen any activity from than LQ member in this Slackware forum for a while.

... even if it is about an Oct 2010 thread with the last activity 7 years ago ...

While it is a old thread, it is, IMHO, the proper place for this news,
The full article with the lists of bug fixes and enhancements, along with two very nice screen shots, can be found at, http://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsen...try=2020.04.29

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As much as I like KTown, now that Trinity has Dolphin and a number of important fixes and enhancements, I'm very interested in Slackware packages as i have an existing 14.2 install with a decade old version of TDE that is very decent, lean 'n mean. If this new release measures up at all and has any future at all I want a dedicated hard install soon. Is this merely a fantasy these days? As I understand it Slax is no longer built on Slackware but has changed to Debian-based. Anyone know if Woodsman has also abandoned Slackware or if anyone else is actively developing TDE sets for Slack? I may just have to try a Live CD version to motivate myself to build from source, or not. It'd be a shame to see what many view as the pinnacle of KISS KDE lost to the ages IMHO.

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Does the build scripts that are included with the 14.0.3 Indiana non-profile builds provide a template that you could use to build the newer 14.0.7?

If I'm not mistaken, Woodsman is Darrell Anderson, I haven't seen any commits from him for years and he's not posting on the TDE lists (users and devs) either.

Ray-V has been releasing scripts for TDE, https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds as well as sunjob https://sourceforge.net/projects/tde-slackware

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Thanks for posting this. I've always preferred KDE over other desktops. In particular, version 3 was the perfect desktop.

I've never been more disappointed with any release of Slackware than v13.0 (which came with KDE4). It took me several months to warm to it and I didn't fully switch over until I'd figured out how to make it at least look and behave similarly to KDE3. Even now, more than 10 years later, I still make many of those same changes.

A project like Trinity is great for nostalgia reasons, but there seems to be a lot of commentary on the internet about it which makes me think that nostalgia is possibly the only reason one should install it these days. In particular, this comment (from another website linked below):
Does anyone here know if that observation is actually true? How about the comments relating to "band-aid" code?

It makes me think that you might be best served by XFCE if it's simplicity that you want.

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They are things to expose here since some people (I'm not refering to you rkelsen) just don't quite get them.

TDE is a hobbyist project with two regular developpers and a couple of contributors. It's a fun way to spend for spare time.
As so, the project does not have the will (or the means for that matter) to compete like/against KDE and Gnome.

I don't remember exactely when, but years ago around TDE R14.0.4 or R14.0.5, one the dev (Michele) asked on the TDE's users list, what people prefer between getting new stuff or getting bug fixes. They largely expressed that they like TDE "as It" and that they wished for bug fixes.
Since then we are still in that scheme of bug fixing.
To my knowledge, R14.0.9 will be the last in that series, the following release R14.1.0 will have new stuff. Even so, don't expect big changes included in the new series because the project is lacking of manpower and TDE's users want It that way.

Regarding the "network stack", I'm not developper therefore I'm not sure what the original poster is refering to...but TDE'code is regularly adjusted to work with the new OpenSSL, GNUtls or other libraries, R14.0.8 got better support for LibreSSL for instance.
Furthermore, on a broader scope let's read TDE's Release note as well as the previous ones. Release notes show that CVE are handled by the devs when they are known to them.

Regarding konqueror now, the rendering engine and javascript engine are too old to cope with what we expect to work with these days, I bet that TDE's users are running this application mainly as a files manager. They should be relying on Mozilla and Google producs for online services, so does many...
Some people are still using It on local networks or else, this email is two days old: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::17035

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Regarding LiveCD, I see that Slavek has put online a new one, Ubuntu 20.04 based here: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org.../ubuntu/focal/

But I definitely prefer the neat and simple one he made with Slax, Debian based here: http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org...cdimages/slax/