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List:       debian-user
Subject:    Re: TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) vs KDE
From:       "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans () gmail ! com>
Date:       2021-04-22 21:25:14
Message-ID: 6b473b5a-c7f4-d541-c56b-9bd487da1a95 () gmail ! com
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Andrew M.A. Cater wrote on 4/22/21 2:57 PM:
> On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:23:02PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote:
>> I saw TDE discussed in another, recent Thread, and had to look it up, as I
>> am not familiar with it.
>>
>> How does it compare with the current KDE?  Other than a qemu VM with KDE
>> (so that I can examine it), I haven't used KDE in years (using XFCE for
>> most of my systems, but with one current Gnome Desktop).
>>
>> Is it worth using *instead* of KDE, or would that throw me into a mess?
>>

I use TDE as my desktop on my main [debian stable, 64-bit] machine for real 
work; I gave up waiting for the KDE coders to reimplement some functionality 
that was lost when they switched to KDE4 (and then KDE5, or whatever it's 
called nowadays).

I also have KDE installed on the machine, for the very few occasions when I 
find that the KDE5 version of a program has something that I need and which is 
not in TDE -- that happens so rarely that off the top of my head I can't even 
think of an example, but I know that it has happened; but I believe that it's 
always been in the nature of fluff/candy, not core functionality. And in fact 
even then I don't run the KDE desktop, but just run the KDE version of a 
program instead of the TDE version.

FWIW, the biggest reason I switched to TDE was the lack of support in KDE for 
displaying in the panel sysguard widgets that obtain data from remote systems. 
In my panel I have widgets reporting on the health of other machines... and 
those other machines are running KDE (because I interact with their desktops 
so infrequently that it wasn't worth installing a different desktop on them).

I will also say that the modern KDE look, with its rather astonishing amount 
of wasted space, was not to my taste, although that was not the principal 
reason why I installed TDE.

The biggest two annoyances I find in TDE as compared to KDE are both in 
Konqueror: a) the display of directories does not continually renew on 
changes; b)  when displaying image files, the images are not scaled down to 
fit within the current display panel. So it's not perfect. But I find it just 
a lot nicer to use than modern versions of KDE. Other people doubtless have 
different opinions.

   Doc

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