Trinity Desktop Environment R1409 released
This release comes with new styles providing better look and feel (Baghira, Domino, Ia Ora), new widgets (KoolDock and TastyMenu), new utilities (KXMLEditor, Mathemagics, Qalculate) and new applications (Codeine, TDEDocker, TDEPacman). It also adds support for Xine 1.2.10, improves compatibility with PulseAudio, fixes various bugs, adds support for brightness control from keyboard and integrates C
VE-2020-17507 to prevent buffer overflow in XBM parsers. I both want and do not want to run the Trinity Desktop Environment. It harkens back to simpler times, but Im not entirely sure thats what people actually want.
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: 2020-11-03
URL: https://www.osnews.com/story/132549/trinity-desktop-environment-r14-0-9-released/
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