TDE is a true community project. Free of hierarchy based classes wars,
everyone is equal.
The Trinity development team listens to and attempts to give its many end
users what they want/need. Without looking down at them and/or scoffing at
their ideas and suggestions. They also take every bug, error and compaint
report seriously.
This, sadly is becoming rare among FOSS these days. The only other projects I
know that take this "All for one and one for all" approach are Ark Linux,
Unity Linux (and it's various child distros) and Yoper Linux. I believe/hope
there are a few more.
This is something to be proud of, and this is likely to product an
unparalleled desktop environment.
For what its worth...
Kate Draven
Ark Linux/Yoper Linux/Unity Linux
KDE3x/TDE/E17/LXDE