I am fine with both versions. I think the second one misses the point that TDE is a DE which puts productivity before fancy- useless-bothering visual effects, which I think is the main reason why people use TDE. Perhaps the following version is a little better:
I understand your feelings. :)
A goal of a press release is to offer a positive spin and focus on the announced product rather than what other products lack. We want to refrain from KDE bashing. If you browse the dev mail list archives from a while ago, you'll discover that a couple of KDE devs invited themselves into our mail list and started a nasty spitting contest. Got rather heated. Nobody won and one of the KDE devs took to his blog to continue bashing Trinity. He stopped that public campaign when a lot of people posted comments to his blog entry to leave us the hell alone, that the free/libre software philosophy allows and embraces forking. He was reminded that we were not harming anybody. After those public rebuttals he stayed away, but I have not forgotten him or his tirades.
I'm not afraid of bashing KDE4, especially the piece of shit known as akonadi, or the obvious relentless fan-boyism that permeates the entire KDE culture. Yet I'd rather we follow the advice of Voltaire's Candide and just "tend our own garden."
"Recently I discovered Trinity. I immediately felt at home with this traditional computer desktop environment, which focuses on productivity rather than the latest development in visual effects. In these days of tablets and smart phones, traditional desktop environments still play important roles. The TDE development team is friendly and anyone such as myself may contribute to preserve and enhance this fantastic desktop environment." --- Michele Calgaro, Italy
Feel free to massage it again if you find it appropriate.
Looks fine and thank you. Subject to final review by other team members of course. :)
Darrell