All, Given what has been happening lately with respect to KDE4, and the media incorrectly attempting to portray us as directly competing with KDE4, and there only on reliability and direct feature-set parity, I have a challenge for you: Write a few sentences stating what you like about TDE most. Leave KDE4 and other desktop environments completely out of the picture (no direct comparisons), and focus on the strengths of this particular desktop environment. Mentioning the general theme of your work (i.e.

software development, sales, etc.) isn't a bad idea either; this would help us gather some demographics on who uses TDE vs who uses other desktops.

I am also interested in the other side of the coin: What do you hate

TDE the most? If other people agree the results could become the basis

some new enhancement requests, helping to make TDE better overall.

I wish that Trinity would include integration for google calender and other google products.

On Wednesday 16 November 2011, Timothy Pearson wrote: - I've been using KDE3 as my desktop of choice for many years and with Trinity I can continue using it in a familiar way. It has many configuration options that are easily accessible, so I can custonize it just the way I like it. The general feel when working in Trinity is efficient and snappy. Trinity doesn't come with much of what I percieve as visual clutter like animations or other graphical effects, and those there are I can disable easily. For me Trinity comes with the right balance of eye candy and efficiency. - I'm basically living in my file manager. It's the most important application for me on any desktop, and I just love Konqueror's file manager part. It's a powerhorse that lets me have any number of views, has detailed list view as view type available which I can set as default, has right click servicemenus that I can customize and even write new ones, and I can drag and drop files to any application. I can put directories I often need access to as icons into the bookmark toolbar. I can also use Konqueror as an ftp client to work with remote file systems in a familiar way. - I'm a web developer and have to be able to switch comfortably between applications like text editor, web browser and file manager. Trinity lets me do that without any fuss. I also love to use Kate as my editor for HTML authoring, PHP and Python programming, and love its features like customizable syntax highlighting for many languages, block selection mode, intelligent auto-indentation and view splitting. It is also pretty quick when scrolling large texts. - I can customize my panel, move it to any edge of the desktop, give it a specific height in pixels, can have applications I often use in its launcher bar, can set the max width of entries in the task bar (only in a config file though), and can order all panel sections the way I want. - The default menu is ordered sensibly. Where I disagree, I can edit it with a simple right click. I can add my own applications or start scripts easily. - I can customize hotkeys in applications to the way I'm used to, and I can also set up hotkeys to start applications with a single keystroke. I better stop here before it turns into a book :). Those points are the most important ones for me, though. about I don't really hate anything. I'd prefer to not have my file manager mangled with a web browser, which admittedly I don't use anyway (I'm using Firefox), but it's not really too important for me. As long as Konqueror file manager keeps its awesome features, I'm happy. :) Thanks, Sanne

I don't really hate anything. I'd prefer to not have my file manager mangled with a web browser, which admittedly I don't use anyway (I'm using Firefox), but it's not really too important for me. As long as Konqueror file manager keeps its awesome features, I'm happy. :) Thanks, Sanne

file manager Dolphin is way too simplistic and doesn't integrate with kio slaves.

Nothing saying you have to use Konqueror as a browser, I'm outta here if Dolphin ever replaces the mighty Konqueror as a file manager! :) One of the features I enjoy about Trinity is the Konqueror file manager. I have tried others and there is no comparison. Part of the reason I always remained with KDE3/Trinity is Konqueror.

there's the obvious alternative of Firefox, and also Arora, and Dolphin for file manager :-)

I agree with everything here, especially about konq, I also live in konq. I do, however, like having konq as a web browser. I feel the html engine should be fixed. Trust me there are some advantages konq has over FF as a web browser.