> All,
>
> It's that time of year again! As we look toward the release of Debian
> Stretch and another version of TDE, I'd like to ask for your continued
> support to help keep TDE online.
I installed Trinity as an experiment 2 weeks ago, when I came across your
website while looking for an old application, and it's so nice, I'm doing all
my work in Trinity now.
I loved KDE 3.5, and I was sad when I had to leave it six years ago, to
upgrade to Debian 6 and KDE 4. After upgrading from Debian 6 to Debian 8 a
few weeks ago, two old favourites, Kasablanca and KHexEdit, were no longer
available, and I could not even find the source code for KHexEdit, until I
remembered reading about Trinity some years ago, and found your website. I
think it's wonderful that you're maintaining the KDE 3.5 look and feel,
functionality, and applications.
I have donated 30 dollars to Trinity via your donations page. I'm sorry it
can't be more at the moment, money is a bit tight.
Konqueror has improved since KDE 3.5, but I can run Konqueror-KDE4 in Trinity
from a menu item with the command /usr/bin/konqueror, and thus get the best of
both worlds.
Some other KDE applications have sadly deteriorated in the later versions of
KDE4. In particular, KolourPaint in Debian 8 has been damaged by a very bad
revision, so I am using KolourPaint-Trinity now. It is far better.
When I installed Debian 8, I was offered a list of 7 desktop environments to
install. I would certainly have tried Trinity at that time, if it had been on
the list.
If Konqueror-Trinity and Konsole-Trinity need to be given new names in order
to get Trinity into the Debian distribution, (to avoid a clash of names with
KDE), perhaps I could suggest Clarity for Konqueror-Trinity and Simplicity for
Konsole-Trinity, since these names rhyme with Trinity, and suggest some of the
defining characteristics of TDE.
Yours sincerely,
Chris Austin