On 2022-06-07 21:00:55 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Monday 06 June 2022 08:50:49 am Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:
"Trinity dates from a time when functionality ... [was] more of a priority"
One wonders if the author's mandate is to compare desktops' eye-candy and gee-whiz animations rather than their usability?
There is pressure to conform to the mainstream opinions and tastes, and some people would rather fit in than to think too much.
For me, with TDE, I can have whatever I want, limited only by hardware and my own skills or lack of them.
Also, in some places that retro look, the newfangled hipsters, are supposed to be cool. But users can make their TDE screens look almost like anything they want. Rather than having maybe a dozen bland prefabricated configurations to choose from, TDE's old school interface offers infinite possibilities for how we can make our desktops look; all it requires is a little exploration and tinkering.
Quite right; lots of options and a more straightforward configuration interface than most other desktops, which seem to be either overly complicated (Plasma) or overly simplified (Gnome); but even Gnome can be configured if one is persistent, though the controls are scattered in multiple programs.
Maybe that isn't to everybody's liking, though I don't get why. But then, for myself, I got used to being the minority opinion. Then again, we might consider it as a problem of branding: the kids have got to be taught that old school sometimes was really cool, and still is cool.
Bill
Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.11 tde-config: 1.0