After working with the Trinity Desktop Environment Project, TDE will become a first class citizen in Cooker as soon as our most recent UM for ROME is finalized. Obviously, since Cooker is where our testing gets done, there will be things that do not work properly. The best place to report problems will be our usual Issues page:
As Issues are reported, they will be sent upstream and a link to that will be added to our Issue.
There are some apps that are currently not building, or not working:
- Anything mplayer based such as
trinity-kplayer trinity-amarokdue to known issuetrinity-pytdeextensionsand dependentstrinity-libtdeldapand dependents due to heimdal dependencytrinity-wlassistantdue to libiw dependencytrinity-k3bdue to udev rules for RW drivestrinity-konquerorcrashes when trying to browse a website, most likely compatibilitylibcarddavissue reportedtrinity-tdesudoandtrinity-polkit-agent-tdedo not work as expected which makes Administrator Mode (and possibly other root applications) non-functional for those that don’t have a root password set
Other behavior that was noticed is the graphical tearing that occurs when the default settings are used. To fix, you should enable the Trinity windows composition manager under Trinity Control Center → Desktop → Window Behavior in the Translucency tab. When enabled, there is a tab called Shadows. It is recommended to turn them all off and to tick the two Remove options at the bottom. Finally, you should go to the Effects tab and un-check Fade-in Menus as it conflicts with the Styles functionality in Themes and will cause the menu to render, close, and render again.
Screensavers and locking works, but it does not respect in use full screen video and will turn on regardless of what you are watching.
If you want the default KDE single click behavior, you will have to turn it on. That setting is found under Trinity Control Center → Peripherals → Mouse
Starting TDE was tested with both SDDM and TDM. The TDM service is disabled by default. You would have to sudo systemctl stop and sudo systemctl disable your current DM, and sudo systemctl enable tdm and sudo systemctl start tdm if you wish to use it. There is currently unintended behavior on a multiple monitor setup that makes the greeter background stretched instead of scaled. You can simply reverse these instructions to revert the changes. No reboot should be necessary.
One final thing to consider. TDE does not currently support Wayland, even if you can get it running in Xwayland
Some other things have not been tested either due to lack of time or lack of interest. For most common and daily tasks, TDE works properly and it has minimal crashes. Another web browser will be required due to the issue with browsing the web using Konqueror.
We ask that if you participate in upstream issues that you keep things professional and on-topic. The TDE project has shown interest in helping us get the DE working in OM and even started providing support for us before this process took place. Please show them your gratitude and set a good example.
Happy Testing!