That post made me go full nostalgia - I started on Linux with KDE 3.5, and Trinity preserves its "feel" rather well.
MATE has the same effect on me.
It probably would for me too, if it didn't become my default DE.
...it's weird to think about it. When that trainwreck of the initial KDE 4 release kicked off, I switched to GNOME 2, so I didn't give Trinity a chance; but when the trainwreck of GNOME 3.0 kicked off, I simply couldn't be arsed - instead I kept using it as MATE.
Truly is the Kool Desktop Environment.
I was so glad when we slipped out of the bulbous silver aesthetic.
Everything looking like a Tonka toy Geiger.
And now I look at it and it seems like home.
Much better than modern minimalist look.
Currently I sport Oxygen theme with GNOME icons which is good enough, but it's not quite there.
Oh, hello late 1990s and early 2000s ๐ I love it! Nostalgia deluxe ๐
That music player skin... Anyone remember Sonique? (that was Windows only though)
Oh man! Sonique was my player of choice! Those free form skins were so fun
As someone who's never used a desktop like that before, that looks both cool and horrible af lol
Trinity is criminally underrated. Compared to modern lightweight desktop environments (XFCE, MATE, LXQt, etc.), it's far more feature-complete and in spite of that it manages to run lighter than any of them.
TIL about Trinity. Honestly looks pretty cool and cosy, although maybe that's just the nostalgia talking. It's always nice to see projects to maintain more retro visuals while running modern software on modern hardware.
Do you know how you could install this theme on today's KDE Plasma? Or is there any distro that uses this desktop format?
Windows 94 / XP mix?
Windows 93 1/4
Submit screenshots of all your *NIX desktops, themes, and nifty configurations, or submit anything else that will make themers happy. Maybe a server running on an Amiga, or a Thinkpad signed by Bjarne Stroustrup? Show the world how pretty your computer can be!
