Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.4 desktop environment has been released for nostalgic KDE 3.5 users with various new features and enhancements.

Highlights of Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.4 include support for Unicode surrogate characters and planes above zero, such as emojis, support for Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) and the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 distributions, tab support in KPDF document viewer, and support for clickable links in calendar events.

This release also adds 22 new modern vector wallpapers, 15 new color themes, a new control module to manage alternatives for DEB/RPM-based distributions, a new Dekoration theme, support for transparency, top, shadow borders, and inactive windows in Dekorator, as well as the ability to create VPN connections in tdenetworkmanager.

Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.4 also improves the context menu structure for tderandrtray, fixes the handling of gamma settings, improves the integration of kxkb with setxkbmap, adds new options and various fixes for the tray feedback, and brings several improvements to the Codeine media player.

On top of that, this release lets users set scheme and CPU policy using DCO, adds support for ISO8601 reduced precision format (i.e. hour-only) in KRFCDate, adds an dockOnStart option to control window status on startup, and adds a new option to KTeaTime to let users reset the timer when clicking on the notification message.

Last but not least, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.4 adds a new Info dialog to universalIndentGUI-tqt, improves support for JasPer 3/4, adds support for GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15 and Poppler 25.01 or later, and fixes multiple bugs for a better and more stable experience.

Check out the full release notes for more details about the changes included in TDE R14.1.4, which you can download for Linux distros, as well as BSD and DilOS systems from the official website. Trinity Desktop Environment is optimized to work on low-end systems while providing a fully usable desktop.

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