Why not use Trinity Desktop ?

Midas · 2025-10-26 15:21

Kippykip wrote:

sudo apt install konq-plugins-trinity
I feel this should be the default

I totally agree.

q4osteam · 2025-10-26 16:41

Well, we will add konq-plugins-trinity to the full desktop Trinity installation.

Kippykip · 2025-10-26 16:46

q4osteam wrote:

Well, we will add konq-plugins-trinity to the full desktop Trinity installation.

Awesome stuff!

philc · 2025-10-30 17:17

I'm not a well-informed or power user, but lately I have added a Synology NAS to our home network and I would say that smb and all that purports to go on on in My_Network_Places is obscure, clunky and out-of-date.

Smb4K, as you indicated to me, has got smb working. This is not a Trinity issue in the least. but it is disappointing that Synology have not yet developed on-demand syncing for Linux for Synology Drive to aid remote working.

Spurred by all the thinking that has gone on for the NAS installation, I have discovered more and more facilities in Trinity and have just discovered flatpak. OneDrive/cloud syncing is an issue on the horizon, but I know is supported by two or three developers. I might discover a Chat GPT client too...

Trinity and Q4OS are awesome, thank you. I have a refurbished Thinkpad on order and plan first to try out Q4OS for Windows and Plasma. I can't forsee not having Trinity on my old Toshiba though.

travis82 · 2025-11-10 09:12

I am using Q4OS-Trinity 6 on my main workstation and I like it a lot. So perhaps I'm not the right person to post on this thread. In comparison with LXQT, Trinity is miles ahead regarding speed, functionality and features. Also I really appreciate Q4OS team effort on polishing Tinity desktop and Improve theme consistency and font rendering across gtk, qt5, qt6 and tde apps which bring way better experience in contrast with pure Trinity on Debian. Yes, Konqueror has limitations but I have a habit to use twin-pane file managers and krusader-trinity does the job very well. However there are some features that I like to see on future versions of Trinity:

1- Icon only task manager similar to Plasma, docklike-plugin on XFCE or mate-doc-applet on Mate.

2- Ablitity to tile widows using keyboard shortcuts. On Q4OS 6 it's possible to tile windows using right click on window button on taskbar, but there is no entry for setting up keyboard shortcuts on Trinity control center

3- Integrated Redshift to control center

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q4osteam · 2025-11-10 11:25

@travis82
+1, thanks. Regarding to Redshift we recommend to install and configure "redshift-gtk", it works with Trinity just fine. In anyway a native Trinity app would be a salvation.

theasmitkid · 2025-11-11 11:10

travis82 wrote:

2- Ablitity to tile widows using keyboard shortcuts. On Q4OS 6 it's possible to tile windows using right click on window button on taskbar, but there is no entry for setting up keyboard shortcuts on Trinity control center

Check out Xakar

You will also need to do:

Step 2: Set fallback shortcut via Control Panel

Open Control Panel
Go to Regional & Accessibility
Click on Keyboard Shortcuts
Save your current scheme as DEFAULT (for backup)
Find Popup Launch Menu
Click the button next to Custom
In Primary Shortcut, click Clear, then enter a new key combination
(e.g. Win+Ctrl+Z)
Click Apply, then OK

Last edited by theasmitkid (2025-11-11 11:15)

mdre808 · 2025-11-16 03:58

It is not as much as convenient as lxqt, plus pcmanfc seems faster.

kowal000 · 2025-11-18 13:27

Fix this one pixel of the window border in the top right corner on the Darknoir and Debonaire themes because it remains white and the border is gray

mdre808 · 2025-11-27 04:39

My PC is a ten-years-ago one( 11 year nearly), but it works well with lxqt DE. I guess lxqt DE might be more popular than TDE. One the other hand, KDE might be a little bit crumsy, so lxqt DE might be just OK.

q4osteam · 2025-11-27 08:09

@mdre808
Why would you prefer Lxqt over Tde ?

mdre808 · 2025-11-30 04:53

's cause it feels like an old unfriendly one to me. With a old-fashioned Windows coat, I found it not so convenient.
moreover, pcmanfm of lxqt works better than TDE's defaults, for example, in need of a root in instant, pcmanfm will do.

q4osteam · 2025-11-30 12:57

@mdre808 Thanks for the input. However more specific means better.

mdre808 wrote:

... it feels like an old unfriendly one to me. With a old-fashioned Windows coat, I found it not so convenient.

Is it possible to be more specific ? Is it about a visual theme ? If you could state anything specific we could understand what exactly to improve or fix.

mdre808 wrote:

... pcmanfm of lxqt works better than TDE's defaults, for example, in need of a root in instant, pcmanfm will do.

You can get an instant root access in Konqueror as well. What exactly, step by step, does pcmanfm do better then TDE's defaults ? What could we improve ?

mdre808 · 2025-12-01 06:41

I have posted, but it could not be seen. OK , that's it.

lngr152 · Yesterday 17:45

I've been using Q4OS Trinity for a couple of weeks and these are the problems I've encountered:
1. Scaling. I have a standard 1920x1080 screen. Switched from Antix, where the normal 1x scaling looked normal, but here the UI is too small with it, so I increased it to 1.25x. But that made other programs too big, for example Firefox. Needed to set the environmental variable GDK_DPI_SCALE to 0.9 to make it look similar to the 1x scale.
2. The default browser being Chromium is certainly a weird choice for a Linux distro. Naturally, I installed Firefox, but making it the default browser wasn't straightforward. The control panel setting located at "Components/Default programs" didn't do anything. The set_default_browser.sh script worked for Discord, but not Telegram. Had to additionally use xdg-settings.
3. For some reason, the Telegram app doesn't have the minimize and maximize buttons. Couldn't find someone else having such a problem on the internet. Not a big deal, and you can also change the title bar to the system's one in settings, but still.
4. Similarly to the default browser problem, the file associations are a mess too. The control panel setting only works for Konqueror. There's a need to set file associations for each filetype manually in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache, so that files can be opened in programs like Firefox.
5. A few Konqueror problems. Firstly, its size isn't remembered at launch. It was always opening as a too small window, so there was a need to set a window rule for it. Secondly, the "Open terminal here" option in the context menu doesn't work if the folder you're in has non-ASCII characters (Cyrillic in my case). Seems like it's the "terminalhere" command being faulty, so I replaced it with "konsole" somewhere in a config file, fixing the problem.
6. Not a big problem, but it's weird there are both .config and .configtde folders. Was confused at one point why there wasn't much in my .config folder, realizing later that what I was looking for was in the .configtde folder.
7. The screensaver can activate when watching videos. Annoying.
8. I remember the start menu folder hierarchy being weird after the OS install. Too many nested folders, the existence of many not making sense, as well as the placement of many programs in them. I recall I didn't have to do any adjustments to the Antix's menu.
9. Can't find a button to do a rescan for new Wi-Fi networks in the network manager.
10. My taskbar has uncombined buttons with labels (like in Windows XP), and there's one feature that I can't find a way to disable, which is, when a program is minimized, its icon and title on the taskbar get transparency. The reason I don't like it is because with my color scheme it makes labels harder to read. Seems like someone else reported this issue too (forum topic id 3745).
11. Emojis are shown as squares in the window title (and in the taskbar button label too), despite an emoji font being installed.
12. Seems like the start button can only be of a fixed square size? Assigned a rectangle png to the button and it got shrunken to form a square. Seems like the XP theme manages to do it somehow though. Also, can't find a way to remove the black triangle on hover and when it's activated. Lastly, the option to show text on the menu button is limited. Firstly, for some reason its vertical alignment is top instead of center, secondly, can't find a way to change color, formatting or add shade. By the way, I'm interested if it's possible to change the button's activation behavior, right now it gets smaller, but can you, for example, make it change to a different icon?
13. No option for the clock applet to add shade to date and time. There is such an option for the language indicator.

theasmitkid · Yesterday 19:07

I agree with @lngr152 since Trinity doesn't have very many app implementations (tqt), there's often a need for manual configuration.. and a lot of it

I'd prefer XFCE if you don't wanna spend a lot of time just setting configurations here and there

q4osteam · Yesterday 21:30

Welcome to the forum @lngr152 Yes, these are a few quite specific observations, so we can investigate and discuss them. Would you please create a new topic in the General section https://www.q4os.org/forum/viewforum.php?id=6 , we will try to take points one by one and discuss them as time permits.

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