Talk:K Desktop Environment 3

Notability
The group which published the "K Desktop Environment 3" was not very precise with the labeling, which makes "KDE 3" the more used term for this desktop environment. When searching for "KDE 3" or "KDE 3.0" there are more hits shows that it was the major desktop environment beside GNOME 2. I have added one link to a printed article from 2022 which looks at this in retroperspectice. My understanding from the proposal for deletion is that it can be removed if it is disputed and I have done those two improvements.

There are more third party sources of course, the book search also turns out some hits. E.G. https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=Hk74DjrdMlgC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=%22K+Desktop+Environment+3%22&ots=DSMdnuSUOB&sig=KLtIZpgIKWh3qUDAvOcNOyvTi_o&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22K%20Desktop%20Environment%203%22&f=false


 * https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2004/02/kde-3-2/
 * https://www.amazon.co.uk/K-Desktop-Environment-Russell-Jesse/dp/5508120696
 * https://www.ubuntudocs.com/kubuntu/
 * https://news.tuxmachines.org/node/308
 * https://www.heise.de/news/Unix-Linux-Desktop-KDE-3-2-ist-fertig-92843.html

More third party sources should be linked to the article, but I hope I could show why this milestone of Free Software desktop environments is notable to keep the page. --Ber (talk) 16:51, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

Trinity
There is a project continuing to support the KDE 3.5 codebase, picking development up where 3.5.10 has left - Trinity Project --Mewtu (talk) 18:42, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

The TDE project is no longer hosted at the above link. They moved to a new domain in the second half of 2011. The above link will redirect to the new site, but for those too impatient to wait < 1 second for the redirect (and for in case they decide to remove the redirect), here is a new link to the Trinity Desktop Environment. ~Piki (talk) 15:35, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Trinity has been around since mid-2010. Would it make sense to put it into a separate page now? 203.24.101.2 (talk) 23:42, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Personally I don't think that a project with next to no community is relevant enough to justify a separate page but I would also not object if you want to move it out. Just remember to follow the rules how to split articles. --KAMiKAZOW (talk) 03:00, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The only reason why I thought it might be a good idea is because the Trinity part looks a little out of place in this page. I might do some more searching to see how relevant (and used) Trinity is before doing anything. 203.24.101.3 (talk) 03:03, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Down?
Why is Trinity down now?

I can't reach "http://trinitydesktop.org/" anymore. Yesterday in the evening, it still worked. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.231.222.1 (talk) 07:53, 19 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Works here. --KAMiKAZOW (talk) 01:11, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Useful article
Very insightful: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2004/02/kde-3-2/4/ – K4rolB (talk) 10:27, 12 September 2021 (UTC)