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EnlightenmentBased on our record, Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) should be more popular than Enlightenment. It has been mentiond 11 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
As for modern and sleek - isn't the default flat theme that's there now just that. It's what everyone wants? Flat? Sleek? Minimal shadows where needed for some borders/depth. Is the problem that it's dark? You can just select one of the light color palettes in the palette selector if that's what you want. Look at enlightenment.org and all the screenshots there now or just try the latest. Source: over 2 years ago
Don't give up too fast - it may be the thing you want exists and it just isn't where you expect it or there's a feature you just don't know is there. It may be it does something differently and it's odd at the start but then you get used to it and then suddenly you can't go back. This happened to people early in the E-0.17 rewrite where E would separate each screen and virtual desktops are switched separately per... Source: over 2 years ago
Hmmm... Not really. e uses about half the memory. I just updated the the about-enlightenment page on enlightenment.org with some numbers I took from an actual installed vm comparing e, xfce, gnome, kde, lxd, and lxqt. e is about 1/4 the mem of kde and even less than lxqt. You might find e is actually more customizable than kde if you dig into themes and how they work. They are sheer mountains of power if you want... Source: over 2 years ago
You could try Enlightenment, an old, forgotten gem. I use a distro designed for it (Elive Linux) but that's optional especially since the betas which are the only supported versions not using Debian Wheezy are using an "outdated-looking" (personally I like it) E16 desktop. Source: about 3 years ago
KDE3.5 was forked at the time and still exists as Trinity Desktop https://trinitydesktop.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Trinity Desktop Environment This is a maintained fork of KDE 3. Source: 11 months ago
Anything with Trinity DE (fork of KDE 3.5): Q4OS, EXE GNU/Linux, PCLinuxOS have it as a default desktop. Source: about 1 year ago
KDE 3.15 was forked to Trinity Desktop and is still actively developed - it's also a default desktop for Q4OS Trinity, EXE GNU/Linux and PCLinuxOS: https://trinitydesktop.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
Trinity (forked from 3.5) is still around: https://trinitydesktop.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Xfce - Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems. It aims to be fast and low on system resources, while still being visually appealing and user friendly.
i3 - A dynamic tiling window manager designed for X11, inspired by wmii, and written in C.
Q4OS - Fast and powerful operating system based on the latest technologies while offering highly productive desktop environment. We focus on security, reliability, long-term stability and conservative integration of verified new features.
LXDE - Why will you like it? Less resource needs. You can use it on your less-pricey embedded board or salvaged computer. Component-based design. Don't want something in LXDE, or you don't want to use LXDE but only part of it?
LXQt - The LXQt team is proud to announce the release of qtermwidget and qterminal, both in version 0. 8. 0. Read more..
KDE Plasma Desktop - Plasma Workspaces is the umbrella term for all graphical environments provided by KDE.