[3] TDE is now a fully independent project with its own development team, available for various Linux distros, BSD and DilOS.

TDE releases aims to provide a stable and highly customizable desktop, continuing bug fixes, additional features, and compatibility with recent hardware.

[7] Trinity also maintains its own versions of several KDE software applications using TQt3,[8] while still providing feature updates and ensuring compatibility with recent distributions and hardware.

[9][10] Early releases of Trinity used a versioning scheme based on that of K Desktop Environment 3.5, from which it was forked.

[11] This new visual theme was based on the "KDE Lineart" background included in the wallpapers package for KDE 3.4 and covered the desktop background and was named "Trinity Lineart" along with the splash screen, "application info screens" (for some apps like Konqueror and Trinity Control Center), and banners (for some other apps like KPersonalizer and Kate).