On Friday 24 January 2025 12:41:11 bonkmaykr via tde-users wrote: > I highly doubt the programmers who forked KDE at the time would have tied > the identity of their new software to an irrelevant religious preference. > It just seems silly. The word trinity comes from "tri" which comes from > "three" and it probably does not go a whole lot deeper than that. > > tde-meta does include a Bible studying app as you mentioned, but it is an > optional install and just one of several miscellaneous tools thrown in. > > The easiest explanation for Bibletime is that someone thought it was > useful, made it, it spread, and it became a part of tde-meta. Much like the > dozens of cloned games. > > -- bonkmaykr > Software Developer, Canithesis Interactive > > Sent from Proton Mail Android > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > On 1/24/25 5:13 AM, nabrious--- via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I understand that the name was picked due to the desktop being a fork of > > KDE 3, but even on the website -> > > https://www.trinitydesktop.org/about.php: "The name Trinity was chosen > > partly because the word means "three" and TDE was a continuation of KDE > > 3. TDE now is its own computer desktop environment project." > > > > It says that the name was picked only *partly* due to the word meaning > > three, so what was the other reason/part? Is it the Christian trinity? > > > > Also the reason I think that the desktop was named after the Christian > > trinity is the fact it has a first-party, pre-installed Bible study app > > called Bible Time "bibletime" > > > > Just really curious, hopefully someone has the full answer (preferably > > the founder himself lol). > > ____________________________________________________ > > tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Web mail archive available at > > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydes > >ktop.org Bibletime was not added to TDE; it existed/s in KDE3. Leslie -- Platform: Linux Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.5 - x86_64 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.1.3 tde-config: 1.0 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
