I did this in a virtual machine as I am having a suggestion that the Manjaro Community should work on the Trinity Desktop Environment version, a fork of KDE 3.5, of this distro. Although this may not be perfect, it is something to encourage the team to develop as I want to have a nostalgic feeling of KDE 3.5 while keeping this distribution stable with rolling releases. Should we develop this version as a community edition along with the Cinnamon Desktop Environment?
Are you volunteering? 
Personally, I wouldn’t be opposed to a Trinity community edition, but a community edition usually means that it’s put together by one of the Manjaro Team members in their own spare time, and that’s where the problem lays. We’ve already had to drop several community editions — Budgie, MATE, OpenBox, Deepin DE, bspwm and awesome — because nobody on the team still had the time to maintain them.
However, there are also Manjaro Spins, which are put together and maintained by individual members of the community who are not part of the Manjaro Team. So I’d say, feel free to develop your first Trinity spin, and then you will learn for yourself whether it is doable to keep it maintained, and to regularly offer installable snapshots of it. 
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You’ve got the vision, you’ve got the mission.
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To respond to the topic title
Should we?
I think you should build a Trinity Edition.
You can easily create your own spinoff - using manjaro-tools - just look at the Spins category.
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I wonder if there is a theme to create that “nostalgic feeling of KDE 3.5”
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There might well be some kind of medical treatment for extreme cases of nostalgia, like that. 
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As much as I loved KDE 3.5, I don’t really want to go back there. Trinity was really a reaction to the Shambles that was KDE 4.0.
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Indeed, it was, just as MATE and Cinnamon were really only reactions to the direction GNOME 3 was taking.
That said, Trinity DE is still being maintained, though, and I even believe that it might be compatible with some of the qt5 stuff.
For anyone interested.
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/newsentry.php?entry=2024.04.28
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@DistroSurfer93
What is your experience with Trinity Desktop?
Is it stable enough to use on a daily basis?
Years ago I was a very happy user of KDE 3.5. For me it was the best Desktop Environment ever created. Solid as a rock, with incredible customization possibilities.
Plasma 4 was a disaster for me, I tried TDE many years ago but it was not stable, so I learned to live with Openbox and eventually I loved it
I am thinking about building an iso with TDE, but I don’t know if it is worth investing time, which is always too short.
How is TDE now? I would like to hear your opinion.
(Soundserver crash in your screenshot doesn’t look very encouraging)
I believe your Mabox distribution beats KDE 3.5 in customization 
You worked wonders with Mabox 
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I’ve heard this a number of times, but didn’t have any real issues myself; although to be fair I missed out on its early life. Still, at least towards the end of its lifecycle I had my machine set up exactly how I wanted it, and was really enjoying the experience … but by then Plasma5 was looming on the horizon … 
I don’t know. I’ve been using Xfce since KDE 4 came out and didn’t like it.
I suppose you don’t.
I used XFCE for a long while, until I didn’t.
That’s not intending anything against XFCE, only that I found KDE to be superior in many ways, and have been using that as my default goto since having hardware that would support it well.
With every major, it just gets better.
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I did a quick test - building an ISO would require some tweaking as Calamares installer is incompatible with TDE - perhaps calamares5 is better.
In any case it needs some experimenting…
When 4 came out it was labeled as 4.0.1 (or something like that) and people thought it was a good version when in fact it was beta. I waited it out for a few releases and it worked well.
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In my experience most software remains in perpetual beta, despite whatever Marketing might have to say to the contrary.
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