> I'm hoping to retire Ark for BigDaddy or 
> Slackware if and when TDE makes it there. I hope to
> gain enough skill to do it meself.
> 
I doubt that TDE will ever make an official entry in Slackware
nonetheless some people have made build scripts or even packages.
Here are some:

- http://www.giustetti.net/wiki/index.php?title=TDE_introduction
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/tde-slackware
- https://github.com/Ray-V/tde-slackbuilds
- http://www.inpito.org/trinity.php

I do have my own scripts but everything is installed
in /usr/{bin,lib64} and I don't know if they conflict with KDE (which
is not installed...)

cheers.
@+