19 Years Of KDE History: Step By Step

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Link: 19 Years of KDE History: Step by Step | The Linux Homefront Project

 

KDE – one of most functional desktop environment ever. It’s open source and free for use. 19 years ago, 14 October 1991 german programmer Matthias Ettrich has started a development of this beautiful environment. KDE provides the shell and many applications for everyday using. Today KDE uses the hundred thousand peoples over the world on Unix and Windows operating system. 19 years – serious age for software projects. Time to return and see how it begin (sic)...

[synaesthesia]

Nice - best played muted though. I often hear better music coming from our Year 7 students randomly mashing the keyboards.

[Oaktech]

I remember my sister coming home with a copy of Suse on CD with KDE2.2 in it. I set it up for her and then vowed I would never touch Linux again. Until the Raspberry Pi came along I kept that promise. Uggh.

[unixman_again]

I used KDE from 2 to 3.5 and it was (IMO) a superb environment. From 4 the bloat set in and things like the turd (officially the cashew) appeared, something that served no purpose except to annoy users. Everything that could be set with the turd, could be set in other ways. When KDE4 came, I switched to IceWM, as IceWM and KDE play nicely together, and there were KDE apps I liked and used, such as K3B, Klipper, KColorChoser, KCalc, Kedit and most importantly KMail. KMail is, IMO, the best mail client around - well it was until it became bloated by forced integration with nepomuk and akonadi.

 

When it become impossible to run KMail without the aforementioned intergration (which is of no use to me), I finally ditched the last of the KDE apps. You can recompile KDE without the bloat, but it is a long and complicated process. In fact, it is far easier to compile the Linux Kernel than it is to compile KDE.

 

I miss KDE and if I could get KDE3 to run on the latest Linux, I would use that, but compilation is, as I said, painful. The KDE environment is still streets ahead of the Windows desktop. I use WIndows at work and I am constantly annoyed by (in no particular order):

• the lack of mutilple desktops
  
• the single string clipboard (with KDE I used to run a 10 string clipboard and I could have had more)
  
• auto-open (highlight for example a url and the browser opens)
  
• auto copy/paste (highlight text, move mouse, click and it's copied - no messy ctrl-c/ctrl-v)
  
• no additional software required to keep a window on top
  
• KDE didn't keep re-arranging my desktop and menus
  
• the unreliable search in Windows
  
• the inability to screen print regions (OK we finally have this now but how long did it take before it became available without additional apps?)
  

 

I'm running XFCE on my desktop without any KDE apps but I think some will be coming back (I do miss Klipper).

[jinnantonnixx]

Any good?

 

https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

[jinnantonnixx]

I quite liked KDE around the 3.5 era, but the move to 4 left me flummoxed.

Gnome 3 is a step backwards in usability, IMO, and I have really tried to like it but just can't get on with it.

My current desktop is Unity, which once you get used to it is innocuous and fairly slick. You simply don't notice it's there once you get into its flow.

 

I'm not interested in Gnome 3 or KDE 4 anymore.

My money on the 'winner' would be for Cinnamon, this is a really nice desktop.

[jinnantonnixx]

This is an interesting disto - It uses Debian as its underlying OS, and uses Trinity as a KDE 3.5 desktop. It also has a configurator to install codecs and third-party gizmos which need a bit of extra work in Debian.

 

Worth a look.

 

Q4OS - desktop operating system

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Link: Timeline KDE 20 years: Celebrating 20 years of KDE

 

A tour through the moments that marked the 20 years of community history, starting with the technologies that made possible its existence.