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25 years of KDE

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25 years of KDE

#1 Post by Hallvor »

KDE is now 25 years old, having been announced in October 1996. Matthias Ettrich announced the creation of Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), a graphical interface for Unix systems, built with Qt and C ++ and designed for the end user. The name “KDE” was a pun on the graphic environment CDE, which was proprietary at the time.

The original announcement by Matthias Ettrich was made in Usenet group de.comp.os.linux.misc. The idea was:
[...] NOT to create a GUI for the complete UNIX-system or the System-Administrator. For that purpose the UNIX-CLI with thousands of tools and scripting languages is much better. The idea is to create a GUI for an ENDUSER. Somebody who wants to browse the web with Linux, write some letters and play some nice games.
https://kde.org/announcements/announcement/

KDE 1.0 was finished in the autumn of 1998.

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An excellent article in German about the early history of KDE and GNOME:

https://www.derstandard.at/story/200013 ... generation
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Re: 25 years of KDE

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Quite advanced for 1996 and, IMHO, still ahead of the pack.

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KDE looked kinda like windows '95 in it's beginnings, this made me have a flashback, back when I started studying computer programming in '97 and all the PC's used Win95,
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Re: 25 years of KDE

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eor2004 wrote: 2021-10-16 16:46 KDE looked kinda like windows '95 in it's beginnings, this made me have a flashback, back when I started studying computer programming in '97 and all the PC's used Win95,
Once all the rubbish is removed from Windows 10 it kinda looks the same as Plasma 5 too. The original desktop paradigm invented by Xerox PARC and stolen by MS, Apple, KDE and many others still serves us very well today.

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Re: 25 years of KDE

#5 Post by canci »

KDE was one of my first contacts with Linux/UNIX back in 1999. I was amazed at how, next to looking very similar to Windows 95, it managed to offer a super complete software collection that would have cost a fortune on Windows.

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sunrat wrote: 2021-10-16 21:15 Once all the rubbish is removed from Windows 10 it kinda looks the same as Plasma 5 too.
Windows 11 looks even more like Plasma. Look at this:
https://i3.moyens.net/de/images/2021/07 ... 11-aus.jpg
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