KDE Project releases KDE 1

Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by etatoby on Friday October 14, 2016 @09:30AM (#12707907)

Same here. First Linux desktop I ever used was running KDE 1. I kept using KDE for years, up to 3.x, because it was just incredibly integrated, fast, and functional. I cannot shake the feeling that it was engineered, or at least directed by a single competent person with a vision. I don't know if that's true, but KDE 1 to 3 had that "single mind" feeling, as opposed to "designed by committee."

After that, I moved to OS X for various reasons, until recently when the latest OS X 10.11 and 10.12 drifted so far away from the original OS X concept as to turn me away.

As a newly returned Linux user, I tried Gnome Shell in Ubuntu, but recycled its bytes in a couple of days. Then I tried the latest KDE 5, which was even worse, an ungodly monstrosity. I briefly toyed with the idea of using a supposedly modern fork of KDE 3 (http://www.trinitydesktop.org) but then settled for Cinnamon on Mint.

Still, KDE 3 was definitely some sort of pinnacle in desktop computing. Maybe the Trinity guys are not entirely crazy!

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Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by heavenlyhash on Friday October 14, 2016 @02:14PM (#12710035)

I still use several components of KDE3 via the Trinity projects.

So, if they are crazy, they're a kind of crazy I dearly love :)

(The components do, for what it's worth to anyone out there considering using some of Trinity, play nicely with others. I stopped using KDE/Trinity as the actual desktop in favor of i3, but still use a ton of the KDE/Trinity applications.)

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Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by problems on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:41PM (#12709269)

I don't know what happened to KDE and Gnome. They used to dominate, now many people look at them as jokes.

I seriously prefer Unity over both of them in their current incarnations and that's something I never thought I would have said when Unity first came out.

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Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by ryukafalz on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:47PM (#12709312)

>They used to dominate, now many people look at them as jokes.

Many people also use them every day and love them. I'm one of them.

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Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by iamcreasy on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:38PM (#12710533)

Old Gnome and new Gnome are very different. The old Gnome is now Mate. Also Cinnamon from Linux Mint has captured a large portion of the user base. There is Unity that comes by default with Ubuntu and many people(like me) are too lazy to switch. And finally, there is up and coming Pantheon from elementary OS.

It's largely fragmented I guess...

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Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by Fej on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:03PM (#12708984)

How is KDE 5 a monstrosity?

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Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by soperj on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:22PM (#12709121)

he probably used the ubuntu version of kde.

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Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by Zitrax on Friday October 14, 2016 @05:07PM (#12711094)

And why is that a monstrosity ?

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Re:KDE Project releases KDE 1 by nickysielicki on Friday October 14, 2016 @06:08PM (#12711496)

Because the KDE project themselves have not described Plasma as a stable daily driver until just recently with the release of 5.8 LTS.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php

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