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Re:KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager c... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday May 19, 2025 @12:37AM (#44026536)
In fact, it was so unpopular that it inspired a fork of KDE 3: https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

(IMHO, later versions of KDE got good, but even today I understand the appeal of just sticking to the same thing)

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Re:KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager c... by darkwater on Monday May 19, 2025 @11:56AM (#44031187)
And it still exists, by looking at the NEWS section! That's a long grudge to hold :)
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Re:KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager c... by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday May 19, 2025 @01:22PM (#44032212)
I don't know that it's a grudge per se; people liked KDE 3, so they forked it and stayed on the working thing that they liked. Don't fix what isn't broken.
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Re:KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager c... by wkat4242 on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:32PM (#44033135)
Yeah it's kinda the same thing that happened to gnome 2 though it wasn't really a fork but rather a respawn in the form of cinnamon.
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Re:KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager c... by LambdaComplex on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:55PM (#44033425)
I think you're thinking of MATE. Cinnamon is a fork of GNOME 3.
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Re:KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager c... by darkwater on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @08:35AM (#44040863)
I was going to reply that current MATE is more "modern" that late Gnome 2 compared to "Trinity vs KDE3", but then I went to compare screenshots and I wasn't right. But in both cases I'm amused that people can get so attached to a UI paradigm that they rather fork it and spend time and effort keeping it alive. It doesn't really click with me, but I admire the effort.
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