2 Jul
2024
2 Jul
'24
9:19 p.m.
On Tuesday 02 July 2024 03:17:16 PM (-05:00), deloptes via tde-users wrote:
Most of us used KDE3. I have used KDE2 first, tried Gnome2 around 2001
and
went back to KDE2 right before it released KDE3, which
was a big
improvement to KDE2. Since then (2002) I've been using KDE3. I had some
issues with internationalization, which I fixed after I finished my
thesis
at the university.
After KDE4 release (Jan.2008) many of us were so disappointed that
Timothy
Pearson decided to start the TDE project together with
just a handful of
other developers and maintainers. The rest of us just followed, because
there was no way out of the desktop disaster that was imposed to the
users
back then (Suddenly KDE4 was not usable and Gnome was
ugly and fragile,
while KDE3 was left behind). I think one of the reasons was also the
attitude of the new KDE4 developers.
Especially in the past few years we observe a growing number of people
willing and ready to contribute. I think there were about 5-6
contributors
around 2011 and now there are 20-30. It is still not
enough to make a
big
progress, but my impression is that things are moving
forward much
faster.
Especially Slavek and Michele deserve a lot of respect
for what they
have
been doing all those years.
Me:
Tried Kubuntu 8.04 with KDE 3, ( Several Times ) and could NEVER for the
life of me figure out how to mount my CD ROM
Then I installed Ubuntu 10.10 with Gnome 2, and LOOOOOOOOOVED IT! I hated
that, at that time it was killed off for
Gnome 3. But, then the MATE project came along later. LOOOVE it too!
I'd give up and go back to Windows 7 for awhile then repeat just to see
whats changed since I last used KDE / Gnome.
CM
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