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The original iPhone was released in 2007. Desktop environments have been desperately trying to look like a phone interface ever since. And yet, nearly 10 year

• sangnoir 10y ago
  > Desktop environments have been desperately trying to look like a phone interface ever since. Not the first time I've read this on HN, so I will quote my last answer to that[0] "I doubt the plausibility of that timeline - the original iPhone was announced in January 2007, KDE 4.0Alpha1 was released in May 2007[1]." The iPhone only got released in June of 2007, so KDE4 preceded the iPhone, unless you are suggesting the KDE devs were inspired by the iPhone announcement. 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12555866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12555866 1. https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-alpha1.php https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-4.0-alpha1.php
  • Grishnakh 10y ago
    KDE is the one large DE which didn't try to look like a phone interface. The OP erred slightly by implying that all DEs have been trying to look like phones. If anything, KDE4 tried to look a lot like Vista/Aero and Win7 (which IMO isn't a bad thing for Vista; that OS didn't work too great, but it was IMO the best-looking Windows UI ever). Gnome3 came out quite some time after the iPhone, and was definitely part of the trend to tabletize all UIs. Also, it wasn't just KDE that eschewed this new trend; most of the smaller Linux ones did too, plus the Gnome2 derivatives MATE & Cinnamon which have only been trying to look like Gnome2.