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Scrolling their home page, it looks like they are trying to reinvent the entire consumer desktop. I started writing a list of all apps listed here, but then I g
by Aerbil313 3y ago
Scrolling their home page, it looks like they are trying to reinvent the entire consumer desktop. I started writing a list of all apps listed here, but then I gave up because I realized they created every single type of desktop app except a browser (actually they used to do that too, both Blink and Webkit are a fork of KHTML engine from Konqueror browser). Yet I very rarely see them as a community mentioned, which is odd, considering the amount of FOSS software they produce.
How are they so productive?
- stop50 3y agoMy theory: - they didn't invent the framework for graphics new. - reuse of existing components - many people working on it, even some which aren't involved in kde itself. this is viewable in the group of mascots: writers, translators, users, artists, ...
- hereismypass 3y ago[dead]
- armchairhacker 3y agoPopularity combined with the fact that most apps are fairly simple and can be developed more or less independently. They have a platform where productivity scales linearly with the number of developers, and a lot of developers.
- jlpcsl 3y agoI would say there are several factors. Qt itself is a very powerful and feature-full framework already offering a lot as a base. So by reusing it and building on this base KDE developers can focus on additional things. And even on top of this KDE developers are very good at creating their own KDE Frameworks providing additional abstractions and common code that all KDE applications can reuse and also provide a lot of consistency/integration between them. Finally KDE is also one of the biggest FOSS projects (I think it is the second, right after Linux kernel) so by having so many people and using the best in class GUI framework is what makes it possible to create so many powerful apps.