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15 years of KDE e.V.

60 points by Tsiolkovsky 14y ago

Charlesmigli 14y ago
I didn't know much about the KDE e.v. but now I feel like supporting the community :). Awesome work these guys did. Is there the same kind of organization for other main open source projects/communities? I highlighted the sentences I found the most interesting here http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b86deeada40f08170009f3 http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b86deeada40f08170009f3.
- sho_hn 14y ago
  The Python Software Foundation always struck me as a bit similar.
w1ntermute 14y ago
If you have the hardware to handle it, KDE is quite nice these days: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png It has come a long way since the disastrous release of KDE 4.0.
- klearvue 14y ago
  Preventing Akonadi/Nepomuk/Strigi nonsense from running helps with resources quite a bit (unless, of course, one actually uses them). My Ubuntu with KDE uses less than 400MB RAM idle and without the above.
  - stiff 14y ago
    Sad are the times when running your idle desktop environment with less than 400MB RAM usage is considered an achievement.
    - emilsedgh 14y ago
      KDE as 'Desktop Enviroment' is consuming less than 200MiB on my machine. That includes kwin, window manager plasma-desktop, desktop and panel krunner, application launcher kded4, multiple daemons A complete session of KDE includes Nepomuk and Akonadi which are libraries helping KDE's applications, not the 'Desktop Enviroment'. Disclaimer: Im a KDE contributor. Edit: formatting.
    - klearvue 14y ago
      It's 2012 and my laptop has 8GB of RAM, which means that my booted-up idle machine with a modern graphical DE uses less than 5% of available RAM. I wouldn't call it sad.
    - brazzy 14y ago
      Not really, when even low end laptops have 4GB RAM. There's nothing horrible about using the resources you're given.
      - mhurron 14y ago
        NEW low end laptops. My Linux desktop maxes out at 4GB. Not everyone is buying a new machine every 12 months. Resource constraints are still something that people have to work with. When you're developing for yourself its fine to just make it work on what you have but when you're trying to get others to use your project 'works for me, buy new hardware' isn't going to win you fans.
        brazzy 14y ago
        Sure, you shouldn't use the most recent hardware as your target, but neither should you spend development time and code complexity to avoid overtaxing 10 year old hardware.
  - rat87 14y ago
    I actually got Nepomuk/Strigi and it was awesome just as good as windows search.
- rockyj 14y ago
  Agree. Since the 4.8 release, KDE is getting faster and better. Here is my desktop - http://i.imgur.com/fBQCQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fBQCQ.jpg. A big thank you to the KDE community for creating this awesome desktop environment.
- andyking 14y ago
  Are there any nice Linux distributions that are primarily based around KDE that I might have missed? I use Kubuntu right now, but it always feels a little like a second-class citizen compared to the mainstream Ubuntu. Does anyone have any recommendations? The sheer number of distros on Distrowatch is a little overwhelming.
  - dexen 14y ago
    Slackware is, and most of its derivatives like SalixOS. The mainline comes with older KDE version: 4.8.5 -- but a longtime contributor, Alienbob, provides recent compilations at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-releases-4-9-3/ http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-releases-4-9-3/
  - ontheotherhand 14y ago
    OpenSUSE hands down.
  - emilsedgh 14y ago
    OpenSuse seems like a good one.It uses KDE by default.
    - rmk2 14y ago
      This is technically incorrect, since both Gnome and KDE are first-class citizens (and so is XFCE). You get to choose upon installation, and all three DEs are in the official main repository. (This is just a minor correction. By all means, go with openSUSE, KDE support has been excellent for me over the years.)
  - BadDesign 14y ago
    There you go: http://goo.gl/ZowwQ http://goo.gl/ZowwQ 64 GNU/Linux distributions that use KDE. Rock and Roll! I personally use ArchLinux x86_64 with KDE 4.9.3 => UberAwesome!
  - orng 14y ago
    I have only heard good things about Chakra[1], but unfortunately I have yet to try it out myself. It's based on Arch linux and tries to be as pure KDE/Qt as possible. [1] http://www.chakra-project.org/ http://www.chakra-project.org/
- mistercow 14y ago
  It really has. I was pretty surprised to find myself settling on KDE after switching to Ubuntu, but with a few add ons and a fair amount of customization, I feel like I have an environment that I mesh with better than I ever did with OS X - which is saying something from someone who used a Mac from the age of 5. And it did require quite a lot of digging around to get everything behaving the way I wanted, but unlike Unity or even GNOME, the things I wanted to customize were easily configurable. Well, except for mapping the meta key (by itself) to launch Synapse. That was a pain.
truncate 14y ago
Maybe its just me, but one thing I wish for KDE is better skins/theme-engines and icons. Oxygen maybe nice, but not really nice. Toolbars looks somehow ugly, unclean. Elementary OS, Ubuntu, Mate, Gnome overall are doing nice in skinning. I use QtCurve to get marginally better skin for my eyes.
- sparx 14y ago
  try out caledonia theme， oxygen transparent widgets, nitrux-os icon theme,this works great for me.
sparx 14y ago
I've been using kubuntu for two years.I can customize most of the stuff with KDE.It looks great, and fast ,responsive, and it's getting better and better.

60 points by Tsiolkovsky 14y ago

I didn't know much about the KDE e.v. but now I feel like supporting the community :). Awesome work these guys did. Is there the same kind of organization for other main open source projects/communities? I highlighted the sentences I found the most interesting here http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b86deeada40f08170009f3 http://tldr.io/tldrs/50b86deeada40f08170009f3.

sho_hn 14y ago
The Python Software Foundation always struck me as a bit similar.

w1ntermute 14y ago

If you have the hardware to handle it, KDE is quite nice these days: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/KDE_4.png It has come a long way since the disastrous release of KDE 4.0.

klearvue 14y ago
Preventing Akonadi/Nepomuk/Strigi nonsense from running helps with resources quite a bit (unless, of course, one actually uses them). My Ubuntu with KDE uses less than 400MB RAM idle and without the above.
- stiff 14y ago
  Sad are the times when running your idle desktop environment with less than 400MB RAM usage is considered an achievement.
  - emilsedgh 14y ago
    KDE as 'Desktop Enviroment' is consuming less than 200MiB on my machine. That includes kwin, window manager plasma-desktop, desktop and panel krunner, application launcher kded4, multiple daemons A complete session of KDE includes Nepomuk and Akonadi which are libraries helping KDE's applications, not the 'Desktop Enviroment'. Disclaimer: Im a KDE contributor. Edit: formatting.
  - klearvue 14y ago
    It's 2012 and my laptop has 8GB of RAM, which means that my booted-up idle machine with a modern graphical DE uses less than 5% of available RAM. I wouldn't call it sad.
  - brazzy 14y ago
    Not really, when even low end laptops have 4GB RAM. There's nothing horrible about using the resources you're given.
    - mhurron 14y ago
      NEW low end laptops. My Linux desktop maxes out at 4GB. Not everyone is buying a new machine every 12 months. Resource constraints are still something that people have to work with. When you're developing for yourself its fine to just make it work on what you have but when you're trying to get others to use your project 'works for me, buy new hardware' isn't going to win you fans.
      - brazzy 14y ago
        Sure, you shouldn't use the most recent hardware as your target, but neither should you spend development time and code complexity to avoid overtaxing 10 year old hardware.
- rat87 14y ago
  I actually got Nepomuk/Strigi and it was awesome just as good as windows search.
rockyj 14y ago
Agree. Since the 4.8 release, KDE is getting faster and better. Here is my desktop - http://i.imgur.com/fBQCQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/fBQCQ.jpg. A big thank you to the KDE community for creating this awesome desktop environment.
andyking 14y ago
Are there any nice Linux distributions that are primarily based around KDE that I might have missed? I use Kubuntu right now, but it always feels a little like a second-class citizen compared to the mainstream Ubuntu. Does anyone have any recommendations? The sheer number of distros on Distrowatch is a little overwhelming.
- dexen 14y ago
  Slackware is, and most of its derivatives like SalixOS. The mainline comes with older KDE version: 4.8.5 -- but a longtime contributor, Alienbob, provides recent compilations at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-releases-4-9-3/ http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/kde-releases-4-9-3/
- ontheotherhand 14y ago
  OpenSUSE hands down.
- emilsedgh 14y ago
  OpenSuse seems like a good one.It uses KDE by default.
  - rmk2 14y ago
    This is technically incorrect, since both Gnome and KDE are first-class citizens (and so is XFCE). You get to choose upon installation, and all three DEs are in the official main repository. (This is just a minor correction. By all means, go with openSUSE, KDE support has been excellent for me over the years.)
- BadDesign 14y ago
  There you go: http://goo.gl/ZowwQ http://goo.gl/ZowwQ 64 GNU/Linux distributions that use KDE. Rock and Roll! I personally use ArchLinux x86_64 with KDE 4.9.3 => UberAwesome!
- orng 14y ago
  I have only heard good things about Chakra[1], but unfortunately I have yet to try it out myself. It's based on Arch linux and tries to be as pure KDE/Qt as possible. [1] http://www.chakra-project.org/ http://www.chakra-project.org/
mistercow 14y ago
It really has. I was pretty surprised to find myself settling on KDE after switching to Ubuntu, but with a few add ons and a fair amount of customization, I feel like I have an environment that I mesh with better than I ever did with OS X - which is saying something from someone who used a Mac from the age of 5. And it did require quite a lot of digging around to get everything behaving the way I wanted, but unlike Unity or even GNOME, the things I wanted to customize were easily configurable. Well, except for mapping the meta key (by itself) to launch Synapse. That was a pain.

truncate 14y ago

Maybe its just me, but one thing I wish for KDE is better skins/theme-engines and icons. Oxygen maybe nice, but not really nice. Toolbars looks somehow ugly, unclean. Elementary OS, Ubuntu, Mate, Gnome overall are doing nice in skinning. I use QtCurve to get marginally better skin for my eyes.

sparx 14y ago
try out caledonia theme， oxygen transparent widgets, nitrux-os icon theme,this works great for me.

sparx 14y ago

I've been using kubuntu for two years.I can customize most of the stuff with KDE.It looks great, and fast ,responsive, and it's getting better and better.