On Tue, 2 Jul 2024, deloptes via tde-users wrote:
Felix Miata via tde-users wrote:
I suppose this means you were a Kubuntu user until TDE was forked (began
existence) from KDE3 ~14 years ago.
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.
I love this nostalgic historical e-mails. I used fvwm2 in SuSE (along with
CDE on Solaris workstations), then KDE2, then KDE3. When openSUSE switched
to KDE4, I kept using KDE3 provided with the openSUSE distribution. But I
noticed that more and more features went missing, like kinternet and
kpowersave and other issues. Hence, the switch to TDE.
Gianluca
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.
BR
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