On 1/12/25 3:23 PM, Jim Petersen via tde-users wrote:
An excellent piece you wrote on the beauty that is KDE3/TDE. It really captures the love of this desktop, and the true craftsmanship that went into making so much work with so little hardware resources. KDE3 really was the pinnacle of the KDE line.I keep longing for the days of the sheer design beauty of those desktops, and it's such a privilege to still have it available for modern Linux installations, through TDE. When KDE and GNOME went with their new looks, and especially through the years as the smartphone GUI paradigm took over, and somehow, developers thought that was a good paradigm to follow, I moved many years back to XFCE. That was a great throwback desktop for many years, but sadly, it has now also seemed to adopt much of the smartphone paradigm. It makes me all the more happy to still have TDE to fall back upon. The graphics, and the fun sound effects, are just unmatched today. And having a screaming- fast, responsive system that leaves most of the resources for my actual programming enjoyment, is just a joy to use.May this desktop environment always be available for our enjoyment!
The other thing I miss the most is the excitement of waiting on the next release and all the great new capabilities that would come with it. Starting in 2008, that excitement was replaced with an equal amount of cringe before each new release worrying about which icon or app would lead to the next black-screen, or why x, y and z don't work anymore followed by a complete delete of the ~/.kde4 directory.
That continued right up until a year or so ago where deleting ~/.kde4 turned into the painful task of picking through ~/.config due to the monumental bone-headed move by plasma of dumping all individual config files into that directory instead of standard ~/.config/<somedir>. Really?? ~/.config/plasma would have been fine.
Some things just leave you shaking your head in disbelief....Oh well, here's to another decade using my favorite desktop. After another decade, I'll be so tired of looking a computer screens -- it won't matter anymore. It will be long past time for me to pass fighting the good fight to the next energetic generation of enthusiasts and I can just turn myself out to pasture :)
-- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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