The Unix desktop environment KDE is Friday fifteen years. Countless programmers and enthusiasts to celebrate worldwide the existence of the project, which in 1996 modest began with an email from the German student Matthias Ettrich.
The announcement resulted in many enthusiastic responses. Within two years, brought programmers worldwide the first full-fledged version of the Kool Desktop Environment, later KDE would be. The framework was based on the Qt toolkit from Trolltech and came out with several new programs, including a private audio player and a file manager. Initially, the project was included on the distributions Caldera, Delix, SuSE, and FreeBSD. That number took quickly later.
Within fifteen years, the gui put his stamp on the Unixwereld printed. A lot of major Linux distributions like SuSE and Kubuntu provide the interface by default. In addition, it provides the project with its own graphical shell countless opensourceprogramma programs, including media players, browsers, and office productivity.
KDE recently released version 4.7, under the name KDE Software Compilation. There was also a graphical environment for tablet devices released. Every day, countless volunteers on the further development of the project. This seems to be the original desire of Ettrich to provide a consistent desktop environment to create success.
