Episode 4:12: Keep it Kool

Coming up in this episode

• Notating the Notes
• The History of KDE
• And Plasma, Straight from the Tap

Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:44 A Note on Notes
22:52 The History of KDE
28:29 History: KDE 1
30:42 History: KDE 2
33:03 History: KDE 3
36:21 History: KDE 4
45:36 History: Plasma 5
51:34 History: Plasma 6
53:17 Plasma 6 Raw (hide)
1:20:49 Next Time: Topics, then MATE
1:27:37 Stinger

Watch the video
https://youtu.be/CsdW0bDOjIM

🔥Warm Up🔥

• Leo hits the books and learns about reference style links in markdown. Thanks go to Dominic and Furicle.
• Eric mentioned MarkText and now the squirrels have Dan chasing that.
• Leo tries settling on Vivaldi Notes.

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The History of KDE

• The email on October 14, 1996 to start it all.
• KDE ONE
• K Desktop Environment first real beta release.
• Beta 1 Screenshots
• KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998.
• 1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KFM turned into Konqueror.
• Konqi
• KDE 2.0
• KDE 2.1
• In April of 2002, KDE 3.0 was released.
• 2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• 2004 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy".
• 2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• April 8, 2005 Kubuntu.
• KDE 3.5
• KDE Four Core Meeting
• KDE 4
• Oxygen
• 2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KDE hit the 1,000,000 commit
• Starting from 4.3.4, is a "software compilation".
• November 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE, now.
• Fork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environment.
• KDE SC 4.5.
• October 2010, an official split from KOffice
• Plasma Active
• KDE Manifesto
• December 2012, a redesigned Konqi.
• KDE release structure changed.
• KDE SC 4.14 the last in the series.
• Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5
• 2015 Wayland enters the room.
• Plasma Mobile
• Plasma Bigscreen
• KDE Neon
• Slimbook
• KDE Plasma is chosen for the Steam Deck when in Desktop Mode!
• The development and chat platforms move to Gitlab and Matrix.
• The first release candidate for Plasma 6
• Plasma 6's release date is planned for February 28th of 2024.

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Next Time

Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the Mate Desktop Environment.

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