<story><title>KDE Project releases KDE 1</title><url>http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thom</author><text>KDE was the first desktop environment I really stuck with on Linux, previously I&amp;#x27;d just used Blackbox and whatever apps seemed to work. For me, it peaked around KDE 3.2 - it felt like a nicely structured, object-oriented system. You could open up KOffice documents in tabs in Konqueror alongside web pages, thanks to KParts. Every address bar and file dialog could connect to any protocol, thanks to KIO. KMail and KNode were functional and consistent. KDevelop was very nice, for someone coming from a Visual C++ background. And Atlatik stole more hours than I can remember.&lt;p&gt;I have to admit I drifted off to OS X for most stuff, but I still have fond memories of how well thought out, consistent and tasteful everything was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>etatoby</author><text>Same here. First Linux desktop I ever used was running KDE 1. I kept using KDE for years, up to 3.x, because it was just incredibly integrated, fast, and functional. I cannot shake the feeling that it was engineered, or at least directed by a single competent person with a vision. I don&amp;#x27;t know if that&amp;#x27;s true, but KDE 1 to 3 had that &amp;quot;single mind&amp;quot; feeling, as opposed to &amp;quot;designed by committee.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;After that, I moved to OS X for various reasons, until recently when the latest OS X 10.11 and 10.12 drifted so far away from the original OS X concept as to turn me away.&lt;p&gt;As a newly returned Linux user, I tried Gnome Shell in Ubuntu, but recycled its bytes in a couple of days. Then I tried the latest KDE 5, which was even worse, an ungodly monstrosity. I briefly toyed with the idea of using a supposedly modern fork of KDE 3 (&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.trinitydesktop.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.trinitydesktop.org&lt;/a&gt;) but then settled for Cinnamon on Mint.&lt;p&gt;Still, KDE 3 was definitely some sort of pinnacle in desktop computing. Maybe the Trinity guys are not entirely crazy!</text></comment>
<story><title>KDE Project releases KDE 1</title><url>http://www.heliocastro.info/?p=291</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thom</author><text>KDE was the first desktop environment I really stuck with on Linux, previously I&amp;#x27;d just used Blackbox and whatever apps seemed to work. For me, it peaked around KDE 3.2 - it felt like a nicely structured, object-oriented system. You could open up KOffice documents in tabs in Konqueror alongside web pages, thanks to KParts. Every address bar and file dialog could connect to any protocol, thanks to KIO. KMail and KNode were functional and consistent. KDevelop was very nice, for someone coming from a Visual C++ background. And Atlatik stole more hours than I can remember.&lt;p&gt;I have to admit I drifted off to OS X for most stuff, but I still have fond memories of how well thought out, consistent and tasteful everything was.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zaphar</author><text>Same here, KIO was incredibly useful. As a young dev, I was amazed at the ability to open a file on the server as if it was on my hard drive. I still have fond memories of KDE in the early years before flashy looks became a must have feature.</text></comment>