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

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

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