KDE als 30

Este any KDE en fa 30!

Three decades of passionate community effort against all odds; delivering control, privacy, and freedom to our users; and tons and tons of software.

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We will be updating this page frequently with new content, exciting 30th Anniversary news, things you can participate in, updated merch you can get, and much more!

Continueu llegint i descobriu fets interessants que mai havíeu conegut, marxandatge nou que no sabíeu que necessitàveu (però ara ho saps!), com també podeu ajudar a assegurar-vos que prosperem els propers 30 anys, i on i com podeu celebrar l'aniversari de KDE.

Comencem amb açò…

Plan your party🎉

Uniu-vos a un esdeveniment que se celebri a prop vostre. Si no n'hi ha cap, organitzeu-ne un!

Whether it is a meetup over drinks, a nice meal with friends, an installfest, or a full conference, let us know what, where, and when you are celebrating KDE's birthday.

Inclourem el vostre esdeveniment a la la nostra llista i es mostrarà en el mapa de davall.


COM AFEGIR EL VOSTRE ESDEVENIMENT: Visiteu la pàgina wiki i afegiu el vostre esdeveniment utilitzant la plantilla.

Ajudeu KDE…

Most of our funds (70%!) come from private end users just like you. Become a Supporting Member and help ensure we receive a regular amount of money we can count on. This helps us plan and know what to expect for the next month, quarter, or year.

Utilitzeu el quadro a la part superior d'esta pàgina i trieu Ser mecenes per a convertir-vos en mecenes.

Or make a one-time donation and provide us with emergency funds to get us through the following year.

Utilitzeu el quadro a la part superior d'esta pàgina i trieu Donació puntual per a fer el vostre donatiu.

Per què fer donacions

  • Produïm programari de primera classe i la vostra donació ens manté «en funcionament» i el nostre programari sostenible per a les generacions futures.

  • Vos donem el control i la vostra donació permet que KDE siga realment independent.
  • Arribem fins a la gent que la indústria tecnològica ha deixat arrere i la vostra donació contribuïx a servir a aquells que la indústria els ignora, i portar usuaris marginats a la comunitat perquè puguem fer créixer el projecte per a tothom.
  • Fomentem el Programari lliure a les institucions públiques i la vostra donació ens ajuda a adaptar el nostre programari al que les institucions públiques requerixen, de manera que els vostres impostos financen el Programari lliure, no pas una gran corporació tecnològica.

Com fem servir els diners

Our goals are ambitious and we need funds to carry them out. We need:

  • una infraestructura sòlida per a desenvolupadors, traductors i altres contractistes
  • col·laboradors (marxants, planificadors d'esdeveniments, advocats, comptables) per dur a terme tasques especialitzades
  • finançar les despeses de viatge dels col·laboradors perquè tothom tinga l'oportunitat de participar en la comunitat
  • pagar per a assistir a esdeveniments i per material per a estands
  • encarregar material gràfic i dissenys
  • desenvolupament final.

…i salvar el món

KDE contribuïx a netejar el món i vós també podeu.

KDE contributor Farid inspired us to take on the "30 for 30" challenge: for our 30th birthday, we are asking you to do something to help the environment and make the planet a nicer place to live in. Farid is planting 30 trees and we want you to come up with something similar.

Filmeu a vós i al vostre equip realitzant l'esforç i impulsarem el projecte a les xarxes socials.

Ací teniu algunes idees addicionals:

  • Eviteu que 30 ordinadors (o més!) acaben en un abocador
  • Recicleu 30 telèfons amb un sistema operatiu mòbil debades
  • Netegeu 30 hectàrees de bosc
  • Convertiu 30 persones a usuàries d'un sistema operatiu lliure
  • Porteu 30 tecno-oligarques als tribunals per a parar la construcció de centres de dades d'IA

KDE's history

KDE has had a long and exciting history. Here we present a brief summary of what has happened over the last few decades, but if you want to see all the details, visit our timeline website, which gets updated every time something important happens.

1995
Qt Created
In 1995, the Norwegian company Troll Tech created the cross-platform framework Qt, with which KDE would be created in the following year. Qt became the basis of the main KDE technologies in these 20 years. Learn more about Qt History.
Qt logo
1996
KDE Announced
In 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced the creation of Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), a graphical interface for Unix systems, built with Qt and C ++ and designed for the end user. The name "KDE" was a pun on the graphic environment CDE, which was proprietary at the time. Read the original announcement of the KDE Project.
Matthias Ettrich
1997
KDE One Conference Held in Arnsberg
In 1997, about 15 KDE developers met in Arnsberg, Germany, to work on the project and discuss its future. This event became known as KDE One.
Cornelius Schumacher's Archive
KDE e.V. Founded
In 1997, KDE e.V., the nonprofit that represents the KDE community financially and legally, was founded in Tübingen, Germany.
KDE e.V. logo
1998
KDE 1 Released
KDE released the first stable version of its graphical environment in 1998, with highlights as an application development framework, the KOM/OpenParts, and a preview of its office suite.
KDE 1
1999
Konqi Adopted
In April 1999, a dragon is announced as the new animated assistant to the KDE Help Center. It was so charming that it replaced the previous project mascot, Kandalf, from version 3.x on. See the KDE 2 Screenshot showing Konqi and Kandalf.
Konqi
2000
KDE 2 Released
KDE released its second version, featuring as main news Konqueror web browser and file manager; and the office suite KOffice. KDE had its code almost entirely rewritten for this second version.
KDE 2
2002
KDE 3 Released
KDE released its third version, showing as important additions a new print framework, KDEPrint; the translation of the project for 50 languages; and a package of educational applications, maintained by the KDE Edutainment Project.
KDE 3
2008
KDE 4 Released
In 2008, the community announced the revolutionary KDE 4. In addition to the visual impact of the new default theme, Oxygen, and the new desktop interface, Plasma; KDE 4 also innovated by presenting the following applications: the PDF reader Okular, the Dolphin file manager, as well as KWin, supporting graphics effects. See KDE 4.0 Visual Guide.
KDE 4.0
2009
1 Million Commits Reached
The community reached the mark of 1 million of commits. From 500,000 in January 2006 and 750,000 in December 2007, only 19 months later, contributions reached the 1 million mark. The increase in these contributions coincides with the launch of innovative KDE 4.
Active contributors at the time
2014
Plasma 5 Released
Release of the first stable version of Plasma 5. This new generation of Plasma has a new theme, Breeze. Changes include a migration to a new, fully hardware-accelerated graphics stack centered around an OpenGL(ES) scenegraph. This version of Plasma uses as base the Qt 5 and Frameworks 5.
Plasma 5 screenshot
Plasma Mobile Announced
The community announced Plasma Mobile, an interface for smartphones that uses Qt, Frameworks 5 and Plasma Shell technologies.
Plasma Mobile photo
2021
Valve Chooses KDE Plasma for Steam Deck
Valve, the creators of Steam, announced their portable gaming computer called Steam Deck has KDE Plasma as the default desktop experience. KDE developers have been working with Valve to make Plasma work well with Steam Deck.
KDE Plasma running on Steam Deck
2024
KDE Launches Plasma 6
With Plasma 6, our technology stack underwent two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland. The launch was dubbed "MegaRelease", as new versions of KDE's apps and Frameworks, along with a new version of Plasma Mobile were all published at the same time.
The default Plasma 6 desktop environment.
2025
KDE Linux is born
KDE Linux is a free, open-source, user-focused operating system being built by KDE to include the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies.
Project Banana was the code name for KDE Linux.

KDE trivia

Sabíeu que?

…KDE ha ajudat a posar robots a Mart?

Ho hem fet! I tenim la prova gràfica que ho demostra:

Screengrab from "Good Night Oppy" on Amazon Prime

That is from the documentary Good Night Oppy, about the Opportunity Mars rover. In the scene you can see a NASA engineer troubleshooting the rover while in flight towards Mars from a KDE 3 workstation.

You can watch Good Night Oppy on Amazon Prime.

Enviat per Paul Brown

.. KDE ha construït el motor HTML que alimenta la majoria dels navegadors web?

És veritat!

KDE's web engine was written back in 1998 - 1999 and was subsequently used as the basis for Apple's Webkit and Google's Blink engines. This means that most modern browsers, including Safari, Chrome, Chromium, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi, and Brave, use KDE software at their core.

De fet, si alguna vegada feu un colp d'ull als registres d'accés del vostre servidor web, veureu «KHTML» en quasi totes les línies.

I, sí, la «K» de «KHTML» significa «KDE».

Enviat per Paul Brown

Teniu una pregunta del trívial de KDE que voleu compartir? Digueu-nos-ho!

Galeria

Els 90

'KDE One', probably the first KDE event. Held in Arnsberg, Germany in 1997. Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE, is on the left.

Els 2000

Initial release of KDE 3 on SuSE - 2002. Thanks to Manuel Alberto Ascencio Ramirez.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, and Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE, in 2005
Attendees to an Amarok dev sprint held in 2007.
Initial release of KDE 4 on Kubuntu - 2008. Thanks to Manuel Alberto Ascencio Ramirez.

Els (20)10

Akademy 2013 in Bilbao, Spain. Thanks Gorka Palazio.

Els (20)20

2024 Anniversay party held in Berlin.
Tobias Leupold (KGeoTag) meets Johannes Zarl-Zierl (KPhotoAlbum) in person for the first time in 2024 after working together for 10 years.