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KDE op 30

KDE wordt 30 dit jaar!

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!

Lees verder en ontdek interessante feiten die u nog niet wist, nieuwe merchandise waarvan u niet wist dat u die nodig had (maar nu wel!), hoe ook u kunt helpen ervoor te zorgen dat we de komende 30 jaar succesvol blijven, en waar en hoe u de verjaardag van KDE kunt vieren.

Laten daarmee beginnen...

Plan your party🎉

Neem deel aan een evenement bij u in de buurt. Als er geen evenementen zijn, organiseer er dan zelf een!

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.

We voegen uw evenement toe aan onze lijst en het verschijnt op de kaart hieronder.


HOE U Uw EVENEMENT TOEVOEGT: Bezoek onze wiki-pagina en voeg uw evenement toe met behulp van de sjabloon.

Help 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.

Gebruik het vak bovenaan deze pagina en selecteer Lid worden om ondersteunend lid te worden.

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

Gebruik het vak bovenaan deze pagina en selecteer Eenmalige donatie om uw donatie te doen.

Waarom doneren

  • Wij produceren eersteklas software en uw donatie zorgt ervoor dat we “ons bedrijf kunnen voortzetten” en dat onze software generaties lang meegaat.

  • Wij zorgen dat u in controle blijft en uw donatie zorgt ervoor dat KDE echt onafhankelijk kan blijven.
  • We bereiken mensen die door de techindustrie zijn vergeten en jouw donatie draagt ​​bij aan het helpen van degenen die door de industrie worden genegeerd, en brengt gemarginaliseerde gebruikers in de gemeenschap zodat we het project voor iedereen kunnen laten groeien.
  • Wij zetten ons in om vrije software in openbare instellingen te introduceren en uw donatie helpt ons onze software aan te passen aan de eisen van openbare instellingen, zodat uw belastinggeld naar vrije software gaat en niet naar een groot technologiebedrijf.

Hoe we het geld gebruiken

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

  • een solide infrastructuur voor ontwikkelaars, vertalers en andere bijdragers
  • aannemers (marketeers, evenementenplanners, advocaten, accountants) om gespecialiseerde taken uit te voeren
  • om de reiskosten van deelnemers te vergoeden, zodat iedereen de kans krijgt om deel te nemen aan de gemeenschap
  • om te betalen voor deelname aan evenementen en voor materiaal voor stands
  • kunstwerken en ontwerpen in opdracht geven
  • ontwikkeling van doelstellingen.

... en red de wereld

KDE draagt ​​bij aan het schoon houden van de wereld en u kunt dat ook.

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.

Film uzelf en uw team tijdens het uitvoeren van jullie project en wij promoten jullie project op sociale media.

Hier zijn nog een paar ideeën:

  • Red 30 computers (of meer!) van de vuilnisbelt
  • Geef 30 telefoons een nieuw leven met een gratis mobiel besturingssysteem
  • Ruim 30 hectare bos op
  • Betrek 30 mensen bij een gratis besturingssysteem
  • Daag 30 techbro's voor de rechter zodat ze stoppen met het bouwen van AI-datacenters

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

Wist u dat ...?

... KDE geholpen heeft om robots op Mars te zetten?

Ja, dat hebben we gedaan! En we hebben het grafische bewijs om het aan te tonen:

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.

Ingezonden door Paul Brown


...KDE de HTML-engine heeft ontwikkeld die de meeste webbrowsers aandrijft?

Het is waar!

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.

Als u ooit de toegangslogboeken van uw webserver bekijkt, zul je inderdaad "KHTML" op bijna elke regel aantreffen.

En ja, de "K" in "KHTML" staat voor "KDE".

Ingezonden door Paul Brown


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