Thank you for saying this! I agree. KDE 1.x was great. KDE 2.x was cluttered but it did the job; with a major rework, such as Corel LinuxOS and Xandros gave it, it was a good desktop.
Xandros never managed to tame KDE 3. It released a tech preview, with a basically unmodified copy of KDE 3, and then stopped putting out new versions of the desktop OS.
KDE is the poster child for creeping featuritis: it has dozens and dozens of skins and app launchers and other relatively pointless chrome that does not extend its functionality.
And yet, over the major releases from 4 to 5 to 6, it has gradually lost useful features, such as tabbed title bars and window grouping; title bars on the side of windows (like in wm2 and wmx), or on the bottom; and panels that could span screens.
20 years ago, there was a parody of KDE versus GNOME:
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 27.6 ms ] threadSadly it was not difficult to encounter a bug at that time, so i gave up on it quickly. I wonder if it is in better shape now?
I remember running KDE 1 running flawlessly on 32mb of RAM having a better desktop experience than today...
Thank you for saying this! I agree. KDE 1.x was great. KDE 2.x was cluttered but it did the job; with a major rework, such as Corel LinuxOS and Xandros gave it, it was a good desktop.
https://www.linux.org.ru/images/9832/original.png
Xandros never managed to tame KDE 3. It released a tech preview, with a basically unmodified copy of KDE 3, and then stopped putting out new versions of the desktop OS.
KDE is the poster child for creeping featuritis: it has dozens and dozens of skins and app launchers and other relatively pointless chrome that does not extend its functionality.
And yet, over the major releases from 4 to 5 to 6, it has gradually lost useful features, such as tabbed title bars and window grouping; title bars on the side of windows (like in wm2 and wmx), or on the bottom; and panels that could span screens.
20 years ago, there was a parody of KDE versus GNOME:
https://koplowicz.com/content/kde-vs-gnome-2
Now, it feels to me like the roles are reversed.
> I remember running KDE 1 running flawlessly on 32mb of RAM having a better desktop experience than today...
Also agreed.