Comment by throawayonthe
4 months ago
KDE is simply the 'community' that maintains it, makes sense why that's the branding used despite the inevitable confusion
(the DE has been called Plasma for ages, and almost everything KDE works outside of it)
4 months ago
KDE is simply the 'community' that maintains it, makes sense why that's the branding used despite the inevitable confusion
(the DE has been called Plasma for ages, and almost everything KDE works outside of it)
they should rebrand it as Konnekt.
Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until the late 2000s, early 2010s.
You had apps like Konqueror (web browser, file manager), KMail (email client), Kompose (music score editor), KImages (later rebranded to Krita), and KDevelop (software dev IDE).
Modern KDE apps dropped the 'K' prefix and moved to a more recognizable scheme, like: Falkon (web browser), Dolphin (file manager), and Okular (document viewer).
As you can see, its now a mix of whether the app keeps the 'K' in the name. Some do not.
> Legacy KDE apps used to follow this naming convention until the late 2000s, early 2010s.
Wow, what a coincident that parent just happened to suggest the identical naming convention. What are the chances?
Also spectacle for screenhshots... It took me a while to not try find kscreenshot
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> the DE has been called Plasma for ages
I disagree.
Its been plasma since 2009, a year after KDE 4 came out and they rebranded a bunch of their projects. Whether 16 years amounts to "ages" ig is up to interpretation.
Yes, but all the people who use it still call it KDE. At least in my experience.
KDE 4.4ish (early 2010) was when it finally started to become stable enough to be mostly usable, so that's close enough to just saying "KDE 4".
Unfortunately it's looking like KDE 6 is going to be another catastrophic upgrade, unlike KDE 5 which I barely noticed. Both of my Debian bookworm->trixie upgrades had showstopper bugs that required the terminal to fix KDE, there is multi-second lag unless you turn off some of the new features, and significant uninvestigated breakage remains even after that.
"Plasma [i]s Hell" is well-named, not that it's the only problem.