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In message <>, Carnations wrote:

> Vista's sidebar has been scrapped, and gadgets now appear on the desktop
> itself.

Did somebody say "KDE 4"?

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:56:10 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> In message <>, Carnations wrote:
>
>> Vista's sidebar has been scrapped, and gadgets now appear on the desktop
>> itself.
>
> Did somebody say "KDE 4"?

What the hell does KDE stand for anyway.

-ws

Key/English 08 - Change We Need.

"Will Spencer" <> wrote in message
news:hmu9qmyf0hnf$.u0f1c9d055d7$....
> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:56:10 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message <>, Carnations wrote:
>>
>>> Vista's sidebar has been scrapped, and gadgets now appear on the desktop
>>> itself.
>>
>> Did somebody say "KDE 4"?
>
> What the hell does KDE stand for anyway.

K Desktop Environment

>On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:20:08 +1300, Nik Coughlin wrote:

>> "Will Spencer" <> wrote in message
> news:hmu9qmyf0hnf$.u0f1c9d055d7$....
>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:56:10 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> In message <>, Carnations wrote:
>>>
>>>> Vista's sidebar has been scrapped, and gadgets now appear on the
>>>> desktop itself.
>>>
>>> Did somebody say "KDE 4"?
>>
>> What the hell does KDE stand for anyway.
>
> K Desktop Environment

And the K stands for Komon or Kommon, which is a play on the word Common.
The implication is the old CDE (early nineties) being surpassed by the
"kewl" KDE (late nineties)

Lodi

Lodi

>On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:32:31 +1300, Carnations wrote:

>> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:45:23 +0100, Lodi wrote:
>
>>>On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:20:08 +1300, Nik Coughlin wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> K Desktop Environment
>>
>> And the K stands for Komon or Kommon, which is a play on the word
>> Common. The implication is the old CDE (early nineties) being surpassed
>> by the "kewl" KDE (late nineties)
>
> Incorrect.

Yes and no...

>
> The KTip application that is included in the SuSE11 distro includes the
> following as a "tip":
>
> "The K in KDE does not stand for anything. It is the character that
> comes before L in the Latin alphabet, which stands for Linux. It was
> chosen because KDE runs on many types of UNIX (and perfectly well on
> FreeBSD)."
>
> Also see here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE

The almighty wikipedia hath spake therefore I must be wrong.....yeah
right. In fact I might go in and edit the wikipedia page just to upset
you.

Just google "Kommon Desktop" and you'll get heaps of hits saying one
thing or another. It's just another part of net lore.

Anyway, why are we arguing on this glorious day of days. I've been
hanging out for the release of Intrepid since I logged on this morning.
Getting all excited....ooops just noticed you're a SLUG. No interest in
Intrepid. Oh well, back to arguing.

Just curious, do you use KDE. If so which version and what do you think
of it. KDE 3.5.9 is easily the best of the dozen or so desktop managers
I've used over the years.

Regards
Lodi

"Carnations" <> wrote in message
news...
>
> "The K in KDE does not stand for anything. It is the character that comes
> before L in the Latin alphabet, which stands for Linux. It was chosen
> because KDE runs on many types of UNIX (and perfectly well on FreeBSD)."
>
> That is the official view of the KDE Project.

It originally stood for Kool but they dropped it because it was corny which
is *why* that is now their official view

>On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:30:34 +1300, Nik Coughlin wrote:

>> "Carnations" <> wrote in message
> news...
>>
>> "The K in KDE does not stand for anything. It is the character that
>> comes before L in the Latin alphabet, which stands for Linux. It was
>> chosen because KDE runs on many types of UNIX (and perfectly well on
>> FreeBSD)."
>>
>> That is the official view of the KDE Project.
>
> It originally stood for Kool but they dropped it because it was corny
> which is *why* that is now their official view

I hadn't heard that one. Makes sense. Everyone knows that the cool way to
spell cool is kewl, not kool. Typical nerds.

Lodi

In message <hmu9qmyf0hnf$.u0f1c9d055d7$.>, Will Spencer wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:56:10 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message <>, Carnations wrote:
>>
>>> Vista's sidebar has been scrapped, and gadgets now appear on the desktop
>>> itself.
>>
>> Did somebody say "KDE 4"?
>
> What the hell does KDE stand for anyway.

A desktop environment that leaves Dimdows in the dust.

In message <geb0hj$pgv$>, Lodi wrote:

> KDE 3.5.9 is easily the best of the dozen or so desktop managers
> I've used over the years.

I tried Enlightenment e17 for a few months when I first set up my Gentoo
box. Was fun ("sliding" from one desktop to another was nifty), but some
things didn't work right. So I went back to KDE.

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:09:31 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> In message <hmu9qmyf0hnf$.u0f1c9d055d7$.>, Will Spencer wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:56:10 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> In message <>, Carnations wrote:
>>>
>>>> Vista's sidebar has been scrapped, and gadgets now appear on the desktop
>>>> itself.
>>>
>>> Did somebody say "KDE 4"?
>>
>> What the hell does KDE stand for anyway.
>
> A desktop environment that leaves Dimdows in the dust.

What features am I missing using Vista Ultimate instead of KDE?

-ws

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