Hi,
Perhaps many of you know that today KDE celebrates 10 years of
existence. It was today Matthias Ettrich announced [1] the starting of
KDE project on Usenet. Some people in this list surely did read that
one then and some later. From what I gather from talking to people, 10
years down the memory lane, some people thought it was the next cool
thing and for the love of "hacking" joined the project.
Some days later in October 1996, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer,
started working on the first KDE class ever - KConfig ( that was the
first KDE code as well ). Matthias Ettirch started working kwn at the
same time. The first version of kdelibs ( kdelibs-0.0.1 ) was soon
released. And guess what there was no svn, no cvs as well . Everything
was tarred up and dropped in FTP server at the University of
Tübingen. Humble beginnings. IIRC, Taj (Sirtaj Singh Kang) joined the
project around those times as well.
Today the KDE ( with 4 MLOC of code) and its libraries talk of
a very rich well documented API and a great community. Many of its
home grown technologies have been adapted by industry and there is
co-operation happening as well in the same areas. Technologies like
KIO,KHTML, KParts just make a developers job easy. And then there are
loads of applications and upcoming new stuff like Phonon,Solid (with
recent commits to the main trunk branch ) and other really cool stuff
show a lot of promise.
Have fun. Cheers!
[1] http://www.kde.org/announcements/announcement.php
Pradeepto
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