[opensuse-project] KDE Acronym Expansion
Is there any consensus here at the openSUSE project as to the expansion of the K in KDE. I've seen indications that it is Kool, just K, or maybe Kommunity, all of which indicate it is better than the Common Desktop Enviroment (CDE) that normally accompanied the X/Open consortium product. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
W dniu 04.02.2016 o 05:57, PatrickD Garvey pisze:
Is there any consensus here at the openSUSE project as to the expansion of the K in KDE. I've seen indications that it is Kool, just K, or maybe Kommunity, all of which indicate it is better than the Common Desktop Enviroment (CDE) that normally accompanied the X/Open consortium product.
I think this doesn't have anything to do with OpenSUSE, the naming is KDE internal stuff. AFAIR, it was 'Kool' originally in the very old days, it was later dropped and it was called the 'K Desktop Environment' (versions 2 & 3). Even later in the KDE4 days they decided that it's not an acronym at all and named the software 'KDE Software Collection' and the people developing it the 'KDE Community'. This is the state as of today. *no citations, cause this isn't wikipedia & I don't need to prove anything :-) **it's possible that the K might have been inspired with Q from 'Qt' (and was expanded to 'Kool', because all acronyms are made by letting a cat walk on the keyboard/other random method first and then figuring what words match to the letters :-) ), but I don't recall anyone ever saying it in official KDE materials -- Łukasz "Cyber Killer" Korpalski mail: cyberkiller8@gmail.com xmpp: cyber_killer@jabster.pl site: http://website.cybkil.cu.cc gpgkey: 0x72511999 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net //When replying to my e-mail, kindly please //write your message below the quoted text.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 04.02.2016 um 06:48 schrieb Łukasz 'Cyber Killer' Korpalski:
W dniu 04.02.2016 o 05:57, PatrickD Garvey pisze:
Is there any consensus here at the openSUSE project as to the expansion of the K in KDE. I've seen indications that it is Kool, just K, or maybe Kommunity, all of which indicate it is better than the Common Desktop Enviroment (CDE) that normally accompanied the X/Open consortium product.
I think this doesn't have anything to do with OpenSUSE, the naming is KDE internal stuff.
AFAIR, it was 'Kool' originally in the very old days, it was later That Kool was just in the initial announcement, it was never part of KDE's announcements or documentation. See the very first archived kde.org page:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980129135809/http://www.kde.org/ Greetings, Stephan - -- Ma muaß weiterkämpfen, kämpfen bis zum Umfalln, a wenn die ganze Welt an Arsch offen hat, oder grad deswegn. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlazBHsACgkQwFSBhlBjoJZNMwCgqIQu7Dick73z1xuByS/fd1sK +4AAoMWev8BT/auz4q6j7JebweVk1Xxq =IOZQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 08:57:51AM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
That Kool was just in the initial announcement, it was never part of KDE's announcements or documentation. See the very first archived kde.org page:
https://web.archive.org/web/19980129135809/http://www.kde.org/
That was a blast from the past - thanks! At around that time there was a joking suggestion from a writer in the UK (Chris Bidmead in Personal Computer World) that KDE stood for the "Kalle Dalheimer Experience". It was that article that first got me using KDE. (Off topic I know...) -- ======================== Roger Whittaker roger@disruptive.org.uk http://disruptive.org.uk ======================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
Hello, Am Donnerstag, 4. Februar 2016schrieb Łukasz 'Cyber Killer' Korpalski: ...
**it's possible that the K might have been inspired with Q from 'Qt' (and was expanded to 'Kool', because all acronyms are made by letting a cat walk on the keyboard/other random method first and then figuring what words match to the letters :-) )
*lol* I remember someone joking that it means "Konfigurierbar" (configurable) which would be an obvious explanation (if compared to GNOME), but it's still just a joke ;-) Regards, Christian Boltz PS: Hand-picked sig ;-) -- Reconsidering. We are KDE after all, we can always make it a config option. [Will Stephenson in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=194396] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
Thank you, everyone. I now have a deeper understanding of the origins of KDE and will use [https://www.KDE.org/ <abbr title="KDE® Community">KDE</abbr>] as my choice of wiki html code for an explanation of the acronym. I did find it interesting that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE#Origins reports that "K Desktop Environment (KDE) was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich, who was then a student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen." Could Matthias have chosen a reference to his University as the first initial for the acronym? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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