New default web browser on KDE Spin

Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 1 16:57:21 UTC 2015


Luigi Toscano composed on 2015-08-01 18:33 (UTC+0200):

> KDE is not a Desktop Environment, full stop, whatever you like or think.

That kind of nonsense is what happens as a result of renames that obfuscate
etymology:

K = K

D = Desktop

E = Environment

Thus, KDE it is, still from kde.org.

>From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE:

"The name KDE was intended as a wordplay on the existing Common Desktop
Environment, available for Unix systems. CDE is an X11-based user environment
jointly developed by HP, IBM, and Sun through the X/Open consortium, with an
interface and productivity tools based on the Motif graphical widget toolkit.
It was supposed to be an intuitively easy-to-use desktop computer
environment.[5] The K was originally suggested to stand for "Kool", but it
was quickly decided that the K should stand for nothing in particular. The
KDE initialism is therefore expanded to "K Desktop Environment"."
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