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  KDE Is the "Best Open Source Project"
KDE Public Relations and Marketing Posted by Dre on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @14:31
from the KDE-rulez dept.
Moments ago, at LinuxWorld Expo being hosted in San Francisco, CA, the KDE Project was honored as the winner in the "Best Open Source Project" category. On hand to accept the Open Source Product Excellence Award on behalf of the KDE development community were KDE developers Charles Samuels and Rob Kaper, as well as yours truly. Congratulations to the KDE developers, and thanks to IDG for recognizing the excellence of the KDE desktop! Update, Thursday August 30, @1:15AM: Rob Kaper has posted pictures of the award.


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Congratulations!
by A Happy KDE User on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @15:13
A big "Thank you" to the entire KDE Team including developers, translators and artists for the efforts that made this success possible.
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Congratulations nr. 2
by Another happy KDE user on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @15:38
Great :)
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Excellence rewarded
by hoju on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @15:51
Nice to see that the great work of the KDE team is being recognized by the whole community
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KDE Rules!
by David Bishop on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @16:03
And Gnome drools! Or something like that.... *grin* I seriously think 1/2 of the "desktop flamewars" result because people /need/ a "home team" to cheer on. And if you're cheering someone on, it's only one step to jeering at someone else. So let's all celebrate this as very nice recognition of all the hard work that volunteers have put into this, and keep it civil! Woohoo!


P.S. As the (4th? 5th?) comment posted, nobody's yet said anything about Gnome, so consider this a premptive strike ;-)
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Best open source project.
by Seth on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @16:09
Yes it is, isn't it? A well deserved prize.

Seth
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Congratulations
by Erik Hill on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @16:16
I hate to be a "me too", but I just have to say that I've been a KDE user at both home for about a year and at work for almost four months now, and have been impressed, to say the least, at the progress of the KDE desktop and office suite. This award is well-deserved.

Erik Hill
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I don't like KDE
by Dr No on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @16:55
Why? you may ask.

Well, perhaps it was a truth with modifications.

KDE is developed so fast, I cannot keep up with all the goodies using my 56 kbps modem...

Actually, yes, I am impressed! :)

Cheers! Hooray!
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Congrats!
by Janne on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @17:06
I have known for a long time that KDE is THE Open Source project! And I'm happy to notice that others have noticed that too :)!

Congratulations to the KDE-team!
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Congrats!!! :)
by Asif Ali Rizwaan on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @17:09
I wish all success for my nice KDE people and users, And hope that KDE 3.0 will be the best Desktop environment, the compters have ever seen ;).

I have been requesting for 2 features in KDE, which I expect to get fulfilled in KDE 3.0:

1. White & colorful Mouse Pointers
2. Keybinding in Kicker (pressing the first letter of submenu opens it, making K Menu Keyboard friendly as in Windows or Corel Linux).
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Great !
by MBrain on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @17:33
Great work ! Congratulations.

I just cant wait for KDE 3.0 !!!
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Congratulations to all of the KDE people!!
by omar on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @19:11
You guys are the absolute very best there are!!
You guys deserve all the praise in the world for your hard work. We all appreciate it ver much. It's very nice to see "official" recognition (it is well deserved)

Thank you guys

have a lot of fun..

Omar
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Congratulations to all of the KDE people!!
by omar on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @19:12
You guys are the absolute very best there are!!
You guys deserve all the praise in the world for your hard work. We all appreciate it ver much. It's very nice to see "official" recognition (it is well deserved)

Thank you guys

have a lot of fun..

Omar
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Congratulations to all of the KDE people!!
by omar on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @19:12
You guys are the absolute very best there are!!
You guys deserve all the praise in the world for your hard work. We all appreciate it ver much. It's very nice to see "official" recognition (it is well deserved)

Thank you guys

have a lot of fun..

Omar
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Congratulations to all of the KDE people!!
by omar on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @19:12
You guys are the absolute very best there are!!
You guys deserve all the praise in the world for your hard work. We all appreciate it ver much. It's very nice to see "official" recognition (it is well deserved)

Thank you guys

have a lot of fun..

Omar
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Congratulations to all of the KDE people!!
by omar on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @19:12
You guys are the absolute very best there are!!
You guys deserve all the praise in the world for your hard work. We all appreciate it ver much. It's very nice to see "official" recognition (it is well deserved)

Thank you guys

have a lot of fun..

Omar
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KONGRATULATIONS !
by hackorama on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @20:48
Way to go Konqui ! Kongratulations !
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Of Course...
by wwelch on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @21:28
KDE is the Best Open Source Project. This is something that every KDE user already knows!

I have used KDE ever since I first started using Linux and I even use it at work now on Digital Unix machines. It has made my personal and work computer use a much more enjoyable and pleasant experience.

Congratulations on the award (but I could have told you that years ago) and thanks from all of us loyal KDE users.

Bill
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Best desktop
by Alain on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @23:43
Last year I said that KDE was good but still inferior to Win 98 desktop. Now I think it is superior, even superior to Windows XP desktop in terms of functionnalities. Konqueror, Kmail/KNode, Kicker, KWord are the leaders, Explorer/IE, Outlook Express, Wordpad are behind... And KDE has much more parameters to be adapted in different ways... And it is free...

It is still young, some little defaults or lacks are going to be fixed... It will take some time that the quality of the KDE work will be recognised. Today it is about the Open Source Project, tomorrow it will be about all desktops...

I hope that it is the beginnning of a new OS, Linux/KDE, already different of the GNU/Linux that some ones try to impose by speech.

Developpers, why some of you have not choose the best open source project ? There are so many things to do... It is inside KDE that you will satisfy the greater number of users, it is inside KDE that your programs will have the best future... Here you will be the most efficient... The KDE users are happy, you will be happy !

Also, I think that it would be fine to now create a third set of KDE programs (after desktop and office), something like KDE Tools or KDE Extra, with some great programs, KonCD, KWave, Quanta Plus and so...

Congratulations and encouragements for the KDE team, developpers, artists, translators and others, there are many hard things to do, you are in the good way !...
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yahoo!
by Navindra Umanee on Wednesday 29/Aug/2001, @23:49
Good job guys! Major rewliness!

PS Looks like we need an awards category. :-)
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Kongrats!!
by Rajan Rishyakaran on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @00:33
This is wonderful. But i hope the following features would be implemented.

- WINE support
Well, wouldn't it be nice to hover a .exe made for windows icon in konqi and right click it, select "Windows application" and it would open in WINE from that day onwards in Konqi, KMenu and Kicker and ofcourse, the desktop!

- Better GNOME and Motif support
There is a lot of GTK and Motif apps around. I don't use GNOME, so possibly KDE can apply themes on GTK and Motif (on user demand). This is because my Netscape window (not the title bar :) look different than my GIMP window which looks different from the rest of the desktop.

- Use Gecko in Konqueror.
Yes i know there is KMozilla, but i want to use Gecko in my fave file manager. So Konqi team should put an option for users to choice between Gecko and KHTML. At least Konqi users don't have to suffer from KHTML setbacks.

Best of luck to you guys. Wish you all developers good health and God bless!
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So...
by John on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @00:34
... just where are we going to keep that lovely shiny piece of glass? Can we take turns at keeping it perched atop our monitors? Let's see, if everyone gets to hold it for a day, that will take at least how many decades to get around everyone???

:-)
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Where's KDE 3.0 wishlist site?
by deman2k on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @00:44
Good job! Now where's KDE 3 wishlist site.. i wanna make wish :P
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Well deserved!
by reihal on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @01:24
Kongrats to the pointed glassy thingie and to the nice blue ribbon for Konqi.

I knew this was coming when I first saw KDE 1 beta in SuSE 5.2.
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port vim to KDE?
by kdeonfreebsd on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @02:14
Wonderful, folks@KDE - well deserved, I must say.

Now if only someone took the initiative and made a KDE port of vim (like the current GTK version, gvim)...
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KDE is better than Windows
by Anthony Enrione on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @02:33
Well deserved recognition for the great work you have all done on KDE. I am new to KDE (used to use gnome) and i was mortified when i first installed it to find a well integrated desktop environment. Konqueror and KMail are fantastic apps and fast unlike Mozilla. What is really cool is that at work :< i use win2000 which looks outdated compared to KDE. There is no going back, the future is bright and it's KDE.
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Kicker needs new Style!
by sUpeRGR@sS on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @03:23
Yes, KDE bits win9.x/win2000 a lot where it comes to look & feel, but don't forget about XP.. in general it's a rip of Mac but you must agree it looks cool...

I've created few themes for KDE (when kde.themes.org will allow to upload new themes again??? grr) and what I've noticed was lack of possibility to control kicker layout via ktheme/kstyle manager. In KDE 2.1, you could at least set the background image, now even this is not possible anymore. :/


Kicker is very important part of KDE, after all most of us look at it all the time, so it should be possible to control its look via new "Kicker styles/themes" like you can do for whole KDE now.

Kicker should have independed style/theme support. Imagine you want to have kicker menu in blue while the rest of the KDE menus are red...
Don't getting the idea? Look at some M$ XP screenshots and you will know what I mean...

What do you think about such idea?

Anyways KDE ROX and congratulations to you, guys!!!
Let the Big Pinguin bless ya all!
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masturbation ala KDE
by theman on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @05:28
News like these just some act of masturbation by KDE peoples...
Keep masturbating and feel good about yourself.
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You know
by ... on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @05:51
that you made me to start using Linux.
Now I'm the happy user KDE and Linux(Debian).

Best Regards and Run KDE Run ;-).
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Congratulation
by Orphée on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @06:54
Bravo ! Félicitations !
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KDE Is the "Best Open Source Project"
by Prashanth on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @08:35
KDE has Konquered !!!
Congratulations
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Congratulation but too much like MS Windows
by Nicolas on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @08:40
Congratulation to all the KDE developers. It is a very impressive job.

But I'm still a gnome and window maker user. I think that KDE is just a copy of the MS Windows desktop for Linux. It doesn't give a different approch to the computing experience. I use linux because it is a great OS and also because I want something different, a different desktop, a different approach. So I prefer to support projects that invent and create something different.
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Well done!
by Brian Masinick on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @11:10
I have been looking forward to this release for some time, and I have also been looking forward to seeing its adoption on some commercial platforms (particularly Tru64 UNIX) as well as the usual Linux systems.

I am very pleased to see how well this work has progressed. Congratulations to everyone! Keep up the great work! Perhaps I will get a chance to contribute to this effort. I'd like that very much, too.

The Mas
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Huge Congrats ! KDE Team you truly deserve it
by P J on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @13:13
A bit boring another post congratulating the KDE team ?

NO ! Not at all, you deserve it all, and for users like myself its from the heart too !! No I am not getting all soppy, but thanks to all on the KDE team for so competently and completely showing the World there is another better way than filling the obscenely fat wallets of Microsucks.

Anyhow I don't want to let this become a political post, so I will sign off with a BIG congratulations, and know how proud we the users are for you and of you, the developers, artists etc...

Regards and Admiration

P Sauter
Chief Web Officer
The Operating Room WorldSite

(A Non-profit organisation with a significantly healthier budget for those in need thanks exclusively to KDE/Linux)
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IBM got it right...
by Henri on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @15:58
I am more and more thinking IBM makes sometime good choices. Whereas Sun and lots of others jumped in a monkey-business (and I really wonder if they named themselves like this on purpose ;-)), IBM was not long ago the only one to choose KDE.
And, it was the good choice since the quality of KDE is quite amazing now. Bravo !
On the other monkey side, it looks like A.C. is having a good time figuring out how the mess of a code works.
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An additional feature reqd. if not already there
by adavi on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @18:58
Public recognition to the KDE suite of wonderful programmes on which so many linux users rely and love.Pl add my congrats. too.
The only feature I miss is an offline browsing feature on Konqueror unless it is already there and it is I who have missed it.
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KuDoS!
by parry on Thursday 30/Aug/2001, @23:00
Congrats Guys!!! A great job!
Keep it up and take some rest too!!
Looking forward for more such awards and , "Absolute Dominance" !!!
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KDE2.2-Great job done,but...
by Stoyan Zalev on Friday 31/Aug/2001, @03:20
Congratulations,boys and girls! As a proud KDE 2.2 user and somewhat translator(i18n-BG) I'm very pleased to see that all the efforts were for good. I'm ABSLUTELY sure KDE is the best desktop in the world(I used to think it's Mac OS X,but no longer). But there is a problem,too. I installed KDE2.2 on several computers,all from source. Unfortunately, virtually all of them experience serious hangs and even crashes. I thought it was because of the buggy NVidia drivers,but nothing changed for good after replacing the videocard. No one could tell me what is all about and I came to the conclusion that it has MORE bugs even than the alpha version! WHY???
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Nice but too bloated software; slow. ..
by skieu on Wednesday 05/Sep/2001, @20:38
I like hte design and features esp konqueror, but I have to quit using kde as it
too slow in my Intel celeron 400Mh 128 Mb memory. Just a desktop environment it
consumes a large part of system resourses. It is not worth it.

Just wonder why kde team got this award?

I run GNOME, much faster , albeit not so polished but it is obviously not a dumb
screen.

Wish kde team improve kde so that after start kde I still got 64Mb Free in Memory like I got it now when running gnome :-)
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Kudos
by general failure on Wednesday 17/Oct/2001, @02:23
you guys have done a great great job.
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Congrats !!
by infosrama on Sunday 04/Dec/2005, @17:15
Congratulations to the KDE-team!
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