Tobias A. Franke

thefranke.bsky.social

17 October 2026 06:10

Beautiful documentary, well worth a watch! Also, found an old screenshot of my desktop from 2004 o7

Adam Wiggins

adamwiggins.com

16 October 2026 17:46

I used KDE as my primary desktop from roughly 2000-2009. It was way out ahead of everyone at the time, for example: - It had a keyboard launcher (Alt-F2) years before Quicksilver/Alfred went mainstream on the Mac. - Built-in clipboard history, decades before macOS and Windows.

Adam Wiggins

adamwiggins.com

16 October 2026 17:46

But also, they started writing their own browser (Konqueror) from scratch. It seemed crazy at the time, but it resulted in KHTML/KJS, which ultimately became the basis for Safari and Chrome!

Adam Wiggins

adamwiggins.com

16 October 2026 17:46

I think these examples can show that community-driven projects can have an impact way beyond their userbase, as they prove out ideas that more mainstream platforms adopt.

Adam Wiggins

adamwiggins.com

16 October 2026 17:46

Watching the KDE documentary by @cultrepo.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vyz...