Great Work; One Area That Could Use A Little Love

[Paul Brown]

On Thursday, 23 October 2025 01:58:14 Central European Summer Time James 
Parker wrote:
> I've been something of a distant supporter of Qt and KDE for almost three
> decades; I pushed (but failed) to get Qt adopted by the GUI team I was
> working with when Byte first published about it. I've always been a "back
> end" developer so never got into it personally.  General translation: I'm
> old.
> 
> I really like what's been done with the inflection point; it feels
> particularly *real*. That however, brings me to my point; I saw the
> inflection point, went to donate, then went into the timeline. I got
> slightly confused at the book "20 years of KDE"; my dates slipped a bit and
> I thought it was recent (at my age, 20 years and 30 years seem similar). It
> does seem a bit odd to me that the book is basically "the history of KDE
> until 10 years ago," and there are other hints that the dates are odd,
> specifically the lines:
>                                         Interest on what happened in the
> last 20 years?
>                                        Check out the KDE timeline
> <https://timeline.kde.org>and                                        Also,
> join us in one of the KDE 20th anniversary parties
> <https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Parties/KDE_20_Anniversary> all
> around the world. Organize a new one if your city is not on the list.
> 
> The "20 years" looks close enough to "29 years" that they can get blurred
> in one's mind. Even worse is the page of 20th anniversary parties, which
> reads like it is currently being planned; -- not that it's a decade old.
> There's also a subliminal feeling that it is related to the "inflection
> point" throughout. It gives an unfairly rough feeling to otherwise great
> work.
> 
> First, add a "Coming Soon" or "In the Works" quasi-announcement of Volume
> 2: "The Next 10 years of KDE". I don't want to put anyone under the gun,
> but it would be nice if it could be ready next year; if not, it can become
> the 21st century "Duke Nukem Forever" 😁
> 
> Second, change the text around the KDE timeline to reflect that it's
> covering the full 29-30 years (maybe worded something like "coming up on 30
> years").
> 
> Third, Change the link to be the KDE 30th anniversary parties next year,
> and clone the current site but strip out the specific party plans and just
> point to the anniversary date.
> 
> I think that will bring it up to the same quality as everything else you've
> done.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James Parker
> blitz120 at gmail.com


Hi James,

Unfortunately we don't have a "30 years of KDE" book... yet! But I am sure 
Lydia Pintscher is working on it.

That said, point(s) taken. I will see that they get corrected and everything 
we can update gets updated.

Thanks for the thorough heads up!

Cheers

Paul
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