It's impressive for the project to have come so far. Between the oversimplified, hyper-opinionated GNOME, the rock-solid but dull and minimal XFCE, the nostalgic MATE, and whatever Enlightenment is doing these days, it’s nice to have a continually polished, modern, well-integrated yet customisable experience like KDE, even today. And save for Akonadi (which just never seems to work reliably, rendering software like KMail useless), it’s been a pretty stable one for me, too. Here’s to another 30 years!

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datakan an hour ago | parent [-]

My first love was WindowMaker :)

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F3nd0 an hour ago | parent [-]

Window Maker is still really cool! Not a full desktop environment, though. I tried using it with GNUstep for a while, but while the base libraries are apparently still actively developed and maintained, a lot of the applications are antiquated, and they’re very hard to make blend in with EFL/GTK/Tk/Qt apps.

Sometimes I wonder what the desktop landscape would look like today if that branch of software gained wider adoption in the free software communities. :-)

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naves 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You should then give NEXTSPACE a try: https://github.com/trunkmaster/nextspace

I think it’s the closest thing to that dream today.

	▲	F3nd0 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, it’s still alive! Development stalled a while back, so I was worried something may have happened to the author, with their land being invaded and all. It seems more focused on the retro aesthetic, which I personally don’t love, but it’s still really nice to see.

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datakan an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> Sometimes I wonder what the desktop landscape would look like today if that branch of software gained wider adoption in the free software communities. :-)

It's derived from GNUStep which was from NeXstep who Apple bought. OSX and now macOS are descendants of that design. That's where the macOS dock comes from. Not a 1 to 1 design obviously but a marriage between the operating systems thanks to Steve Jobs.