Celebrating KDE’s 26th Birthday With Some Inspiring Facts From Its Glorious Past!
When Matthias was a student at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, he was not satisfied as a Common Desktop Environment (CDE) user.
CDE is a desktop environment for Unix.
However, he wanted an interface that was more comfortable, simpler, and easy to use, with a better look and feel.
So, in 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced the Kool Desktop Environment (KDE), a GUI (graphical user interface) for Unix systems, built with Qt and C ++.
Note that the full form of KDE was an innocent pun intended to CDE at the time. You do not usually say it as “Kool Desktop Environment”, just KDE as of now. You can read the original announcement post to get a dose of nostalgia.