[ Thanks to mike for this link.
]
“I chatted with Uwe Thiem, KDE developer and author of KDE
Application Development, recently via email. We discussed his first
experiences using KDE, the strengths and weaknesses of the KDE
application development environment, what’s planned for KDE 2.0,
and more.“
“When did you first encounter KDE? What did you think of it
then, and how have your thoughts changed as KDE has evolved to its
current state?”
“Uwe Thiem: Early in 1997, a friend of mine and I were
discussing LyX, a graphical front end to the well-known typesetting
system TeX/LaTeX. While I was arguing that LyX was the best thing
that could have happened to UNIX and X, he pointed out that
Matthias Ettrich, the founder of the LyX project, had founded
another major project for X: KDE. While I wasn’t impressed much at
first because I knew CDE [a precursor of KDE] and its shortcomings,
I tried it out anyway … and was blown away from the start. Please
bear in mind that Matthias Ettrich sent out his original call for
programmers in October, 1996, so the whole project was only a
couple of months old then.”