KDE 3 appears in ‘The Social Network’ movie?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 10, 2010

[ Thanks to
Jacob Barkdull
for this link. ]

“Below is a still image from the film’s official
trailer, in it you can see what appears to be an old version of the
KDE Desktop Environment. This particular still image is from a
scene in the movie taking place in 2003, so KDE 3 would be an
accurate version for the year.

“You can see a window open with the titlebar reading “mark@m”
(the rest is covered by another window) which is normal for a
Konsole window’s title on a GNU+Linux system running BASH. Mine is
“jake@jacob-debian: ~”

“The first thing I noticed was the computer icon used in older
versions of both the GNOME and KDE Desktop Environments, but this
could just be a similar icon (there aren’t many ways to make a
computer icon.)”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

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