Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 105, Issue 25
On Tuesday, 7 July 2020 12:07:20 PDT Roland Hughes wrote: > > You know, it's sometimes amusing to listen to your rants and anecdotes > > (and sometimes not), but I'd really wish you would spend a bit more time > > on actually verifying stuff before posting it. Some people might actually > > believe you. > I wish people would spend a bit more time verifying things too. > > https://www.google.com/books/edition/Desktop_Linux/jHTj-clXms8C?hl=en=1 > =k+desktop+history=PA183=frontcover > > Page 183 of above book. The book is wrong. You do realise that Kai and I worked directly with Matthias Ettrich for many years and we asked him directly about this? The founder of KDAB (whose initials are KD) was also there and says the same story. The KDE representative to the KDE Free Qt Foundation was also there and he says he's the one who tried to retroactively call it "Kool" but it didn't stick. That's the opposite of Linux, where the original author had a different name for his project when he first uploaded it and it didn't stick. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel System Software Products ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 105, Issue 25
On 6/20/20 5:00 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote: No application was ported to Qt. All of them were written from scratch. If you meant that older applications were being replaced with new ones with Qt, then sure. Most of them were either Xaw (Athena Widgets), pure X11 or Motif, though Motif ones weren't Open Source. Yes, early on, everything was a re-implementation of something else. Back when I had to buy SuSE in a box of floppies from an importer they published a different story about "K". I remember it well. You're not the only one who used floppies. I did too, but my first distribution (Slackware 3.2) lacked a K series because it was just too new at the time. https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=539 First one I ever owned. Long before the mouse. -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net http://www.johnsmith-book.com http://www.logikalblog.com http://www.interestingauthors.com/blog ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
Re: [Interest] Interest Digest, Vol 105, Issue 25
On 6/20/20 5:00 AM, interest-requ...@qt-project.org wrote: You know, it's sometimes amusing to listen to your rants and anecdotes (and sometimes not), but I'd really wish you would spend a bit more time on actually verifying stuff before posting it. Some people might actually believe you. I wish people would spend a bit more time verifying things too. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Desktop_Linux/jHTj-clXms8C?hl=en=1=k+desktop+history=PA183=frontcover Page 183 of above book. Most likely the decision to make the K stand for nothing very early on had to do with this inconvenient detail. KOOL cigarettes trademark (word mark) https://trademarks.justia.com/715/42/kool-71542076.html Kool® is a registered trademark of ITG Brands, LLC. Original filing date of the mark ** 1947-11-24 -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net http://www.johnsmith-book.com http://www.logikalblog.com http://www.interestingauthors.com/blog ___ Interest mailing list Interest@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/interest
