Katana Desktop

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wove
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Katana Desktop

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Katana is a fork of KDE 4, much like Trinity is a fork of KDE 3. Here is the github page. <https://github.com/fluxer/katana>. As far as I can remember KDE 4 was not considered very good at least at the start of its releases, so I am confused as to what the point might be. From what I have been able to read, it looks like it is looking to improve upon KDE 4 to make a suitable for lower spec hardware.

Here are some reddit comments about Katana <https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments ... k_of_kde4/>

Make of it what you will.
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Re: Katana Desktop

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This might also be popular for Slackware, as I know a lot of their users have been trouble keeping KDE4 running on Slack 15.
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Re: Katana Desktop

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I came across it on FreeBSD. The project maintains a FreeBSD repository. To run Trinity on BSD you need to go the ports route and compile it yourself. I was sort of excited about KDE 4 near the time it was released. KDE had created Akonadi data server backend with search. This was about the same time Apple had introduced CoreData as a sql data server backend and integrated it into Spotlight.

Coredata was hugely successful speeding up many data intensive application and vastly speeding up and improving search. I had hoped to see similar results with KDE, but upon release the thing seemed a broken mess, and it took several more releases before it ever improved.
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