KDE Relaunches Community Forums

by Lisa Hoover - Oct. 16, 2008Comments (8)

KDE logoKDE users have a new online spot to get together and talk about their favorite desktop environment. The KDE Forum re-launched this week and is already over 17,000 members strong. There are plenty of categories that cover everything from troubleshooting Internet and network issues to canoodling about new styles and themes.

KDE developer Sebastian Kuegler says, "The new forum uses the bulletin board software MyBB offering users, developers and people interested in KDE a place to help each other, discuss KDE-related topics and exchange ideas. The KDE Forum complements KDE's UserBase, the home for KDE users as a valuable support resource."

Kuegler says the existing categories are simply a starting point and community members are welcome to request more. Future plans for the KDE forums include integration with KDE's existing infrastructure to notify members of new posts via IRC bots, mailing list messages, and RSS feeds.

While the previous KDE forums assigned moderators to specific categories, the new forums will be managed by super-moderators whose permissions will allow them to edit threads and posts across the entire board.

Of course the idea of project- or distribution-specific forums is nothing new, I'm always glad to see these kinds of message boards get some TLC. While longtime or hardcore Linux users typically gravitate toward IRC to chat with community members, many people prefer a message board format and the more options a newcomer has, the better.


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Good, it's helpful to eveybody.

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Isn't the new KDE forum (as announced here: http://kde.org/announcements/forum.php) actually at http://forum.kde.org/ not http://www.kde-forum.org as the article states? The quote attributed to Sebastian Kuegler is in the announcement that links to the other forum. Maybe someone should fix this.

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@anon: Apologies for the incorrect link. This has now been fixed. Thanks for pointing it out!

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@ostatic (I was anon above) - Thanks for making the change so quickly, nice to see some people are on the ball.

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What am I missing? The blog above say +17,000 members, but the bottom of the forum.kde.org site says "We currently have 1,468 members registered & 285 active users"

Good luck to the KDE forum. I'll try to hang around there when I can. -Bill

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Thanks for drawing attention to the reformation of the KDE forums, perhaps it means that the developers are ready to hear what the end users have to say. However I will not be joining them as I feel it would be a waste of time. KDE used to be my favorite desktop on Linux as I can't stand Gnome. The KDE 3x series is still my preferred desktop as I feel the developers have lost their way with the supposedly new direction of the 4.0 version. I suppose that since they do not get paid for their work they can do as they please. If you ignore what the end user wants or needs then do not expect him or her to follow you along your crooked path. I am now exploring a lot of the so called lightweight desktops and to my surprise I actually like this approach. It does take a little more work to determine all the different applications you are going to use for your personal desktop experience but once identified in a lot of ways you find that they are far superior to either KDE or Gnome and by installing some of the libraries of these two heavy weights you can still use some of the applications that you like on each of these desktops.

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OK, I get it: The +17,000 members is on the old KDE forums (kde-forum.org), not the re-launched forum.kde.org. The figure should probably be edited in the article. Cheers!

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