K Desktop Environment 2
Developer(s) | KDE |
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Initial release | 23 October 2000 |
Final release | 2.2.2
/ 21 November 2001 |
Written in | X11 |
Predecessor | K Desktop Environment 1 |
Successor | K Desktop Environment 3 |
Type | Desktop environment |
Website | kde |
K Desktop Environment 2 was the second series of releases of the K Desktop Environment. There were three major releases in this series.
Major updates
K Desktop Environment 2 introduced significant technological improvements compared to its predecessor.[1]
K Desktop Environment 2.0
Konqueror was introduced as web browser, file manager and document viewer. It used KHTML for displaying web pages.[1]
K Desktop Environment 2 also shipped with the initial release of the
K Desktop Environment 2.1
The K Desktop Environment 2.1 release inaugurated the media player noatun, which used a modular, plugin design. For development, K Desktop Environment 2.1 was bundled with KDevelop.[2]
K Desktop Environment 2.2
The KDE 2.2 release featured up to a 50% improvement in application startup time on Linux systems and increased stability and capabilities for HTML rendering and JavaScript. A number of new plugins were included in Konqueror.
KDE Restoration Project
After celebrating KDE’s 20th birthday with a re-release of K Desktop Environment 1.1.2 on 14 October 2016,
Release schedule
Date[8] | Event |
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2.0 | |
23 October 2000 | KDE 2.0 released |
5 December 2000 | 2.0.1 Maintenance release. |
2.1 | |
26 February 2001 | KDE 2.1 released |
27 March 2001 | 2.1.1 Maintenance release. |
30 April 2001 | 2.1.2 Maintenance release (kdelibs only). |
2.2 | |
15 August 2001 | KDE 2.2 released |
19 September 2001 | 2.2.1 Maintenance release. |
21 November 2001 | 2.2.2 Maintenance release. |
21 December 2017 | 2.2.2 Restoration re-release. |
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "KDE 2.0 Release Announcement". KDE. 23 October 2000.
- ^ "KDE 2.1.2 Release Announcement". KDE. 26 February 2001.
- ^ "Free KDE Desktop Ready for Enterprise Deployment". KDE. 15 August 2001.
- ^ "KDE Project releases KDE 1 !". 13 October 2016.
- ^ Castro, Helio. "Qt2 ported for modern systems with cmake". Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ Castro, Helio. "And then kdelibs 2 is ready for base consumption…". Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "KDE2 Restoration super repo". GitHub. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
- ^ "KDE Announcements". KDE.