KDE Founder Receives Highest German Honor

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 6, 2009 @03:07PM from the other-than-beer dept.

Jiilik Oiolosse writes "KDE founder Matthias Ettrich was decorated today with the German Federal Cross of Merit for his contributions to Free Software. The Federal Cross of Merit is both the most prestigious as well as the only general decoration awarded by the Federal Republic of Germany. It is awarded by the Federal President for outstanding achievements in the political, economic, cultural, and other fields. Matthias was awarded the medal in recognition of his work spurring innovation and spreading knowledge for the common good."

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Great now can he... by rec9140 · 2009-11-07 04:26 · Score: 0, Flamebait

PLEASE get KDE 4 back on track to being as useful as KDE 3.5.10 and take sagio out and bury him and the dolphin with the fishes!
KDE is bar none the best X WM out there, but KDE 4.x is doing nothing but hurting all the ground made up during the 3.5.x releases.
NO, I do NOT want my desktop as a widget
NO, I do NOT want dolphin as anything except as tuna bait
The "look" of KDE is just fine, move on!
Konqueror is the BROWSER and the FILE MANAGER, now RESTORE all the features you ripped out of Konqi so it can be used again.

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