Kate Turning 10 Years Old
by Dominik • 2011-08-11 • Common, KDE, Users • 21 Comments
We almost missed it, but 10 years ago Kate was included in KDE’s CVS repository and shipped the first time with KDE 2.2. Details about the history can be found here. So Happy Birthday Kate! And Kate in KDE 2.2 looked like this:
In comparison, Kate nowadays looks like this (KDE 4.7):
So.. in ten years only looks changed? ^_^
No
We created a lot bugs, too 
lol
Congrats to Kate from Okteta!
I dont know why but I feel the first version looks much better and cleaner…
I think it’s the font size, turning the font size down a point or two is the first thing I do on a new system and makes everything look better.
Also the toolbar icons in the second one are bigger and accompanied by text.
Or maybe you just like the old theme, I’m pretty sure there’s a similar available in the default KDE install on most distros
I think that’s because in current oxygen, the tittle bar, toolbar and menubar blend together, and as there’s no separation between stuff, it feels more confusing, also the fonts as Pal said
Kongratz to my favourite editor and its team of kreators!
(Yes, the K-words are a reminiscence of the old days, rather than a pun onto the new ones.)
kool
I like the first one the most. It has less bloated toolbars and more room for actual work.
Unfortunately it looks like the new toolbars, borders etc take up more space…
Actually my old screenshot was with smaller fonts and given that my old PC up then had only 1024×768, today, with normal screens, you will have much more space to work with Kate
Congrats to Kate from New Delhi, India
Congratulations guys!!!
I’m glad I was only twelve when you started; I can’t imagine living without Kate.
Damn, now I feel old
But thanks that you like it! And thanks for the help on the manual!!!
You should come to the yearly KDE conference the next time! We are all nice guys, so it’s usually a very good time to be here.
I’m not sure how a visit to Berlin could be anything other than a “good time”.
I have a friend from there who came over here as an exchange student some years ago and has been bugging me to come visit and raving about how awesome it is for ages now.
Of course, it’s about having a good time, but also about lots of discussions, meeting other people and getting work done
KDE really should consider spending some effort on choosing professional fonts.
Not only does KDE4 Kate look uglier than it should on this screenshot, it’s probably also hardly usable. The amount of text shown in each window is so small that scrolling all the time would drive me crazy.
Well, I just arranged the views such that it looks the same as 10 years before. And I resized the Kate mainwindow to a rather small size so you can actually see something without clicking on the link.
So all comments on the layout are just invalid. I thought that obvious
Congratulations! She rocks!
seriously guys you should be proud of kate. I’ve once made user come to KDE/linux just for the kate editor