KDE Software Compilation

KDE Software Compilation
Developer(s)KDE
Initial release1.0 / 12 July 1998; 26 years ago (1998-07-12)
Final release17.12.3 (March 6, 2018; 6 years ago (2018-03-06)) [±][1]
Written inMainly C++ (Qt), some C
Operating systemEntire DE: Unix-like with X11 or Wayland and also Windows XP–7.[2]
Applications only: Mac OS X 10.4–10.6
Available in86 languages[3]
List of languages
  • Full (52): Arabic, Basque, Bosnian, Brazilian Portuguese, British English, Catalan, Catalan (Valencian), Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi (Persian), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish Gaelic, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur
  • Partial (34): Afrikaans, Armenian, Assamese, Asturian, Belarusian (Latin), Bengali, Bengali (India), Breton, Bulgarian, Chhattisgarhi, West Frisian, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashubian, Kurdish, Macedonian, Maithili, Malay, Malayalam, Northern Sami, Oriya, Pashto, Sinhala, Tajik, Tamil, Tatarish, Telugu, Thai, Upper Sorbian, Uzbek, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese, Walloon
TypeDesktop environment
LicenseGNU GPL, GNU LGPL, BSD License, MIT License[4]
Websitewww.kde.org

The KDE Software Compilation (KDE SC) was an umbrella term for the desktop environment plus a range of included applications produced by KDE. From its 1.0 release in July 1998 until the release of version 4.4 in February 2010, the Software Compilation was simply known as KDE, which stood for K Desktop Environment until the rebrand.[5] The then called KDE SC was used from 4.4 onward until the final release 4.14 in July 2014. It consisted of the KDE Plasma 4 desktop and those KDE applications, whose development teams chose to follow the Software Compilation's release schedule. After that, the KDE SC was split into three separate product entities: KDE Plasma, KDE Frameworks and KDE Applications, each with their own independent release schedules.

  1. ^ "KDE Ships KDE Applications and Platform 17.12.3". KDE. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
  2. ^ "Replace Windows Shell with KDE Plasma Desktop".
  3. ^ "KDE Localization statistics".
  4. ^ "KDE Licensing Policy". Retrieved 6 November 2010.
  5. ^ Repositioning the KDE Brand