KDE: The Documentary

Name: KDE: The Documentary
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2026-10-14
Cast: Aaron Seigo, Albert Astals Cid, Cornelius Schumacher, Eike Hein, Eirik Chambe-Eng

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10/14/2026

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Documentary

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This is the story of KDE — from Matthias Ettrich's 1996 Usenet call for a better Linux desktop environment, through the Qt licensing fight that split the free desktop world, the KDE 4 release that nearly broke the community, and the powerful reemergence.

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English

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A documentary tracing the tumultuous history of an open-source desktop environment through internal conflict and near-collapse to eventual resilience. It's a technically grounded story about people trying to build something meaningful together.