File:Path35.png It's been a long hard road for the KDE Project. The almost constantly growing hungry hungry hippo of it, along with the botched initial rollout of the SC 4 series proved that the KDE Project was on an unsustainable course. Simply put: a redesign was sorely needed if the developers were to save the *nix world from the stupidity of GNOME. And so, KDE 5 was born!