


Software that reduces this waste is software that is more sustainable. Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss: Software can produce waste in many ways. People don't typically consider software a factor in contributing to physical waste, so what does it mean for an application to be eco-friendly? Q: KDE has announced that sustainability is a top priority. The software, Okular, is a universal document viewer designed to work on multiple platforms with a wide variety of file formats.Īs a longtime member of the KDE community and a happy Plasma Desktop user, I asked Joseph De Veaugh-Geiss of the KDE Eco group about the ways KDE and open source can help computing be eco-friendly. The open source community KDE recently received the German Blue Angel (Blauer Engel) ecolabel for energy efficiency.
