Still there doing stuff, many activists realize after a few years that the impact of protests or even riots often isnt lasting and tend to either stop doing public activisim because they fear backlash, some make it their job and in NGOs where they stagnate because of bueraucracy and some will understand that only change changes things and start to sabotage the things that need said change.

I think it was the name of the new desktop concept introduced with KDE 4 and then got synonymous with the whole DE