What is Kde?
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Acronym for "The K Desktop Environment"
Kde is a desktop enviroment for the X11 system, commonly used by Linux with XFree86 and xorg. Commonly used.
Matthias Ettrich started KDE in 1996. It uses the Qt graphic library. Based on "look and feel" and features. KDE is extremely powerful for experts and easy to use for beginners at X.
Has a whole stash of software. Such as KOffice, Kmail, kontact, the K edutainment suite, KDE games, and etc.
Desktop: kdesktop
File Manager: konqueror
Window Manager: kwin
Menu: kicker
I love using "kig" for help on my geometry homework and "flashkard" for help memorizing. Except I have to load up kdeinit because I'm only using fluxbox.
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A popular linux desktop manager.
I am using KDE as my linux desktop manager.
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Kool Desktop Environment. Starts with "K", cuz CDE, or Common Desktop Environment used CDE
I sometimes use KDE. on my linux.
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a Windowing Mananger for Linux, made popular by people who don't know any better. Based QT, a port of Microsoft's god awful MFC classes for Windows to Linux. Clouded with nasties and released under GPL instead of LGPL like GTK. Those who know better who
Gnome 2.8 beats KDE 3.x every day of the week hands down.
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Ultra-slow, overly graphical Linux desktop enviroment. Default in SuSE, Lycoris, and other distros generally aimed at the new user.
"I use KDE because I want my computer to feel like Windows 2000 on a 486-DX2"
