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