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.