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