The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop, a set of applications and a development platform. It is created by a community of people dedicated to create a free and user-friendly computing experience. KDE offers all necessary means to easily build all kinds of applications upon.
KDE has been around since 1996, with code change history dating back at least to 1997.
KDE is one of the biggest free software C++ project around and one of the two leaders of unix desktops.
Updated 18 Feb 2009 04:35 UTC
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by Jure Repinc
KDE is an excellent desktop environment. Actually I think it is currently the best. It's easy to use and has a lot of options that enable you to customize it exactly a you want. The community of users and developers around KDE is also great. I liked it so much that I even started learning programming in C++ and Qt so that I can one day help with development.
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by KAMiKAZOW
2008 was a difficult year for KDE. Technology-wise KDE 3.x became a dead end. OTOH the KDE 4.0 workspace was not ready for the general public, even though several KDE 4.0 applications were already better than their 3.x counterparts.
The 4.1 and the upcoming 4.2 (currently in beta) releases show clearly how amazing the base technology is. The leaps that the front-end apps make within the relatively short development time are
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Today the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit has started. The day was started by a series of talks by various people from local government and the organisation. After that the Keynotes started. Read on for an impression of the GCDS!
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Free t-shirts were popular
Tonight the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was opened with a party sponsored by Kubuntu's very own Canonical. Stickers, t-shirts and beer were all given out to contributors and users of KDE, Gnome and any other free
It is that time of the year again. Akademy 2009 is about to begin in only a few days. Held in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium close to the beautiful beaches of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this event is shaping up to be a special conference.
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Today, three days before the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit starts, the KDE team released KDE 4.3.0 RC1. RC1 is an early candidate for what will become KDE 4.3.0 at the end of this month.
Artwork has now also been merged, and KDE 4.3 will have a new
During this weekend (and after almost 24 hours of work), the KDE Community Forums have undergone a complete overhaul, resulting in a much improved look and additional features. The first and most user-visible change is the new forum theme. It is
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EDE, KDElibs (KDE), LibNUI, LXDE, Qt
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