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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
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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. [Less]
Qt is a cross-platform (Windows, Unix, MacOs X) graphical toolkit.
Qt features a rich API to write GUI software, but also for other aspect of application development : network classes, xml, internationalisation, database, ...
The KDE libraries, basis of KDE and used by many open source projects. They are based on Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform toolkit, and run on Linux, BSDs, and other Unices, as well as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Licensed under GNU LGPL, they may be used by open source and proprietary applications.
Backbone is a user environment, using the GNUstep libraries, using the design of the NeXTstep/OPENSTEP user environment as a springboard; the idea is to do better, not just different.