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Acronym for the K Desktop Environment. (Like K-RAD, but a desktop, not a uh, RAD).

This DesktopEnvironment is one of the two most popular for Linux. (The other is GNOME.)

Often used because it is easy to configure, and can look similar to windows by default. Great for newbies and highly configureable by those more advanced. A bit too much eye candy for some, perhaps.

KDE has recently hit version 3.1 (it must be better than Gnome, it has a higher version number!). It uses TrollTech's Qt widget library.


KDE Hints

Removing the stupid dragon from KDE's Logout window

When you logout from KDE you will see a cute cartoon of a dragon in the logout window. It is called Konqi. After your 100th logout Konqi will no longer be cute. The dragon cartoon is stored in a PNG file called shutdownkonq.png which can be overwritten with anything you like. (Pictures with transparent backgrounds will look the best.) This file is found in the directory /usr/X11R6/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/ on RedHat and in /usr/share/apps/ksmserver/pics/ on Mandrake.

(I almost forgot: IsomerMadeMeDoThis.)

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