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KDE Getting Ready To Go Native On Windows
News The Linux desktop environment KDE is moving a little closer to Microsoft Windows as developers ready a release of QT, the KDE graphical framework, that will run natively on the proprietary operating system.
[February 8, 2005, 13:50]
KDE Polishes Linux Look
News The KDE Project on Wednesday finalised a major update to the K Desktop Environment (KDE), its graphical user interface for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, adding a new look and feel with improved multimedia support and a better Web...
[April 4, 2002, 12:49]
Portland Looks To Unite Linux GUIs
News The Open Source Developer Labs is previewing work that attempts to make life easier for software companies by bridging GNOME and KDE, the two competing graphical interfaces most widely used with Linux.
[April 4, 2006, 17:20]
Windows Admins Should Learn About Linux
News For that and other reasons, I have chosen to use KDE for my systems. First, Linux is capable of being administered via either an X windows system such as Gnome or KDE or via the command-line interface, which is what I prefer for most administration...
[May 8, 2002, 16:08]
KDE Brings Safari Improvements To Linux
News KDE is one of two major packages offering a graphical user interface and integrated applications for Unix and Linux, the main alternative being Gnome. SuSE has previously focused its graphical user interface efforts on KDE, which is a rival to...
[February 5, 2004, 10:35]
Gnome Linux Desktop Updated
News Qt is used to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and is the main GUI toolkit for KDE. Gnome is, along with KDE, one of the two major desktop environments used with Linux-based operating systems.
[January 31, 2008, 17:11]
New KDE To Arrive With Halloween Eye Candy
News The KDE League is preparing to release the first major upgrade to its Linux desktop software since last spring, including a lot of eye candy and a raft of other tweaks and improvements. The feature made its debut in the open source Mozilla browser...
[October 17, 2002, 16:58]
GNOME To Fish In Embedded Linux Pond
News This is not the case with Qt [the graphical framework on which KDE is based], which is GPL. As well as providing a user-friendly development environment, the GNOME software stack is available under an open source licence that is more business...
[October 10, 2005, 16:35]
SuSE 8.0 Arrives Without StarOffice
News Another key change to SuSE Linux 8.0, officially released on Friday in Professional and Personal editions, is the inclusion of KDE 3.0, the latest version of the popular graphical user environment. The new KDE is base on a new set of developer...
[April 26, 2002, 17:20]
Nokia To Buy Major Linux Company
News Qt is used to develop graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and is the main GUI toolkit for the KDE Linux project, one of the two main desktop environments for the open-source operating system — the other being Gnome.
[January 28, 2008, 10:29]
Kopernicus: Linux Is Made Easy
News Available for free KDE, for its part, is based on the Trolltech Qt graphical user-interface toolkit. The KDE Team has released the long-awaited Version 2.0 of the K Desktop Environment. The K Desktop Environment (KDE) 2.0 product -- aka Kopernicus...
[October 25, 2000, 7:34]
MandrakeSoft Adds Office Software To Linux
News Other key features include a "minimal installation mode" that fits the core operating system into 65MB of hard disk space, a new "rescue mode" that remounts an earlier version of the system in the event of a catastrophic failure, and the latest...
[March 19, 2002, 11:45]
Linux Gets A Facelift
News SuSE's software touts itself as the first to use the KDE 3.0 graphical user interface, which adds graphical enhancements similar to those found in Windows XP or Apple's Mac OS X. SuSE Linux 8.0 is a bigger step, bringing in an upgraded version of...
[March 18, 2002, 13:20]
Speed Improvements Expected In KDE 4
News KDE 4, the next major version of the Linux desktop KDE, is likely to start up and run faster due to changes that have been made to Qt, the graphical framework that KDE is built on. The first beta version of KDE 3.4, the last release in the current...
[January 14, 2005, 11:35]
'Smart' Graphics Framework For KDE Nears Release
News Norwegian software company Trolltech has unveiled a release candidate of Qt 4, the graphical framework on which the next major version of Linux desktop KDE will be based. These changes could lead to performance improvements of up to 30 percent in...
[June 13, 2005, 15:15]
KDE Doesn't Have Any Desktop Icons.
Talkback Plus you can always add KDE during the install. Or, after the install it is very simple to change to KDE. As far as not booting into a graphical environment, there are few that don't. This is the way I prefer it, a nice ,clean, icon free desktop.
[November 16, 2007, 16:36]
Desktop Row Threatens Unified Linux Effort
News A fledgling effort at creating a unified Linux distribution is being threatened by a long-existing split in the Linux developer world -- namely, the divide between the two most popular graphical user interfaces (GUIs), Gnome and KDE.
[December 19, 2003, 16:45]
Nokia Renames Trolltech And Qtopia
News Qt is the main graphical user interface toolkit for the KDE Linux project, and is also used for applications such as Google Earth and Skype. Qt, a widely used graphical toolkit for Linux and other platforms, will now be the sole focus of Qt...
[September 30, 2008, 17:50]
Red Hat Smoothes Out Linux
News For years, desktop Linux users have been faced with a choice between two graphical interfaces -- Gnome and KDE. Although Rosenkraenzer said in an e-mail that he agrees with Red Hat's choice to make KDE and Gnome look the same, he told developers "I...
[September 30, 2002, 11:50]
Ximian Software Gets SuSE Support
News SuSE has previously focused its graphical user interface efforts on KDE, a rival to Gnome -- for example adding tweaks to the interface in a project backed by the German federal government. Ximian Desktop provides a graphical user interface for...
[January 7, 2004, 11:45]
