KDE
KDE is a network transparent contemporary desktop environment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS or Microsoft Windows. With KDE there is now an easy to use contemporary desktop environment available for UNIX. Together with a free implementation of UNIX such as GNU/Linux, UNIX/KDE constitutes a completely free and open computing platform available to anyone free of charge including its source code for anyone to modify.
KDE can be viewed either as a user desktop or as a development platform for applications. This page will quickly describe the major features of both.
K Desktop Environment :
Konqueror Browser: It is KDE’s next-generation web browser, file manager and document viewer & widely heralded as a technological break-through for the GNU/Linux desktop.
KOffice Office Suite: KDE also ships with the highly anticipated release of the KOffice suite. The integrated suite consists of a spreadsheet application (KSpread), a vector drawing application (Karbon), a frame-based word-processing application (KWord), a presentation program (KPresenter), and a chart and diagram application (KChart).
KIO Network Transparency: KIO’s network transparency offers seamless support for accessing or browsing files on GNU/Linux, NFS shares, MS Windows SMB shares, HTTP pages, FTP directories and LDAP directories.
aRts Multimedia Architecture : KDE 2.0 introduced a new multimedia architecture based on aRts, the Analog Realtime Synthesizer. ARts enables playing multiple audio or video streams concurrently, whether on the desktop or over a network.
Customizability: KDE’s customizability touches every aspect of this next-generation desktop. KDE’s sophisticated theme support starts with Qt’s style engine, which permits developers and artists to create their own widget designs.
Standards Compliance: Besides the exceptional compliance with Internet and file-sharing standards mentioned above, KDE achieves exceptional compliance with the available GNU/Linux desktop standards.
Site: http://www.kde.org
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