kde.org)??”In addition to all the
features you would expect to find in a complete desktop environment
(window managers, toolbars, panels, menus, keybindings,
icons, and so on), KDE has many bells and whistles available.
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IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding your desktop
Using the K desktop
environment
Using the GNOME desktop
environment
Configuring your own desktop
Playing with desktop eye candy
using AIGLX
Getting into the Desktop
Applications for graphics, multimedia, office productivity, games, system administration,
and many other uses have been integrated to work smoothly with KDE, which
is the default desktop environment for SUSE, KNOPPIX, and various other Linux
distributions.
GNOME desktop environment (www.gnome.org)??”GNOME is a more streamlined
desktop environment. It includes a smaller feature set than KDE and runs faster in many
lower-memory systems. Some think of GNOME as a more business-oriented desktop. It??™s
the default desktop for Red Hat??“sponsored systems such as Fedora and RHEL, Ubuntu,
and others.
The KDE Desktop is based on the Qt 3 graphical toolkit. GNOME is based on GTK+ 2.
Although graphical applications are usually written to either QT 3 or GTK+ 2, by installing
both desktops you will have the libraries needed to run applications written for both toolkits from
either environment.
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