KDE is an acronym for the K Desktop Environment. It is a desktop environment for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems created by a group of mostly European volunteers and designed to remedy the shortcomings of the X Window System. KDE brings a well-designed graphical user interface (GUI) to Unix-like systems, which have not been noted for ease of use and combines the best concepts of the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS interfaces.
Hundreds of KDE-compatible applications are available, including the Office suite, which includes a word processing program (KWord), a spreadsheet (KSpread), a PowerPoint-like presentation graphics program (KPresenter), a vector-graphics-based illustration program (Karbon 14), an image- editing program (Kristo). See GNOME, graphical user interface (GUI), Linux, X Window System.
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