Chapter 2
The KDE Plasma Desktop
IN THIS CHAPTER
Walking you through KDE Plasma
Playing with widgets
Setting up your workspace
In Book 2, Chapter 1, you see how the GNOME 3 desktop works. This chapter discusses the other popular desktop in the Linux world: KDE Plasma. The KDE Plasma desktop environment provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to your Linux distribution using features commonly found in Microsoft Windows systems. It’s available as a software package in Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu, and is the main desktop used in Kubuntu, a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu but focused on the KDE Plasma desktop. This chapter walks you through the KDE Plasma desktop features, showing you how to work your way around the desktop and get the most from your workspace.
The KDE Plasma Desktop
KDE desktop was first released in 1996 as the Kool Desktop Environment, but these days it tries to be a little more sophisticated and prefers to be called just the K Desktop Environment (but it is still pretty cool). It quickly became popular among Linux beginners because it provides a Windows-like interface for your Linux desktop.
Besides the graphical desktop, the KDE community releases lots ...
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