KDE vs. GNOME

• KDE came first

  • KDE = K Desktop Environment (The "K" stands for Kool)
  • Based on the Qt library from Troll Tech
    • http://www.trolltech.com
    • C++ based GUI framework
    • Qt was originally not open source, but it is now
    • GNOME was started because Qt was not open source.

• GNOME

  • Based on GTK (GNOME toolkit)

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