Matthias Ettrich started KDE development in 1996.
You'll have to be a bit more specific. What are you trying to patch? Also, KDE 2 hasn't seen any sort of development since 2001, and even KDE 3.5 is only in maintenance mode. KDE 4.2 is the latest release (as of April 2009).If you are looking for a ready-built FreeBSD system with KDE, try PC-BSD or DesktopBSD.
Gnome. If you want KDE, you can use Kubuntu, the KDE derivative of Ubuntu.
KDE e.V.'s population is 1.
KDE Software Compilation was created in 1998.
The 2008 release shipped with KDE 3.5.7. The 2008.1 point release shipped with KDE 3.5.9.
use VMware player to install Gnome and KDE
KDE Plasma Workspaces was created on 2008-01-11.
KDE Partition Manager was created on 2008-09-18.
Ubuntu - GNOME Kubuntu - KDE Xubuntu - Xfce Puppy Linux - JWM Damn Small Linux - JWM, Fluxbox Fedora - GNOME (default) OpenSUSE - KDE (default) Debian - GNOME, KDE, Xfce Red Hat Enterprise Linux - GNOME Linux Mint - GNOME Xandros - KDE PCLinuxOS - KDE
Gnome There is a KDE version named Kubuntu, however
KDE and GNOME are the result of two different attempts to create a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux. KDE was created first. KDE used a widget toolkit known as "Qt", which was not open-source back then. Since some users wanted one that was completely open-source, even the toolkit, the GNOME project was created. Many users still liked KDE, though. Those who did not want to switch stuck with KDE. Those who insisted on free software chose GNOME. Later, the Qt toolkit was open-sourced, which removed much of the incentive for GNOME to exist, but enough users at that point like GNOME better, so development has continued.
A decent portion of the KDE desktop can be installed without installing its applications, although this makes little sense since GTK+ applications don't really look right in KDE. You should be able to do this by using the commandsudo apt-get install kdm kde-baseP.S. The version of KDE in the 8.10 (Intrepid) repository is very old and known to have a lot of bugs fixed in later versions. Unless you have a very good reason not to, you should upgrade to a later relase.