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Plasma Desktop: The K Desktop Environment (KDE) Plasma is the desktop developed and distributed by KDE (the K Desktop Environment). It is often referred to as simply the KDE desktop. Plasma includes the standard desktop features, such as a window manager and a file manager, as well as an extensive set of applications that cover most Linux tasks. The KDE Plasma version of Fedora Linux is called the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop and is available as a separate desktop DVD from https://spins.fedoraproject.org/. The Plasma desktop is developed and distributed by the KDE Project. KDE is open source software provided under a GNU Public License and is available free of charge along with its source code. KDE Plasma development is managed by the KDE Core Team. You can install it as an alternate desktop on a GNOME system by installing plasma-desktop. The KDE software development and distribution is organized into three projects: Plasma, Applications, and Projects. KDE Applications include numerous applications written specifically for KDE Plasma are accessible from the desktop. These include editors, photo and image applications, sound and video players, and office applications. Some applications have the letter K as part of their name, for example, KOrganizer. On a system administration level, KDE provides several tools for managing your system, such as the Discover and Apper Software Managers, and the KDE system monitor. KDE applications also feature a built-in Help application. See https://www.kde.org/ applications/ for a list and descriptions of current applications.

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Chapter 9

Plasma Desktop: The K Desktop Environment (KDE)

KDE Frameworks provides support libraries designed to work with the Qt libraries that KDE plasma and applications depend on. Frameworks is designed to be cross-­ platform, enabling any KDE application to run on systems that support the Qt libraries. Frameworks can be used as a basis for any custom operating system, such as LXQt. KDE Framework packages have the prefix kf5, such as the kf5-filesystem that provides support for the KDE filesystem. Development for Plasma, Frameworks, and Applications proceed at different paces. The KDE Frameworks version used in Fedora 28 Plasma Desktop is 5.46.0, whereas the KDE Plasma version is 5.12.5.

Note  As as noted in Chapter 6 for GNOME, you can install the same third-party multimedia support and codecs on KDE from the RPM Fusion repository, as well as dvdcss support from the Livna repository. Table 9-1.  KDE Websites Website

Description

https://www.kde.org

KDE website

https://www.kde.org/plasma-desktop

KDE Plasma desktop website

https://www.kde.org/applications/

KDE Applications website

https://docs.kde.org

KDE documentation site

https://www.qt.io/

Site for the Qt company

https://store.kde.org

KDE Plasma desktop themes

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/ listinfo/

KDE mailing lists

KDE, initiated by Matthias Ettrich in October 1996, is design