File Gnome 3.2 shell.png thumb GNOME 3.x desktopenvironment File KDE 4.png thumb Latest version of KDE ... environment In graphical computing, a desktopenvironment DE commonly refers to a particular implementation ... full control over the OS is required in such cases. A desktopenvironment typically consists of icon ... that make the desktop metaphor more complete. A desktopenvironment aims to be an intuitive way ... with the physical world, such as buttons and windows. While the term desktopenvironment originally ... ref This usage has been popularized by the Common DesktopEnvironment and the KDE K DesktopEnvironment . Implementation On a system that offers a desktopenvironment, a window manager in conjunction ... desktopenvironment was by Xerox and was sold with the Xerox Alto in the 1970s. The Alto was generally ... Inc. Apple introduced a desktopenvironment on an affordable personal computer , which also failed ... versions in Windows XP and Windows 7 , followed by the desktopenvironment of Mac OS X . When ... environment is much more flexible. In this context, a desktopenvironment typically consists ... desktopenvironment elements, while others like evilwm and wmii do not. Not all of the program code that is part of a desktopenvironment has effects which are directly visible to the user .... Initially, Common DesktopEnvironment CDE was available as a proprietary solution, but was never ... 04 ref To users, a complete desktopenvironment and a suite of essential applications. These include ... underlying toolkit as GNOME. Razor Qt is also considered a fast desktopenvironment because ... common desktopenvironment on personal computers is Microsoft Windows built in interface. It is titled ... desktop environments also exist, including but not limited to Common DesktopEnvironment CDE , EDE , Graphical Environment Manager GEM , IRIX Interactive Desktop , Sun s Java Desktop System , Jesktop , Mezzo desktopenvironment Mezzo , Project Looking Glass , ROX Desktop , UDE , Xito , XFast ... more details
Orphan date May 2011 unreferenced date May 2011 Infobox software name Cream DesktopEnvironment logo screenshot caption Screenshot of Cream DesktopEnvironment frequently updated yes programming language Python programming language Python GTK operating system Unix like with X11 genre Desktopenvironment status Active license GNU General Public License website http cream project.org cream project.org working state Current The Cream DesktopEnvironment is a project working on a new GTK based DesktopEnvironment providing users a working environment following the KISS principle . Category Desktop environments desktopenvironment stub ... more details
Infobox software name Common DesktopEnvironment logo Image Cde.svg screenshot Commented out because ... The Open Group latest release version latest release date operating system Unix , OpenVMS genre Desktopenvironment license Proprietary software Proprietary website http www.opengroup.org cde www.opengroup.org cde The Common DesktopEnvironment CDE is a desktopenvironment for Unix and OpenVMS , based ... for Common Open Software EnvironmentDesktop accessdate 2007 11 30 date 1993 06 30 publisher ... operating system Solaris desktopenvironment in favor of GNOME. Solaris 10, released in early 2005, includes both CDE and the GNOME based Java Desktop System . The Solaris 11 release in November 2011 only contains GNOME as a full desktop, though some CDE libraries, such as Motif and Tooltalk, remain ... 12 01 work OpenSolaris Web site ref Hewlett Packard HP s OpenVMS uses CDE as its standard desktopenvironment ... cs Common DesktopEnvironment de Common DesktopEnvironment es Common DesktopEnvironment fr Common DesktopEnvironment gl Common DesktopEnvironment ko it Common DesktopEnvironment he Common DesktopEnvironment ja Common DesktopEnvironment pl Common DesktopEnvironment pt Common DesktopEnvironment ru CDE simple Common DesktopEnvironment fi Common DesktopEnvironment sv Common desktopenvironment th Common DesktopEnvironment uk Common DesktopEnvironment zh CDE ... development within the Common Open Software Environment COSE initiative. The primary environment was based on HP s Visual User Environment VUE Visual User Environment , itself derived from the Motif ... desktop manager components and scalable systems technologies from UNIX System V . Sun contributed ... mail and calendar clients, from its OpenWindows environment. ref cite press release url http bubl.ac.uk ... desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME ... 2007 11 30 author Peter Howkins ref The Xfce desktop at one time took part of its look and feel from ... more details
Infobox software name K DesktopEnvironment 1 logo Image KDE 2 logo.png 50px screenshot Image KDE 1.0.jpg 250px caption K DesktopEnvironment 1.0 collapsible developer KDE released 12 July 1998 latest release version 1.1.2 latest release date Start date and age 1999 09 13 programming language C Qt framework Qt 1 operating system Unix like with X11 platform language status genre Desktopenvironment license website url http kde.org K DesktopEnvironment 1 was the inaugural series of releases of the K DesktopEnvironment now called KDE Software Compilation . There were two major releases in this series. Pre Release Image KDE Beta3.png 250px thumb left K DesktopEnvironment Beta 3 The development of KDE started right after Matthias Ettrich Matthias Ettrich s announcement on 1996 10 14 to found the Kool DesktopEnvironment . The word Kool was dropped shortly afterward and the name became simply K DesktopEnvironment . In the beginning, all components were released to the developer community separately without any coordinated timeframe throughout the overall project. First communication of KDE ... 01, and 1998 04 19. ref name kdehistory K DesktopEnvironment 1.0 In the 1.0 release announcement the KDE ..., contemporary desktopenvironment for UNIX workstations. KDE seeks to fill the need for an easy to use desktop for Unix workstations, similar to the desktop environments found under the MacOS ..., the lack of an easy to use contemporary desktopenvironment for UNIX has prevented UNIX from finding ... an easy to use, contemporary desktopenvironment available for UNIX. Together with a free implementation ... 2008 03 27 ref K DesktopEnvironment 1.1 Image KDE 1.1.jpg 250px thumb right K DesktopEnvironment 1.1 An update, K DesktopEnvironment 1.1, was faster, more stable and included many small improvements ... date September 2010 Category KDE Software Compilation Category 1998 software Category Desktop environments ar 1 cs KDE 1 de K DesktopEnvironment K DesktopEnvironment 1.x no K DesktopEnvironment ... more details
Infobox software name K DesktopEnvironment 2 logo Image KDE 2 logo.svg 50px screenshot Image KDE 2.2.2.png 250px caption K DesktopEnvironment 2.0 developer KDE released 23 October 2000 latest release version 2.2.2 latest release date Start date and age 2001 11 21 programming language C Qt framework Qt 2 operating system Unix like with X11 platform language status genre Desktopenvironment license website url http kde.org K DesktopEnvironment 2 was the second series of releases of the K DesktopEnvironment now called KDE Software Compilation . There were three major releases in this series. Major updates K DesktopEnvironment 2 introduced significant technological improvements compared to its predecessor. ref name 2.0 announcement http www.kde.org announcements announce 2.0.php KDE 2.0 Release Announcement ref DCOP Desktop COmmunication Protocol , a client to client communications protocol intermediated by a server over the standard X11 ICE library. ref name 2.0 announcement KIO , an application Input Output I O library. It is network transparent and can access HTTP , FTP , Point of Presence ... itself using the KParts technology. ref name 2.0 announcement K DesktopEnvironment 2.0 Konqueror ... pages. ref name 2.0 announcement K DesktopEnvironment 2 also shipped with the initial release of the KOffice ... 2.0 announcement K DesktopEnvironment 2.1 The K DesktopEnvironment 2.1 release inaugurated the media player Noatun audio noatun , which used a modular, plugin design. For development, K DesktopEnvironment 2.1 was bundled with KDevelop . ref name 2.1 announcement http www.kde.org announcements announce 2.1.php KDE 2.1 Release Announcement ref K DesktopEnvironment 2.2 Image KDE 2.2.2.png thumb right 250px K DesktopEnvironment 2.2.2 Image Kde2.2.2 1.png thumb right 250px K DesktopEnvironment ... Software Compilation Category 2000 software Category Desktop environments ar 2 cs KDE 2 de K DesktopEnvironment K DesktopEnvironment 2.x no K DesktopEnvironment 2 pl KDE 2 sl KDE 2 tr KDE 2 ... more details
Infobox Software name Mezzo logo screenshot Image Symphonyosb1pr1.png 180px The Mezzo Desktop in action on Symphony OS caption The Mezzo Desktop in action on Symphony OS collapsible author Ryan Quinn developer released latest release version latest release date latest preview version latest preview date frequently updated programming language operating system Linux platform size language status genre Desktopenvironment license website Mezzo is the desktopenvironment created by Ryan Quinn. Added to Symphony OS , it follows Jason Spisak s Laws of Interface Design ref cite paper url http ftp.sun.ac.za ftp iso images mezzo MezzoGreypaper.pdf title Mezzo White Paper author Jason Spisak date 2005 accessdate 2010 02 03 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref and poses a new way of presenting data to the user. Mezzo uses FVWM as the window manager. Mezzo disposes of standard concepts like The desktop is a folder and nested menu systems and instead presents all needed information directly to the user via the main desktop and four desk targets for tasks and files related to System, Programs, Files, and Trash. This tries to simplify the desktop. Originally only available for Symphony OS , some earlier versions of Mezzo were available as a .deb package for other Debian based distributions such as Ubuntu operating system Ubuntu . The design of Mezzo has also influenced other projects, particularly the Kuartet Desktop , which is built upon KDE using SuperKaramba and Python programming language Python for the rendering of a similarly designed GUI. ref cite web url http www.kde look.org content show.php?content 32541 title Kuartet Desktop publisher Kde look.org date 2005 12 15 accessdate 2010 02 03 ref ref cite web url http kuartetdesktop.sourceforge.net title Kuartet Desktop Project ... X desktop environments and window managers Category Free desktop environments es Mezzo entorno de escritorio hu Mezzo grafikus felhaszn l i fel let it Mezzo Desktop ml pt Mezzo ambiente de desktop ... more details
Infobox software name MATE logo File MATE DesktopEnvironment Logo.png 200px screenshot File Mate Desktop Ubuntu.png 300px caption Mate 1.1 running on Ubuntu operating system Ubuntu developer Perberos and others released Start date df yes frequently updated yes programming language C programming language C , C , Python programming language Python operating system Unix like with X11 latest release version 1.2.1 released start date and age 2011 08 19 genre Desktopenvironment status Active language license GNU Lesser General Public License GNU LGPL , GNU General Public License GNU GPL website URL http mate desktop.org working state Current MATE IPA es mate is a desktopenvironment fork software ... While you are at it, could you also fork gnome, and support a gnome 2 environment? &mdash Linus Torvalds ref ref name ingeek mate citation url http ingeek.com a gnome 2 fork the mate desktopenvironment title A Gnome 2 Fork The MATE DesktopEnvironment work ingeek accessdate 2011 12 05 ref ref ... DesktopEnvironment wiki About gtk3 title About gtk3 work MATE publisher GitHub accessdate 2011 12 05 ref ref name keep gtk2 citation url https github.com perberos Mate DesktopEnvironment wiki About ... 3, replacing the classic desktop metaphor with a new interface built on top of GNOME Shell , led ... by Linux Mint developers quotation We consider MATE yet another desktop, just like KDE, Gnome ... MATE V1.2 was released 16 April 2012. It is one of the default desktop environments shipped with the latest ... MATE is also the primary desktop in Linux Mint Debian Edition, with Cinnamon as a secondary alternative desktop ref cite web url http blog.linuxmint.com ?p 1949 title Update pack 4 is out ref See ... Of GNOME 2 The Mate Desktop first Michael last Larabel authorlink Michael Larabel work Phoronix date ... for? work MATE accessdate 2011 12 11 ref X desktop environments and window managers Category GNOME Category X Window System Category Free desktop environments Free software stub es MATE fr MATE ... more details
copy edit date November 2011 Infobox software name K DesktopEnvironment 3 logo Image Klogo official crystal 3000x3000.png 50px screenshot Image KDE35desktop.png 250px caption K DesktopEnvironment 3.5 ... language Multilingual status genre Desktopenvironment license GPL and other licenses website url http kde.org K DesktopEnvironment 3 was the third series of releases of the K DesktopEnvironment now called KDE Software Compilation . There were six major releases in this series. K DesktopEnvironment 3.0 Image KDE 3.0n.jpg thumb K DesktopEnvironment 3.0 K DesktopEnvironment 3.0 introduced better ... backend s like LDAP or database servers. ref name 3.0 announcement K DesktopEnvironment 3.1 Image KDE 3.1 es ES.png thumb K DesktopEnvironment 3.1 with Konqueror and the About screen. K DesktopEnvironment ... K DesktopEnvironment 3.2 Image Kde 3.2.3 es es.png thumb K DesktopEnvironment 3.2 with Konqueror ... 10 ref K DesktopEnvironment 3.2 included new features, such as inline spell checking for web forms .... New accessibility tools. KGoldRunner, a new game. K DesktopEnvironment 3.3 Image Kde 3 3 screengrab.png thumb K DesktopEnvironment 3.3. K DesktopEnvironment 3.3 focused on integrating different desktop ... control center module to globally handle KDE visual themes K DesktopEnvironment 3.4 Image Kde34screenshot.png thumb K DesktopEnvironment 3.4 with Konqueror and Amarok. Accessibility was a key focus for K DesktopEnvironment 3.4. A text to speech system was included with support built into Konqueror ... to the way Netscape plug ins are handled. ref name 3.4 announcement K DesktopEnvironment 3.5 The K DesktopEnvironment 3.5 release included SuperKaramba , providing integrated and simple to install widgets ... http www.kde.org announcements announce 3.5.php K DesktopEnvironment 3.5 Released ref File KDE ... Infobox software name Trinity DesktopEnvironment logo Image Trinity DE logo crystal.png 50px screenshot ... status Current genre Desktopenvironment license GPL and other licenses website url http trinitydesktop.org ... more details
seem a fitting choice. Whereas most other desktop environments are written in a compiled language e.g., the GNOME desktopenvironment, Microsoft Windows XP and Microsoft Windows Vista Vista were all ... and as software components forming an installable additional desktopenvironment for most Linux distributions ... USB flash drive and used to reboot any PC or netbook directly into the Sugar environment. ref name arsSoaS ... features demo YouTube DwzCsOFxT U OLPC Sugar video 4 interface emulation demo X desktop environments and window managers DEFAULTSORT Sugar DesktopEnvironment Category Linux distributions Category Free desktop environments Category One Laptop per Child Category Live USB Category Educational operating systems es Sugar interfaz gr fica de usuario fr Sugar IHM it Sugar Environment pl Sugar rodowisko ... more details
Wiktionary desktopDesktop refers to the surface of a desk . The term has been adopted as an adjective to distinguish office appliances such as photocopiers and printers which can be fitted on top of a desk, from larger equipment covering its own area on the floor. Desktop may also refer to Desktop computer , a personal computer designed to fit on a desk Pizza box form factor , a design of computer case Desktop metaphor , especially the area behind the windows in a GUI using this metaphor Desktopenvironment , software that provides a comprehensive computer user interface Client computing , sometimes referred to as desktop to distinguish from the server disambig ca Escriptori de Desktop es Escritorio desambiguaci n ko it Desktop ja pl Desktop pt Desktop ru sk Desktop sv Desktop tr Desktop ... more details
Deleted image removed Image Customization linux.jpg thumb right 300px Desktop Customization on the Linux operating system Unreferenced date October 2007 Desktop customization is a term that describes the customization of a personal computer desktopenvironment . Customization can be carried out on different desktopenvironment in different ways. Popular desktop environments are Windows XP , GTK , Gnome and KDE . GTK, Gnome and KDE are environments found on the Linux Linux Operating system . Customization can include wallpapers, window styles, Widget engine widgets , gadgets , icons and skinned application software applications . desktopenvironment stub Category Personal computing Category Desktop environments zh ... more details
Remote Desktop may refer to Remote desktop software Apple Remote Desktop Remote Desktop Services Remote Desktop Protocol Desktop sharing Disambiguation de Remote Desktop ja Remote Desktop ... more details
Ximian Desktop was a GNOME based desktopenvironment from Ximian . It was made to be suitable for Desktop computer desktop and office productivity environment, and it enabled businesses to use Linux and open source software for daily work. Rather than being a complete Linux distribution, it was designed to fit on top of existing distributions, such as Red Hat and SUSE Linux Suse . It comprised the following modules Productivity Novell s edition of OpenOffice.org Office suite, Mozilla Firefox web browser, and more. Communication Novell Evolution and Novell GroupWise for collaboration, Pidgin software Gaim for multi network instant messaging. Enterprise ready Novell Linux Desktop 9 with Service Pack 2 is fully enterprise ready, with iPrint , Novell ZENworks integration, and more. Developer friendly Free Software development kit SDK available at http developer.novell.com developer.novell.com Category Novell software GNOME stub Linux stub ... more details
Desktop commonly involves a browser based connection to a desktopenvironment which includes an Office suite office productivity suite alongside other Application software desktop applications . The desktop ... meet requirements. A Hosted Desktop based environment will generally migrate user authentication, file ... ref A UK provider describes its hosted desktop on its website as Hosted Desktop replaces the traditional office network environment with a hosted desktop, Desktop in the Cloud . This will look ...Multiple issues refimprove April 2009 notability April 2009 orphan May 2009 A hosted desktop is a product ... software, Citrix XenApp or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services being two of the most common. Processing takes place within the provider s datacentre environment with traffic between the datacentre and the client ... Desktop is a term often used to refer to a container of a collection of virtual objects, software, hardware ... via one of many Remote desktop software remote desktop protocols . Clients can include thin clients ..., Mac OS X, Linux and others. The move towards hosted desktops, of which Desktop virtualization Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI is a subset Citation needed date March 2011 , is predicted by Gartner ..., cost control and scaling up down in timely fashion. Hosted desktop services can be a comparatively ... Desktop means that between 5 & 10 people can connect and work on a standard xDSL broadband ... are most often based on a Microsoft Server Technology Windows Server 2008 utilising Remote Desktop ... Workstation to make personalisation easier. Licensing for this type of Hosted Desktop is provided by the Microsoft .... Backup and disaster recovery will be handled by the Hosted Desktop vendor ref http www.entrustit.co.uk .... Pricing Models For Hosted Desktop vendors utilising Microsoft technology, charges are normally monthly with a basic charge applied for each user of a Hosted Desktop and then additional charges for an Office ... A Canadian provider describes its hosted desktop on its website as ... a combination of IT infrastructure ... more details
wiktionary Environment may refer to Environment biophysical , the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism Environment systems , the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass, energy, or other properties Environments series , a series of LPs, cassettes and CDs depicting natural sounds Built environment , constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging from the large scale civic surroundings to the personal places Knowledge environment Social environment , the culture that an individual lives in, and the people and institutions with whom they interact In computing Desktopenvironment , in computing, the graphical user interface to the computer Environment variable s, the dynamic set of variables defined in a process Integrated development environment , a type of computer software that assists computer programmers in developing software Runtime environment , a virtual machine state which provides software services for processes or programs while a computer is running In Functional programming , the environment is a function which maps variable names on to their values ref cite book last Jones first Simon L. Peyton title The implementation of functional programming languages year 1987 publisher Prentice Hall International location Englewood Cliffs, NJ isbn ... PAGES 029.HTM ref In Unified Process the Environment discipline refers to the tools and customizing ..., chemical and biological components of the environment Other Environment film Environment film , a 1917 silent film See also Ambient disambiguation Category Environment , for articles relating to the effect of human activity on the environment Ecology , a sub discipline of biology often confused with the environment in general Environmentalism , a concern with the preservation of the environment ... simple Environment disambiguation sr sv Milj ta tr evre vi M i tr ng ... more details
more will follow in the next few days File Socialdesktopologo.jpeg thumb 300px Social Desktop logo File Social desktop plasmoid.png thumb 300px Social Desktop Plasmoid KDE 4.3 beta The Social Desktop idea describes how online communities and web collaborations can be integrated into desktopenvironment s such as KDE and GNOME and how they could directly be accessed by desktop applications such as a Plasma KDE Plasmoids . ref cite web url http dot.kde.org 2009 05 01 social desktop starts arrive title Article about the Social Desktop Plasmoid for KDE 4.3 ref A core idea of the Social Desktop is to connect ... base. Integrating this kind of information and data to the desktop and to be accessible for everyone ... Presentation of the Social Desktop as keynote of the aKademy 2008 from Frank Karlitschek ref Backend Backend of the Social Desktop is Open Collaboration Services Open Collaboration Services API . ref ... Desktop. Parts of the Social Desktop News Highly personalised news feed with specific ... part of the Social Desktop. Every user is allowed to create and to enregister new events, to take ... in April 2010, included the social desktop application Gwibber ref cite web url http releases.ubuntu.com 10.04 ubuntu 10.04.1 desktop i386.manifest title List of packages included in Ubuntu 10.04.1 ... realisation of the social desktop concept was already implemented as a plasmoid a desktop widget for the KDE desktop. The release of KDE Software Compilation 4 KDE 4.3 KDE 4.3 in July 2009 already has a so called Social Desktop Plasmoid integrated. Furthermore the official KDE community forum is also .... ref cite web url http mail.kde.org pipermail social desktop 2009 March 000011.html title KDE community forum admin on OCS Social Desktop ref References reflist External links http www.open ... on freedesktop.org http lwn.net Articles 333143 Background story and evolution of the Social Desktop http www.opendesktop.org openDesktop.org, first OCS provider Category Social Desktop Category Web 2.0 ... more details
Infobox software name ROX Desktop logo screenshot Image rox desktop 2004.png 250px caption A screenshot of the ROX desktop developer latest release version 1.4 latest release date release date and age df yes 2008 12 30 operating system Microsoft Windows and Unix like operating systems programming language C programming language C , Python programming language Python genre Desktopenvironment license GNU General Public License website http www.roscidus.com desktop home www.roscidus.com desktop home The ROX Desktop is a graphical desktopenvironment for the X Window System . It is based on the ROX Filer which is a drag and drop spatial file manager . It is free software released under the GNU General Public License . The environment was inspired by the user interface of RISC OS . Programs can be installed or removed easily using Zero Install . The desktop The ROX Desktop is a desktopenvironment ... comp.sys.acorn.misc Re ROX desktop ref and is still led by him in 2009. The desktop uses ... manager license GNU General Public License website http roscidus.com desktop ROX Filer ROX Filer ..., or can be used as part of ROX Desktop. It is the file manager provided by default in certain ... Comparison of X Window System desktop environments Package management system References Reflist 2 Bruce Byfield 7 February 2007 http www.linux.com archive feed 59961 ROX Desktop provides light, quirky ... ausgabe 2002 07 068 desktopia rox 2.html RISC rocks. Jo s alternativer Desktop ROX LinuxUser External links http rox.sourceforge.net ROX home page http roscidus.com desktop ROX Filer Project website X desktop environments and window managers FOSS File managers Interlang Use dmy dates date October 2010 Use British English date October 2010 DEFAULTSORT Rox Desktop Categories Category Free desktop ... programmed in Python Category Linux windowing system related software Category GTK de ROX Desktop fr ROX Desktop it ROX Desktop nl ROX Desktop pl Rox ru ROX Desktop ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2009 Desktop alerting is a relatively young sector of information logistics , where information is sent to an application that displays its content directly on the user s computer Desktop metaphor desktop . Typically, the alert is delivered to a client computing client computer from a central provider. The client is either an opt in software product, for example an RSS reader, or an Enterprise software Enterprise Class software product in a local area network LAN . As a workplace tool, desktop alerting can serve as tool for reliable information distribution. Desktop alerting ... A desktop alert is an electronic message sent to computers over a local network or over the internet ... on the end user s desktop. Each recipient s computer typically has a client application installed ... Directory Access Protocol LDAP active directory integration in a corporate environment or by subscription s for private users. Can be from a commercial or corporate point of view, desktop alerting ... versions of Windows operating systems, the NET protocol was able to deliver desktop alerts in corporate .... Fields of application Desktop alerting has several fields of application. Commercial applications can ... Desk to users in a corporate network or advertisement to consumers. Desktop alert messages can ... http www.alert software.com DeskAlerts Desktop Alert Software http www.cordaware.com Cordaware bestinformed Desktop Alert & Emergency Notification Software http www.spydaman.com ACEmessage ACEmessage Desktop Alert Software http www.optini.com www.OPTINI.com OPT IN Desktop and Browser based alert software http www.desktopalert.net www.DesktopAlert.net Desktop Alert Software http www.spreadhub.com SpreadHub Desktop Alert Web App http www.alertsdesktop.com www.AlertsDesktop.com Desktop Alert Software ... and pc www.MessageNetSystems.com Desktop Alert Software http http www.buildingtechnologies.siemens.com ... Siemens Sygnal Desktop Alert Software References references Category Office suites ... more details
Infobox title Desktop Linux image File Gnome.png 250px caption The GNOME desktopenvironment, one of the most popular Linux desktops Desktop Linux , also called Linux on the desktop , refers to specialized Linux distribution s with features designed for desktop personal computer users. These features ... the desktop role specifically, while others include all the software available for the platform. In that case, the user will be given the choice to select either a desktop or server type when the operating system is installed. History See also History of free software Desktop Historically, UNIX ... for low end desktop computers. Desktop environments See also Linux adoption On desktop computers l1 Desktop adoption of Linux Image KDE 4.png thumb KDE desktopenvironment Linux offers many desktop alternatives. The most popular desktop environments are GNOME , KDE , Xfce and LXDE . These are rather large collections of desktop programs, rather than bare bones X window manager window managers such as FVWM , IceWM amongst numerous others. These environments present a GUI using a desktop metaphor ... cube. Regardless of the source, all Linux desktop applications use the X Window System and thus ... 05 13 last About, Inc authorlink year 2008 ref Desktop Linux environments have been improving in appearance ... boot and x86 virtualization for running both Linux and Windows on the same computer. Year of Desktop Linux Since at least 2000, articles declaring that 20XX will be the year of Linux on the desktop or year of the Linux desktop YoLD have been published by a number of tech related magazines and websites ... their greatest use on desktop Linux distributions. It can also refer to a breakthrough in the number ... of the linux desktop title 2008 Year of the Linux Desktop accessdate 2008 05 23 last Strohmeyer first ... ubuntucat the linux desktop myth title The Linux Desktop Myth accessdate 2008 08 31 last Siu first A.Y. ... &isPrev title 7 Reasons Why Linux Won t Succeed On The Desktop last Wolfe first Alexander date 2007 ... more details
Image knotes.png thumb Screenshot of Knotes, a desktop note application for KDE Desktop notes are computer applications that allow putting Post it note like windows on the screen, with reminders, short notes and other clippings. They are typically rectangular and yellow, like their real world counterpart, but most applications support other colours and more elaborate designs. The earliest known desktop note application is Note pad made for the GEOS 8 bit operating system GEOS system for the Commodore 64 in 1985. For Apple Macintosh Macintosh Stickies software Stickies was developed by Jens Alfke and included by Apple in System 7 Macintosh System 7 in 1994. ref cite web url http jens.mooseyard.com 1997 04 they made me an offer i couldnt refuse title They Made Me An Offer I Couldn t Refuse author Jens Alfke date April 13, 1997 work Thought Palace publisher accessdate January 18, 2010 ref A number of applications have duplicated the functionality of Stickies on other platforms. Mac OS X has its own built in desktop note functionality through Dashboard Mac OS Dashboard , an application that has notes and other desktop widgets . On Microsoft Windows , desktop note applications have been included by default since Windows Vista , which has the Notes gadget . ref http vista.gallery.microsoft.com vista SideBar.aspx?mkt en us Windows Vista Sidebar ref It is used as part of Windows Sidebar .... Also you can find other, free or non free, desktop note applications like ShixxNOTE which have ... address. Screenshot of ShixxNOTE program Send note to dialog. td tr table On Linux , desktop notes have existed for quite some time. The GNOME Desktop GNOME desktop, which is used by default on Ubuntu OS Ubuntu , has a built in sticky notes feature available, whereas KDE K DesktopEnvironment has a desktop notes application called Knote. See also Desk Accessory Desktop widget ShixxNOTE Stickies software Stickies Web annotation References reflist Category Desktop widgets ... more details
s Desktop metaphor desktopdesktopenvironmentenvironment is expanded beyond the physical limits ... Full Screen and Windowed desktop style applications in a single environment. Some programs, VWorlds ... range from as few as two virtual desktops to several hundred. The most popular desktopenvironment ...About software that creates a virtualized environment between the computer platform and its operating system Virtual machine virtual machines running desktop environments Desktop virtualization Cleanup date June 2007 In computing , a virtual desktop is a term used with respect to user interface s, usually ... desktop area and can also be helpful in reducing clutter. There are two major approaches ... copies of their desktop view port and switch between them, with open windows existing on single ... of the physical viewing device. Typically, scrolling panning a subsection of the virtual desktop into view is used to navigate an over sized virtual desktop. Overview Switching desktops Switchable desktops ... LaStrange in swm the Solbourne Window Manager, for the X Window System in 1989. Virtual Desktop ..., y positions on a given virtual desktop context . They are then only accessible to the user if that particular context is enabled. A switching desktop provides a way for the user to switch between contexts ... Desktop MatthiWare Mutter window manager Mutter default window manager for GNOME 3 olvwm extended ... virtuawin whim windowmaker xmonad Oversized Desktops Other kinds of virtual desktop environments do not offer discrete virtual screens, but instead make it possible to pan around a desktop that is larger ... that is higher than the monitor s display resolution, the virtual desktop manager may allow windows ... . List of notable Window Managers that provide scrolling desktops Infinite Screen fvwm The desktop motion is jumpy with this implementation tvtwm vtwm GiMeSpace Desktop Extender for Windows BigScreen 360Desktop Implementation Virtual desktop managers are available for most graphical user interface ... more details
, separates a personal computer desktopenvironment from a physical machine using the client server model of computing. Virtual desktop infrastructure, sometimes referred to as virtual desktop interface ref cite web url http www.networkworld.com community node 38582 title Virtual Desktop Interface publisher ... secure remote access to an enterprise desktopenvironment Limitations of desktop virtualization ... Workspace virtualization Multiseat desktop virtualization User environment management References ...Desktop virtualization sometimes called client virtualization ref See for example cite book author John Lamb title The Greening of IT How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment url http books.google.com ... 9780137150830 page 95 pages 317 quote ... client, or desktop, virtualization. ... The concept of client ... model enabling desktop virtualization, encompassing the hardware and software systems ref http blogs.techrepublic.com.com ... environment. ref cite web author Paula Rooney url http www.informationweek.com news software ... Desktop Models Desktop Software publisher InformationWeek date accessdate 2010 03 17 ref Many enterprise level implementations of this technology store the resulting virtualized desktop on a remote central ... to the desktop VMs are propagated to all user machines through the network, thus combining ... and individuals to take advantage of the flexibility of multiple desktop VMs on a single hardware platform without additional network and server resources. Technical definition Desktop virtualization ref cite web url http www.networkworld.com news 2009 112409 vdi desktop virtualization cheat sheet.html title Desktop virtualization cheat sheet publisher Networkworld.com date accessdate ... environment or the environment itself to a remote client device. The client device may use an entirely different hardware architecture from that used by the projected desktopenvironment, and may also be based upon an entirely different operating system. The desktop virtualization model allows the use ... more details
Desktop wars may refer to The struggle for dominance of the desktop computer market from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s between Mac OS history Apple s Mac OS classic , History of Microsoft Windows Microsoft s Windows DOS based and OS 2 IBM s OS 2 . Citation needed date July 2010 The debate among Linux users and developers as to which Linux desktopenvironment is best generally, the wars are fought over KDE and GNOME , although alternatives such as Xfce are tossed in the mix. For the most part, it is friendly competition between the two, but occasionally, there have been cases in which aspects of the development of desktop environments have been criticised, such as by Linus Torvalds Later years Linus Torvalds . ref cite web title GNOME v. KDE, December 2005 edition url http lwn.net Articles 163792 first Jonathan last Corbet work LWN.net date 2005 12 13 accessdate 2010 07 24 ref ref cite web title Linus versus GNOME url http www.desktoplinux.com news NS8745257437.html author Steven J. Vaughan Nichols work DesktopLinux.com date 2007 02 23 accessdate 2010 07 24 ref ref cite web title KDE 4, distributors, and bleeding edge software url http lwn.net Articles 316827 first Jake last Edge work LWN.net date 2009 01 28 accessdate 2010 07 24 ref References reflist See also Software wars Operating system advocacy Desktop Linux Category Software wars Category Linux linux stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Infobox Software name Dekoh Desktop screenshot caption developer Pramati Technologies latest release version latest release date 15 April 2007 operating system Cross platform genre Runtime environment license Unknown website http www.dekoh.org www.dekoh.org Dekoh Desktop is a cross platform development Software framework framework for deploying Java programming language Java , Adobe Flash Flash , and Ajax programming Ajax applications. It allows Rich Internet Application RIA applications to be used when the user is on line or off line, trying to integrate the best of both worlds. History Dekoh Desktop is an open source initiative from Pramati Technologies , launched as a public alpha in 15, April 2007 at the Web 2.0 Expo. Dekoh framework aims the emerging market of Desktop RIA applications, competing with Adobe Systems s Adobe Apollo Apollo ref http www.readwriteweb.com archives dekoh challenges apollo.php Dekoh Challenges Apollo As Desktop Web Platform ReadWriteWeb Bot generated title ref and possibly with Microsoft s Microsoft SilverLight Silverlight . References references External links http www.dekoh.org Dekoh.org Project site http www.dekoh.com Dekoh.com Applications developed using Dekoh framework Category Beta software ... more details
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