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echo: irex
to: Roy Witt
from: mark lewis
date: 2010-09-30 18:31:36
subject: W7

ml> i dunno... multiple desktops means one thing to me and multiple
 ml> screens is no more than multiple windows... i had an add-on for OS/2
 ml> called 9lives that gave it multiple desktops and each desktop had
 ml> multiple screens/windows... later on i found one for w98 but it
 ml> didn't work reliably and caused problems... all of my *nix
 ml> workstation installations have had KDE on them and it defaults to 4
 ml> desktops... one of my current ones is configured with six desktops
 ml> and changing between each of them is like rolling a cube around to
 ml> the one you want ;)

 RW> What does the E in KDE stand for?  I've used a KDM between two
 RW> computers before, but havn't heard of a KDE.

KDM or KVM between two computers?

as for the 'E' in 'KDE', originally 'KDE' was a word-play on Common Desktop
Environment... the 'K' originally was to stand for 'Kool' but that was
dropped and it became just 'K Desktop Environment'... so the 'E' stands for
'Environment' ;)

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