[dot] KDE Wins Best Desktop Environment Award

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From: Albert Astals Cid and Harald Sitter <>
Dept: kde-rules
Date: Thursday09/Mar/2006, @16:38

KDE Wins Best Desktop Environment Award
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   The results of the  LinuxQuestions.org 2005 awards
[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=422222] were
published earlier this week and KDE once again won the Desktop
Environment of the Year award.  The distance between KDE and the other
desktop environments increased over last year while no less than 3 KDE
applications won in their own categories. The LinuxQuestions.org
visitors thought that Quanta [http://www.kdewebdev.org], the homemade
feature rich web development application, is the best Free Software
application available for web design. The extragear music player Amarok
[http://amarok.kde.org], which helps you rediscover your music, finally
took over reign within the multimedia category. Last but not least KDE's
most used application, the pumping heart of the desktop environment,
Konqueror [http://www.konqueror.org], received an award as best file
manager.

     But that's not all, various applications also received mostly close
second places. The code development application KDevelop
[http://www.kdevelop.org], which is used by most KDE authors, got a
supremely close 0.61% less votes than the winner Eclipse. Kate
[http://kate.kde.org], the text editor of choice for KDE users, also got
a solid 2nd place in the editors category, and is probably the only one
within the top 3 also usable by non-geeks. Coming close behind the
cross-platform competition was KOffice [http://www.koffice.org] in the
Office Suite category, Konqueror [http://www.konqueror.org] for web
browsers, KMail [http://kmail.kde.org] for e-mail clients and Kopete
[http://kopete.kde.org], the Instant Messenger of KDE, narrowed its
position compared to last year. Finally the application that everyone is
using, but noone knows it exists, KWin, our mighty window manager,
received a second place as well.

     KDE and its applications are still improving so expect increased
ratings next year, when LinuxQuestions.org again asks "Who rules the
Linux world?".