[dot] KDE Desktop Environment of the Year 2007, Apps finish strongly

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From: Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org>
Dept: geek-oscars
Date: Thursday 28/Feb/2008, @01:57

KDE Desktop Environment of the Year 2007, Apps finish strongly
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   The 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award winners have been
announced. KDE leads the popularity list
[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/]
in the category Desktop Environment with a rocking 52% percent of the
votes leaving competing contenders in its dust. Among the users on
Linuxquestions.org, KDE is being praised for its high level of
integration, for the number of applications and of course for Konqui
being the cute mascot it is. But also KDE applications have been very
popular among the voters on Linuxquestions.org.

 KDE applications also score very high in users' popularity. KDE's CD
and DVD burning application K3b has won
[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/]
in the catgory of multimedia utilities with nearly 2/3 of the votes:
63%. Amarok continues to amaze its users. 57% of the sample in the
Linuxquestions survey prefer Amarok above other tools, making it the
clear winner
[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/]
in the category Audio Media Player. Konqueror wins as most famous
[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/file-manager-of-the-year-610231/]
filemanager with 38% of the votes. The discussion wether to use Vi or
Emacs is history now. Kate wins a second place
[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/text-editor-of-the-year-610219/]
behind Vi and scores much better than Emacs. KDE's emailclient KMail
follows up
[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/mail-client-of-the-year-610222/]
Mozilla Thunderbird. In the category of IDEs, Quanta finishes second
[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/ideweb-development-editor-of-the-year-610217/]
behind Eclipse. The category messaging application lists kopete as 2nd
most popular, following up Pidgin.
 The KDE community is really happy about all the awards and the
confidence users have in KDE4 living up to everyone's expectations.
Congratulations to everyone involved in those projects!