K Desktop Environment 3
| K Desktop Environment 3 | |
|---|---|
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 K Desktop Environment 3.5 | |
| Developer | KDE |
| Release | 3 April 2002 |
| Final release | 3.5.10
/ 26 August 2008 |
| Written in | C++ (Qt 3) |
| Operating system | Unix-like with X11 |
| Predecessor | K Desktop Environment 2 |
| Successor | KDE Plasma 4, KDE Software Compilation 4 and Trinity Desktop Environment |
| Available in | Multilingual |
| Type | Desktop environment |
| License | GPL and other licenses |
| Website | kde |
K Desktop Environment 3 (KDE 3) is the third series of releases of the K Desktop Environment (after that called KDE Software Compilation). It was one of the two major desktop environments for Linux systems between 2002 and 2008. There are six major releases in this series. After the release of KDE 4, version 3.5 was forked into the Trinity Desktop Environment.