%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ Introduction to KDE4 KDE Version 4 is a comprehensive desktop environment with a huge number of applications written for it and a huge amount of users. Subsequently, it is refered to as KDE4. The earlier version is referredt to as KDE3 to avoid confusion. KDE3, now renamed Trinity, is also in the book. The current version is based on Qt4 and has some other conceptual innovations like Plasmoids and Activities. For more information about these concepts go to the KDE project site at .