KDE

KDE is a powerful graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations.

Installation
Before you start, check your USE flags. If you want KDE as your main desktop environment, set the desktop/kde profile. Else, and if you have no other desktop profile set, enable the kde, qt4, qt3support, consolekit, policykit, dbus and udev USE flags.

In Gentoo there are 3 packages that will install a KDE environment: Its usually a good idea to start with and emerge whatever else you need as you go.
 * , the full KDE suite
 * , a bare KDE environment
 * , a very minimal KDE environment (no KDE applications or artwork)

KDE pulls in some packages that are quite heavy,, , , to name but a few, so the emerge will probably take awhile:

Meta packages
There are other meta packages that can be installed to pull in parts of the KDE suite:
 * Accessibility applications and utilities.
 * Accessibility applications and utilities.


 * Administrative utilities, pulls in tools such as, , etc. which helps you manage your system.
 * Administrative utilities, pulls in tools such as, , etc. which helps you manage your system.


 * Extra themes, screensavers, etc.
 * Extra themes, screensavers, etc.


 * Bindings for various languages.
 * Bindings for various languages.


 * Educational applications and "games".
 * Educational applications and "games".


 * Standard array of desktop games.
 * Standard array of desktop games.


 * Graphics applications such as image viewers, color pickers, etc.
 * Graphics applications such as image viewers, color pickers, etc.


 * Audio and video playback applications and services.
 * Audio and video playback applications and services.


 * Network applications such as and VNC services.
 * Network applications such as and VNC services.


 * The KDE PIM suite.
 * The KDE PIM suite.


 * Various development tools.
 * Various development tools.


 * Toy like applications, think and alike.
 * Toy like applications, think and alike.


 * Stanadard desktop utilies such as a archiver, a caluculator and more.
 * Stanadard desktop utilies such as a archiver, a caluculator and more.


 * Web development tools.
 * Web development tools.

Localization
For localization of KDE install. If you want only selected languages, define beforehand the LINGUAS USE flag:

For localization of packages included in you need to install, too.

Service
Set KDM as your display manager:

You can now start KDE:

To start KDE at boot time, add it your default runlevel:

KDE Look for GTK+ programs
Install and :

Now you can select the GTK+ theme under System Settings > Application Appearance > GTK Configuration.

Widgets
Many useful widget are in the package:

More KDE software
The most important KDE programs are in the portage tree and are mostly located in the kde-base and kde-misc categories.

External resources

 * Official KDE user wiki
 * Official KDE forum
 * KDE-Apps.org
 * KDE-Look.org
 * KDE-Files.org