30 Sep 10 18:31, mark lewis wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
    ml>> i dunno... multiple desktops means one thing to me and multiple   
    ml>> screens is no more than multiple windows... i had an add-on for OS/2   
    ml>> called 9lives that gave it multiple desktops and each desktop had   
    ml>> multiple screens/windows... later on i found one for w98 but it   
    ml>> didn't work reliably and caused problems... all of my *nix   
    ml>> workstation installations have had KDE on them and it defaults to 4   
    ml>> desktops... one of my current ones is configured with six desktops   
    ml>> and changing between each of them is like rolling a cube around to   
    ml>> the one you want ;)   
      
    RW>> What does the E in KDE stand for?  I've used a KDM between two   
    RW>> computers before, but havn't heard of a KDE.   
      
    ml> KDM or KVM between two computers?   
      
    ml> as for the 'E' in 'KDE', originally 'KDE' was a word-play on Common   
    ml> Desktop Environment... the 'K' originally was to stand for 'Kool' but   
    ml> that was dropped and it became just 'K Desktop Environment'... so the   
    ml> 'E' stands for 'Environment' ;)   
      
   I must have this confused. I have a Keyboard, Display and Mouse interface   
   that allows control of two computers with one set of KDM devices.   
      
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