The first desktop environment for Linux is KDE project founded by Matthias Ettrich in 1996. KDE desktop aims to provide a complete interface for Unix users.
The default window manager for KDE is KWm. KDE installed together with a file manager called Konqueror.
Due to licensing issues, a rival KDE project was established in 1997, the GNOME project.
GNOME has the same goal with KDE, but both are composed of two entirely different platform.
If KDE depends on Qt to render graphics on KDE, the GNOME uses GTK completely free of licensing issues.
GNOME is provided along with the Sawfish window manager replaces the enlightment as The default window manager for linux.
Initially using the GNOME file manager called the GMC (GNOME Midnight Commander), but began to version 1.4 replaced by Nautilus.
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