KBFX'' is an application written in C++/TQt for KDE 3.2+ and TDE R14.x and offers an alternative to the default K Logo menu. It improves users' experience by replacing the Win95-like K-Logo button and menu with a larger and thus more visible start button and menu. It does however keep the traditional KDE menu as an option. It is fully skinnable. Features Main KBFX features: Using Plugins. Selecting an Application Group. Scroll up and down the application list. Type and locate an Application. Logout of the Desktop. Lock the Desktop. Launch the KBFX Configurator (the KBFX settings manager). Extra KBFX features: Double buffered Widgets to minimize flicker. Animated scroll bars. New Tooltip. New Control Manager. Drag & Drop Applications' Items support. History KBFX was started on June 5, 2005 as a hobbyist project by Siraj Razick, born out of a spontaneous idea. The reason was that Siraj didn't like the old K-Menu, which was quite a clone of the old Win95 Start menu. So he started coding. The first step provided merely the possibility to call the K-Menu via a button, that could have a different shape and size than the original K-Menu button, which has always been an icon of a square size. To change the default KBFX button, one still had to copy an image file to a certain location. After the first post in mid-June 5, KBFX has spread rapidly and it was nice to see that until end of June, there were already a dozen posts on kde-look with buttons and builds.Mensur Zahirovic''' (called Nookie) joined Siraj on 5 August, after Siraj met him on yahoo. Nookie is responsible for the web-development and the Q&A. He also arranged the site www.kbfx.net, that replaces the previous site www.linuxlots.com/~siraj/plugin/kde. After that, things began to speed up. Now KBFX is no longer just another button design for the K-Menu, but provides an alternative to it, that is in fact more sophisticated than the XP-Start menu. Development KBFX version 0.4.9.3 is a complete rewrite of the old KBFX code eliminating all the negative points of the previous versions. KBFX has been tested to work with all GCC 3.x and GCC 4.x compilers. It has been tested on systems running the distributions of Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Slackware, Mango, Mandriva (formerly Mandrake), and Fedora core. Unfortunately, compiling on FreeBSD systems is yet to be tested. Concepts The KBFX Spinx Menu does