Besides the desktop environment the KDE project also includes a large amount of software created using the same technologies as the KDE desktop . On 24 November 2009 the KDE Marketing Team announced an official rebranding of the KDE project components , motivated by the perceived shift from building a desktop environment to a complete project around a community of `` people who create software '' . The rebranding focused on de-emphasizing the desktop environment as `` just another product '' , and emphasizing both the community and the other technologies provided as KDE software .