KDE light is a combination of several open source components that all togehter form a complete desktop environment. The main part of KDE light is kdesktop, which is responsible for drawing the desktop background and icons. As windowmanager we use Openbox, because it´s very lightweight and easy to handle. To provide a kicker like panel, the GIMP Toolkit based fbpanel was modified. The developerstried to provide a continuous look & feel on all, QT and GTK based applications.
The panel has been designed as simple as possible, to gain straight access to the most needed applications. There is also an iconify button, so that one could always minimize open programs to have a look at your desktop.