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button, and a Help button. It also has the Desktop Preview & Pager, the Taskbar, the System Tray, and the Clock. It was a core part of the KDE desktop, and as such, packaged as part of the kdebase module. Kicker was also ported from Qt3 to Qt4. In

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, Kicker, KDesktop, and SuperKaramba were replaced by

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being widget engines of their own, SuperKaramba is no longer necessary and e.g. "Kicker" was re-implemented as such a desktop widget. Kicker is currently developed by the TDE developers for the

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. Kicker can be launched separately in other windowing environments that lack a panel of their own, such as

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, and in case the twm menu lacks some of the commands that Kicker may have. This can be done by editing a .twmrc file, or from a

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Applets

Kicker can embed various applets into itself. The included applets as of KDE 3.5 are: * Binary Clock * Bookmarks Menu * Character Selector * Clock * Color Picker * Desktop Preview & Pager * Dictionary * Eyes * Fifteen Pieces * Find * K Menu * Keyboard Status Applet *

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Profiles * Lock/Logout Buttons * Math Expression Evaluator * Media Control * Moon Phase * Network Folders * News Ticker * Non-KDE Application Launcher * Print System * Public File Server * Quick File Browser * Quick Launcher * Recent Documents * Run Command * Runaway Process Catcher * Settings * Show Desktop * Sound Mixer * Storage Media * System Guard * System Menu * System Monitor * Taskbar * Terminal Sessions * Trash * Weather Report * Window List Menu * Wireless Network Information * World Wide Watch *

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