Gnome or KDE?

[Martin Baxter]

Ken Ray wrote:
> Is there any simple way for a Rev stack to know whether the currently
> running version of Linux uses Gnome or KDE? And if so, what's the best way
> to determine what version of Gnome or KDE is in use?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken Ray

Ken,

Here (when running under Linux) I see a global environment variable 
called $DESKTOP which contains (in my case) the string "kde"

Looks like that might help

Martin Baxter