Embed the Konsole (Terminal) to the Desktop in KDE 4.3+: "Konsole is the X terminal emulator of KDE. I find having the terminal out of my way, but always open and easy to reach out to, very convenient. It also looks cool. With KDE SC 4.3 and above you can easily achieve this with a few clicks without the need of any additional software.
The complete tutorial can be found at mygnulinux.com"
