Difference between revisions of "Talk:Development/Architecture/KDE4"

Latest revision as of 00:02, 16 February 2008

The architecture page for KDE4 is very much work in progress. Let's try to get a good overview and a table of contents as a starting point.

[edit] Draft Table of Contents

Desktop

Plasma - The desktop
KWin - Advanced window management including compositing
Strigi - Desktop search engine
Nepomuk - Meta Data library

Multimedia & Communication

Phonon - Multimedia framework
Decibel - Framework for real time communication
Akonadi - Centralized PIM storage solution
DNSSD - DNS-based Service Discovery Protocol, also known as Bonjour or Zeroconf

Core Technologies

KParts - KDE's component architecture (e.g. Kate, KHTML, Dolphin)
KIO - KDE's network transparent input/output system
Kross - Scripting framework
D-Bus - Full support for Inter Process Communication (IPC)
Services - Plugin System
MimeTypes - File associations and content/data types

Hardware Awareness

Solid - Hardware and network awareness
ThreadWeaver - Multithreading framework

Specials

Localization - Language support
Standard Compliance (fd.o)
KNewStuff2 - Collaborative data sharing
Sonnet - Spell- and grammar-checking technology

Further Highlights

KGGZ - Simple access to the GGZ Gaming Zone, a free online gaming centre
KOffice Architecture
KDevelop - Development Platform and IDE
Kdepim Suite - Private Information Management
Amarok

[edit] Article Content

As rule of thumb all articles should be easy to read especially for users/developers new to KDE. As such, every article should roughly cover the following parts

Introduction: Quick overview of what this is about (easy understandable!)

Highlights, interaction with other components, ...: Why is this cool, i.e. worth to be listed in the KDE4 architecture page (easy to read, not too much internals)

Further Resources: Link to development tutorials (for developers) and similar resources (related content)

Articles should should not span much more than 3 scrolled pages in a normal sized browser. It's all about giving an overview + links to further reading for interested visitors.

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 The architecture page for KDE4 is very much work in progress. Let's try to get a good overview and a table of contents as a starting point.
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 ;Desktop
 * Plasma - The desktop
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 * Amarok
-== Articles ==
+== Article Content ==
-Every article should cover the following parts
+As rule of thumb all articles should be easy to read especially for users/developers new to KDE. As such, every article should roughly cover the following parts
 ;Introduction
-:Quick overview of what this is about
+:Quick overview of what this is about (easy understandable!)
-;Highlights, interaction with other components, internals, ...
+;Highlights, interaction with other components, ...
-:Why is this cool, i.e. worth to be listed in the KDE4 architecture page
+:Why is this cool, i.e. worth to be listed in the KDE4 architecture page (easy to read, not too much internals)
 ;Further Resources
-:Link to development tutorials and similar resources
+:Link to development tutorials (for developers) and similar resources (related content)
+Articles should should not span much more than 3 scrolled pages in a normal sized browser. It's all about giving an overview + links to further reading for interested visitors.