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'''KDE Architecture - Control center'''

== Control center modules ==

The KDE control center is a modular application. It acts 
as a container for "Control center modules". Modules are implemented
as dynamically loadable libraries.

In order to write a control center module, inherit the class KCModule
from the libkdeui library. This class in turn inherits QWidget. 
Basically, you only have to reimplement some methods to load and
save the configuration of the items that are configured in your
module. In order to notify the control center about a new module,
it has to install a [http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec.html .desktop file] in the
directory <tt>applnk/Settings</tt> in the KDE directory hierarchy.

Further information is available in the
[http://api.kde.org/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/classKCModule.html KCModule]
class reference.


''Initial Author:'' [mailto:bernd@kdevelop.org Bernd Gehrmann]