Development

This page contains reference information useful for people writing KDE Software. There are plenty of other ways to contribute to KDE: see the Get Involved page on the Community wiki for a list of ideas.

Note that the Community wiki provides a place for KDE developers and other KDE community members to co-ordinate (including meeting notes and to-do lists). This section is for (relatively) stable documentation.

Learning

noframe	Getting Started How to set up a development environment, build KDE Software and submit patches. Related: The KDE Dev Guide book | Contribute
noframe	Programming Tutorials Step by step tutorials for KDE development.
noframe	Getting Help Resources for finding help with KDE development. Related: FAQs

Reference

noframe	API Documentation Reference documentation for classes, functions and other programming interfaces.
noframe	Policies Policies covering development of KDE software. Related: Guidelines
noframe	Schedules Upcoming freeze and release dates.
noframe	External Standards Externally or jointly developed standards for interoperating with other software.
noframe	Further Information Links to other resources.

Technologies and Tools

noframe	KDE Architecture Architectural design documents explaining KDE technologies.
noframe	Programming Languages Supported programming languages for KDE development.
noframe	Build System: CMake CMake related information.
noframe	Version Control System: Git Git related information.
noframe	Software Engineering Framework Software Engineering tools and processes used by KDE.