Talk:Development/Architecture/KDE4

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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.

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