KDE 3 Architecture

• Library structure
• Accessing system resources
  • Standard Resources,
  • Icon Loading,
  • System configuration cache (KSycoca).
• Graphics
  • Low-level graphics with QPainter
  • Structured graphics with QCanvas
  • 3D graphics with OpenGL
• User interface
  • Action Pattern
  • Defining menus and toolbars in XML
  • Providing online help
• Complex widgets
  • HTML renderer with JavaScript
  • File dialog
  • Displaying large amounts of data - Using QListView, QListBox and QIconView
• Components and services
  • KDE services
  • MIME types
  • Network transparency
• Inter Client Communication
  • Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP)
  • XML-RPC (discontinued)
• Starting other programs
• i18n and l10n

Desktop Framework

• Panel applets
• Control center modules

Multimedia Framework

• aRts - the current state
• Imaging/Animation

Component Architecture

• KParts
• Docking into the panel's system tray
• Java Integration

KOffice Architecture

• Document/View introduction
• Filters

Protocols

• Window management
• Session management
• System Tray Docking
• Drag-And-Drop
• Printing

Development Tools

• Interface Documentation Tool (kdoc)
• Integrated Development Environment (KDevelop)
• Graphical Debugger (kdbg)
• CVS Frontend (Cervisia)
• Advanced (Developer's) Text Editor (kwrite)
• Icon Editor (KIconEdit)
• Hex Editor

Development HOWTOs

• Binary Compatibility Issues With C++
• How to use unicode with KDE

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