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KDE: features, architecture and development framework.

KDE, the leading desktop environment for Linux/Unix, is also a very powerful development platform. This session will present the architecture and the facilities provided by KDE and Qt for application developers.
During this talk, you will be briefly presented KDE's main features, as a desktop environment and in terms of the applications it provides to the user. You will then learn about KDE's architecture, and especially the development framework offered by the KDE libraries. With the 2.x series, KDE has indeed become a powerful development environment, adding many classes and features to those already provided by Qt.
Specifically, we will talk about user interfaces described in actions and XML, about the DCOP communication protocol, about the trading capabilities for querying for installed applications and components, about network transparency, about system configuration cache and finally the component model called KParts.