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Deep Inside the K Desktop Environment

Posted by Hemos on from the kteach-kyourself-kabout-kit dept.

Lemmingue writes "Ars Technica published a very good article about the KDE architecture. It's a essential read for anyone wondering how Konqueror can open documents in the same window or just understand the license issues regarding the Qt use. The article describes most of the technologies behind the KDE (Qt, KParts) and how the project is organized. The article is full of links, screenshots and diagrams."

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  1. Re:Why does KDE always reinvent the wheel by Seli · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually Konqueror/KHTML and Kontact are not really reinventing the wheel.

    The work on KDE's filemanager and HTML engine dates back to the days when the only usable *cough* browser was Netscape4.x and Mozilla seemed only like a great failure.

    Kontact is basically an aggregation of long time existing KDE applications like KMail, KNode, KNotes etc., pre-dating e.g. Evolution.

    That said, this question about reinventing the wheel is stupid anyway. First, there are many things about KDE that KDE has had first (like, the first usable Linux GUI ;) ), and second, everybody is reinventing the wheel all the time anyway, so what?