The KDE Library API Reference

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This is the online reference for developing with the KDE libraries (kdelibs).

The KDE libraries build on the Qt framework to provide a powerful framework to make writing applications easier, and provide consistency across the KDE desktop environment.

Among other things, the KDE libraries provide:

• standard user interface elements, on top of those provided by Qt (KDEUI)
• a standard configuration format and method of reading and writing configuration data (KConfig)
• site-independent access to standard directories, for finding resources such as icons (KStandardDirs)
• network transparent input and output (KIO)
• a method of embedding application components in other applications (KParts)
• straightforward multimedia and hardware interaction (Phonon and Solid)
• fully-fledged JavaScript and HTML engines (KJS and KHTML)
• an application scripting framework (Kross)
• semantic information and tagging (Nepomuk)

Visit the development section of KDE Techbase for tutorials, architectural overviews and other useful information.

Author(s):

Far too many to list. See the copyright notices on the individual files, as well as the pages for individual components.

Maintainer(s):

There is no single maintainer for kdelibs. Overall direction is governed by the kde-core-devel mailing list. Some of the individual components have their own maintainers: see the component pages for more information.

License(s):

Libraries: LGPLv2
Some helper binaries: GPLv2
Some code may have more permissive licenses.