Frameworks/List

For a diagram view, see http://agateau.com/tmp/kf5

The list below is work in progress. Application developers: don't worry. People are working on all of the Frameworks. "TBD" just means that no single person has been identified as the lead maintainer yet.

Name	Features	Tier	Type	Platforms	Maintainer
KItemModels	Models for Qt Model/View system	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	TBD
KItemViews	Widget addons for Qt Model/View	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	David Edmundson
KArchive	File compression	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	David Faure
KCodecs	Text encoding	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	TBD
KConfig	Configuration system	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	TBD
KCoreAddons	Addons to QtCore	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	Michael Pyne (if no one else volunteers)
KDBusAddons	Addons to QtDBus	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	David Faure
KF5Umbrella	CMake help to use KDE Frameworks	Tier 1	Addon	All CMake supported platforms	TBD
KGlobalAccel	Add support for global workspace shortcuts	Tier 1	Integration	KDE Workspace	Martin Gräßlin
KGuiAddons	Addons to QtGui	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	TBD
KIdleTime	Monitoring user activity	Tier 1	Integration	??	TBD
KImageFormats	Addons to QtImageFormats	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	Alex Merry
KJS	Support for JS scripting in applications	Tier 1	Functional	All platforms	Bernd Buschinski
KPlotting	Lightweight plotting framework	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	Christoph Feck
KWidgetsAddons	Addons to QtWidgets	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	Christoph Feck
KWindowSystem	Integration with X11 and window managers	Tier 1	Integration	X11, Windows (incomplete) and Mac OS (incomplete)	Martin Gräßlin
Solid	Hardware integration and detection	Tier 1	Integration	??	Alex Fiestas
Sonnet	Support for spellchecking	Tier 1	Solution	All Qt supported platforms	Martin Sandsmark
ThreadWeaver	High-level multithreading framework	Tier 1	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	Mirko Boehm
KDNSSD	Abstraction to system DNSSD features	Tier 2	Integration	??	TBD
KAuth	Abstraction to system policy and authentication features	Tier 2	Integration	??	TBD
KCompletion	Widgets with advanced auto-completion features	Tier 2	Addon	??	David Gil
KCrash	Support for application crash analysis and bug report from apps	Tier 2	Integration	Unix (and Windows, to be retested)	David Faure (on Unix)
KDocTools	Documentation generation from docbook	Tier 2	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	Luigi Toscano
KI18n	Advanced internationalization framework	Tier 2	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	Chusslove Illich
KJobWidgets	Widgets for tracking KJob instances (provided by KCoreAddons)	Tier 2	Addon	All Qt supported platforms	TBD
KNotifications	Abstraction for system notifications	Tier 2	Solution	??	Martin Klapetek
KWallet	Secure and unified container for user passwords	Tier 3	Solution	All Qt supported platforms. GPG backend only available with KDE runtime.	Valentin Rusu
KBookmarks	Support for bookmarks and the XBEL format	Tier 3	Addon	??	TBD
KCMUtils	Extra API to write KConfigModules	Tier 3	Addon	??	TBD
KConfigWidgets	Extra widgets for easier configuration support	Tier 3	Addon	??	TBD
KDeclarative	Provides integration of QML and KDE Frameworks	Tier 3	Addon	??	Marco Martin
KDED	Extensible deamon for providing system level services	Tier 3	Solution	??	Àlex Fiestas
KDESu	Integration with su for elevated privileges	Tier 3	??	??	TBD
KDEWebKit	KDE Integration for QtWebKit	Tier 3	Integration	??	TBD
KDesignerPlugin	Integration of our widgets in Qt Designer/Creator	Tier 3	??	??	Alex Merry
KEmoticons	Support for emoticons and emoticons themes	Tier 3	??	??	TBD
KIconThemes	Support for icon themes	Tier 3	Integration	??	Christoph Feck
KInit	??	Tier 3	Solution	??	David Faure
KIO	Resource and network access abstraction	Tier 3	Solution	??	David Faure
KJsEmbed	Embedded JS	Tier 3	Addon	??	Bernd Buschinski
KMediaPlayer	Plugin interface for media player features	Tier 3	??	??	Alex Merry
KNewStuff	Support for downloading application assets from the network	Tier 3	??	??	Jeremy Whiting
KNotifyConfig	Configuration system for KNotify	Tier 3	??	??	David Edmundson
KParts	Document centric plugin system	Tier 3	Solution	??	David Faure
KPrintUtils	Extra features for QtPrintSupport	Tier 3	Addon	??	John Layt
KPty	Pty abstraction	Tier 3	??	??	TBD
Kross	Multi-language application scripting	Tier 3	Solution	??	TBD
KService	Advanced plugin and service introspection	Tier 3	Solution	??	David Faure
KTextEditor	Advanced embeddable text editor	Tier 3	Solution	All Qt supported platforms	Christoph Cullmann
KTextWidgets	Advanced text editing widgets	Tier 3	Addon	??	Laurent Montel
KUnitConversion	Support for unit conversion	Tier 3	Addon	??	John Layt if original author Petri Damstén doesn't take it.
XmlGui	User configurable main windows	Tier 3	Solution	??	TBD
ApiDox	API documentation generation and assets for frameworks	Tier 4	N/A	??	Aurélien Gâteau
FrameworkIntegration	Workspace and cross-framework integration plugins	Tier 4	N/A	??	Àlex Fiestas
KDE4Support	Porting aid from KDELibs4	Tier 4	N/A	??	TBD
KFileAudioPreview	Plugin interface for audio previews	Tier 4	N/A	??	TBD
KHtml	KHTML APIs	Tier 4	Solution	All Qt supported platforms	Martin Sandsmark