Frameworks/List

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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	Description	Tier	Type	Porting Aid	Deprecated	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	Matthew Dawson
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			All Qt supported platforms (X11, Windows, Mac, and QWidget backends)	TBD
KImageFormats	Addons to QtImageFormats	Tier 1	Addon			All Qt supported platforms	Alex Merry
KJS	Support for JS scripting in applications	Tier 1	Functional	yes	yes	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
KI18n	Advanced internationalization framework	Tier 1	Addon			All Qt supported platforms	Chusslove Illich
KDNSSD	Abstraction to system DNSSD features	Tier 2	Integration			??	Matthew Dawson
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
KJobWidgets	Widgets for tracking KJob instances (provided by KCoreAddons)	Tier 2	Addon			All Qt supported platforms	TBD
KUnitConversion	Support for unit conversion	Tier 2	Addon			All Qt supported platforms	John Layt
KPty	Pty abstraction	Tier 2	Integration			Linux	TBD
KNotifications	Abstraction for system notifications	Tier 3	Solution				Martin Klapetek
KJsEmbed	Embedded JS	Tier 3 Porting Aid	Addon	yes	yes		Bernd Buschinski
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			Linux, MacOS X	TBD
KDeclarative	Provides integration of QML and KDE Frameworks	Tier 3	Addon			All Qt supported platforms. The supported remote Urls depends from what runtime kio slaves plugins are installed.	Marco Martin
KDED	Extensible deamon for providing system level services	Tier 3	Solution				Àlex Fiestas
KDESu	Integration with su for elevated privileges	Tier 3	integration			Linux	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	funcational				TBD
KIconThemes	Support for icon themes	Tier 3	Integration				Christoph Feck
KInit	process launcher to speed up launching KDE applications	Tier 3	Solution			Linux, Windows, MacOS X	David Faure
KIO	Resource and network access abstraction	Tier 3	Solution			Linux, Windows, MacOS X	David Faure
KMediaPlayer	Plugin interface for media player features	Tier 3	integration				Alex Merry
KNewStuff	Support for downloading application assets from the network	Tier 3	funtional				Jeremy Whiting
KNotifyConfig	Configuration system for KNotify	Tier 3	integration				David Edmundson
KParts	Document centric plugin system	Tier 3	Solution				David Faure
Kross	Multi-language application scripting	Tier 3	Solution	yes	yes		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
XmlGui	User configurable main windows	Tier 3	Solution				TBD
Plasma Framework	Plugin based UI runtime used to write primary user interfaces	Tier 3	Solution			library: All Qt supported platforms. Runtime part: Linux X11,Wayland	Marco Martin, Sebastian Kuegler
KActivities	Runtime and library to organize the user work in separate activities	Tier 3	Solution			All Qt supported platforms with a working DBus runtime.	Ivan Čukić
ApiDox	API documentation generation and assets for frameworks	Tier 1	functional				Aurélien Gâteau
FrameworkIntegration	Workspace and cross-framework integration plugins	Tier 4	integration				Àlex Fiestas
KDELibs4Support	Porting aid from KDELibs4	Tier 3	solution	yes	yes		TBD
KFileAudioPreview	Plugin interface for audio previews	Tier 3	integration	yes	yes		TBD
KHtml	KHTML APIs	Tier 3	Solution	yes	yes	All Qt supported platforms	Martin Sandsmark