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diff --git a/x11/kded/DESCR b/x11/kded/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..f3c88c17e67 --- /dev/null +++ b/x11/kded/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +KDED stands for KDE Daemon which isn't very descriptive. +KDED runs in the background and performs a number of small tasks. +Some of these tasks are built in, others are started on demand. + +### Built in tasks + +* Checking for newly installed software and updating ksycoca when new + software is detected. Updating of ksycoca is done by the program kbuildsycoca + which gets started by kded. When kded is first started it always runs + kbuildsycoca to ensure that ksycoca is up to date. + +* Checking for newly installed update files. Applications can install + *.upd update files. These *.upd files are used to update configuration files + of users, primarily when new versions of applications are installed with + (slightly) different configuration file formats. Updating of configuration + files is done by kconf_update. kded starts kconf_update when it detects a + new update file. When kded is first started it always runs kconf_update to + ensure that it has not missed any update files. kconf_update keeps track + of which update files have been processed already in the config-file + kconf_updaterc. It only performs a certain update once. |