kdelibs includes libraries that are central to the development and execution of a KDE program, as well as internationalization files for these libraries, misc HTML documentation, theme modules, and regression tests. Here is an alphabetical list: * dnssd Interface to the DNS-SD (Zeroconf) support. * interfaces kparts interface for text editors, mediaplayer and scripting. * kate KPart for 'kate', the KDE advanced text editor. * kcmshell KControl Module interface * kconf_update Auto-Updater for config files. * kde3support Libraries that were part of KDE3, but have been replaced for KDE4 * kdecore This is the core collection of KDE stuff. Non GUI classes reside here. * kded The KDE daemon checks for newly installed software, update files or hostname changes and takes according actions. * kdesu Library for password entering and handling * kdeui The main collection of misc. user interface classes (widgets). * kdewidgets For developers: KDE's custom widgets for Qt Designer. * kdoctools Contains mostly stuff convert XML docbook files via XSLT into human readable stuff. * khtml The next generation HTML rendering widget designed for Konqueror. * kimgio An all purpose extension to the qimgio class that supports various image formats. * kinit Process launcher (kdeinit), used for fast KDE startup and to launch kioslaves. * kio Classes that fetch and decode URLs are contained here. This library also contains "ksycoca", the system configure cache containing services, applications, servicetypes and mimetypes. * kioslave I/O subprocesses to handle files, ftp, http, gzip and bzip2 streams. * kjs Implementation of ECMAScript (aka JavaScript). * kjsembed A binding of the ECMAScript language to interface with KDE code. * knewstuff Allows applications to easily download data from the Internet to add new information to the program. e.g. wallpapers, translation packs, etc. * knotify Handles user notifications, including sounds, logging to files, etc. * kparts KDE component model. * kwallet Client and backend to store values in encrypted files. * mimetypes Database of mime types. * sonnet Tools for natural language processing, including spell and grammar check. Includes gui widgets.