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| 8 | <sect1 id="kde-intro">
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| 13 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 14 | </sect1info>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <title>KDE Preliminaries</title>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <para><application>KDE</application> is a comprehensive desktop environment
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| 19 | with a huge number of applications written for it and a huge amount of users.
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| 20 | It is based on the <application>Qt</application> framework.</para>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <para>There are two versions of <application>KDE</application>. KDE4
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| 23 | is a mature version that combines libraries and the desktop environment
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| 24 | into one set of packages and has numerous appplications that can be
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| 25 | built on that base. For KDE5, the libraries, now called KDE Frameworks
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| 26 | 5 or KF5, are separate from the desktop environment called KDE Plasma 5.
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| 27 | Both envionments can be installed, but Plasma is not yet considered
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| 28 | stable.</para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>For more information visit the official KDE project site at
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| 31 | <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/"/>.</para>
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| 33 | <sect2><title>Common Packages</title>
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| 34 |
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| 35 | <para>There are several packages that are common to both versions of KDE.
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| 36 | These packages are presented in the following sections of this chapter.</para>
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| 38 | <!-- <para>The core <application>KDE</application> packages are listed in the
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| 39 | recommended and tested build order. The additional
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| 40 | <application>KDE</application> packages can be built in any order.</para>-->
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| 42 | </sect2>
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