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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 deprecated 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. It is no longer in BLFS. For KDE5, the libraries,
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26 | now called KDE Frameworks 5 or KF5, are separate from the desktop environment
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27 | called KDE Plasma 5. </para>
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28 |
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29 | <para>For more information visit the official KDE project site at
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30 | <ulink url="http://www.kde.org/"/>.</para>
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31 | <!--
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32 | <sect2><title>Common Packages</title>
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33 |
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34 | <para>There are several packages that are common to both versions of KDE.
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35 | These packages are presented in the following sections of this chapter.</para>
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37 | -->
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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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44 | </sect1>
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