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+/**
+ * \mainpage A network-enabled file management system in a library
+ *
+ * This library implements almost all the file management functions you
+ * will ever need. In fact, the %KDE file manager, Konqueror also uses
+ * this to provide its network-enabled file management.
+ *
+ * The easiest way to use this library from a %KDE application is via the
+ * KIO::NetAccess class (for easy synchronous access) or via the
+ * KIO::Job class (for more complex asynchronous jobs).
+ *
+ * This library also implements the System Configuration Cache (KSycoca).
+ *
+ * KMimeType:
+ * The notion of a file type, already existing in KDE-1.x
+ *
+ * KService:
+ * To a mimetype are bound one or more applications, now called services.
+ * Services can be applications, but also libraries, dynamically opened.
+ *
+ * KServiceType:
+ * A service type allows the same mechanism to be extended to components.
+ * For instance : the question "what are the koffice plugins" is solved by
+ * a service type called KOfficePlugin, and by every plugin providing
+ * a .desktop file stating that it is a service that implements the servicetype
+ * KOfficePlugin.
+ *
+ * KServiceTypeProfile:
+ * Stores the user's preferences for services bound to mimetypes/servicetypes.
+ *
+ * KTrader:
+ * Use it to query for which services implement a given mimetype/servicetype.
+ * Has its own language, in order to allow complex queries.
+ *
+ *
+ * \section KDE Filedialog widget and associated classes.
+ *
+ * This library also provides the KDE file selector widget,
+ * its building blocks and some other widgets, making use of the file dialog.
+ *
+ * The file dialog provides different views; there is a vertically scrolling
+ * view based on KListView, showing things like filename, file size,
+ * permissions etc. in separate columns. And there is a horizontally scrolling
+ * view based on KIconView. Additionally, there are some compound views,
+ * like a view using the icon-view for files on the right side and another
+ * view for directories on the left. A view, that shows a preview for the
+ * currently selected file (using KIO::PreviewJob to generate previews)
+ * and any other view to show the files is also available.
+ *
+ * All those views share a common baseclass, named KFileView, which
+ * defines the interface for inserting files into a view, removing them,
+ * selecting etc.
+ *
+ * The one class encapsulating all those views and adding browsing capabilities
+ * to them is KDirOperator. It allows the user to switch between different
+ * views.
+ *
+ * KFileTreeView is a KListView based widget that displays files and/or
+ * directories as a tree. It does not implement the KFileView interface,
+ * however, so it can't be used with KDirOperator.
+ *
+ * Besides the filebrowsing widgets, there is the KPropertiesDialog class,
+ * implementing a dialog showing the name, permissions, icons, meta
+ * information and all kinds of properties of a file, as well as providing a
+ * means to modify them.
+ *
+ * The KPropertiesDialog is extensible with plugin-pages via the
+ * KPropsDlgPlugin class.
+ *
+ * The KIconDialog class shows a list of icons installed on the system (as
+ * accessible via KIconLoader) and allows the user to select one.
+ *
+ * KOpenWithDlg implements a dialog to choose an application from, that is
+ * to be run, e.g. to let the user choose an application to open a file/url
+ * with.
+ *
+ *
+ * KFileDialog:
+ * The class providing the file selector dialog. It combines a KDirOperator,
+ * KURLBar and several other widgets.
+ *
+ * KDirOperator:
+ * The class encapsulating different KFileViews, offering file browsing and
+ * file selection. Asynchronous, network transparent reading of directories
+ * is performed via the KIO library.
+ *
+ * KURLRequester:
+ * A widget to be used for asking for a filename/path/URL. It consists of a
+ * KLineEdit (or KComboBox) and a button. Activating the button
+ * will open a KFileDialog. Typing in the lineedit is aided with
+ * filename completion.
+ *
+ * KURLRequesterDlg:
+ * A dialog to ask for a filename/path/URL, using KURLRequester.
+ *
+ * KFileView:
+ * The base class for all views to be used with KDirOperator.
+ *
+ * KFileIconView:
+ * The KFileView based on KIconView.
+ *
+ * KFileDetailView:
+ * The KFileView based on KListView.
+ *
+ * KFilePreview:
+ * The KFileView, combining a widget showing preview for a selected file
+ * and another KFileView for browsing.
+ *
+ * KURLBar:
+ * A widget offering a number of clickable entries which represent a URL,
+ * aligned horizontally or vertically. The entries are customizable by the
+ * user both on a per application basis or for all applications (URLs, their
+ * icon and the description can be added, removed or edited by the user).
+ * This is the widget used as "sidebar" in the KFileDialog.
+ *
+ * KFileMetaInfoWidget:
+ * A widget that allows viewing and editing of meta data of a file, utilizing
+ * KFileMetaInfo.
+ *
+ */