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diff --git a/tdeparts/design.h b/tdeparts/design.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ba608d777 --- /dev/null +++ b/tdeparts/design.h @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +/** + * @mainpage Framework for KDE graphical components + * + * + * + * This library implements the framework for KDE parts, which are + * elaborate widgets with a user-interface defined in terms of actions + * (menu items, toolbar icons). See KParts::Part. + * + * The library also provides a framework for applications that want to + * use parts. Such applications need to inherit their main window + * from KParts::MainWindow and provide a so-called shell GUI, + * which provides a basic skeleton GUI with part-independent functionality/actions. + * + * Some KParts applications won't be specific to a given part, but expect + * to be able to embed, for instance, all types of viewers out there. For this + * the basic functionality of any viewer has been implemented in + * KParts::ReadOnlyPart, which viewer-like parts should inherit from. + * The same applies to KParts::ReadWritePart, which is for editor-like parts. + * + * You can add actions to an existing KParts app from "outside", defining + * the code for those actions in a shared library. This mechanism is + * obviously called plugins, and implemented by KParts::Plugin. + * + * For a complete, and very simple, example of how to use KParts to display + * any kind of file (i.e. making a generic viewer), see the docu for + * KParts::ComponentFactory::createPartInstanceFromQuery() + */ |