The K Desktop Environment

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KDE

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a completely free desktop environment for unix-like operating systems. KOffice uses the KDE-2.0 libraries. See http://www.kde.org for details.

KParts

KParts is a technology that allows the embedding of components ("parts") in an application. This way, you can create compound documents in KOffice, e.g. a KWord document containing a KSpread table.

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Part

A part is an application which can be embedded into other KParts applications.

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Qt

Qt is the underlying toolkit that was used for KDE and KOffice. See http://www.troll.no for details.

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