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  11 <glossary id="glossary">
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  15         <glossdiv id="glossdiv-technologies">
  16                 <title>Technologies</title>
  17                 <glossentry id="gloss-ioslave">
  18                         <glossterm><acronym>IO</acronym> Slave</glossterm>
  19                         <glossdef><para><acronym>IO</acronym> Slaves enable &kde; applications to
  20                                 access remote resources as easily as local resources (making them
  21                                 <quote>network transparent</quote>). Remote resources (&eg; files) might
  22                                 be stored on <acronym>SMB</acronym> shares or similar.</para>
  23                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-smb"><acronym>SMB</acronym></glossseealso>
  24                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
  25                         </glossdef>
  26                 </glossentry>
  27                 <glossentry id="gloss-kio">
  28                         <glossterm><acronym>KIO</acronym></glossterm>
  29                         <glossdef><para>The &kde; Input/Output system which makes use of so-called
  30                                 <quote><acronym>IO</acronym> Slaves</quote>.</para>
  31                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave"><acronym>IO</acronym>
  32 Slave</glossseealso>
  33                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
  34                         </glossdef>
  35                 </glossentry>
  36                 <glossentry id="gloss-kparts">
  37                         <glossterm>KParts</glossterm>
  38                         <glossdef><para>KParts is an embedding technology which allows &kde;
  39                                 applications to embed other &kde; applications. For example, the text
  40                                 view used by &konqueror; is a KPart.</para>
  41                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror">&konqueror;</glossseealso>
  42                         </glossdef>
  43                 </glossentry>
  44                 <glossentry id="gloss-ksycoca">
  45                         <glossterm><acronym>KSycoca</acronym></glossterm>
  46                         <glossdef><para><acronym>KSycoca</acronym> (&kde; <emphasis>Sy</emphasis>stem
  47                                 <emphasis>Co</emphasis>nfiguration <emphasis>Ca</emphasis>che) is a
  48                                 configuration cache which, for example, guarantees fast access to the menu
  49                                 entries.</para>
  50                                 <glossseealso
  51 otherterm="gloss-kbuildsycoca"><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glossseealso>
  52                         </glossdef>
  53                 </glossentry>
  54         </glossdiv>
  55
  56         <glossdiv id="glossdiv-xfree86">
  57                 <title>XFree86</title>
  58                 <glossentry id="gloss-antialiasing">
  59                         <glossterm>Antialiasing</glossterm>
  60                         <glossdef><para>If mentioned in context with &kde;, anti-aliasing often means
  61                                 the smoothing of the fonts visible on the screen. &Qt; version 2.3.0
  62                                 or higher used together with XFree86 4.x makes this possible under &kde;
  63                                 as well.</para>
  64                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
  65                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-qt">&Qt;</glossseealso>
  66                         </glossdef>
  67                 </glossentry>
  68                 <glossentry id="gloss-xserver">
  69                         <glossterm>&X-Server;</glossterm>
  70                         <glossdef><para>The &X-Server; represents a basic layer upon which the
  71                                 various &GUI;s like &kde; are built. It manages the
  72                                 basic mouse and keyboard input (from the local host as well as from
  73                                 remote hosts) and provides elementary graphic routines to draw
  74                                 rectangles and other primitives.</para>
  75                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
  76                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso>
  77                         </glossdef>
  78                 </glossentry>
  79         </glossdiv>
  80
  81         <glossdiv id="glossdiv-applications">
  82                 <title>Applications</title>
  83                 <glossentry id="gloss-kbuildsycoca">
  84                         <glossterm><application>KBuildSycoca</application></glossterm>
  85                         <glossdef><para><application>KBuildSycoca4</application> is a command line
  86                                 program and regenerates the
  87                                 so-called <acronym>KSycoca</acronym>. This is useful, for example, if some
  88                                 or all modules in
  89                                 &systemsettings; are missing.</para>
  90                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ksycoca"><acronym>KSycoca</acronym></glossseealso>
  91                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-systemsettings">&systemsettings;</glossseealso>
  92                         </glossdef>
  93                 </glossentry>
  94                 <glossentry id="gloss-systemsettings">
  95                         <glossterm>&systemsettings;</glossterm>
  96                         <glossdef><para>This is the project and filename of the &kde; control
  97                                 center. &systemsettings; allows you to customize virtually
  98                                 every configuration option of &kde;.</para>
  99                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
 100                         </glossdef>
 101                 </glossentry>
 102                 <glossentry id="gloss-konqueror">
 103                         <glossterm>&konqueror;</glossterm>
 104                         <glossdef><para>&konqueror; is a web browser, picture viewer, file manager
 105                                 and more, and a core part of the &kde; project. You can
 106                                 find more information about &konqueror; at <ulink
 107                                 url="http://www.konqueror.org">www.konqueror.org</ulink>.</para>
 108                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
 109                         </glossdef>
 110                 </glossentry>
 111         </glossdiv>
 112
 113         <glossdiv id="glossdiv-desktop-terminology">
 114                 <title>Desktop Terminology</title>
 115                 <glossentry id="gloss-draganddrop">
 116                         <glossterm>Drag and Drop</glossterm>
 117                         <glossdef><para>This concept tries to replace many actions like copying
 118                                 files from one place to another by a certain mouse movement, &eg;
 119                                 clicking on an icon in a &konqueror; window, moving the mouse to another
 120                                 window while keeping the mouse button pressed, and releasing the mouse
 121                                 button (<quote>dropping</quote> the object) copies files.</para>
 122                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-konqueror">&konqueror;</glossseealso>
 123                         </glossdef>
 124                 </glossentry>
 125                 <glossentry id="gloss-gui">
 126                         <glossterm>&GUI;</glossterm>
 127                         <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>G</emphasis>raphical
 128                                 <emphasis>U</emphasis>ser <emphasis>I</emphasis>nterface. Every desktop
 129                                 environment (like &kde;) is a &GUI;. Most
 130                                 &GUI;s feature mouse support and/or windows to manage
 131                                 the programs.</para>
 132                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
 133                         </glossdef>
 134                 </glossentry>
 135                 <glossentry id="gloss-kde">
 136                         <glossterm>&kde;</glossterm>
 137                         <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <quote>K Desktop Environment</quote>, a
 138                                 leading &GUI; for &UNIX;-based systems. You can find more
 139                                 detailed information at <ulink
 140                                 url="http://www.kde.org">www.kde.org</ulink>.</para>
 141                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso>
 142                         </glossdef>
 143                 </glossentry>
 144                 <glossentry id="gloss-gnome">
 145                         <glossterm><acronym>GNOME</acronym></glossterm>
 146                         <glossdef>
 147                                 <para><emphasis>G</emphasis>NU <emphasis>N</emphasis>etwork <emphasis>O</emphasis>bject
 148                                 <emphasis>M</emphasis>odel <emphasis>E</emphasis>nvironment, one of the
 149                                 leading &UNIX; &GUI;s.</para>
 150                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso>
 151                         </glossdef>
 152                 </glossentry>
 153                 <glossentry id="gloss-panel">
 154                         <glossterm>Panel</glossterm>
 155                         <glossdef><para>Refers to the panel which often resides at the bottom of the
 156                                 screen.</para>
 157                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
 158                         </glossdef>
 159                 </glossentry>
 160                 <glossentry id="gloss-ripping">
 161                         <glossterm>ripping</glossterm>
 162                         <glossdef><para>The process of reading audio data from a &cdrom; and
 163                                 storing it on the hard disk.</para>
 164                         </glossdef>
 165                 </glossentry>
 166         </glossdiv>
 167
 168         <glossdiv id="kde-development">
 169                 <title>&kde; Development</title>
 170                 <glossentry id="gloss-qt">
 171                         <glossterm>&Qt;</glossterm>
 172                         <glossdef><para>The &GUI; of &kde; is built on top of
 173                                 the &Qt; toolkit, which provides many graphical elements (so-called
 174                                 <quote>Widgets</quote>) which are used to construct the desktop. You
 175                                 can find more information about &Qt; at <ulink
 176                                 url="http://www.trolltech.com">www.trolltech.com</ulink>.</para>
 177                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
 178                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso>
 179                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-widget">Widget</glossseealso>
 180                         </glossdef>
 181                 </glossentry>
 182                 <glossentry id="gloss-i18n">
 183                         <glossterm>i18n</glossterm>
 184                         <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <quote>internationalization</quote>. &kde;
 185                                 supports many different languages, and several i18n techniques make it
 186                                 easy to translate the &GUI; as well as the accompanying
 187                                 documents of &kde; into all these languages. More information about the
 188                                 i18n process is available at <ulink
 189                                 url="http://l10n.kde.org">l10n.kde.org</ulink>.</para>
 190                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
 191                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso>
 192                         </glossdef>
 193                 </glossentry>
 194                 <glossentry id="gloss-l10n">
 195                         <glossterm>l10n</glossterm>
 196                         <glossdef><para>Abbreviation for <quote>localization</quote>, the process
 197                                 of adapting a program to the local environment. This includes &eg; the
 198                                 currency used for monetary values or the time format.</para>
 199                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-i18n">i18n</glossseealso>
 200                         </glossdef>
 201                 </glossentry>
 202                 <glossentry id="gloss-widget">
 203                         <glossterm>Widget</glossterm>
 204                         <glossdef><para>Graphical elements like scrollbars, buttons or input
 205                                 fields which are used by &kde; to construct the &GUI;.
 206                                 </para>
 207                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-kde">&kde;</glossseealso>
 208                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-gui">&GUI;</glossseealso>
 209                         </glossdef>
 210                 </glossentry>
 211       <glossentry id="gloss-svn">
 212          <glossterm><acronym>SVN</acronym></glossterm>
 213          <glossdef>
 214             <para>Abbreviation for <emphasis>Subversion</emphasis>, a version control system.
 215             The <acronym>SVN</acronym> is a very elegant way of managing file
 216 versions that allow more than one developer
 217             to easily work on the same project. You can find a description of how to
 218 get the latest (developer) version of the
 219             &kde; sources via anonymous <acronym>SVN</acronym> on
 220             <ulink
 221 url="http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html">http://developer.kde.org/source/anonsvn.html</ulink>.
 222             More about <acronym>SVN</acronym> is available at <ulink
 223 url="http://subversion.tigris.org/">http://subversion.tigris.org/</ulink>.
 224
 225             </para>
 226          </glossdef>
 227       </glossentry>
 228         </glossdiv>
 229
 230         <glossdiv id="glossdiv-misc">
 231                 <title>Miscellaneous</title>
 232                 <glossentry id="gloss-rfc">
 233                         <glossterm><acronym>RFC</acronym></glossterm>
 234                         <glossdef><para><emphasis>R</emphasis>equest <emphasis>F</emphasis>or
 235                                 <emphasis>C</emphasis>omment. A common way to publish new protocol
 236                                 ideas or procedures for evaluation of the Internet community. Though
 237                                 <acronym>RFC</acronym>s are not mandatory, many applications try to
 238                                 adhere to them, once they have been approved by the community. More
 239                                 information about <acronym>RFC</acronym>s can be found at the
 240                                 <ulink url="http://www.rfc-editor.org">RFC Homepage</ulink>.</para>
 241                         </glossdef>
 242                 </glossentry>
 243         </glossdiv>
 244
 245         <glossdiv id="glossdiv-protocols">
 246                 <title>Various protocols</title>
 247                 <glossentry id="gloss-smb">
 248                         <glossterm><acronym>SMB</acronym></glossterm>
 249                         <glossdef><para><emphasis>S</emphasis>erver <emphasis>M</emphasis>essage
 250                                 <emphasis>B</emphasis>lock. A network protocol used in &Microsoft; &Windows;
 251                                 networks to access the file systems of other computers.</para>
 252                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-ioslave"><acronym>IO</acronym>
 253 Slave</glossseealso>
 254                         </glossdef>
 255                 </glossentry>
 256                 <glossentry id="gloss-irc">
 257                         <glossterm><acronym>IRC</acronym></glossterm>
 258                         <glossdef><para><emphasis>I</emphasis>nternet <emphasis>R</emphasis>elay
 259                                 <emphasis>C</emphasis>hat. A protocol defined in <acronym>RFC</acronym>
 260                                 1459, which handles the specification to enable real-time text chat.</para>
 261                                 <glossseealso otherterm="gloss-rfc"><acronym>RFC</acronym></glossseealso>
 262                         </glossdef>
 263                 </glossentry>
 264                 <glossentry id="gloss-host">
 265                         <glossterm>host</glossterm>
 266                         <glossdef><para>This can either be a name from your
 267                         <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file
 268                         (<systemitem class="systemname">mycomputer</systemitem>),
 269                         an Internet name (<systemitem
 270 class="systemname">www.kde.org</systemitem>) or an IP-Address
 271                         (<systemitem>192.168.0.10</systemitem>).
 272                         </para>
 273                         </glossdef>
 274                 </glossentry>
 275         </glossdiv>
 276 </glossary>