The K Desktop Environment

Chapter 5. Standards

XML

The Extensible Markup language. KOffice's document formats are applications of this. It is also used as configuration file format by an increasing number of KDE programs.

DOM

The Document Object Model as defined by the W3C. Qt's QDom* classes are modeled after this.

XDND

The specification for the inter-application drag and drop protocol used by Qt and Gtk. Meanwhile, several other applications use it.

wm-spec

The protocol for window manager interaction, supported by many window manager authors.

Desktop Entry Standard

The format of .desktop files, supported by KDE and GNOME.

MIME types

List of registered content types.

URL

Uniform resource locators, defined by RFC 1738.

SM

The X11R6.4 session management protocol. This is the backend protocol for KTMainWindow's high-level session management features. GNOME also supports this protocol.