Frameworks/Overview

This page gives an overview of available libraries and solutions in KDE Frameworks 5.

Tier 1

The frameworks in Tier 1 have Qt as their sole dependency. They do not depend on each other, or on frameworks in other tiers.

ItemModels

The ItemModels framework contains data models on top of QAbstractItemModel that help in common tasks, such as sorting, proxying and filtering.

ItemModels contains useful classes such as a model for checkable or selectable items, recursive filtering and breadcrumb selection.

KArchive

KArchive offers easy packing and unpacking of files.

KArchive comes with support for a number of popular packing codecs, such as Tar, GZip, Zip, 7z and xz and offers a self-contained and easy to use library for archiving files.

kcodecs

KCodecs offers commonly used encoding algorithms, such as base64, uu and quoted-printable specifications.

A wrapper class for the most commonly used encoding and decoding algorithms. Currently there is support for encoding and decoding input using base64, uu and the quoted-printable specifications.