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Chapter 7. Under The Hood

Kontact makes extensive use of several KDE key technologies, most notably KParts and DCOP.

The GUI integration of the components is done by plugins providing KParts versions of the applications. This only needs a thin additional layer on top of the already existing code of the stand-alone applications.

For communication between the components DCOP is used. This has the nice characteristic that it is completely transparent to whether the application is run stand-alone or embedded as KPart into Kontact. When running inside of Kontact an efficient in-process mode of DCOP is used.

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