Description:

Compatibility libraries for running KDE 1.1.x applications.

The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a GUI desktop for the X Window
System. The kdelibs package contains libraries for KDE, including:
kdecore, the core library for KDE; kdeui, the user interface library;
kfm, the file manager library, khtmlw, the HTML widget library; kfile,
the file access library; kspell, the spelling checker library;
jscript, the JavaScript library; kab, the addressbook library; kimgio,
an image manipulation library; and mediatool, a library for sound,
mixing and animation.

Install kde1-compat if you need to run applications that were written for
KDE 1.x.