<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>PyKDE Documentation</title> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Quanta Plus"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body style="font-size : 10pt;"> <a href="http://www.python.org"><img src="images/pythonlogo.jpg" width="200" height="80" align="right" border="0"></a> <h2>PyKDE4 Documentation</h2> <p> PyKDE4 is a set of Python bindings for the KDE4 kdelibs. It provides: </p> <ul> <li>The ability to write KDE4 applications using Python</li> <li>The ability to create graphical interfaces using KDE4 and Qt4 widgets</li> <li>The ability to create fully featured web browsers, text editors or other document viewers completely from Python, or embed those features in your application</li> <li>The ability to code at a higher level of abstraction, since KDE4 and Python provide convenient access to numerous features programs regularly require.</li> <li>Rapid development of applications, especially when combined with integrated development environments like eric4 and tools like QtDesigner or QtLinguist</li> <li>PyKDE4 provides access to 7 modules, 34 namespaces, and about 600 classes, 10,000 methods, 350 enums and 100 variables</li> </ul> <a href="http://www.kde.org"><img src="images/kdelogo.png" width="64" height="64" hspace="20" vspace="10" align="right" border="0"></a> <p> The documentation set provides important information about using PyKDE4, tutorials on programming with Python and PyKDE4, numerous example programs, and a documentation/example browser (<b>pykdedocs</b>) that integrates all of this information into a easily used framework. </p> <p> If your are using pykdedocs to read this documentation, please take the time to read the docs for pykdedocs itself, including adding/editing bookmarks, and enabling/disabling samples. </p> <p> PyKDE4 is built on software developed by </p> <p> <a href="http://www.riverbankcomputing.com"><img src="images/rcl_full_logo.png" width="282" height="100" align="right" border="0"></a> <ul> <li>Riverbank Computing (sip, PyQt4 and the original PyKDE version)</li> <li>KDE project programmers (the KDE Desktop Environment and kdelibs) </li> <li>Python programmers (the Python language and extensions) </li> </ul> </p> <p> pykdedocs and PyKDE4 are licensed under the GPL and LGPL respectively come with absolutely no warranty. See <a href="general.html">this page</a> for details. </p> <br> <p> You can access the full documentation set beginning with the <a href="toc.html">Table of Contents</a>. Module and class information is in the class reference. If you already have PyKDE4 installed and just want to update the documentation and examples, or pykdedocs, see the <a href="install.html">Installation</a> page for details about installing the docs without rebuilding PyKDE4. </p>