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| API |
Application Program Interface. An API
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| Backend |
A software that's not appearent to the user as it is managed by the
frontend belonging to it.
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| Conduit |
A software component that ensures that the data in a PDA is consistent
with the particular KDE desktop application.
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| CVS |
Concurrent Version System.
CVS is a frontend to RCS. While RCS's job is the
management of different versions of a file, CVS controls the editing of one and the same file
by many users. CVS holds a master copy of the file(s), the so called repository.
Every user who wants to edit a file of the repository gets a private copy of the repository by
checking the files out to his home directory. After editing and changing the file, the user can
check this file back in to the repository.
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| DOM |
Document Object Model. DOM is an
API-specification by the W3C that describes the access of applications to
HTML- and XML-files.
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| Fastsync |
There are two types of HotSync: FastSync and
SlowSync. SlowSync involves downloading the entire
database of the Pilot application. FastSync involves downloading only the changed records. SlowSync is
done the first time you HotSync a pilot on a given computer. Also, if you HotSync the pilot with more
than one computer, SlowSync is used.
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| Frontend |
A frontend is a software that provides a (graphical) interface
to another software "behind" it, e.g. when the software behind it (also called
backend) is not very user friendly.
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| Group scheduling |
Since version 3.0, KOrganizer supports group scheduling. That
means you can use it to organize appointments and meetings in a team. The group scheduling is based on
a peer-to-peer architecture using email as communication medium.
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| Hotsync |
A process in which all the data in a PDA is backed-up to the desktop
machine and conduits synchronize some or all of the PDA's data. See also
Fastsync.
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| iCalendar |
iCalendar is a standard format for storing calendar, todo and journal data. It is under the
control of the Internet Mail Consortium and specified in RFC 2445. It also is the base of the
group scheduling standard iTIP (RFC 2446) and its implementation iMIP (RFC 2447).
iCalendar is based on vCalendar, but provides more fields
and some incompatibilities.
iCalendar files typically start with "BEGIN:VCALENDAR" and contain a line "VERSION:2.0" to
distinguish them from the vCalendar format, which uses "VERSION:1.0".
KOrganizer uses iCalendar as default file format. There
are also numerous other applications, which can handle the iCalendar format, e.g. Evolution or
Outlook.
Note that iCalendar has nothing to do with the calendar program ICal.
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| IMAP |
Internet Message Access
Protocol. IMAP allows you to access and manage an email account on a remote
server as if the account was on your local machine. That means, you can very easily check for new
messages, delete messages and even create, delete or rename mailboxes.
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| KAddressbook |
KAddressbook is an addressbook viewer / frontend for KDE.
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| KAlarm |
KAlarm provides a quick way of setting up personal alarm/reminder messages and commands.
The messages pop up on the screen, or the commands execute, at the time you specify.
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| Kandy |
Kandy aims at providing synchronisation of phonebook, organizer and other data on your mobile phone
with the data stored on the desktop.
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| KArm |
Karm tracks time spent on various tasks. It is useful for tracking hours to be billed to different
clients or just to find out what percentage of your day is spent playing Doom or reading Slashdot.
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| KDE |
K Desktop Environment. KDE
is a powerful Open Source graphical desktop environment for Unix workstations. It combines ease of use,
contemporary functionality, and outstanding graphical design with the technological superiority of the
Unix operating system.
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| KMail |
KMail is a fully-featured email client that fits nicely into the K Desktop
Environment. It has features such as support for IMAP,
POP3, multiple accounts, powerful filters,
PGP/GnuPG privacy, inline attachments,
and much more.
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| KNotes |
KNotes is a nice and small tool to scribble down some notices. KNotes interacts with KDE email client
KMail.
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| KonsoleKalendar |
KonsoleKalendar is a command line interface to KDE calendars. It lets you view,
insert, remove, or modify calendar events by way of the command line or from a scripting language.
Additionally, KonsoleKalendar can export a KDE calendar to a variety of other formats.
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| KOrganizer |
KOrganizer is a calendar and scheduling program for KDE. KOrganizer provides management of events
and tasks, alarm notification, web export, network transparent handling of data, group scheduling,
import and export of calendar files and more. KOrganizer is fully customizable to your needs and is
an integral part of the KDE PIM suite. KOrganizer supports the two dominant standards for storing
and exchanging calendar data, vCalendar and
iCalendar.
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| KPilot |
KPilot is a replacement for the Palm Desktop software from Palm Inc, which makes your
Palm/Palm Pilot/Visor computer capable of exchanging information with your Linux powered computer.
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| LDAP |
Lightweight Directory Access
Protocol. LDAP is a protocol that allows Internet clients to access easily
directory services, e.g. a central address database.
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| Library |
A library is a set of subroutines and functions stored in a file. These subroutines and functions
are put together in order to provide an easy code-reuse.
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| MIME |
Multipurpose Internet Mail
Extensions. MIME is an Internet-standard that defines how multimedia contents
(audio and video) are transferred over the Internet (WWW and E-Mail).
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| PDA |
A small hand-held computer you can use to write little notes, track appointments, store an address
database and otherwise helps you to organize your life ;-) The most known PDA's are e.g. Palm Pilots (tm),
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| PGP/GnuPG |
PGP (short for Pretty Good Privacy) is a public key encryption program originally written by
Phil Zimmermann. The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) is a fortified encrypting technology to be made
available to the general public. GnuPG is a encrypting technology developed by Werner Koch and
recognized by security experts all over the world as one of the presently best
encrypting systems.
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| PIM |
Personal Information
Management. KDE-PIM is a set of applications that assist you to organize your
e-mails, appointments, addresses and other personal information.
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| POP3 |
Post Office Protocol in version 3. The
POP3 protocol is used to retrieve electronic mail with an e-mail client from a POP3-server.
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| Qt |
Qt is a C++ toolkit developed by Trolltech to create cross-platform applications. The K Desktop
Environment ist based on Qt. The Qt toolkit is available for Linux, UNIX, Mac and MS
Windows.
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| RCS |
Revision Control
System. RCS was developped to store several different versions of a file. With
RCS, you're able to store and restore a file in different versions, log the changes between the
versions or even merge different versions of a file.
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| RFC |
Request For Comments. RFC is a set
of documentations and specifications that describe several standards, e.g. protocols used on the
Internet as e.g. TCP/IP.
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| Scheduling |
Scheduling describes the process of arranging several tasks, appointments and ressources in
temporal sequence.
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| Slowsync |
See Fastsync.
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| SMTP |
Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol. The SMTP protocol is used to transport mails from one server to another.
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| SSL |
Secure Sockets Layer. SSL is a protocol to provide encrypted communications on the Internet. SSL version 3.0 was used as a basis to develop Transport Layer Security.
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| TLS |
Transport Layer Security. TLS is an enhancement of SSL version 3.0. The protocol provides communications privacy over the Internet using cryptography. It allows client/server applications to communicate in a way that is designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, or message forgery.
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| vCalendar |
vCalendar is a standard format for storing calendar and todo data. It is under the control of
the Internet Mail Consortium. vCalendar files
typically start with "BEGIN:VCALENDAR" and
contain a line "VERSION:1.0" to distinguish them from the iCalendar format, which uses
"VERSION:2.0".
KOrganizer is able to read and export the vCalendar format.
There are also numerous other
applications, which can handle the vCalendar format and it is also used by some mobile phones
and other mobile devices.
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| vCard |
vCard is the electronic business card. It is a powerful new means of Personal Data Interchange
(PDI) that is automating the traditional business card.
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Please let us know about words that should be added to the KDE-PIM glossary. And if you know of a good
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