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KDED stands for KDE Daemon which isn't very descriptive.
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KDED runs in the background and performs a number of small tasks.
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Some of these tasks are built in, others are started on demand.
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### Built in tasks
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* Checking for newly installed software and updating ksycoca when new
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software is detected. Updating of ksycoca is done by the program kbuildsycoca
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which gets started by kded. When kded is first started it always runs
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kbuildsycoca to ensure that ksycoca is up to date.
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* Checking for newly installed update files. Applications can install
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*.upd update files. These *.upd files are used to update configuration files
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of users, primarily when new versions of applications are installed with
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(slightly) different configuration file formats. Updating of configuration
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files is done by kconf_update. kded starts kconf_update when it detects a
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new update file. When kded is first started it always runs kconf_update to
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ensure that it has not missed any update files. kconf_update keeps track
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of which update files have been processed already in the config-file
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kconf_updaterc. It only performs a certain update once.
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