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Concurrent programming means creating applications that perform multiple operations at the same time. A common problem is that the user sees the application pause. A typical requirement is that an operation which may take an arbitrary amount of time because it is, for example, performing disk I/O, is scheduled for execution but immediately taken of the main thread of the application (the one that starts main()).

Today, the KDE Community released a tech preview of the upcoming KDE 5 Frameworks, the new, modularised incarnation of what was previously distributed simply as the KDE libraries. The new frameworks are drop-in extensions to Qt applications, with minimal and well-documented dependencies for easier deployment.