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Was that what they called KParts? Terminal, file browser, text editor, more, all easy to embed and build an application around?

Yep. Still current I think.

Yes exactly! I forgot to mention dcop a message passing forerunner to dbus as well as arts the forerunner to pulsaudioe

dcop was better. easy to use and accessible for non developer. I scripted so many dcop bash scripts. I never connected with dbus.