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-rw-r--r--afms/README2
-rw-r--r--android/README1
-rw-r--r--avmedia/README5
-rw-r--r--basic/README6
-rw-r--r--berkeleydb/README4
-rw-r--r--cairo/README5
-rw-r--r--chart2/README3
-rw-r--r--clucene/README4
-rw-r--r--configmgr/README5
-rw-r--r--dmake/README8
10 files changed, 39 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/afms/README b/afms/README
index 5bfbbbb19a4a..c149c1aa4e7b 100644
--- a/afms/README
+++ b/afms/README
@@ -1 +1 @@
-External library.
+External package containing font metrics
diff --git a/android/README b/android/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bcd080b16a7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/android/README
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+android specific code, wrapper logic and tests
diff --git a/avmedia/README b/avmedia/README
index b33f70c9d8f1..eaa257dd0650 100644
--- a/avmedia/README
+++ b/avmedia/README
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
Audio/Video media implementation.
-Needs a Java Media Framework (JMF).
-Not currently usable for streams but only for URIs in the file system.
+Provides per-platform implementations of multimedia functionality.
+Currently no stream API is provided, only a URI based one, so
+streaming has to be wrapped around it via temp files.
diff --git a/basic/README b/basic/README
index bed2870e83e8..e4176cdd67a4 100644
--- a/basic/README
+++ b/basic/README
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-Contains the StarBASIC Interpreter and in addition the GUI of VCLTestTool.
+Contains the StarBASIC Interpreter
+
+This implements a macro language that, when in VBA compatibility mode,
+is intended to be interoperable with Visual Basic for Applications,
+allowing people to run macros embedded in their documents.
See also:
[http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Basic]
diff --git a/berkeleydb/README b/berkeleydb/README
index f0651270a997..470f2ab1b156 100644
--- a/berkeleydb/README
+++ b/berkeleydb/README
@@ -1 +1,5 @@
The Berkeley database.
+
+This code is used primarily for legacy UNO component registration in
+the users' directory, for some small bits in xmlhelp, and for the help
+compiler. \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cairo/README b/cairo/README
index aec01a8c3732..3d955dcd09a4 100644
--- a/cairo/README
+++ b/cairo/README
@@ -1 +1,6 @@
The graphics library, used for anti-aliasing. From [http://cairographics.org/].
+
+This code is used by default only on Linux, though it is also
+available on Mac. There is a cairo-canvas implementation that is the
+main customer, and it is enabled via 'use hardware acceleration' in
+the general options.
diff --git a/chart2/README b/chart2/README
index 6e87ad996a43..c6a5495b4fec 100644
--- a/chart2/README
+++ b/chart2/README
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
Chart implementation for LibreOffice Calc.
+
+The chart2 denotes a second generation re-write done to rid us of the
+foul and twisted legacy chart code. \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/clucene/README b/clucene/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..458762a6dfe0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clucene/README
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+External package containing clucene.
+
+This is used to index our downloadable help packages, and allow them
+to be searched efficiently at run-time. \ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/configmgr/README b/configmgr/README
index 2c3cfa6fdde0..15cc2cf09441 100644
--- a/configmgr/README
+++ b/configmgr/README
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
UNO services to access the configuration database
+== Functional Overview ==
+
+This code parses the settings that are described in the [[officecfg]]
+directory, and provides an UNO API that code can use to set and get
+settings.
== Source Overview ==
diff --git a/dmake/README b/dmake/README
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..09ad5fe73e9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dmake/README
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+Obsolete dmake build tool.
+
+The dmake build tool was for years the backbone of building the
+codebase. Herein lies the bones of that effort - a patched, and fixed
+up version of dmake that mostly works even on Windows.
+
+It is now being incrementally written-out in favour of the faster
+gnumake approach. \ No newline at end of file