This is a braindump of all the kded modules and their respective startup phases, for future plans:
Plugin ID | Name | Auto-loaded | On demand | Phase |
accounts | Accounts | yes | no | 1 |
appmenu | Application menus daemon | yes | no | 1 |
baloosearchmodule | Search Folder Updater | yes | no | 1 |
bluedevil | Bluetooth | yes | no | 2 |
browserintegrationreminder | Plasma Browser Integration Installation Reminder | no | no | 2 |
colorcorrectlocationupdater | ColorCorrect Geolocation Updater | yes | yes | 2 |
desktopnotifier | Directory Watcher | no | yes | 2 |
device_automounter | Removable Device Automounter | no | no | 1 |
filenamesearchmodule | Search Folder Updater | no | yes | 2 |
freespacenotifier | Free Space Notifier | yes | yes | 2 |
gtkconfig | Plasma GTKd | yes | no | 1 |
kcookiejar | Cookie Jar | no | yes | 2 |
kded_bolt | Thunderbolt Device Monitor | yes | no | 1 |
keyboard | Keyboard Daemon | yes | no | 2 |
khotkeys | Input Actions | yes | yes | 2 |
kscreen | KScreen 2 | yes | no | 1 |
ksysguard | KSysguard | yes | no | 1 |
ktimezoned | Time Zone | yes | yes | 2 |
kwrited | Write Daemon | yes | yes | 2 |
networkmanagement | Plasma Network Management module | yes | yes | 1 |
networkstatus | Network Status | yes | yes | 2 |
networkwatcher | Network Watcher | no | yes | 2 |
plasmavault | Plasma Vault module | yes | yes | 1 |
printmanager | Print Manager | yes | yes | 1 |
proxyscout | Network Proxy Configuration | yes | no | 2 |
recentdocumentsnotifier | Recent Document Watcher | no | yes | 2 |
remotedirnotify | Remote URL Change Notifier | yes | yes | 2 |
remotenotifier | Remote URL Change Notifier | yes | yes | 2 |
soliduiserver | Hardware Detection | no | yes | 2 |
statusnotifierwatcher | Status Notifier Manager | yes | no | 1 |
touchpad | Touchpad | yes | yes | 2 |
(Explicit phase 1 and 2 is marked in bold. Modules without a phase default to phase 2 which is indicated non-bold)
Some of those modules also disable themselves when their configuration deems them useless, e.g. p-b-i reminder or free space notifier.