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The K Desktop Environment (KDE) is a graphical desktop, a set of applications and a development platform. It is created by a community of people dedicated to create a free and user-friendly computing experience. KDE offers all necessary means to
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easily build all kinds of applications upon.
KDE has been around since 1996, with code change history dating back at least to 1997.
KDE is one of the biggest free software C++ project around and one of the two leaders of unix desktops. [Less]
Rediscover Your Music!
Amarok is the music player for Linux and Unix with an intuitive interface. Amarok makes playing the music you love easier than ever before - and looks good doing it.
K3b was created to be a feature-rich and easy to handle CD and DVD burning application for KDE desktop.
KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager of KDE.
The KDE libraries, basis of KDE and used by many open source projects. They are based on Qt, Trolltech's cross-platform toolkit, and run on Linux, BSDs, and other Unices, as well as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.
Licensed under GNU LGPL, they may be used by open source and proprietary applications.
KTorrent is a light and full-featured bittorrent program. It supports:
- µTorrent compatible peer exchange
- Zeroconf extension to find peers on the local network
- WebGUI plugin
- RSS plugin
- Grouping feature to put torrents into groups
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- UDP Trackers
- Port forwarding with UPnP
- IP blocking plugin
- Importing of partially or fully downloaded files
- Support for distributed hash tables (mainline version)
- Protocol encryption
- Bandwith scheduling
- Directory scanner to automatically load torrents in certain directories
- File prioritization and partial downloads for multi file torrents [Less]
Akregator is a news feed reader for the KDE desktop. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser. Akregator is designed to be both easy to use and
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to be powerful enough to read hundreds of news sources conveniently. It comes with Konqueror integration for adding news feeds and with an internal browser for easy news reading. [Less]
digiKam is an advanced digital photo management application for KDE desktop, which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which can be sorted chronologically, by directory layout or by custom
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collections.
Tired of the directory constraints? Don’t worry, digiKam also provides tagging functionality. You tag your images which can be spread out across multiple folders and digiKam provides fast and intuitive ways to browse these tagged images. You can also add comments to your images. digiKam makes use of a fast and robust database to store these meta-informations which makes adding and editing of comments and tags very reliable. [Less]
The KDevelop project was founded in 1998 to build up an easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for KDE. Since then, the KDevelop IDE is publicly available under the GPL and supports many programming languages.
Yakuake is a Quake-style terminal emulator based on KDE Konsole technology.
KOffice is a free, integrated office suite for KDE, the K Desktop Environment. KOffice applications uses OpenDocument as their native file format when possible. The suite is released separately from KDE.
The KOffice suite includes the following
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applications:
- KWord - A frame-based word processor
- KSpread - A powerful spreadsheet application
- KPresenter - A full-featured presentation program
- Kexi - An environment for creating databases and applications
- Kivio - A Visio®-style flowcharting application
- Karbon14 - A vector drawing application
- Krita - A layered pixel image manipulation application
- KPlato - An integrated project management and planning tool
- KChart - A graph and chart drawing tool
- KFormula - A formula editor
- Kugar - A tool for generating reports [Less]
Gwenview is a fast and easy to use image viewer/browser for KDE. All common image formats are supported. Standard features include slideshow, full screen view, image thumbnails, drag'n'drop, image zoom, and full network transparency using the KIO
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framework. It also provides image and directory KParts components for use in applications such as Konqueror. Additional features are provided by the KIPI image framework. [Less]
Kaffeine is full featured Media Player for KDE3. It supports all kinds of local and network media and digital video broadcasting (DVB). At the moment Kaffeine can use xine-lib or GStreamer as backend.
KGet is a download manager integrated into the KDE desktop in particular: Konqueror, making it more efficient to download files from the web than with a web browser.
okular is an universal document viewer based on KPDF for KDE 4.
Its development began as part of Google's Summer of Code program. The description of the project is located at KDE Developer's Corner.
okular combines the excellent functionalities
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of KPDF with the versatility of supporting different kind of documents, like PDF, Postscript, DjVu, CHM, and others.
The document format handlers page has a chart describing in more detail the supported formats and the features supported in each of them. [Less]
KMyMoney is the Personal Finance Manager for KDE.
It operates similar to MS-Money and Quicken, supports different account types, categorisation of expenses, QIF import/export, multiple currencies and initial online banking support.
KStars is a graphical desktop planetarium for KDE. It provides an accurate simulation of the night sky, as seen from any location on Earth, on any date. The display includes 40,000 stars, 13,000 deep-sky objects, 2500 comets and asteroids, all 8 planets, and the Sun and Moon.
Kile is a user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop environment. It simplifies the creation of LaTeX documents.
Kalzium is an application which will show you some information about the periodic system of the elements. Therefore you could use it as an information database. It also includes an equation solver and 3D viewer for molecules.
Thousand Parsec is not only a game by itself, it is also a framework for creating a similar group of turn-based space empire building games, which are often called 4X games, from the main phases found in them: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and
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eXterminate. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec draws ideas from are Stars!, VGA Planets, Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations.
The idea is that a protocol is specified which defines how game servers and game clients communicate with each other. Protocol also specifies which objects are available for custom games or rulesets, which can have different rules of gamplay. Any client should be able to connect with any server and player should be able to play any game with it. [Less]
KPhotoAlbum lets you index, search, group and view images by keywords, date, locations and persons. It provides a quick and elegant way to lookup groups of images when you have thousands of pictures on your hard disk.
Kdenlive is a non linear video editor for the KDE environment running on Linux.
It is based on the MLT video framework which relies on the FFMPEG project.
Cervisia is an open-source CVS gui frontend for KDE.
Avogadro is an advanced molecular editor designed for cross-platform use in computational chemistry, molecular modeling, bioinformatics, materials science, and related areas. It offers flexible rendering and a powerful plugin architecture.
KmPlot is a mathematical function plotter. It has built in a powerfull parser. You can plot different functions simultaneously and combine their function terms to build new functions. KmPlot supports functions with parameters and functions in polar
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coordinates. Several grid modes are possible. Plots may be printed with high precision in correct scale.
Features
* powerful mathematical parser
* precise metric printing
* different plot types (functions, parametric, polar)
* highly configurable visual settings (plot line, axes, grid)
* export to bitmap format (BMP and PNG) and scalable vector graphics (SVG)
* save/load complete session in readable xml format
* trace mode: cross hair following plot, coordinates shown in the status bar
support zooming
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Yzis is a vi/vim engine that is easy to integrate in any graphical application. The goal is to make it easy for people developing an application that requires an editor to integrate yzis. Currently, there is a Qt, ncurses and KDE kpart yzis frontend.
Marble is a desktop globe program and a generic geographical map widget and framework. Marble shows the Earth as a sphere but doesn't need any hardware acceleration (no OpenGL needed). It's meant to be small, fast and light weight.
Lokalize is a computer-aided translation system that focuses on productivity and quality assurance. Translator does only creative work (of delivering message in his/her mother language in laconic and easy to understand form). Lokalize implies
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paragraph-by-paragraph translation approach (when translating documentation) and message-by-message approach (when translating GUI). [Less]
Kig is a program for exploring geometric constructions. It is meant as a better replacement for such free programs as KGeo, KSeg and Dr. Geo and commercial programs like Cabri. Kig is meant as a useful and powerful utility for high school students and teachers.
OxygenOffice Professional is a free and open source enhancement of official OpenOffice.org. The OxygenOffice Professional Team has modified the source of OpenOffice.org and bundled lot of extras with it. Here are just a few of the extras you get with
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OxygenOffice Professional: More than 3,400 graphics are included, both clip art and photos. These pictures are integrated into the gallery and can easily be placed into any OxygenOffice document.Several templates and sample documents are included, as well as over 90 fonts. The extras are integrated by default in the installation of OxygenOffice Professional, but they are optional, so the user can decide what parts to include and what parts to leave out. These extra templates, fonts, and graphics are free for both personal and professional use. [Less]