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
... [More] experience. KDE offers all necessary means to 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.
Qt is a cross-platform application and UI framework. Using Qt, you can write applications once and deploy them across many desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.
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
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- Grouping feature to put torrents into groups
- 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]
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
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Licensed under GNU LGPL, they may be used by open source and proprietary applications. [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
... [More] chronologically, by directory layout or by custom 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.
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
... [More] KDE.
The KOffice suite includes the following 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]
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
... [More] in them: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and 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]
Your OpenOffice.org
With word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and everything else needed for creating and editing documents, OpenOffice.org has the tools it takes to create, edit, and
... [More] share work. It's open source and cross-platform, so it's free and works on your computer.
The go-oo version of OpenOffice.org is designed to give a foretaste of new features in development and includes functionality not yet accepted up-stream. [Less]