The KDE Gear (also known as the KDE Applications Bundle or KDE Applications) is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are developed by the KDE community, primarily used on

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-based operating systems but mostly multiplatform, and released on a common release schedule. The bundle is composed of over 100 applications. Examples of prominent applications in the bundle include the file manager

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, document viewer

Okular Okular is a multiplatform document viewer developed by the KDE community and based on Qt and KDE Frameworks libraries. It is distributed as part of the KDE Applications bundle. Its origins are from KPDF and it replaces KPDF, KGhostView, KFax, ...

, text editor

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, archiving tool Ark and terminal emulator

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. Previously the KDE Applications Bundle was part of the

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Extragear

Software that is not part of the official KDE Applications bundle can be found in the "Extragear" section. They release on their own schedule and feature their own versioning numbers. There are many standalone applications like

KTorrent KTorrent is a BitTorrent client that is part of the KDE Gear. Features KTorrent is often received as a client intended to be feature rich. Features include: *Upload and download speed capping / throttling & scheduling *Internet searching with ...

, Krita or Amarok that are mostly designed to be portable between operating systems and deployable independent of a particular workspace or desktop environment. Some brands consist of multiple applications, such as Calligra Office Suite or KDE Kontact.

List of applications part of the bundle

Development

Software development

Web development

* KImageMapEditor – an HTML image map editor * KXSLDbg – an XSLT debugger

Education

Science

* Cirkuit – An application to generate publication-ready figures *

KBibTeX KBibTeX is a reference management software primarily for BibTeX which is typically used in conjunction with TeX/LaTeX. Beyond normal editing capabilities, KBibTeX offers features such as searching and importing new references from Google Scholar ...

– an application to manage bibliography databases in the BibTeX format * Semantik – a mindmapping-like tool for document generation * RKWard – an easy to use, transparent frontend to R * KTechLab - an IDE for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation

Games

Toys

* AMOR – Amusing Misuse Of Resources. Desktop creature * KTeaTime – Tea cooking timer * KTux * KWeather

Graphics

Internet

Multimedia

Playback

Production

Office

Kontact Kontact is a personal information manager and groupware software suite developed by KDE. It supports calendars, contacts, notes, to-do lists, news, and email. It offers a number of inter-changeable graphical UIs (KMail, KAddressBook, Akregator ...

provides

personal information management Personal information management (PIM) is the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire or create, store, organize, maintain, retrieve, and use information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages, and email mes ...

, backed by the

Akonadi Akonadi is a storage service for personal information management (PIM) data and metadata named after the oracle goddess of justice in Ghana. It is one of the “pillars” (core technologies) behind the KDE SC 4 project, although it is designed t ...

framework (including Akregator, KNode, KMail, etc.) * The

Calligra Suite Calligra Suite is a graphic art and office suite by KDE. It is available for desktop PCs, tablet computers, and smartphones. It contains applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, databases, vector graphics, and digital paintin ...

provides an office suite, including ** Calligra Flow – a flowchart and diagram editor **

Calligra Plan Calligra Plan (formerly ''KPlato'') is a project management application that can create Gantt-style charts and is part of Calligra Suite – formerly included with KOffice. History Work on Plan was started in 2004 under the name KPlato ( K PL ...

– a

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tool **

Calligra Sheets Calligra Sheets (formerly ''KSpread'' and ''Calligra Tables'') is a free software spreadsheet application that is part of Calligra Suite, an integrated graphic art and office suite developed by KDE. Among Sheets’ features are multiple sheets ...

–

Spreadsheet A spreadsheet is a computer application for computation, organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data entered in c ...

Calligra Stage Calligra Stage (formerly ''KPresenter'') is a free presentation program that is part of the Calligra Suite, an integrated office suite developed by KDE. Calligra Stage's native export format is OpenDocument. Stage is able to load presentation ...

– Presentation application ** Calligra Words –

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* Kexi – a visual database creator * KEuroCalc – a currency converter and calculator *

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– integrated

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environment *

KMyMoney KMyMoney is a cross-platform double-entry bookkeeping system for personal finance management built on KDE technologies. Its operation is similar to Microsoft Money and Quicken. It supports different account types, categorization of expenses an ...

– a personal finance manager * TaskJuggler – a

tool * Skrooge – Personal finances manager * LabPlot – a data plotting and analysis tool * LemonPOS – a point of sales application for small and mid–size business * Tellico – a collection organizer

System

Utilities

Accessibility

* KMag – a screen magnifying tool * KMouseTool – Automatic Mouse Click * KMouth – a speech synthesizer frontend

Discontinued

Unmaintained Applications

Releases

The KDE Applications Bundle is released every four months and has bugfix releases in each intervening month. A date-based version scheme is used, which is composed of the year and month. A third digit is used for bugfix releases. With the April 2021 release, the KDE Applications Bundle has been renamed to KDE Gear.

References

External links

* {{KDE

KDE applications The KDE Gear (also known as the KDE Applications Bundle or KDE Applications) is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are developed by the KDE community, primarily used on Linux-based operating systems but mostly multiplatform, and ...

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