KDE Applications

KDE Applications
Original author(s) KDE
Developer(s) KDE
Initial release December 17, 2014 (2014-12-17)[1]
Stable release 15.12.1 (12 January 2016 (2016-01-12)) [±][2]
Development status Active
Written in C++, QML
Operating system Linux, FreeBSD, et al.
Type
License GNU Lesser General Public License
Website www.kde.org

KDE Applications is a bundle of applications and supporting libraries released on a common release schedule and that are designed for KDE desktops environments KDE Plasma 4 and KDE Plasma 5, which are primarily used on Linux. The applications in KDE Applications were previously released as part of the KDE Software Compilation. KDE Applications is composed of over 100 applications and is in the process of being ported from KDE Platform 4 to KDE Frameworks 5. Examples of prominent applications in the bundle include the file manager Dolphin, text editor Kate, archiving tool Ark and terminal emulator Konsole.

Software bundle

Release 15.12 contained 146 applications: akonadi akonadi-calendar akonadi-search analitza ark artikulate baloo-widgets bomber bovo cantor cervisia dolphin dolphin-plugins dragon ffmpegthumbs filelight gpgmepp granatier gwenview jovie kaccounts-integration kaccounts-providers kalarmcal kalgebra kamera kanagram kapman kapptemplate kate katomic kblackbox kblocks kblog kbounce kbreakout kbruch kcachegrind kcalc kcalcore kcalutils kcharselect kcolorchooser kcontacts kcron kde-dev-scripts kde-runtime kdebugsettings kdeedu-data kdegraphics-mobipocket kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer kdegraphics-thumbnailers kdelibs kdenetwork-filesharing kdenetwork-strigi-analyzers kdenlive kdepim kdepim-runtime kdepimlibs kdesdk-thumbnailers kdiamond kfloppy kfourinline kgeography kget kgoldrunner kgpg khangman kholidays kidentitymanagement kig killbots kimap kio-extras kiriki kiten kjumpingcube kldap klettres klickety klines kmailtransport kmbox kmime kmines kmix kmplot knavalbattle knetwalk kollision kolourpaint kompare konsole kontactinterface kopete kpat kpimtextedit kppp krdc krfb kruler ksaneplugin kshisen ksirk ksnakeduel ksquares kstars ksudoku ksystemlog kteatime ktimer ktnef ktp-accounts-kcm ktp-common-internals ktp-contact-list ktp-desktop-applets ktp-text-ui ktuberling kturtle kuser kwalletmanager kwordquiz libkcompactdisc libkdcraw libkdegames libkexiv2 libkface libkgeomap libkipi libksane lokalize lskat marble okteta okular palapeli parley picmi poxml print-manager rocs spectacle step svgpart syndication umbrello zeroconf-ioslave

Release history

Feature releases of KDE Applications are released every four months with 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.[3]

KDE Applications release history
Version Key feature Date
Old version, no longer supported: 14.12[1] Kate, Konsole, Gwenview, KAlgebra, Kanagram, KHangman, Kig, Parley, KApptemplate and Okteta ported to KDE Frameworks 5. 17 Dec 2014
Old version, no longer supported: 15.04[4] Rocs, Cantor, Kompare, Kdenlive and KDE Telepathy ported to KDE Frameworks 5. 15 Apr 2015
Old version, no longer supported: 15.08[5] Dolphin and Ark ported to KDE Frameworks 5. Technology preview of KF5-based Kontact suite. 19 Aug 2015
Current stable version: 15.12[6] KSnapshot was replaced by Spectacle, KTuberling, Klickety and KNavalBattle have also been updated to use KDE Frameworks 5, … 16 Dec 2015
Future release: 16.04[3]
Legend:
Old version
Older version, still supported
Latest version
Latest preview version
Future release

References

  1. 1 2 "KDE Ships KDE Applications 14.12.0". KDE. 2014-07-15. Retrieved 2015-07-20.
  2. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.12.1". KDE. 12 January 2016.
  3. 1 2 "KDE Techbase - Schedules". KDE. 2015-07-07.
  4. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.04.0". KDE. 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  5. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.08.0". KDE. 2015-08-19. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  6. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.12.0". KDE. 2015-12-16. Retrieved 2016-01-11.

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