Kivio is free flowcharting and diagramming software that is a part of
KOffice
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, integrated
graphic art
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office suite
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by
KDE
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.
Features
* Scriptable stencils using
Python.
* Support for
Dia stencils.
* Plugin framework for adding more functionality.
Kivio product range
*Kivio mp: It is an enhanced version of Kivio, distributed under restricted source license, which includes sources but cannot be distributed. Supported operating systems include
Linux
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(Intel x86 CPU platforms),
Mac OS X 10.3
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System requirements
Panther's s ...
and
Windows 9x
Windows 9x is a generic term referring to a series of Microsoft Windows computer operating systems produced from 1995 to 2000, which were based on the Windows 95 kernel and its underlying foundation of MS-DOS, both of which were updated in sub ...
–
XP.
*Kivio Stencil Builder: A separate product that creates custom stenils.
History
Kivio was originally developed by theKompany who brought the source code of a Linux-only version into
KOffice
KOffice is a free and open source office and graphics suite developed by KDE for Unix-like and Windows systems. KOffice contains a word processor (KWord), a spreadsheet ( KSpread), a presentation program (KPresenter), and a number of other compon ...
under
GPL
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.
The GPL versions followed the version scheme of KOffice. The last stable version was 1.6.3, released on June 8, 2007.
Since then Kivio continued to be developed without maintainer and no stable releases seeing the light of day.
Kivio mp
The last release of ''Kivio mp'' was version 3.0, made in December 2004. That release was based on
Qt 3
The latest version of Qt is 6.5 released on 3 April 2023.
Also still supported, for commercial users, are 5.15 LTS, released on 26 May 2020, and 6.2 LTS, released on 30 September 2021 – long-term support (LTS) versions are generally supported f ...
.
Calligra Flow
Calligra Flow is free diagramming software that is a part of
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 digit ...
, successor of
Kivio
Kivio is free flowcharting and diagramming software that is a part of KOffice, integrated graphic art and office suite by KDE.
Features
* Scriptable stencils using Python.
* Support for Dia stencils.
* Plugin framework for adding more functio ...
. It has a user interface that is similar to
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Visio ( ) (formerly Microsoft Office Visio) is a diagramming and vector graphics application and is part of the Microsoft Office family. The product was first introduced in 1992, made by the Shapeware Corporation, later renamed Visio ...
. Created objects can be embedded into other
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 digit ...
products.
History
After announcing the split of the KOffice developer community in 2010-06-11, the Kivio code was imported into the newly formed
Calligra
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 ...
project and picked up by a new maintainer who renamed the application to ''Calligra Flow''. When KDE community had announced the start of Calligra Suite in 2010-12-06, a flowchart programme named 'Flow' was part of the announcement.
Flow was shipped with the first Calligra Suite Snapshot Release.
A stable release was made along with the rest of Calligra Suite 2.4.
Since Calligra 3.0, Flow was removed from Calligra Suite, then was retired and replaced by
Karbon in Calligra 3.2.0.
full changelog (3.2.0)
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See also
* Flowchart
A flowchart is a type of diagram that represents a workflow or process. A flowchart can also be defined as a diagrammatic representation of an algorithm, a step-by-step approach to solving a task.
The flowchart shows the steps as boxes of va ...
References
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External links
Kivio
KOffice page
*theKompany.com page
Kivio mpKivio Stencil BuilderKDE UserBase WikiKOffice wiki
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Calligra Flow
Calligra Flow HomepageKDE Community Wiki
Calligra Suite
Free diagramming software
Free educational software