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, 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

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, 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,

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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 – 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

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, backed by the Akonadi 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 digit ...

provides an office suite, including **

Calligra Flow Kivio is free flowcharting and diagramming software that is a part of KOffice, integrated Graphic art software, graphic art and office suite by KDE. Features * Scriptable stencils using Python (programming language), Python. * Support for Dia ( ...

– a flowchart and diagram editor ** Calligra Plan – a

project management Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. T ...

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 pe ...

–

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** Calligra Stage – Presentation application ** Calligra Words –

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Kexi Kexi is a visual database applications creator tool by KDE, designed to fill the gap between spreadsheets and database solutions requiring more sophisticated development. Kexi can be used for designing and implementing databases, data inserting a ...

– a visual database creator * KEuroCalc – a currency converter and calculator * Kile – integrated

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environment * KMyMoney – 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

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