KDE Gear


The KDE Gear 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 released on a common release schedule.
The bundle is composed of over 200 applications. Examples of prominent applications in the bundle include the file manager Dolphin, document viewer Okular, text editor Kate, archiving tool Ark and terminal emulator Konsole.
Previously the KDE Applications Bundle was part of the KDE Software Compilation.

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 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. There are several options for obtaining and installing KDE applications under Linux. Moreover, most of the KDE platform and applications have been ported to OpenBSD and NetBSD.

List of applications part of the bundle

Development

Software development

KDE SDK is a collection of two dozen distinct integrated applications and components that work with/are part of KDevelop, and is suitable for general purpose software development in a range of languages. It provides the tooling used to engineer KDE, and is particularly rich in tools to support Qt and C++ development, as well as the more fashionable Rust, Python, etc.
  • Most of the KDE SDK is available for Windows and macOS in addition to Linux and BSD.
  • While created for the KDE desktop, prebuilt , including nightly releases, is available for Mac OS, Linux, as well as via most major Linux distributions package managers, in addition to the source code via KDE Gitlab.
  • Windows installers for production/released version of Kate, KDevelop and Umbrello are available as well as via the .
  • *Several KDE applications are available for Android using the Kirigami framework. built using KDevelop including KDE Connect, KDE Itinerary, a digital travel assistant that integrates train, bus, and air bookings with maps, the KDE Kalendar application, and boarding passes, and KAlgebra, a graphing scientific calculator.
Various other packages are being built for testing on Android, although plans for some of the core parts of the SDK have not been announced.
  • Unless noted, KDE applications can use KIO slaves for ftp, http, ftp over ssh, Google drive, WebDAV to browse/access files just as they can local files, samba, archives, man, and info pages. E.g. to browse a WebDAV location, in place of the file path, webdav://www.hostname.com/path/.
  • The various components can be used on their own, or in combination.
  • Kate – an advanced text editor for programmers, and general text editor.
  • *As of KDE 4, KEdit was replaced by Kate and Kwrite.
  • KDevelop – an integrated development environment for multiple languages, with a plug-in/extension framework, and control flow viewer.
  • *Supported languages include: C/C++ and ObjC
  • **Including some extra features for the Qt Framework
  • **Including language support for CUDA and OpenCL
  • **Qt QML and JavaScript, Python, PHP
  • *In addition to the "supported" languages, there is syntax highlighting for a wide range of mark-up, configuration, programming, scripting, and data languages.
  • * GUI integration with multiple different version control systems including Git, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, and Perforce.
  • * Support for CMake and QMake, as well as generic and custom build files.
  • Cervisia – CVS frontend
  • KDESvn – graphical Subversion client
  • KAppTemplate – Template-based code project generator
  • KDiff3 – Diff/Patch frontend
  • Kommander – Dynamic dialog editor
  • Kompare – Diff/Patch frontend
  • Lokalize – a computer–aided translation system
  • Okteta – a hex editor
  • Poxml
  • Swappo
  • Clazy Qt-oriented static code analyzer based on the Clang framework
  • Massif Visualizer – Visualizer for Valgrind Massif data files
  • Umbrello – UML diagram application
  • ELF Dissector ELF binary inspector
  • Fielding REST API tester
  • Doxyqml Doxygen filter to allow generation of API Documentation for QML
  • Heaptrack traces all memory allocations and annotates these events with stack traces.
KDebugSettings
  • KUIViewer views UI files.
Dferry D-Bus library and tools
CuteHMI Open-source HMI software written in C++ and QML.

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

Utilities

Accessibility

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.''''''