KDE Applications

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

The KDE Applications Bundle is a set of applications and supporting libraries that are designed for KDE desktop environments KDE Plasma 4 and KDE Plasma 5 primarily used on Linux based operating systems and released on a common release schedule. Previously the KDE Applications Bundle was part of the KDE Software Compilation. The bundle 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, document viewer Okular, text editor Kate, archiving tool Ark and terminal emulator Konsole.

List of 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.[2]

KDE Applications Bundle 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[3] Rocs, Cantor, Kompare, Kdenlive and KDE Telepathy ported to KDE Frameworks 5. 15 Apr 2015
Old version, no longer supported: 15.08[4] Dolphin and Ark ported to KDE Frameworks 5. Technology preview of KF5-based Kontact suite. 19 Aug 2015
Old version, no longer supported: 15.12[5] KSnapshot was replaced by Spectacle, KTuberling, Klickety and KNavalBattle have also been updated to use KDE Frameworks 5. 16 Dec 2015
Old version, no longer supported: 16.04[6] New music education software (Minuet), KHelpCenter now part of KDE Applications, bugfixes to Kontact, Ark 20 Apr 2016
Old version, no longer supported: 16.08[7] Kolourpaint, Cervisia, KDiskFree, The Kontact Suite, Marble 18 Aug 2016
Old version, no longer supported: 16.12[8] Kwave; Okular, Konqueror, KGpg, KTouch and Kalzium ported to KDE Frameworks 5. 15 Dec 2016
Current stable version: 17.04 20 Apr 2017
Latest preview version of a future release: 17.08
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 Techbase - Schedules". KDE. 2015-07-07.
  3. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.04.0". KDE. 2015-04-15. Retrieved 2015-07-29.
  4. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.08.0". KDE. 2015-08-19. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
  5. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 15.12.0". KDE. 2015-12-16. Retrieved 2016-01-11.
  6. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 16.04.0". KDE. 2016-04-20. Retrieved 2016-06-22.
  7. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 16.08.0". KDE. 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-12-02.
  8. ↑ "KDE Ships KDE Applications 16.12.0". KDE. 2016-12-15. Retrieved 2016-12-17.
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