The KDE Gear (also known as the KDE Applications Bundle or KDE Applications ) 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.
13-554: The bundle is composed of over 100 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 . Software that is not part of the official KDE Applications bundle can be found in
26-870: A stable and highly customizable desktop, continuing bug fixes, additional features, and compatibility with recent hardware. Trinity is packaged for Arch Linux , Debian , Fedora , Gentoo , Mageia , OpenSUSE , Raspberry Pi OS , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Slackware , Ubuntu and various other distributions and architectures. It is also used as the default desktop environment of at least two Linux distributions, Q4OS and Exe GNU/Linux . Since version 3.5.12 (its second official release), it uses its own fork of Qt3 , known as TQt3, so as to make it easier to eventually make TQt installable alongside later Qt releases. Trinity also maintains its own versions of several KDE software applications using TQt3, while still providing feature updates and ensuring compatibility with recent distributions and hardware. Early releases of Trinity used
39-430: A traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software. Born as a fork of KDE 3.5 in 2010, it was originally created by Timothy Pearson, who had coordinated Kubuntu remixes featuring KDE 3.5 after Kubuntu switched to KDE Plasma 4 . TDE is now a fully independent project with its own development team, available for various Linux distros, BSD and DilOS. It is currently led by Slávek Banko. TDE releases aims to provide
52-416: A versioning scheme based on that of K Desktop Environment 3.5, from which it was forked. The R14.0 release adopted a new versioning scheme, to prevent comparisons with KDE based on version number alone and a new visual theme. This new visual theme was based on the "KDE Lineart" background included in the wallpapers package for KDE 3.4 and covered the desktop background and was named "Trinity Lineart" along with
65-665: Is used for bugfix releases. With the April 2021 release, the KDE Applications Bundle has been renamed to KDE Gear. Dolphin (file manager) Dolphin is a free and open source file manager included in the KDE Applications bundle. Dolphin became the default file manager of the KDE Plasma desktop environments in the fourth iteration , termed KDE Software Compilation 4 . It can also be optionally installed on K Desktop Environment 3 . It replaces Konqueror as
78-520: The "Extragear" section. They release on their own schedule and feature their own versioning numbers. There are many standalone applications like KTorrent , 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 or KDE Kontact . There are several options for obtaining and installing KDE applications under Linux. Moreover, most of
91-494: The KDE platform and applications have been ported to OpenBSD and NetBSD . While prior editions of KDE were often seen on other flavors of Unix , such as Solaris , the popularity of the open source alternatives running on a wide range of hardware (having been ported to nearly every RISC and x86 64 processors) has made KDE projects on similar OSs less obvious. KDE SDK is a collection of two dozen distinct integrated (both within
104-555: The SDK but also with other KDE applications, e.g. many work with Dolphin, the default file manager) 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. Various other packages are being built for testing on Android, although plans for some of
117-476: The core parts of the SDK (e.g. Kate) have not been announced. KDebugSettings Dferry D-Bus library and tools CuteHMI Open-source HMI (Human Machine Interface) software written in C++ and QML. Unmaintained Applications 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
130-435: The default file manager for KDE SC 4, but Konqueror can still be used as an alternative file manager. Under previous K Desktop Environment versions, Konqueror had served both as the default file manager and web browser. However, for many years users have been critical of Konqueror as being too complex for simple file navigation. As a response, the two functions were divided into two separate applications. Under KDE SC 4, Dolphin
143-405: The splash screen, "application info screens" (for some apps like Konqueror and Trinity Control Center), and banners (for some other apps like KPersonalizer and Kate). The window, widget, and icon themes were left intact, aside from replacing all KDE logos with Trinity logos. Prior to this, Trinity kept the KDE 3.5 visual theme, but replaced the "KDE 3.5" branding with "TDE" branding, in a font that
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#1732797764534156-512: Was discontinued. However, the program continues to be unofficially available for K Desktop Environment 3 under the slightly modified name of “D3lphin”. D3lphin contains many bugfixes and a new sidebar and is maintained by the TDE project. Trinity Desktop Environment The Trinity Desktop Environment ( TDE ) is a complete software desktop environment designed for Linux and Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring
169-548: Was streamlined for browsing files, while sharing as much code as possible with Konqueror. Konqueror continues to be developed primarily as a web browser. In 2014, work started on porting Dolphin to KDE Frameworks 5 . This is now complete and a Frameworks 5-based version was released as part of KDE Applications 15.08 in August 2015. As development of the KDE SC 4 version was underway, the K Desktop Environment 3 version of Dolphin
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