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Linux Garage: KDE Utilities

By Ramnath Shenoy <ramnath@freeos.com>
Posted: ( 2000-10-24 08:29:32 EST by )
This is the second in a series of articles that looks at the various
applications that are present in KDE and what they can do for you.

KDE Utilities

Acrobat Reader: Adobe Acrobat Reader ships with Caldera. Use it for
handling PDF files as you would in Windows.

Ark: It is a program for managing and quickly extracting archives. Has
drag and drop features.

Kclipper: Keep track of your cut & Paste history with Kclipper. Sits as an
icon on your taskbar.

KJots: A program for writing and organizing small notes.

GV: Postscript Viewer

KHexedit: This is a small and simple editor for binary files.

KMenuedit: A program for changing Kpanel menus

Kpm: A process management tool - kpm allows you to view and modify the
processes on your Linux machine. It shows detailed information about
computer resources like RAM, swap space, CPU utilization etc. You can also
stop and modify the processes.

KCalc: An advanced calculator program.

KDE Multimedia Utilities

CD Player: Looks and works just like the Windows CD player.

KMedia: This is KDE's generic media player.

KMid: KMid is KDE's midi and karaoke multimedia player with features like
real time graphics and karaoke text highlighting among others.

Internet tools

KArchie: Use KArchie to search for and retrieve files on the internet
through FTP.

KBiff: KBiff is a mail notification utility for KDE with support for POP3,
IMAP4 and other major mailbox formats.

KSirc: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE. I had figure out how to
use this on my own as no help was provided.

Netscape Communicator: Quite a let down when compared to its Windows
cousin. The only plus point is the ease with which you can migrate your
account from Windows to Linux.

Kppp: Ksaferppp is a dialer and front end for the ppp daemon. Allows you
to select from a list of available ISP's and establish a PPP connection
with it Once connected, it gives a rich set of statistics and keeps track
of online time.

KMail: KMail is KDE's email client. Easy to setup and use, however has a
very poor address book. Does not allow you to migrate or export accounts
from other programs.

KNU: The KDE Network Utilities program. Allows you to make a ping, a
traceroute and a finger query from the GUI itself.

KRN: Krn is a newsreader program for KDE.

KDE Office Tools

KAB Address Book: KAB is a simple program for storing address. You can
export the database as a HTML table. You can start KMail directly from
within the program to mail to any address.

KLyX Editor: This is a word processor for the power user/geek. Along with
the standard features you would expect in any WP, it has some unique ones
like cross referencing, infinite undo, The help manual calls others WP's
as 'simply glorified typewriters' Whereas others are based on WYSIWYG
principle, LyX is based on What you see is what you mean. LyX allows the
writer to concentrate on the content and not how the document looks like.

KOrganiser: A standard PIM with a calendar, appointments & todo lists. Its
unique feature is that it uses the vCalendar protocol for data interchange
with different programs, devices. Data is stored in ASCII format and human
readable.

Karm Personal Time Tracker: I kept a track of how much time I was spending
on writing this article using Karm. If anybody can think of anything
else, please let me know.

KDE Editors

X Edit: A very basic editor with search & replace facility.

XEmacs: A very powerful and extensible text editor with GUI support. It
has its own inbuilt browser. Strictly for the advanced Linux user.

KWrite: An advanced text editor for use of programmer's who find XEmac
hard to digest. It is used in conjunction with KFM, the default file
browser of KDE.

Netscape composer: Standard Netscape fare-- does anyone really use this
program?

GVim: Another text editor for programers and the like. Can convert files
to HTML.

KEdit: This is the default text editor for KDE. It is used along with KFM.
Useful for writing/editing small text files.

KDE Graphics

GIMP: The Photo Shop of Linux. Has most of the familiar Photo Shop
features and more. Watch for a more detailed review.

KIconeditor: This is a program to help you create icons for KDE. Easy to
use with lots of useful features.

KFax fax viewer: This is a fax file viewer that can display and print most
common fax formats. As yet cannot send/receive faxes.

Kview: Remember a program called Irfan Viewer in Windows. Well, this is
the Linux equivalent. Opens fast, has a slideshow feature.

KPaint: This is a simple bitmap paint program.

PS Viewer: This is the default Postscript viewer for KDE. Can view Adobe's
pdf files also.

KSanpshot: This is simple applet for taking screenshots. Capable of
capturing images of the entire desktop or just a single window. You can
save the snapshot in a variety of formats.

Kfract: This is a generator for fractals. (Sorry I don't know anything
about those.)

Camleo Graphics Editor: Review was not possible as version was corrupted.

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