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Nov 04, 2021

Internet & Networking

• Akregator - Enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites 📌.

• GSConnect - A complete implementation of KDE Connect especially for GNOME Shell with Nautilus, Chrome and Firefox integration.

• KDE Connect - A project to communicate across all your devices: receive your phone notifications on your desktop computer, control your desktop from your phone, etc 📌.

• KGet - A versatile and user-friendly download manager 📌.

• KMail - KMail is the email component of Kontact, the integrated personal information manager from KDE 📌.

• Konqueror - Uses the KHTML rendering engine (and optionally Webkit) so it supports the latest web standards such as HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, and others 📌.

• Konversation - A user-friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client built on the KDE Platform 📌.

• KRDC - A client application that allows you to view or control a desktop session on another machine that is running a compatible server (VNC & RDP) 📌.

• KTorrent - A BitTorrent application which allows you to download files using the BitTorrent protocol 📌.

• Otter Browser - Otter Browser aims to recreate the best aspects of the classic Opera (12.x) UI using Qt5.

• Plasma-browser-integration - A suite of new features which make Firefox, Chrome and Chromium-based browsers work with your desktop 📌.

• qBittorrent - An advanced BitTorrent client programmed in C++, based on Qt toolkit and libtorrent-rasterbar.

• Qt WebBrowser - Qt WebBrowser is a browser for embedded devices developed using the capabilities of Qt and Qt WebEngine.

Graphics & Imaging

• digiKam - Professional Photo Management with the Power of Open Source 📌.

• Gwenview - A fast and easy to use image viewer by KDE 📌.

• KColorChooser - A simple application to select the color from the screen or from a pallete 📌.

• KolourPaint - A simple painting program to quickly create raster images. It is useful as a touch-up tool and simple image editing tasks 📌.

• Krita - Painting tool designed for concept artists, illustrators, matte and texture artists, and the VFX industry 📌.

• Okular - A universal document viewer 📌.

• Spectacle - An application for capturing desktop screenshots 📌.

Multimedia

• Elisa - A music player developed by the KDE community that strives to be simple and nice to use 📌.

• Haruna - Open source video player built with Qt/QML and libmpv 📌.

• Kdenlive - A non-linear video editor for Linux using the MLT video framework.

• KMix - A sound channel mixer and volume control 📌.

• KWave - A sound editor built on the KDE Frameworks 5 📌.

• SMPlayer - Media player with built-in codecs that can play virtually all video and audio formats.

• VLC - A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files, and various streaming protocols.

Office & Productivity

• Kate - A multi-document, multi-view text editor by KDE 📌.

• Kronometer A stopwatch application for KDE 📌.

• KWrite - A text editor by KDE, based on the KDE Frameworks editor component 📌.

• RSI Break - RSIBreak can be used to remind you to take a break now and then 📌.

System Administration

• Discover - Intended for users and distros where the terminal isn't the optimal solution for installation of apps and add-ons or updates 📌.

• Dolphin - File manager included in the KDE desktop 📌.

• KDiskFree - Displays the available file devices (hard drive partitions, drives, etc.) along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point 📌.

• Konsole - Terminal emulator included in the KDE desktop 📌.

• Krusader - An advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE 📌.

• KSystemLog - A system log viewer tool 📌.

• Kup - A backup scheduler for KDE's Plasma desktop 📌.

• Sweeper - Sweeper helps to clean unwanted traces the user leaves on the system and to regain disk space removing unused temporary files 📌.

• Yakuake - A drop-down terminal emulator based on KDE's Konsole technology 📌.

Utilities & Tools

• Android File Transfer - Reliable MTP client with minimalistic UI.

• Ark - Archiving Tool 📌.

• fancontrol-gui (⭐198) - GUI for fancontrol which is part of lm_sensors.

• KDE Wallet Manager - Manage the passwords on KDE systems. The KDE wallet subsystem allows access and password management of every application that integrates with the KDE wallet 📌.

• KFind - A standalone search tool, launched by KRunner or from your menu. It is also integrated into Konqueror as "Find File" in the "Tools" menu 📌.

• KRename - A utility to rename multiple files 📌.

• QtPass - A multi-platform GUI for pass.

• Yin-Yang (⭐364) - Auto Night-mode for Linux.

Development & Programming

• Kompare - A diff/patch frontend 📌.

• Okteta - Hex Editor 📌.

Education

• KTurtle - An educational programming environment that aims to make learning how to program as easy as possible 📌.

Plasma desktop / Extensions

• Bismuth (⭐1.4k) - A KDE Plasma extension that lets you tile windows automatically and manage them via keyboard, just like in classical tiling window managers (i3, dwm or XMondad).

• Dynamic Wallpaper Engine (⭐241) - A wallpaper plugin that continuously updates the desktop background based on the current time in your location.

• Kvantum (⭐1.2k) - An SVG-based theme engine for Qt4/Qt5, KDE and LXQt, with an emphasis on elegance, usability and practicality.

• Latte-Dock - Latte is a dock based on Plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids 📌.

• Window Title Applet (⭐207) - Plasma 5 applet that shows the current window title and icon in your panels.

Plasma desktop / KCM Modules and Systems

• kcm-wacomtablet - KDE GUI for the Wacom Linux Drivers 📌.

• kde-gtk-config - GTK2 and GTK3 Configurator for KDE 📌.

Plasma desktop / Themes

• ChromeOS (⭐107) - A materia Design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

• Fluent (⭐111) - A Microsoft inspired fluent Design theme for the KDE Plasma desktop.

• Helium - A translucent theme for Plasma 5.

• Hello (⭐219) - A compilation of various color-schemes, themes, icons and more for the KDE Plasma desktop. It is unopinionated, putting you in charge.

• Materia KDE (⭐494) - A port of the popular GTK theme Materia for Plasma 5 desktop with a few additions and extras.

• McMojave (⭐212) - A MacOSX Mojave like theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

• Orchis (⭐122) - A materia Design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

• Qogir (⭐139) - A flat design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

• WhiteSur (⭐606) - A MacOS Big Sur theme for KDE Plasma.

Plasma desktop / Qt and GTK+ Applications Appearance

• Akava-Kv (⭐190) - User oriented Kvantum theme for KDE.

• Chrome-KDE5BreezeDark (⭐19) - A theme for Chrome on KDE5 when using the Breeze Dark window decoration.

• KDE-Rounded-Corners (⭐168) - Rounds the corners of your windows.

• SierraBreeze (⭐352) - OSX-like window decoration for KDE Plasma written in C++.

Plasma desktop / Icons

• Candy (⭐713) - Sweet gradient icons.

• Flatery (⭐294) - Icon theme for Linux in flat style.

• Papirus (⭐5.4k) - Material icon theme, initially based on Paper.

• Zafiro (⭐379) - Minimalist icons created with the flat-desing technique, utilizing washed out colors and always accompanied by white. The priority is simplicity.

Plasma desktop / Scripts

• kwin-tiling (⭐1.1k) - Tiling script for kwin.

Documentation and Resources / Display Manager

• KDE Invent - Discover KDE projects, groups and snippets 📌.

• KDE Bugtracker - KDE's official Bugtracker 📌.

Feb 16, 2021

Internet & Networking

• Falkon - QtWebEngine based cross-platform web browser 📌.

• Smb4K - Advanced Network Neighborhood Browser and Samba Share Mounting Utility 📌.

System Administration

• KInfoCenter - A utility that provides detailed information about a computer system 📌.

Utilities & Tools

• KWinFT - Wayland compositor and X11 window manager.

Nov 10, 2020

Documentation and Resources / Display Manager

• KDE Configs (⭐379) - List of KDE configuration files and more.

Jan 26, 2020

Utilities & Tools

• Wacom GUI (⭐106) - Python/PyQt Wacom GUI for KDE.

Education

• LabPlot - Interactive graphing and analysis of scientific data 📌.

Plasma desktop / Extensions

• Hoppla (⭐51) - KDE Plasma desktop widget to control Philips Hue lights.

• Places Widget (⭐10) - Plasma 5 widget that gives access to user places.

• Window AppMenu Applet (⭐375) - Plasma 5 applet in order to show the window appmenu.

Plasma desktop / Themes

• Canta (⭐64) - A flat design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

• Darkine KDE (⭐38) - Theme for KDE Plasma 5 desktop, SDDM and more.

• Layan (⭐265) - A flat design theme for KDE Plasma desktop.

Plasma desktop / Qt and GTK+ Applications Appearance

• Breeze10 (⭐81) - A Windows 10 style windows decoration for KDE Plasma.

• BreezeBlurred (⭐193) - A fork of KDE Breeze window decoration written in Qt C++.

• BreezeEnhanced (⭐132) - A fork of KDE Breeze decoration with additional options.

• Sweet KDE (⭐167) - A dark and modern theme for KDE plasma.

• XBoomer (⭐62) - XP Window Decorations for KDE Plasma.

Plasma desktop / Icons

• La Capitaine (⭐1.9k) - Icon pack with inspiration taken from the latest iterations of macOS and Google's Material Design.

• Tela (⭐1.1k) - A flat colorful Design icon theme.

Plasma desktop / Scripts

• Grid-Tiling-Kwin (⭐849) - A kwin script that automatically tiles windows.

• Kröhnkite (⭐1.4k) - A dynamic tiling extension for KWin.

Plasma desktop / Display Manager

• Chili (⭐142) - The hottest login theme around for KDE Plasma 5.

• Delicious (⭐80) - A delicious SDDM theme for DE collectors/addicts.

• Sugar Candy - The sweetest login theme available for the SDDM display manager.

Nov 16, 2019

Utilities & Tools

• KWin-lowlatency (⭐383) - An attempt to reduce latency and stuttering in the popular KWin compositor used in KDE.

Sep 24, 2019

Internet & Networking

• Firefox KDE - Standalone web browser from mozilla.org with OpenSUSE patch, integrate better with KDE.

Plasma desktop / Themes

• Breath - Breath Theme for Manjaro Linux (Plasma 5).

May 10, 2019

Articles / Display Manager

• Kai Uwe's Blog - Stories of a Plasma developer.

Mar 29, 2019

Plasma desktop / Icons

• Antu - A smooth icon theme designed for Plasma Desktop.

Plasma desktop / Cursors

• Capitaine (⭐908) - An x-cursor theme inspired by macOS and based on KDE Breeze.

Feb 26, 2019

Internet & Networking

• KNetworkManager - A KDE client for the back end NetworkManager software 📌.

Multimedia

• Amarok - Amarok is a powerful music player for Linux, Unix and Windows with an intuitive interface 📌.

Office & Productivity

• Calligra - Includes efficient and capable office components 📌.

Development & Programming

• KDevelop - A cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP 📌.

• Umbrello - UML Modeller is a Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagram program based on KDE Technology 📌.

Plasma desktop / KCM Modules and Systems

• kded_rotation (⭐56) - A small, hacky KDED module for handling automatic screen rotation on tablets and hybrid laptops.

Plasma desktop / Qt and GTK+ Applications Appearance

• breeze-gtk (⭐58) - A GTK Theme Built to Match KDE's Breeze 📌.

Documentation and Resources / Display Manager

• KDE Wikis - The KDE wikis are a source of information and documentation for the KDE desktop, applications, teams, events and more 📌.

Articles / Display Manager

• KDE.news - The official KDE news website 📌.

• Planet KDE - Blogs of KDE contributors 📌.

Communities / Display Manager

• KDE Store - Official KDE Store for developers to share Plasma customizations 📌.

Nov 04, 2018

Utilities & Tools

• KeePassXC - Cross-platform community-driven port of Keepass password manager.

Development & Programming

• Qt Designer - Qt tool for designing and building graphical user interfaces (GUIs) with Qt Widgets.

Plasma desktop / Cursors

• Bibata - Material Based Cursor Theme.

Articles / Display Manager

• Nate Graham's Blog - Adventures in Linux and KDE.

Aug 13, 2018

Documentation and Resources / Display Manager

• ArchWiki - Arch Linux KDE Wiki.

• Gentoo Wiki - Gentoo KDE Wiki.

Articles / Display Manager

• Phoronix - Phoronix KDE News Archives.

• Nico's Blog - Programmer from Germany that is working on KDE.

Communities / Display Manager

• Kreddit - KDE Community on Reddit.

• Stack Overflow - Questions tagged with kde.

Mar 21, 2018

Plasma desktop / Themes

• Adapta KDE (⭐458) - A port of the popular GTK theme Adapta for Plasma 5 desktop with a few additions and extras.

• Arc KDE (⭐821) - A port of the popular GTK theme Arc for Plasma 5 desktop with a few additions and extras.