Original author(s) Development status Active Operating system | Developer(s) KDE Written in C++, QML | |
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Initial release December 17, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-12-17) | ||
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 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.
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.