The Extragear is a collection of KDE applications that are associated with the KDE project. Those apps are not part of the main KDE distribution for various reasons, but they are still part of the project. This gives them higher visibility to Translators and Documentation Writers. KDE (K Desktop Environment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltechs Qt toolkit. ...

There are multiple possible reasons for an application to not be in one of the KDE modules, for example:

• duplication of functionality
• very specialized (like KSMSSend)

It is possible for applications in Extragear to be released independently of KDE by their own maintainers. Application has the following meanings: In general, an application is using something general to some more conrete. ...

List of applications in Extragear

This is a partial list of the applications currently in KDE Extragear.

• amaroK, a media player
• Digikam, an advanced digital photo management application
• Filelight, a graphical diskspace analyzer
• Gwenview, an image viewer
• K3b, a CD and DVD burning application
• Kaffeine, a full-featured multimedia and DVB player
• kdetv, a program to watch television transmission on the desktop
• KimDaba, K Image Database
• Kile, a LaTeX editor
• KMLDonkey, a frontend for MLDonkey (a powerful P2P file sharing tool)
• Konversation, a graphical IRC client
• KTorrent, a BitTorrent client

amaroK is an audio player application for KDE. It is currently released independently from the kdemultimedia package, though this may change in the near future, with amaroK possibly replacing some of the older applications such as Noatun. ... Digikam is a simple photo management application for the KDE desktop environment. ... The Nikon Coolpix 950 Casio Exilim Digital photography, as opposed to film photography, uses an electronic sensor to record the image as a piece of electronic data rather than as chemical changes on film. ... Filelight is a KDE graphical disk-space analyzer with an innovative presentation technique. ... Gwenview is an image viewer for the KDE desktop environment. ... K3b is a CD and DVD authoring application for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems designed for the K Desktop Environment. ... CD may stand for: Compact Disc Canadian Forces Decoration Cash Dispenser (at least used in Japan) CD LPMud Driver Centrum-Demokraterne (Centre Democrats of Denmark) Certificate of Deposit České Dráhy (Czech Railways) Chad (NATO country code) Chalmers Datorförening (computer club of the Chalmers University of Technology) a 1960s... DVD-R writing/reading side DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... Kaffeine is a full featured media player for UNIX based machines running the KDE (K Desktop Environment). ... Official DVB logo, found on compliant devices DVB, short for Digital Video Broadcasting, is a suite of internationally accepted, open standards for digital television maintained by the DVB Project, an industry consortium with more than 270 members, and published by a Joint Technical Committee (JTC) of European Telecommunications Standards Institute... Kile is a user friendly TeX/LaTeX editor similar to WinEdt. ... The extraction of Latex from a tree; Latex is used in Rubber production Latex, as found in nature, is the milky sap of many plants that coagulates on exposure to air. ... MLdonkey is an open source multi-network peer-to-peer application. ... A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network is a network that relies on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively few servers. ... Konversation is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for the K Desktop Environment (KDE). ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of instant communication over the Internet. ... KTorrent is a BitTorrent client written in C++ for KDE, thus using the Qt toolkit. ... The (new) BitTorrent logo This article is about the protocol. ...

External links

• Official KDE Extragear website