The Lesser Apps of KDE - Development (Page 1 of 1)
Written by
Steve Lake
Posted on: Jun 08, 2007 at 02:42pm
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One of the lesser known features of KDE is the
selection of Development applications that come bundled with it. While these won't
necessarily be available in every distribution that includes KDE, they are available in
the default install of KDE. With these tools you can create quite a few different
things ranging from programs to webpages to simple scripts that can be used for a variety
of purposes either professionally or personally. So let's look at each of these and
what they can do for you.
KDevelop
This menu folder provides you access to a set of IDE tools that will help you with
visually developing applications and programs which can directly be used in and with KDE.
These include IDE's for multiple languages, C/C++, Kdevelop, Ruby and a variety of
other scripting languages and even includes an interface designer. While this may
not be useful for the average user, it's very helpful to anyone developing applications
for use in KDE.
Translation
This menu folder provides you with three simple language translation tools for creating
applications that provide multi-language user interfaces. While not perfect, they do
work in a pinch. The translation abilities of these programs lie with the bablefish
translation engine, a well tested translation tool that, while not perfect, does work well
in a pinch when professional translation services are not available or out of reach.
Web Development
This menu folder provides you with a group of four basic web development tools that
will help you to create webpages that will wow your guests and ensure that everything
works. These tools include an image map editor, a link checker to make sure all your
current links are working, Quanta Plus for html editing, and an XSLT debugger for working
XML and XSL.
Cervisia
This tool is a graphical frontend for the CVS file repository system. If you use
CVS for tracking file versions and such, this may be useful for you.
Kompare
A very useful file comparison tool. It opens two files, compares them, then shows
you what's different between them. It also allows you to create diff and patch files
to allow others to upgrade their code from their current version to the newer one.
Kommander
This program provides you with a graphical editing interface for scripted dialogs.
Essentially you can custom create dialog boxes for all your scripts and programs,
all without writing a single line of code! Kommander does it all.
KFormDesigner
Create forms and dialogs for your programs using the QT toolkit.
KBugBuster
This is an older bug tracking program for KDE of which I'm not sure it's being used
anymore since it hasn't officially been updated since 2003. But it provides a
graphical frontend to the KDE bug tracking system for you if you need it.
KCachegrind
A graphical frontend for Cachegrind. If you don't know what Cashegrind is, this
tool likely isn't of any use to you.
Umbrello
This program is a UML modeler. Another UI design assistance program that uses the
industry standard Unified Modeling Language (UML) for creating diagrams for designing and
documenting your systems and projects.
Well, that's the general overview of the development part of KDE. While many of
these tools are specifically tailored towards the power user and the software developer,
there are still some tools that are useful to the average user.
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