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Tuesday, April 6th 2004, 4:47pm

All KDE's hidden tools

Hiya all,

KDE seems to have quite a few undocumented or poorly advertised tools that can be very useful at the right time. I'm curious what other neat geeky tools you know of in KDE...

I'll start off with the ones that I know and think are useful:

kdebugdialog - Controls the debug output level of KDE programs.
qtconfig - Sets some low-level display options.
kdcop - Graphically browse running KDE applications properties, and 'remotely' modify properties or generate events.
kde-config - Gives short information about the way KDE was compiled and installed.

OK, so you probably knew some of these, or you don't think they're interesting. But which would you have written? :) (hint, hint)

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "OhReally" (Jul 28th 2008, 12:19am)

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Friday, April 9th 2004, 10:49am

I would just add
kapptemplate - Creates the sources for a template KDE application
kbugbuster - Allows to browse (and more) bugs.kde.org database
kappfinder - populates kde menu with legacy applications

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Tuesday, April 27th 2004, 11:50pm

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...kbugbuster - Allows to browse (and more) bugs.kde.org database..

This seems to have been removed in KDE-3.2.1....... :(
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Wednesday, April 28th 2004, 4:51pm

distro

From Distro to Distro it changes - hidden KDE tools :D - Debian displays all of the tools you posted.

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Friday, May 7th 2004, 4:08am

kdialog - KDE dialogs from shell scripts

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Friday, May 7th 2004, 8:55am

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...kbugbuster - Allows to browse (and more) bugs.kde.org database..

This seems to have been removed in KDE-3.2.1....... :(

Found it........................only after installing the SDK pkg (kdesdk) :)

Might be more helpful to also list the package these little known apps are found in since not everyone will install _all_ the packages ;)

kdebugdialog (kdebase) - Controls the debug output level of KDE programs.
qtconfig (qt) - Sets some low-level display options.
kdcop (kdebase) - Graphically browse running KDE applications properties, and 'remotely' modify properties or generate events.
kde-config (kdelibs) - Gives short information about the way KDE was compiled and installed.
kapptemplate (kdesdk) - Creates the sources for a template KDE application.
kbugbuster (kdesdk) - Allows to browse (and more) bugs.kde.org database.
kappfinder (kdebase) - Populates kde menu with legacy applications.
kdialog (kdebase) - KDialog can be used to show nice dialog boxes from shell scripts.
ksysguard (kdebase) - KSysguard (KDE System Guard) is the KDE Task Manger and Performance Monitor, featuring a client/server architecture that allows monitoring of local as well as remote hosts.
kpm (kdebase) - Process table manager (task manager) used by KSysguard which shows the running processes, much like the 'ps' command. Processes can also be killed using kpm.

I've added a couple......... :)
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Sunday, May 9th 2004, 12:02am

Great info. Thanks all. :D
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Sunday, May 9th 2004, 6:14am

found this great new application:

filelight: Filelight allows you to understand exactly where your diskspace is being used by graphically representing your filesystem as a set of concentric segmented-rings.


http://www.sebruiz.net/
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Saturday, December 24th 2005, 3:51am

`kcmshell' -- "A tool to start single KDE control modules"

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Sunday, March 12th 2006, 3:46pm

kprinter - use the KDE printer dialog in non-kde applications. It replaces the 'lpr' command in those applications.
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Sunday, March 12th 2006, 7:39pm

A presentation with examples on some of those tools:
http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/v/voyager/scriptingkde/

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Sunday, July 30th 2006, 7:06pm

Undocumented packages

I'm a new KDE user. (To be precise I tried it when latest was something like 0.9-beta - very buggy.)
I seriously dislike bloated software, now the KDE is split into pieces and this sparked my interest. However, too many useful packages are not documented. Actually, they are even not listed anywhere. It took some really heavy Googling (and swearing) to find out there are packages like kmilo, nsplugins, konq-plugins etc. Why these (and very likely other useful packages) are hidden? How users are expected to find and use them if they are not listed/described anywhere? Maybe I'm all wrong and there is a nice list somwhere I'm not aware of?

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Monday, July 31st 2006, 11:46pm

RE: Undocumented packages

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I seriously dislike bloated software, now the KDE is split into pieces and this sparked my interest.

It's been split for many years now ;)
Will even more split with kde4 though..

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However, too many useful packages are not documented. Actually, they are even not listed anywhere. It took some really heavy Googling (and swearing) to find out there are packages like kmilo, nsplugins, konq-plugins etc.

That's te problem with splitting up packages, you get more and more of them :)
But kde does not split up its packages into konq-plugins, nsplugins etc, distro's are doing that. nsplugins for example is part of kdebase.

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Why these (and very likely other useful packages) are hidden? How users are expected to find and use them if they are not listed/described anywhere?

There is no need for users to find them. If they install kde-software, the smaller packages will be installed as wel. E.g. if you install konqueror webbrowser, you get nsplugins and some other packages as well.
nsplugins is not a stand-alone application, so there is no use for it without konqueror...

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Maybe I'm all wrong and there is a nice list somwhere I'm not aware of?

did you take a look at http://kde-apps.org?
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Tuesday, August 1st 2006, 12:18am

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There is no need for users to find them. If they install kde-software, the smaller packages will be installed as wel. E.g. if you install konqueror webbrowser, you get nsplugins and some other packages as well.
nsplugins is not a stand-alone application, so there is no use for it without konqueror...

Well, I installed Konqueror. And had hard time finding out I have to install nsplugins too in order to get flash and friends working. Are we talking about same thing here?