[dot] Website for the KDE Utilities Launched

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1217063711/

From: Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>
Dept: plain-old-web-1.0
Date: Saturday26/Jul/2008, @02:15

Website for the KDE Utilities Launched
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   The family [http://www.kde.org/family] of KDE websites has got a new
member, the site for the fine utilities applications from the module
kdeutils.  Despite being one of the first modules, kdeutils has always
been without its own website. No longer. At utils.kde.org
[http://utils.kde.org] you can now find a lot of information about the
KDE Utilities. See for yourself the details of the current set of
programs below.

     The module kdeutils is one of the modules that has been around
since the very beginning of KDE. At the time of KDE 1.0
[http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-1.0.php] the module kdeutils
was already well populated and consisted
[http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdeutils/?pathrev=8800] of KArm (now
KTimeTracker), KCalc, KEdit, KFloppy, KHexedit, KJots, KLJetTool,
KNotes, KTop (now KSysGuard) and KZip (now Ark). The observant will see
that nearly all of these programs are still part of KDE and kicking.
Only three of them are no longer in development: the very specialised
program KLJetTool (used for configuring HP Laserjet printers) was
removed [http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-commits&m=101948694220101&w=2] from
the development branch before KDE 3.1 due to being obsolete, and KEdit
and KHexEdit were removed only recently before KDE 4.0, due to being
unmaintained and with substitutes (KWrite and Okteta).

     Over the times a younger module has drawn away some of the
programs: KTimeTracker, KNotes, and with the upcoming KDE 4.1 also KJots
are now part of the module kdepim
[http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/?pathrev=837673]. Any removal
has been balanced with completely new programs. The two freshest members
of kdeutils [http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeutils/?pathrev=837673],
which entered it in time for KDE 4.1, are Okteta and the Printer Applet.
The latter also makes an interesting premiere, being the first program
in the mainline KDE modules which is not written in C/C++, but in
Python.

    * Ark [http://utils.kde.org/projects/ark] - Archiving tool
    * KCalc [http://utils.kde.org/projects/kcalc] - Scientific
      calculator
    * KCharSelect [http://utils.kde.org/projects/kcharselect] - Font
      character selector
    * kdessh [http://utils.kde.org/projects/kdessh] - Front end to ssh
    * KDiskFree [http://utils.kde.org/projects/kdf] - Free disk space
      viewer
    * KFloppy [http://utils.kde.org/projects/kfloppy] - Floppy disk
      formatter
    * KGpg [http://utils.kde.org/projects/kgpg] - GPG frontend
    * KTimer [http://utils.kde.org/projects/ktimer] - Time controlled
      program starter
    * KDE Wallet Manager [http://utils.kde.org/projects/kwalletmanager]
      - KDE wallet management tool
    * Okteta [http://utils.kde.org/projects/okteta] - Hex editor
    * Printer Applet [http://utils.kde.org/projects/printer-applet] -
      Applet to view current print jobs and configure new printers
    * SuperKaramba [http://utils.kde.org/projects/superkaramba] -
      Version of Karamba with python scripting
    * Sweeper [http://utils.kde.org/projects/sweeper] - Cleaner for
      unwanted usage traces in the system

     Each program has a description page, a page with an overview of the
program's development (like activity or progress with translations) and
a contact page. Over time more content will be added. If you are
interested to help out with that, please get in contact
[http://utils.kde.org/contact.php] with us.

     If you have been developing a utility based on the KDE platform
outside of the KDE repository and you think it would be a good addition
to this module, do not hesitate to contact
[http://utils.kde.org/contact.php] us.  If you, contributor or user, are
interested in some of these programs, go and find all information at
http://utils.kde.org/ [http://utils.kde.org]. Finally: Thanks a lot to
our KDE sysadmins David, Dirk and Tom, who did all the work in the
background to get the site running.