Which applications does the Plasma team recommend to use with Plasma?

Thomas Pfeiffer thomas.pfeiffer at kde.org
Mon Jul 11 20:31:14 UTC 2016


So this is the input I've taken from this thread so far:

File manager: Dolphin
Music player: VLC (I've taken form the thread that people feel Cantata's 
benefits over VLC do not outweigh its downsides)
Video player: VLC
Document viewer: Okular, if your distribution still ships Qt4 and kdelibs
Software center: Discover
Communication: Konversation, KDE Telepathy (cautiously, because while it works
well at the moment, it is also looking for a maintainer)

Password storage: KWalletmanager (only to provide a way to see the passswords
stored by KDE applications, not as a general-purpose password manager), kwallet-pam
-> There is still debate whether or not KWallet is "better than nothing"

Hardware support: Skanlite, Print manager Utilities/system tools: KCalc, KDE
Connect, Konsole, KSysguard, Kate, Kamoso (if a distro wants to ship a webcam
app at all)

Office suite: We do not recommend one at the moment
Pim suite: We do not recommend one at the moment. Browser: We do not recommend
one at the moment
Image viewer: Gwenview

Browser: We do not recommend one at the moment
-> Martin brought up security issues with QtWebEngine-based browsers, but we're 
not distributions' general security advisors. We only care about which 
applications are both high-quality and fit well into Plasma. There are currently 
no browsers which check both boxes, so we don't recommend any.

Would everybody be okay with this list?


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