Tech Exposures

All apps listed here, unless otherwise noted, refer to the KDE Specifc version, but have been tested in Gnome as well.

KImage Map Editor

Here’s a simple to use and very useful image map editor.  Drop an image or existing HTML file into the app window and draw the part of the image you want to map.  You can even define map parts of the image using a polygonal area tool.

Even more impressive is that you can define all the javascript functions that should occur when the selected part of the image is effected.  Onclick, OnMouseOver, etc… Tested and works well in KDE and Gnome.

How to Install

From a terminal window type   sudo apt-get install kimagemapeditor

Klinkstatus

URL checker.  Straightforward utility.  Enter a URL and this tool will recursively check all links on that page, and optionally check parent folders as well.   You can then sort the results by good and bad links, etc…  Tested in KDE and Gnome.

How to Install

From a terminal window type   sudo apt-get install klinkstatus

Kdevelop

http://www.kdevelop.org/

Provides an easy to use Integrated Development Environment for Linux with support for KDE related development.  The KDevelop-Project was founded in 1998 to build up an easy to use IDE for KDE.  This is the tool to use to create more great KDE apps.

How to Install

From a terminal window type   sudo apt-get install kdevelop

Quanta+ 3.5

http://quanta.kdewebdev.org/

Quanta Plus is a highly stable and feature rich web development environment. This app was built for the KDE Desktop.

How to Install

From a terminal window type sudo apt-get install quanta

Kxsldbg

http://docs.kde.org/kde3/en/kdewebdev/kxsldbg/index.html

KXSLDbg is a debugger for XSLT scripts written for the KDE environment, and works in Gnome too. It includes a graphical user interface as well as a text-based debugger.

How to Install

From a terminal window type sudo apt-get install kxsldbg

Kompare

Kompare is a great tool to use for comparing files.  This is especially useful in development when comparing two versions of a file or application set.

How to Install

From a terminal window type sudo apt-get install Kompare

Kommander

http://kommander.kdewebdev.org/

Kommander 1.3 includes an editor where you visually build dialogs and applications and edit the scripted elements. It also has an executor which processes the generated XML file.

How to Install

From a terminal window type sudo apt-get install Kommander

Kjscmd

kjscmd is a tool for launching KJSEmbed scripts from the command line.  kjscmd is a script interpreter that uses the KDE JavaScript library and runs on the command line only.  It can be run without KDE support as well.

KbugBuster

KBugBuster is a GUI front end for the KDE bug tracking system that includes many reports and user options.

KCacheGrind

http://kcachegrind.sourceforge.net/

Open Source Profiling and visualization tool that includes CallGrind.

KUIViewer

KUIViewer is a utility to display and check user interface (.ui) files created in Qt Designer.

Umbrello

http://uml.sourceforge.net/

An UML modeling tool for the KDE environment.  It supports Java, C++, reverse engineering, and more.  I am always amazed at the wealth of tools available in open source, and this tool is such a rich example. It’s availabe in many languages and works on a bunch of platforms, including Windows.