Arianna is a eBook reader built for the KDE Plasma desktop but, of course, runs under other desktop environments.
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Tag: Qt
spotify-qt – lightweight Spotify client
spotify-qt is billed as a lightweight Spotify client. As its name indicates it’s built using Qt. Here’s our review of this open source client.
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Excellent Free Books to Learn QML
Qt Modeling Language (QML) is a hierarchical declarative language for user interface layout with a syntax similar to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).
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Haruna – video player using libmpv
Haruna is a modern-looking QML-based front-end to mpv. Here’s our review. Haruna is free and open source software.
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qytdl – Qt frontend for Youtube-DL
qytdl (long-form: qYoutube-DL) is a Qt frontend to Youtube-DL. Here’s our verdict on this open source program.
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DownZemAll! – Qt-based download manager
This article reviews DownZemAll! (DZA!), an open source standalone download manager.
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LyricPad – access lyrics over the web with this Qt based app
LyricPad is a free and open source lyrics viewer written in C++ and uses Qt, a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
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QMPlay2 – Qt based video and audio player
QMPlay2 can play most video formats and audio formats. It plays all codecs supported by FFmpeg, and supports YouTube videos too. With internet radio, Audio CD, and a lot more besides, there’s lots of functionality on offer. Here’s our review of the software.
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Cantata – Feature-rich client for Music Player Daemon
In the past few months, I’ve covered a whole raft of music players. This time I’m going to walk through Cantata. Cantata is billed as a feature-rich and user friendly client for Music Player Daemon (MPD).
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Shallot – Qt-based file manager with plugin interface
Shallot is billed as a file manager with the maximum degree of flexibility and customization. It’s Qt-based. We put it to the test together with 15 other Qt-based file managers.
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Yarock – excellent Qt music player with browsing based on cover art
Yarock is billed as “a modern looking music player, packed with features, that doesn’t depend on any specific desktop environment”.
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qoob – excellent foobar-like music player for Linux
Are you debilitated by the countless music players that use web technologies with a massive RAM footprint? Maybe you want a lean yet slick audio player with a good range of features?
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Essential System Tools: QDirStat – Excellent Qt-based directory statistics
QDirStat is an open source graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you to clean up the mess. It fully merits its inclusion in our Essential System Tools feature.
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Essential System Tools: Krusader – KDE file manager
Krusader is an advanced, twin-panel (commander-style) file manager designed for KDE Plasma. Krusader also runs on other popular Linux desktop environments such as GNOME.
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Strawberry – audio player and music collection organizer
Strawberry is an audio player and music collection organizer. It was originally forked from Clementine. The main goal was to create a player for playing local music files that looked a bit more like Amarok with advanced soundcard options. The music player is designed for music collectors, audio enthusiasts and audiophiles.
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flameshot – simple to use screenshot program
Being able to take a screenshot comes in handy so many times. Linux is blessed with a good range of competent screenshot software. One which has recently caught our attention is Flameshot, an easy to use, open source, Qt-based screenshot utility which is adept at capturing custom areas of a desktop.
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Julia Studio – IDE for the Julia language
Julia Studio is a cross-platform IDE for the Julia language based on Qt Creator and the Qt framework.
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