A list of KDE components that will make your user experience even better

KDE, like all of Linux, is modular, and sometimes you need to install additional packages to get certain functionality. Are you a long-time Arch user and think you know everything? Did you know that you can backup your important files directly from the system settings?

This repository contains a list of official Arch Linux / AUR packages (developed by the KDE team) as well as third-party applications and plugins that add or enhance KDE’s functionality. You can also check out the repository’s Wiki page, where you might find useful information.

The list will be divided into several parts. The first part will list both the GUI applications that come out of the box in many distributions and the applications that are officially supported by KDE Plasma developers (see apps.kde.org). The second part will contain components, libraries, extensions, and other components that work under the hood but are important for the environment to function (for example, some packages can add certain functionality to the standard set of applications; i.e., Dolphin can natively mount ISO images). The third part will be dedicated to community work - GUI applications, compositor effects, theme engines, and so on.

If you don’t want to worry about selecting the right components and want a complete, ready-to-use desktop environment immediately, you can run this command to get every KDE package group (jq is required):

curl -s https://archlinux.org/groups/ | grep -oP 'kde-[^/"]+|kf[5,6]|kdevelop' | sed 's/<$//' | jq -R . | sed 's/\"//g' | uniq

Running this command will give you a list of all KDE Plasma package groups you want to install.

Note

Legend: [AUR] - AUR-only package · [WIP] - in development · [N/A] - no packages available · [soon] - not yet released · [group] - package group · [Mobile] - Plasma Mobile

Contributing

If you’d like to contribute to the development of this repository, feel free to open an issue or pull request.

Credits

If you find this repo useful, you might want to see the work of these people as well:

francoism90/awesome-kde (my inspiration)
shalva97/kde-configuration-files

Plasma Desktop

System

plasma-login-manager 🔗 - the new generation SDDM replacement
dolphin 🔗 - the best file manager in the world
konsole 🔗 - the best terminal emulator in the world
yakuake 🔗 - drop-down terminal
systemmonitor 🔗 - Plasma's built-in system / resources monitor
discover 🔗 - Plasma's built-in app store. Mostly useful on Arch only if you use Flatpaks
kwalletmanager 🔗 - password & secrets manager
kdf (kdiskfree) 🔗 - disk usage statistics. Also provides KCM module for System Settings
ksystemlog 🔗 - system log viewer
khelpcenter 🔗 - basically the entire Plasma wiki, but offline
systemdgenie 🔗 - systemd management tool
kjournald 🔗 - system journal management tool
spectacle 🔗 - built-in screenshot / video capture utility
qmlkonsole [Mobile] 🔗 - terminal emulator designed for Plasma Mobile
index-fm [Mobile] 🔗 - file manager for Plasma Mobile

Utilities

kbackup 🔗 - self-explanatory
ark 🔗 - archive manager
filelight 🔗 - disk usage statistics
kcalc 🔗 - a simple but powerful calculator
kfind 🔗 - the best file search tool out there
kcharselect 🔗 - unicode character selector
kgpg 🔗 - GPG management tool
kleopatra 🔗 - certificate, cryptography & GPG management tool. The author finds it quite useful
sweeper 🔗 - system cleaner
kmag 🔗 - screen magnifier (X11 only; Wayland has this built into the compositor)
kweather 🔗 - weather app
kclock 🔗 - clock, stopwatch, timers and alarms
kmousetool 🔗 - mouse clicker
krecorder [Mobile] 🔗 - simple voice recorder for KDE Plasma & Plasma Mobile
keysmith [Mobile] 🔗 - 2FA code generator for KDE Plasma & Plasma Mobile
partitionmanager 🔗 - GParted on steroids
isoimagewriter 🔗 - ISO burning tool
kate 🔗 - advanced code and/or text editor
okteta 🔗 - advanced HEX editor
krename 🔗 - batch file renamer
krusader 🔗 - file manager
smb4k [WIP] 🔗 - advanced SAMBA explorer
kfloppy 🔗 - floppy disk formatter
nota [AUR] [Mobile] 🔗 - simple text editor designed for KDE Plasma & Plasma Mobile
nota-git [AUR] 🔗 - simple text editor designed for KDE Plasma & Plasma Mobile
karp-git [AUR] [WIP] 🔗 - PDF arranger
hash-o-matic 🔗 - file hash verifier
alpaka-git [AUR] [WIP] 🔗 - Ollama client
k3b 🔗 - disc burning tool
qrca 🔗 - barcode scanner. Also lets you share WiFi passwords via QR code
kdeconnect 🔗 - Apple-like magic in terms of phone integration / synchronization
krdc 🔗 - remote desktop client
krfb 🔗 - remote desktop client (VNC)
kontrast 🔗 - color contrast checker
kdialog 🔗 - YAD & Zenity alternative
kteatime 🔗 - timer for steeping tea 🙄
kalk 🔗 - convergent calculator for Plasma
kalm 🔗 - teaches you different breathing techniques
kdebugsettings 🔗 - Qt debug settings editor
ktimer 🔗 - countdown launcher
kruler 🔗 - screen ruler

Development & KDE SDK

kompare 🔗 - diff & patch frontend
heaptrack 🔗 - memory profiler
kdevelop [group] 🔗 - IDE
kommit 🔗 - git client
codevis [WIP] 🔗 - code architecture visualizer
massif-visualizer 🔗 - massif data visualizer
umbrello 🔗 - UML modelling tool and code generator
kapptemplate - KDE Template Generator
kcachegrind 🔗 - visualization of performance profiling data
kde-dev-scripts - scripts and settings files useful during development of KDE software
kde-dev-utils 🔗 - small utilities for developers using KDE/Qt libs/frameworks
kdesdk-kio - KDE SDK KIO plugins
kdesdk-thumbnailers - plugins for the thumbnailing system
kirigami-gallery 🔗 - gallery application built using Kirigami
lokalize 🔗 - computer-aided translation system
poxml - DocBook XML files translator

Multimedia / Graphics

gwenview 🔗 - image viewer
haruna 🔗 - media player
dragon 🔗 - media player
elisa 🔗 - music player
juk 🔗 - music player
vvave 🔗 - music player
amarok 🔗 - audio / music player
kaffeine 🔗 - media player
kdenlive 🔗 - video editor
kamoso 🔗 - camera app
kwave 🔗 - sound editor
audiotube 🔗 - YouTube Music client
plasmatube 🔗 - YouTube client
audex 🔗 - CD ripper. Provides KCM module
kid3 🔗 - audio tagger
subtitlecomposer 🔗 - subtitle composer
krita 🔗 - no explanation needed
kcolorchooser 🔗 - simple color picker
kolourpaint 🔗 - MS Paint alternative
digikam 🔗 - photo management tool
koko 🔗 - image gallery
kphotoalbum 🔗 - photo collection tagger & manager
glaxnimate [AUR] 🔗 - vector animation & motion design
kgeotag 🔗 - photo geotagger
optiimage 🔗 - image compressor
peruse [N/A] 🔗 - comic reader
showfoto [N/A] 🔗 - photo viewer & editor
kimagemapeditor [Mobile] 🔗 - editor of image maps
kgraphviewer [Mobile] 🔗 - Graphviz DOT graph file viewer
kmix 🔗 - volume mixer
audiocd-kio - KIO slave for accessing audio CDs
telly-skout 🔗 - TV guide / EPG viewer
drawy 🔗 - infinite whiteboard drawing app

Office

okular 🔗 - PDF / ebook / document viewer
ghostwriter 🔗 - note taking app
arianna 🔗 - ebook reader
kile 🔗 - LaTex editor
calligra 🔗 - all in one office solution
tellico 🔗 - personal media collection. Supports DVD, books, music, games, comic books and much more
keurocalc [AUR] 🔗 - currency converter. Note: deprecated; KRunner has this feature built-in
skanlite 🔗 - image scanner
skanpage 🔗 - image scanner

Internet

ktorrent 🔗 - torrent client
konversation 🔗 - IRC client
kget 🔗 - download manager
neochat 🔗 - Matrix client
tokodon 🔗 - Mastodon client
kasts 🔗 - podcasts client
ruqola [AUR] 🔗 - rocket.chat client
alligator 🔗 - Kirigami-based RSS / feed reader
angelfish [Mobile] 🔗 - web browser for Plasma Mobile
falkon 🔗 - QtWebEngine browser
konqueror 🔗 - KDE file manager & web browser

KDE PIM

skrooge 🔗 - personal finance manager
korganizer 🔗 - calendar & task scheduler
kmail 🔗 - email client
zanshin 🔗 - To-Do management
kontact 🔗 - personal information manager
kaddressbook 🔗 - contact manager
merkuro 🔗 - calendar app
kongress 🔗 - conferences manager
akregator 🔗 - feed / RSS reader

Quality Of Life

itinerary [Mobile] 🔗 - personal digital travel assistant for KDE Plasma & Plasma Mobile
ktrip 🔗 - public transport navigator
francis 🔗 - Pomodoro timer
marknote 🔗 - note taking app
klevernotes [Mobile] 🔗 - note taking app designed for KDE Plasma & Plasma Mobile
calindori [Mobile] 🔗 - calendar app designed for KDE Plasma & Plasma Mobile
publicalerts [soon] 🔗 - emergency & weather alerts
komodo 🔗 - todo manager

Accessibility

accessibility-inspector 🔗 - inspect your application accessibility tree
kmousetool 🔗 - automatic mouse clicker
kmouth 🔗 - speech synthesizer frontend

Games

bomber 🔗 - arcade bombing game
bovo 🔗 - five-in-a-row board game
granatier 🔗 - Bomberman clone
kajongg 🔗 - Mahjong tile game
kapman 🔗 - Pac-Man clone
katomic 🔗 - Sokoban-like logic game
kblackbox 🔗 - hide and seek game on a grid
kblocks 🔗 - classic falling blocks game
kbounce 🔗 - ball bouncing arcade game
kbreakout 🔗 - Breakout-like game
kdiamond 🔗 - three-in-a-row puzzle game
kfourinline 🔗 - four-in-a-row board game
kgoldrunner 🔗 - hunt gold, dodge enemies, solve puzzles
kigo 🔗 - Go board game
killbots 🔗 - evade killer robots
kiriki 🔗 - Yahtzee-like dice game
kjumpingcube 🔗 - territory capture game
klickety 🔗 - Clickomania adaptation
klines 🔗 - tactical puzzle game
kmahjongg 🔗 - Mahjongg solitaire
kmines 🔗 - Minesweeper-like game
knavalbattle 🔗 - ship sinking game
knetwalk 🔗 - network construction puzzle
knights 🔗 - chess game
kolf 🔗 - miniature golf game
kollision 🔗 - ball dodging game
konquest 🔗 - galactic strategy game
kpat 🔗 - solitaire card games collection
kreversi 🔗 - reversi board game
kshisen 🔗 - Shisen-Sho Mahjongg-like tile game
ksirk 🔗 - world domination strategy game
ksnakeduel 🔗 - snake duel race
kspaceduel 🔗 - space arcade duel
ksquares 🔗 - Dots and Boxes game
ksudoku 🔗 - Sudoku puzzle game
ktuberling 🔗 - picture game for children
kubrick 🔗 - Rubik's Cube 3-D game
lskat 🔗 - classic German card game
palapeli 🔗 - jigsaw puzzle game
picmi 🔗 - logic puzzle game
skladnik 🔗 - Sokoban game
kretro [AUR] 🔗 - Libretro emulation frontend for Plasma
rolisteam [AUR] 🔗 - RPG client companion

Education

artikulate 🔗 - pronunciation trainer
blinken 🔗 - memory enhancement game
cantor 🔗 - frontend to mathematical software
gcompris-qt 🔗 - educational game suite for children
kalgebra 🔗 - graph calculator
kalzium 🔗 - periodic table of elements
kanagram 🔗 - letter order game
kbruch 🔗 - exercise fractions
kgeography 🔗 - geography trainer
khangman 🔗 - hangman game
kig 🔗 - interactive geometry
kiten 🔗 - Japanese reference / study tool
klettres 🔗 - learn the alphabet
kmplot 🔗 - mathematical function plotter
kstars 🔗 - desktop planetarium
ktouch 🔗 - touch typing tutor
kturtle 🔗 - educational programming environment
kwordquiz 🔗 - flash card trainer
labplot 🔗 - data visualization and analysis
marble 🔗 - virtual globe
minuet 🔗 - music education software
parley 🔗 - vocabulary trainer
rocs 🔗 - graph theory
rkward 🔗 - statistics GUI
step 🔗 - interactive physics simulator
kst 🔗 - scientific data viewer
kbibtex 🔗 - BibTeX editor
ktechlab [AUR] 🔗 - IDE for microcontrollers and electronics

Core Components

svgpart - native svg integration / rendering across KDE apps
markdownpart - native markdown integration / rendering across KDE apps
kde-inotify-survey - tooling for monitoring inotify limits
flatpak-kcm - KCM module for Flatpaks management. Installed by default with plasma package group
kio-extras - additional KIO protocols
kio-fuse - FUSE-based KIO mount support
kio-admin - admin:// KIO protocol for privileged file operations
kio-gdrive - Google Drive integration via KIO
kio-zeroconf - zeroconf KIO protocol
xwaylandvideobridge [AUR] - utility to mirror Wayland screen to X applications. Useful for applications like Zoom
iio-sensor-proxy - automatic screen rotation
maliit-keyboard - virtual keyboard
power-profiles-daemon - power management in Plasma. Requires enabling power-profiles-daemon.service
orca - screen reader
cryfs, gocryptfs - virtual filesystems for Plasma's Vault
ripgrep{-all} - file search backend, if built-in file indexer is disabled
hunspell-<language_code> - spell checking / dictionary
symmy-git [AUR] - encrypt / decrypt local files; Dolphin integration. kf6 required for building
sshfs - KDE Connect backend for browsing the remote device's filesystem
qt6-tools - used by many KDE apps, including KDE Connect
kcm-grub2-git [AUR] - GRUB bootloader KCM module. packagegit-qt6 required for building
kcron - cron tasks management & KCM module
kup, bup, rsync - built-in backups & KCM module
dolphin-plugins - VCS integration, Dropbox integration, disk & ISO mount / umount options
cups, system-config-printer - CUPS & its configuration tool
keditbookmarks - bookmarks editor
colord-kde - color management & KCM module
ffmpegthumbs - video thumbnails
qt6-imageformats - TIFF, MNG, TGA, WBMP image formats support (QT6)
qt5-imageformats - TIFF, MNG, TGA, WBMP image formats support (QT5)
kdegraphics-thumbnailers - PostScript, RAW, Mobipocket & Blender previews. Extends Dolphin, Gwenview, Krusader
kdegraphics-mobipocket - MobiPocket ebook thumbnails
kimageformats - previews & support for many image formats
- imath - EXR format support
- jxrlib - JXR format support
- karchive - plugin for Krita and OpenRaster images
- libavif - AVIF format support
- libheif - HEIF format support
- libjxl - JPEG-XL format support
- libraw - RAW format support
- openjpeg2 - JPEG 2000 format support
icoutils - thumbnails for MS Windows executables / dll libraries
kdenetwork-filesharing - SAMBA integration for Dolphin
purpose - the Share context menu for Dolphin
fwupd - update motherboard firmware directly from Discover (if supported)
plocate - alternative search indexer for KFind
yt-dlp - YouTube, Twitch, streaming support for Haruna
mediainfo - extra file metadata
Core libraries for Remote Desktop:
- libvncserver
- freerdp
- libssh
Additional archiving formats for Ark and Krusader:
- arj
- lrzip
- lzop
- 7zip
- unarchiver
- unrar
- zip
- cpio
- unarj
- unace
Additional plugins and extensions for Audex:
- faac
- flac
- lame
- vorbis-tools
Additional plugins and extensions for Ghostwriter:
- pandoc
- mathjax
- cmark
Additional plugins and extensions for K3b:
- cdparanoia
- cdrdao
- cdrtools
- dvd+rw-tools
- emovix
- vcdimager
Additional plugins and extensions for Kate:
- clang
- git
- python-lsp-server
- qt6-declarative
- qtkeychain-qt6
- rust
- texlab
Additional filesystem utils for PartitionManager:
- dosfstools
- jfsutils
- f2fs-tools
- btrfs-progs
- exfatprogs
- ntfs-3g
- udftools
- xfsprogs
- nilfs-utils
- gpart
- mtools
Additional plugins and extensions for Kdenlive:
- noise-suppression-for-voice
- python-openai-whisper
- python-srt_equalizer
- bigsh0t
- opencv
Additional plugins and extensions for Krita:
- krita-plugin-gmic
- kseexpr
- libheif
- libjxl
- libmypaint
- poppler-qt5
- python-pyqt5
Additional plugins and extensions for DigiKam:
- darktable
- hugin
- rawtherapee
Additional plugins and extensions for Caligra:
- kirigami-addons
- libetonyek
- libvisio
- libwpg
- libwps
- poppler
- pstoedit
- qqc2-desktop-style
- qt6-webengine
Additional plugins and extensions for Torrent:
- kdnssd
- kplotting
- syndication
- taglib
kdepim-addons - additional plugins and extensions for KDE PIM apps
kunifiedpush - push notifications

Note

If power-profiles-daemon doesn't work, try tuned{-ppd} with tuned{-ppd}.service instead.

Third Party

Plugins

okular-mupdf-ng [N/A] 🔗 - MuPDF backend for Okular; a faster replacement for builtin Poppler backend

GUI Applications

kontainer [AUR] 🔗 - Distrobox, Podman and Docker - a native KDE app for managing containers
koi [AUR] 🔗 - auto light / dark mode switcher
yin-yang [AUR] 🔗 - another one auto light / dark mode switcher
media-downloader [AUR] 🔗 - a feature-rich frontend for yt-dlp
protonup-qt [AUR] 🔗 - install and manage GE-Proton, Steam Proton, Lutris runners and much more
qownnotes [AUR] 🔗 - plain-text file markdown note-taking with Nextcloud / ownCloud integration
keepassxc 🔗 - a cross-platform password manager
qtpass 🔗 - multi-platform GUI for pass, the standard unix password manager
kdiskmark 🔗 - CrystalDiskMark alternative for Linux
qpwgraph 🔗 - PipeWire Graph Qt GUI Interface
jamesdsp [AUR] 🔗 - audio post-processing tool, like EasyEffects
qbittorrent 🔗 - you know what is this!

Compositor Scripts / Effects / Animations

kwin-effect-rounded-corners-git [AUR] 🔗 - rounded window corners with outlines and shadow interpolation
kwin-effects-forceblur [AUR] 🔗 - self-explanatory
kwin-effects-kinetic [AUR] 🔗 - kinetic animations for open/close & maximize/minimize actions
kwin-scripts-krohnkite-git [AUR] 🔗 - a dynamic tiling extension for KWin
kwin-scripts-mudeer [AUR] 🔗 - virtual screen splitting. Useful on wide screens
kwin-polonium [AUR] 🔗 - a tiling window manager for Plasma 6
kwin-gestures [AUR] 🔗 - custom kwin touchpad gestures for Plasma 6
kde-shader-wallaper [N/A] 🔗 - self-explanatory. This is worth your look

Themes

klassy [AUR] 🔗 - custom window decoration, application style and global theme
darkly [AUR] 🔗 - a modern style for qt applications
arc-kde [AUR] 🔗 - port of Arc theme for KDE
utterly-nord-plasma [AUR] 🔗 - a modern and sleek Nord theme for Plasma

Applets / Widgets / Plasmoids

plasma-pass 🔗 - a plasmoid for the pass, "the standard Unix password manager"
plasma6-applets-arch-update-notifier [AUR] 🔗 - plasmoid that lets you know when arch updates are required
plasma6-applets-fokus [AUR] 🔗 - a simple pomodoro plasmoid
plasma6-applets-panel-colorizer [AUR] 🔗 - customize your panel however you want
plasma6-applets-wallpaper-effects [AUR] 🔗 - various wallpaper effects
plasma6-applets-panon [AUR] 🔗 - an audio visualizer widget
plasma6-wallpapers-blurredwallpaper [AUR] 🔗 - blurs wallpaper when active window is present
plasma6-wallpapers-wallpaper-engine-git [AUR] 🔗 - Wallpaper Engine plugin for KDE Plasma
plasma6-applets-weather-widget-3-git [AUR] 🔗 - simple weather widget that lives in the taskbar / tray
plasma6-kde_controlcentre [AUR] 🔗 - MacOS-like control center for KDE
ollama-control [N/A] 🔗 - control ollama models from the taskbar
plasmoid-dockio [N/A] 🔗 - manage Docker containers directly from the taskbar
kde-material-you-colors [AUR] 🔗 - Material Design 3 color palette generator for KDE
dictee 🔗 - push-to-talk voice dictation
ditto-menu [N/A] 🔗 - Windows 11-like application launcher
chat-qt [N/A] 🔗 - chat with ollama models directly from taskbar
apdatifier [N/A] 🔗 - applet for managing Arch Linux updates (including AUR)
kdoit [N/A] 🔗 - to-do widget with nested sublists, priorities, due dates, and UUID-based sync
- Depends on: pacman-contrib curl jq unzip tar fzf
kstats [N/A] 🔗 - a system monitor plasmoid
plasma6-applets-appgrid [AUR] 🔗 - a modern alternative to Kickoff and Kicker app launchers

Misc

mpris-discord-rpc-bin [AUR] 🔗 - self-explanatory. Not a KDE component nor made for KDE, but can integrate well with Haruna, Dragon, mpv and more, providing functional Discord RPC interface
konsave [AUR] 🔗 - a backup tool designed for KDE Plasma
kando-bin [AUR] 🔗 - a nice looking cross-platform pie menu
krunner-translator [N/A] 🔗 — Google Translate plugin for KRunner
kde-thumbnailer-apk [AUR] 🔗 — you got it right; Android's .apk thumbnails

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