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Seven of the most popular applications for KDE4 starting with Yakuake: This is a great replacement console for the default Konsole which ships with KDE and implicitly with Kubuntu. The great thing about Yakuake is that is uses a Quake-style show/hide function, which can be accessed by default using the F12 keyboard shortcut. Press F12 to show the terminal, do you work, then hide it again when you don't need it anymore. Yakuake supports profiles (which can be configured the same way like a Konsole profile), global shortcuts, allows to change default size and animation speed, it supports skins, transparency, start-up options (like start with window shown or hidden), transparency. Supported are also multiple tabs, which can be switched by pressing Shift+Right/Left Arrow.

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Gotta say I personally wouldn't agree. I much prefer Amarok 2.x to the older 1.4. Also just personally had much better performance from smplayer than I've EVER had from VLC. Never liked digikam. I have no use for basket or kdenlive (don't use notes or do video editing myself). Krusader I can see, even though for what I generally do dolphin is quite sufficient and I like it's layout. And for the yakuake, while I do use the konsole quite often, it's not something that I'm in constantly, so I don't see any use.

Neat that they're at least showing users alternatives, but as the first comment to that page says, it would be nice if they didn't act like they had blinders on, these programs are available for any KDE4.x based distribution.