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Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, December 31, 2025 at 21:13

Emoji Selector - An Intro to Kubuntu Default Emoji Picker Application

Emoji Selector is the Kubuntu default emoji selector application. Its purpose is to view a wide range of UTF characters to insert them into a document or a chat in the form of symbols, including country flags, foods, clothes, buildings, vehicles, etc. Just like what we explained in the previous episode, Elisa Music Player, we will also explain Emoji Selector in detail with screenshots and further references. We hope this helps every Kubuntu user. Now let's start reading!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, December 10, 2025 at 22:21

Evince - Intro to the Default Ubuntu Document Viewer Application

Document Viewer or Evince is the default PDF reader application on Ubuntu. It originates from GNOME and its real name is evince. As its name suggests, Document Viewer's purpose is to display various digital documents and electronic books, like PDF and other formats. It has many features: simple, easy to use, presentation mode, and a lot more. We will explain in detail what is and how to use it on Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" in the rest of this article. Now, let's start reading!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 00:20

How To Use Transmission BitTorrent Application

Transmission is a download and upload manager application or technically called a BitTorrent client preinstalled on Ubuntu. It is one among a few Ubuntu default applications with a longest history and never had been replaced with any other along with Firefox and LibreOffice. In this tutorial, we will learn about using Transmission to download a torrent file from the internet by practices and examples. Now let's get going!

(Transmission running and showing a progress of downloading a torrent, other finished downloads and its program identity on the second window)

Ade Malsasa Akbar Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 23:25

Elisa - An Intro to Kubuntu Default Audio Player

Elisa is Kubuntu default audio player. In Kubuntu history, Elisa replaces the former players namely Cantata and Amarok. Elisa is a part of KDE Applications and well integrated to the KDE Plasma Desktop. Speaking about its appearance, its logo represents a black-green tape cassette and its user interface reminds us to the old three-columns style Amarok. Speaking about its technical aspects, it is written in C++ with Qt Framework, just like any standard Kubuntu application, developed in public by the KDE community. Just like what we have discussed at the previous episode, Dolphin File Manager, we will also explain Elisa in details with screenshots and further references. We hope this helps every Kubuntu users. Now let's start reading!

(Elisa Music Player playing a playlist of few audio recording from American English)

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 08:27

Camera - An Intro to Ubuntu Default Photography Application

Camera (GNOME Camera) is the default Ubuntu application for taking photos as well as recording videos. In other words, it is the application used to access webcam device in laptop or PC. It is useful i.e. in live streaming and video conferencing (for school teachers, office workers, your family) beside taking simple pictures. We will learn more about it here with a little bit howtos and beneficial references. We remind you that this episode is the continuation in this series after Calendar and before the next one Characters. Now, please enjoy reading!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 22:17

Dolphin - An Intro to the Kubuntu File Manager

Dolphin is the default Kubuntu file manager application. Blue folder icon, positioned beside launcher button on the panel, run fast, simple by default and powerful when needed, that's Dolphin. Just like what we have discussed at the previous episode, Discover Application Store, we will also explain Dolphin in details with screenshots and further references. We hope this helps every Kubuntu users. Now let's start reading!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 21:41

Calendar - An Intro to Ubuntu Default Calendar Application

Calendar is the default calendar application on Ubuntu. Its main purpose is to show date, day, month and year. It also has features like scheduling, making appointments, reminders, synchronizing with your online calendars and so on. Now let's start reading about Calendar below.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 16:27

Ark - An Intro to Kubuntu Archive Manager

Ark (formerly called KZip) is the archive manager application of Kubuntu. Ark is part of KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) which is the technology that builts up the desktop as well as the collection of apps and games of Kubuntu. We introduce Ark here to help new users to Kubuntu getting started with their new computing in GNU/Linux world. Now let's start reading and learning!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 23:29

File Roller - An Intro to Ubuntu Archive Manager

File Roller (formerly also called Archive Manager) is the default archive manager program on Ubuntu. Its logo is a grey box with a zipper. An archive manager is a computer program that helps the user to extract and create archive or compressed archive files such as ZIP, RAR, TAR.GZ, 7ZIP and so on. File Roller helps you doing all that with good integration to Ubuntu desktop. Originally, File Roller is a part of GNOME and had been adopted as default on Ubuntu thanks to their strong and close relationship as Free/Libre Open Source Software projects. To Ubuntu users, File Roller fills the same purpose to WinZIP or WinRAR to Windows users. This article is part of our published compilation List of Ubuntu Default Applications and Their Purposes. We hope this helps everyone including you Ubuntu beginners. Now let's start sharing Free Software together once again!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 23:20

A Complete Guide to Ubuntu 24.04 Default Apps and Their Purposes

This is a listing of preinstalled applications of Ubuntu 24.04 "Noble Numbat" from A to Z with brief explanations of their purposes. With this article, you will begin to know that your Ubuntu has many default apps from Additional Drivers to Videos and you will learn in general about what you can do with them in your computing. And we also included some useful tutorials related to productivity tools like LibreOffice so you can learn more. Now let's read and we wish you the best!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Tuesday, February 6, 2024 at 23:00

A Complete Guide to Xubuntu Default Apps and Their Purposes

This is a full list of all Xubuntu default applications (or list of Xubuntu components) with their explanations for first time users. Xubuntu is the official variant of Ubuntu with Xfce as the technology of the desktop environment and default apps. We use Xubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" as a basis to write it so you can learn and adapt it easily. Now let's explore!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Friday, January 27, 2023 at 00:03

A Complete Guide to Kubuntu Default Apps and Their Purposes

This is a full list of all Kubuntu default applications (or list of Kubuntu components) with their explanations for first time users. Kubuntu is the official variant of Ubuntu with KDE as the technology of the desktop environment and default applications. This list is sorted alphabetically with app names taken from menu for example Ark, Dolphin and VLC Media Player. You can learn your Kubuntu computer a lot here as you see every app name, its purpose, short guide to use, and some pictures of them. This guide is based on version 22.04 also known as Jammy Jellyfish which can represents all modern Kubuntu versions. As a note, we compared many of the apps with Microsoft Windows or MacOS default apps to increase clarity. We wish you like it!

Ade Malsasa Akbar Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 10:40

Set Dolphin as Default File Manager of Ubuntu

(Dolphin file manager with integrated terminal and right-panel preview on Ubutu 19.04)

Dolphin is file manager from KDE we can compare to Nautilus from GNOME. Dolphin has a lot of features Nautilus doesn't such as internal terminal and split vertical. Not to mention, unlike Nautilus, it supports a lot of third-party plugins like my 2016' Right-Click Batch Converter. In case you wish to change your file manager to Dolphin instead of Nautilus, but without removing any one, here's the way. I wish your life will be easier with this.

Ade Malsasa Akbar Saturday, November 18, 2017 at 13:50

Change Default Applications on Ubuntu 17.10

You can easily reassign what application to open what file type on Ubuntu 17.10. For example, you might want to open every PNG picture with Shotwell rather than the default Image Viewer. To do so, per file type, do these following steps with 3 file type examples (PNG, MP4, TXT):