KWorship

Free/Open Source church worship & presentation software.

KWorship is intended to become a fully featured church worship display manager that works well on Linux in particular. In my experience, other similar open source programs lack many of the features which I want, so I am writing KWorship to satisfy my itches as well as to get some experience with Qt/KDE programming.

KWorship is designed to be as modular as possible so that it can be extended easily to integrate with new programs and libraries. For example it has an abstract presentation API to integrate with slide-show programs such as OpenOffice.org's Impress and KOffice's KPresenter. It also has a bible manager API to integrate with bible data sources such as SWORD and BibleGateway.com.

Status

KWorship is not yet stable (I do not recommend it for production use).

Last updated 29th December 2008

Screenshots

Song Database

Playing a Video

KPresenter 2 Integration

BibleGateway.com integration

SWORD integration

Main Features

• Cross platform (Linux, Mac, Windows)
  Only tried on Linux so far
• Integration with presentation software (OpenOffice.org Impress, MS Powerpoint, KPresenter1, KPresenter2)
  KPresenter1, KPresenter2 and OpenOffice.org 2 integration is in progress
• Lyric display
• Support multiple screens
• Live preview of display
• SWORD and BibleGateway.com bible integration
• Audio/Video playback and video backgrounds
  It can currently display pictures and play video files (including flash videos).
• Nice font effects such as outlines and shadows so lyrics stand out on pretty backgrounds.
• ... etc ...

Mailing lists

There are several mailing lists. If you want to be kept up to date on KWorship progress, need help using it, or are interested in contributing then please subscribe to the relevent lists here.

Development

All source code is published under the GNU General Public License version 2.

At present there are many limitations which will gradually get fixed:

• The cmake module for finding UNO (for the OpenOffice.org API) is still hardwired to Fedora (/usr/lib64/openoffice.org/) so you may have to modify cmake/modules/FindUNO.cmake accodingly.
• The song database needs setting up using the SQL script in design/ (only tested on MySQL).

Dependencies

• Qt
• kdelibs
• phonon (included in qt)
• OpenOffice.org SDK for OpenOffice.org integration
• The dcop terminal utility for KPresenter1 integration (ugly thought I know!)
• SWORD for SWORD bible integration
• CMake for building source code