Joshua Strobl is porting Koto, his audio management app, from GTK4 to Qt6/Kirigami live!
KDE is in Dornbirn today! Meet up with us at our booth at the 2024 edition of Linux Day - Austria 🇦🇹!
We have archived the Dot -- because we have something better now
The Dot has served the KDE Community well as a the source of news for all our projects and contributors.
But, as KDE has grown, the amount of news has grown with us, to the point it has become impractical to filter it all through one source.
Check out our solution:
https://dot.kde.org/2024/09/25/dot-closed-long-live-kde-planet
Curious to know what is happening with current KDE Goals? From workboards to chatrooms, get all the updates and join the discussion! Explore how we're shaping the future at https://kde.org/goals/
Plasma 6.2 will be out on the 8th of October, but meanwhile... Help us test Plasma 6.2 Beta!
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.90/
One of the upcoming features is the drawing tablet assistant. Install Plasma 6.2 Beta, try out the assistant with your own device. If you find a bug 🪲, report it!
@that_leaflet There is a RSS feed for this blog specifically https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-kde-apps/index.xml
Keep up with the exciting news coming out of the KDE apps projects with "This Week in KDE Apps"!
In this issue: NeoChat emojis, Itinerary seats, Gwenview speedups and Android support tweaks, among other things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/16/this-week-in-kde-apps/
Note that this week it is on Monday, but we will be posting about all KDE app news on Sunday from now on.
@constancies @kde@lemmy.kde.social @vanillaos
Interesting you should bring that up. Watch this space...
Plasma 6.2 Beta has been released... Beta testers assemble 🦸♀️!
Please grab it, test it, submit bug reports. Final release will be on the 8th of October.
KDE's Annual report for the year 2023 is out.
Everything you wanted to know about the things we did last year is in this report: the funds we raised, how we spent them, the sprints and events we attended, the projects we took on, the milestones we hit, and much, much more.
The Personal Information Management team release their July and August report
In this report find out how the Itinerary travel assistant will not only help you find your train, but also your seat; what's being done to make KMail's code leaner and cleaner; why changes are being made to the way the project's progress is tracked (plus how you can contribute); and more.
https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-09-01-july-august-2024/
It's an oldish HP Spectre with a foldable touchscreen from 2018.
Actually works very well.
KDE is at the 21st edition of LUDOVIA in Ax-Les-Thermes, Ariège Pyrenees, France. Visit our booth from August 26-28 to explore KDE's digital technology for your classroom.
You can register on-site. See you there!
Check out the #pilet, SoulsCircuit's very cool retro-futuristic handheld tablet/console.
Designed with Free Software, the pilet runs #Plasma and a full range of KDE software.
More at
https://soulscircuit.com/pilet
Follow SoulCircuit and the progress of the piet here:
KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.08 -- Akademy Edition has been released.
This release brings new features to the powerful Dolphin file explorer and manager, the Kdenlive video editor, KDE's web browser Falkon, and much more.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.08.0/
And don't miss the future of KDE and sign up for #Akademy2024 today. Only 2 weeks left!
The final sprint is on! Just 6 more days to contribute to the KDE goals proposals!
Only three can be winners 🥇🥇🥇.
Check out the proposals, give your feedback, or join a task to help make it happen. Every contribution counts!
Astronomy aficionados rejoice! KStars 3.7.2 🔭 has just been released and it comes with more features and easier parameter tuning that will help you take better photographs of the Cosmos🌠.
KDE urges the European Commission restore #funding for free software through Next Generation Internet (NGI).
Read the open letter here:
Mail, calendars, notes, tasks, travel... Find out what developers of KDE's personal information management suite of apps have been up to.
Get the breakdown of all the new features, and how everything has been made more reliable, faster and better.
https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-07-01-kde-pim-may-june-2024/
Learn how to reduce the power usage and make your apps more accessible in 8 minutes flat.
Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.
This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.
KDE will be at OpenSouthCode in sunny Málaga this weekend! Visit our booth on Friday June 21 from 10am to 7:30pm and on Saturday June 22 from 10am to 2pm:
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2024
And on Saturday you can also attend an in depth @kdenlive workshop for beginners at 10am where you will learn all the basics you need to get started in #videoediting using free software.
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2024/program/proposals/693
Note that due to unforeseen circumstances, we have been unable to ship the new wallpaper, "Reef", with this version of Plasma. However, a new wallpaper will be coming soon in the next 6.2 version of Plasma.
If you can't wait, you can download "Reef" from here:
Plasma 6.1 is here!
New features include a cool take on Plasma's edit mode, keyboard LEDs that sync with accent colors, an inbuilt Remote Desktop Server that let's you access Plasma desktops over a network, lots of bug corrections and improvements.
We would like to remind you that both @Krita and @kdenlive are currently running fundraisers:
#Krita :
Apple had to learn the hard way: Under the DMA (thanks @EUCommission !) they were forced to give users a choice regarding the default search engine and browser on their systems.
What are we going to do about Microsoft misleading users?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689
@ThankGodItsFriday @fossasia @kde@lemmy.kde.social
We were at SCaLE not too long ago 😀 .
@rochacbruno @kde@lemmy.kde.social It's the same. Money goes either way to us with more or less the same cut by the payment provider, so it depends on which payment method you prefer.
Today's specials: meat, chicken, vegan (spinach, tomatoes and chickpeas) with extra Ketchup open sauce!
Mmmmh! Para lamerse los dedos!
That is regular themes.
_Global_ themes also modify the desktop's behavior and hence contain code to do that.
@cyberlyra @socallinuxexpo @kde@lemmy.kde.social @linmob
We have project called @plasmamobile
Pair that with, say, @postmarketOS
And you have got yourself a free and open source privacy-respecting stack for your mobile device.
Disclaimer: does not work on all hardware! Hardware is usually closed and proprietary. check the list:
A fancy new overview!
Note that the CACD is also a non-profit that relies on donations to run these programs. Please consider supporting them at:
To make more things like this happen, to help those that the IT industry left behind or consider mere fodder for the data-grinding machine, to return control over technology to the common people, and protect the environment, we need your help.
Become a supporter. Help us reach the landmark number of 1000 supporters before the launch of #Plasma6.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
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