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Whether you're customizing your desktop or your hoodie, KDE gear is a fun way to show your support for open-source, creativity, and community. Grab a tee, a mug, or a sticker to let the world know you're Konqi and Katie approved.
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KDE devs have been quietly working on Plasma Keyboard, a new on-screen keyboard for desktop and mobile part of the “We Care About Your Input” KDE Goals initiative. Although not ready for texting yet, it has been making progress. Hopefully it'll be in a screen near you soon. Join the effort!
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-keyboard
The latest issue of "This week in Plasma" brings the news that now there's a pop-up preview for folders on the desktop that are empty, that the Plasma Virtual Keyboard is coming along nicely, and that screen recordings of specific windows now capture that window's popups too:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/05/this-week-in-plasma-chugging-along/
Talking of awesome KDE apps, digiKam 8.7.0 has just been released!
KDE's full-featured image and photo managing software enhances its face detection and recognition feature, improves support for GPU actions, and updates its RAW decoder, G'MIC plugin, and more.
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0/_release/_announcement/
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that Dolphin gets new looks, and its connectivity to Samba shares improves; Photos, the image viewer that works both on desktops and mobiles, can share photos again; and KRetro, the app for retro gaming, gets one step closer to being incubated as an official KDE app, among many other things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/29/this-week-in-kde-apps/
@DrinkyBird @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Yes, that is what it means.
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that QtQuick-based KDE software acquires inertial scrolling using touchpads, the inbuilt RDP service supports syncing clipboard text between client and server, and session restore (Plasma remembering the position and size of windows) is coming to Wayland, among many other things:
@mrgaturus @redstrate @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Right. Maybe submit a bug report?:
It sounds like the kind of issue the folks of the "We care about your Input" goal would want to tackle.
Do you use a drawing tablet with Linux? You can share your device info in two easy steps - no coding skills required! 💙
Help KDE devs like @redstrate build driver support.
More info at:
https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors?tab=readme-ov-file#contributing
\#linux #tablet #wacom #huion #stylus #artwithopensource #kde #freesoftware
"This week in Plasma" brings the news that Discover's list views can now be navigated with the keyboard, and that we met another accessibility standard by improving the readability of graph axis labels, as well as of selected items in KRunner and Discover, among many other things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/21/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-has-arrived/
Akademy-es kicks off again today at 10 CEST!
https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2025
We will be installing Linux on attendees computers in our installfest and running demos and activities from our booth.
¡Come and set your computer free!
La Akademy-es arranca de nuevo esta mañana a las 10 CEST
https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2025
Estaremos atendiendo al público malagueño para instalar #Linux en sus ordenadores y tendremos más actividades en el stand.
¡Ven y libera tu ordenador!
Getting ready for the Akademy-es Linux installfest that will be held in Málaga on Saturday.
https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2025
Málaga, let's free your computers!
@kde_espana @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Preparando la fiesta de instalación de Linux que se celebrará en Málaga el sábado en al marco del Akademy-es:
https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2025
¡Malagueños, liberemos esos ordenadores!
Plasma Mobile News📳!
@NGIZero Core is funding work on the power management stack; the task switcher gets gestures back; the lockscreen and notifications were redesigned; KDE's very own convergent web browser, Angelfish, has been overhauled and now supports gestures; and look forward to improvements to Discover, Clock, Dialer and more.
https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/06/18/dev-log/
KDE is part of the #EndOf10 campaign and we are on a mission to convert as many users over to Linux as we can.
https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/
This is the perfect time to ditch Windows and get the new and shiny Plasma 6.4 for your machine!
Check out the upcoming events where you can get Linux installed on your computer:
Plasma 6.4 is out and it's' more welcoming than ever!
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/
Check out the tweaked tiling that lets you have different layouts for every virtual desktop; the overhauled Spectacle that makes capturing your desktop faster; how KRunner now understands color; and in general the literally dozens of other fixes and features that make Plasma friendlier and easier to use.
This coming weekend, on Friday 20 and Saturday 21, @kde\_espana will be in #Málaga for #Akademy-es.
There will be talks, demos, merch and goodies.
As part of the @Endof10 campaign, we'll be installing #Linux on computers for anybody who comes and asks.
https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2025
Schedule:
\* Friday 20 - Talks + demos, merch and goodies at our booth \* Saturday 21 - #Installfest + demos, merch and goodies at our booth
Come and get your Linux!
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.5.0 will \probably\ have picture-in-picture support under Wayland, that you will be able to re-order your virtual desktops, and that Spectacle will clearly tell you how to stop a screen recording (among many other things).
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/14/this-week-in-plasma-wayland-pip-and-accessibility/
MA Barbe reviews KDE's contributions to the ecosystem during the State of Libre Graphics keynote at the @lgm 2025.
Although the whole video is interesting, the KDE section starts at 32:00 and covers the newest graphical features in #Plasma6, @Krita, @kdenlive and Glaxnimate.
https://media.ccc.de/v/lgm25-upstream-2025-83646-state-of-libre-graphics#t=1931
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that KDE, celebrates its LGBTQIA+ colleagues and contributors more than ever, Windows users apparently REALLY like our apps, Okular now renders MobiPocket files much faster, and Kig, KDE's educational app to learn geometry, has been ported to Qt6/KF6.
This Week in Plasma brings the news that, with Plasma 6.4 little more than a week away, developers are hard at work crushing bugs and polishing the code.
In other news: The app launcher menu favorites and the networks list in System Settings are now keyboard-accessible, the Info Center’s Energy graph gets a smooth animation, and much more.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/07/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-is-nigh/
KDE creates a safe haven for Windows 10 exiles.
In the context of the @Endof10 campaign, we have created a new "for" page, this time "for Windows 10 exiles":
https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/
In it we explain how Linux with Plasma can help users escape the deranged cycle of having to buy a new computer every time Microsoft force-upgrades their operating system.
KDE and its eco initiative will have a booth tomorrow at the Umweltfestival in Berlin. The event is free to attend, so come chat with us and let's talk about #endOf10
"This Week in Plasma" brings elegant symbolic icons for the dictionary and web browser widgets, a warning about rising the volume limits, improvements to the Bluetooth pairing wizard, and tons of tweaks and corrections for the upcoming versions of Plasma.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/31/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-stabilizes/
@frumble @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Good idea! Come and help us make it happen!:
@nictakiego @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Trash is still just a folder. The widget just makes it easier to interact with.
KDE devs are working on this. It has become a priority of the "We care about your Input" goal.
https://phabricator.kde.org/T17433
We are currently working on implementing a new virtual keyboard called QVK that will built into Plasma:
@Rhababerbarbar @kde@lemmy.kde.social
That is the proposal page. Of all proposals, and there are always quite few, the community votes and selects three to work on for two years. This one was not selected.
@Rhababerbarbar @kde@lemmy.kde.social
"Sandbox all the things" is not currently a KDE goal.
@muelsyse @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Spectacle release cycle has moved to that of Plasma and will be installed with Plasma, as a part of Plasma.
It used to be am independent app and on many distros you would install it separately (like on Arch) and its release cycle was that of KDE Gear.
And let's not forget everyone who contributed by using, testing, or blogging about our projects! Whether it was with code, art, bug reports, social media posts, or anything else, by desinterestedly lending your time and skill, regardless of if it was on a regular basis (shout out to all our hardworking devs!) or with a one-time, flyby commit that sniped a bug out of your favorite app, you too helped make KDE better for everybody this year.
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved
Have a great holiday 🎄!
We also want to thank everyone who donated through the pop-up. We're very grateful for your support!
Many people said they wished they could donate more. Please don't think you didn't make a difference! Every euro will help!
@franklin @kde@lemmy.kde.social
You donate €50 or more and you can choose an app you would like to express your support for from the list. Your name then appears on the app's apps.kde.org page as a supporter until the next relase of KDE Gear (25.04).
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* KBreakOut is the classic brick-busting arcade game.
* KTuberling is for the younger users, and lets them build up a potato head, robot, pizza, and more -- with added voices!
Have a fun!
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