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After a few months of using @archlinux with the @kde desktop I have moved back to @fedora don't get me wrong I love love Arch btw, but Fedora has won my heart over. It just works... Well besides the dual screen thing but that is a wayland issue. I guess I use X11 till that issue is resolved.

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112330811960096279

#Akademy2024 awaits your voice! Don't miss the chance to present your application, ideas, or best practices. Submit your proposals by May 24, 2024.
https://akademy.kde.org/2024/cfp/

Be inspired by our past sessions from Akademy 2023: https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/p/fndy89wuSCGHhyujXR72e8

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsHpGlwPdtMp67EH84ljQohyCdqjCraU2&si=GoCWSL0lpB61Bvtc

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#Kdenlive 24.05 beta is ready for testing! Checkout new features like Group Effects and automatic subtitle translations. Other highlights include a huge performance boost to the spacer tool and improvements to multiple bins. Also, audio capture is back. 😉

https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/unstable

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#videoediting

KDE will mentor ten projects in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year. Congrats to everyone who got selected!

This year's wide range of projects includes Python support for the KDE Frameworks and Labplot, PDF Javascript forms support in Okular, more powerful subtitles in Kdenlive, and much more.

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2024-05-gsoc-2024/

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Jeremy Soller 🦀 (@soller@fosstodon.org) [System76 Principal engineer, Pop!_OS Maintainer, and Redox OS BDFL] writes:

If you are a #KDE developer, I want to talk to you about:

• How can COSMIC apps better fit in when running a Plasma session
• How can KDE apps better fit in when running a COSMIC session

The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO icon naming spec breaking KDE applications on Fedora 40 Workstation and Co. See the concrete state of the issue in the linked article.

I don’t use it and it keeps ruining my day. I recently got a vertical mouse that I’m still not 100% used to, and the paste triggers every time I press the wheel by mistake.

Since it just checked for updates already, hence the notification...

Thanks

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.

I was trying to analyze my phone's storage through Filelight, but it just gets frozen after I select the phone's folder. I didn't find anything in Bugzilla regarding this problem.
Is the protocol supported at all in the app?

I have a wacom graphics tablet that I want to use, but the builtin drivers of plasma 6 do not have enough customizability for me/don't do what I want them to, so I wanted to use the opentabletdriver package, which worked well for me on plasma 5, but the builtin driver is still active even when opentabletdriver is and I then have 2 cursors (the one from the plasma 6 drivers is invisible tho) at different positions and am effectively unable to use the tablet. So I was wondering how to disable the builtin driver, I looked it up but all I found was the same question on reddit, so I thought I'd try asking here.

Another problem is that I also just don't have the settings tab for the tablet on X11, only on the Wayland session, the driver is still active in X11 but with default settings, giving me effectively 1/4 of the tablet for my primary monitor.

I can't really use Wayland, as of now my nvidia card still causes a lot of flickering in games.

UPDATE: I did a fully system update today and there are some changes now, plasma's driver does not interfere with opentabletdriver driver on the X11 Session anymore.

The Wayland Session does not detect my tablet on it's own at all anymore, however when I start the opentabletdriver daemon with the tablet in artist mode, plasma detects this and hijacks it, making any settings in the opentabletdriver ineffective (-> the Settings in the kde Settings also don't seem to do anything). However by Setting the driver to absolute mode (which I believe to just move the mouse to the right position) it works like it normally does in absolute mode.

conclusion: After an update everything works on X11 and artist mode is broken on Wayland (at least for me), still an option to disable the builtin driver would be nice

edit: waylands builtin driver got layered on top of the opentabletdriver, setting it to all screens solves this issue since it does not further transform opentabletdrivers input, however I could not get my buttons to work. My guess is that opentabletdriver takes the input and converts it, but wayland tries to do so again, resulting in invalid input, but I don't know for sure.

Hi, sadly I have a very limited internet connection (10 Mbit). When I'm watching a video and then install something in Discover, it takes almost all the bandwidth and the video begins to stutter & buffer. Somebody knows if there's a way to limit the download speed for discover - preferably without installing additional software?

This week in KDE: megabytes and gigabytes for all

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/26/this-week-in-kde-megabytes-and-gigabytes-for-all/

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Gracias @kde por las empanadas. Estaban muy buenas.

You don't need a new computer for up-to-date software ... just the right software!

Come to #Umweltfestival 2024 in #Berlin to learn about the role of independent #FreeSoftware in the sustainable use of hardware.

🗓️ Sunday 28 April, 11-19h
📍 Straße des 17. Juni (Brandenburg Gate)

#KDEEco together with #FSFE (@fsfe) and Bits & Bäume (@bitsundbaeume_berlin) will be there! Some in the #GNOME and #postmarketOS community may be joining as well :)

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Impressions after a week using KDE Neon: Amazing

It's been fairly stable as I would expect from an LTS. There's LOT of hiccups with whatever is happening in the tray area (power and battery sometimes doesn't work).

Language is pretty screwed up. I speak both English/Spanish in a Spanish location. Installer chooses half spanish and english in the /etc/locale, and has issues changing it in the frontend.

Overall nothing I can't fix as I put stability overall

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I wonder how software licensing fits into this new EU right-to-repair directive. It seems pretty critical for repairability!

Press release: Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IPR20590/right-to-repair-making-repair-easier-and-more-appealing-to-consumers

"Manufacturers [...] will be prohibited from using contractual clauses, hardware or *software* techniques that obstruct repairs."

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#RightToRepair #KDE #GNOME #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

(h/t GNOME Berlin)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1171992

In this video, we talk to Aiśwarya Kaitheri Kandoth (Aish) who tells us about the growth of free software in Kerala, India, and of her role in the take-up and evolution of GCompris in schools there.

I was thinking that creating communities like "kate" or "kdenlive" would help organize the instance.

Does this make sense? Or is the instance too small for that?

Hi,

How to make code folding buttons appear not only at start of blocks, but also at end of blocks, like the following in JetBrains ?

Thanks

I’m looking for an up-to-date Plasma 6 tutorial for making plasmoids. Just a simple “Hello world” done correctly for Plasma 6.

The tutorial is for Plasma 5 and doesn’t work for 6 as I have no idea what I’m doing, and I haven’t found a decent way to debug these. plasmoidviewer doesn’t provide great error messages.

I found a tutorial on Medium for Plasma 6; following it I get the not-useful-at-all message on screen ("Sorry, there was an error loading Hello World."), and this in my terminal:

kf.plasma.quick: error when loading applet "ca.taffer.hello" QList()

I even installed KDevelop hoping it might have a project template, but no luck. And the “Get more templates” button in KDevelop does nothing. 🤷

I realize Plasma 6 is very recent, but my first forays into hacking for it have been insanely frustrating, which isn’t the new dev experience I want.

This week in KDE: sprints, enhancements, and kebabs

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/19/this-week-in-kde-sprints-enhancements-and-kebabs/

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