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With only 91 days left before launch, today we are releasing the 1st Beta of Plasma 6.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/

This is the time when we call on all testers to download and install it, and stress-test all its features.

#Plasma6 #testing #beta

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Give your desktop a strikingly lustrous look with Shades of Purple, the third theme in the Off-Theme series.

https://quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-presents-shades-of-purple/

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#theming #plasma

"Giving Tuesday" you say? How about this: KPhotoAlbum, KDE's fast and efficient image organizing and indexing app, releases its 20th anniversary edition 🎂

If in all that time you a haven't used KPhotoAlbum to classify and cut down searching times, you have been seriously missing out.

Give it a go!:

https://www.kphotoalbum.org//2023/11/27/anniversary-release-kphotoalbum-5.12.0/

Want to give back to KDE? Become a Supporter already:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

Or donate to KDE:

https://kde.org/community/donations/

#GivingTuesday #photos

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We are at the Qt World Summit 2023! Come and visit our booth!

Check out our new gadgets, talk to devs and grab some kool Konqi stickers.

#QtWS23 #events

https://www.qt.io/qt-world-summit-2023

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I think Dolphin and Discover share the "Blue square" base design, while Settings and Konsole share the "Black square" one... I usually misclick these app icons because of this.

NOTE: I know Dolphin sticks to whatever the Accent color is set to. But the default color is that shade of blue, similar to Discover.

Would it be possible to change some of these icons? I'm not a designer nor have artistic skills to do so, unfortunately.

Some ideas:

• Maybe set Discover to be a paper bag or another shopping icon
• Settings could be a gear (wink wink)
• Global settings and System settings share the same icon unfortunately. Maybe these could be different :)

Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?

Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

#windows #DMA

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Embrace the #GivingTuesday spirit and support #Plasma6!

💙 Giving Tuesday is next week, but why wait? Start giving today and join us in making Plasma 6's launch a spectacular success by becoming a supporting member.

Contribute now: https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

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Streamlined interface for generating images with AI in Krita. Inpaint and outpaint with optional text prompt, no tweaking required. - GitHub - Acly/krita-ai-diffusion: Streamlined interface for gen...

We just held our 2023 sprint and worked hard on improving KDE's video editor Kdenlive for three days straight.

We tackled bugs affecting grouped clips, the #effects workflow, the organization of menu items, and much more.

Read the full report at:

https://kdenlive.org/en/2023/11/kdenlive-sprint-recap-november-2023/

#videoediting

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Google Summer of Code 2023 is over, but our contributors' work lives on!

Discover the new features, like email support in Merkuro, automatic photo tagging in digiKam, moderation options in Tokodon, and more through the stories of the people who implemented them.

https://kde.org/announcements/2023-gsoc-end/

#GSoC #mentorship #outreach

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Draw some inspiration for your desktop with the boldly monochromatic Graphite, the second global theme in the Off-Theme series.

https://quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-presents-graphite/

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Let me preface this with I was reinstalling my Arch system when Linux 6.6.1 killed the computer's boot cycle. (Dell Optiplex 990 i7) system. Anyway, I needed to get this back up and running and since I couldn't even get it to boot, I did a reinstall relying on my backups and on the Linux LTS for now. I am an early adopter with software and wanted to modify my repo to use the KDE-Unstable branch. To my surprise, upon rebooting after running an update, I was looking at the shiny new KDE 6 desktop! I was thinking maybe just a newer point release.

The Good

It looks surprisingly nice! You can certainly tell that a lot of work has been put into this version.
The new Dolphin interface is looking quite awesome! Nate Graham on his site details the changes, but it looks and feels more cohesive and unified across the board.

I had a crash while browsing SDDM screens in their system settings, by canceling it and it killed it, but the reporting system for the failure seemed to be extra fluid and submitted it without much input from my end. Nice Touch!

Interestingly enough

They have done some major work on the system settings and I think this will take some training of muscle learning from KDE Plasma 5. It seems a bit more logical if you will. And the change from single click to double click by default is a huge bonus for me. The KDE version number indicated something around 5.27.11 (If I remember correctly), so it isn't quite 6 , but I expect that to change once the desktop is finalized in Feb 2024.

The Bad

It's feature incomplete, If you need to change your desktop wallpaper, the option to right click in discover on the picture to set it is no longer there.
The sound settings, and other functions listed in Nate's blog just don't exist in the build I tried, but I respect that with it being Alpha.

The Ugly

This will probably apply to Arch only, but if you update it through KDE-UNSTABLE's repo in Arch, there is no way that I could find to fully remove it and reinstall it easily even by using the sudo pacman -Syuu command. So, be forewarned.

Disclaimer

Yes, I know, this is Alpha and not meant for daily use. I never intended for it to be installed through their unstable repo, but lesson learned. :) I'm glad I was able to take a glimpse at it and I now feel confident in knowing that on my 12 yr old machine, it ran nice and fluid and smoothly. It can only get better from there!

For now, I'll for sure stick with deploying it in a VM for further testing. :)

Send us your wallpaper design and make Plasma 6 look awesome!

Submit your art before midnight (UTC) November 14 and you could win a @frameworkcomputer Laptop 13 DIY Edition.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/wallpaper-competition-announcement/3773

#Plasma6 #wallpaper #competition

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I mean to post in the !opensuse community, but it doesn't seem very active. And with plasma 6, I mean, the alpha version.

Everytime I want to play a video (no matter whether the codec is h.264 or h.265), this happens:

When I play it using VLC, it works just fine. I'm running Arch with all the codecs installed. How do I fix this? Please don't tell me to switch to another video player, if I wanted to, I would have done it already.

The alpha versions of Plasma 6, Gear 24.02 and Frameworks 6 are now available.

Note that "Alpha" means NOT ready for production! Use for testing and reporting bugs only. End users: keep clear.

This is a testing version of KDE's 6th Megarelease. The final version is scheduled to be available in February.

Read the full announcement to get more details on how to get this software onto your test machine and contribute feedback to the devs.

https://kde.org/announcements/kdes-6th-megarelease-alpha

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Add some retrofuturistic flair to your desktop with Nostrum, the first global theme in the Off-Theme series:

https://quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-presents-nostrum/

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Software influences energy consumption. Knowing how to minimize it can improve battery life and is greener for the environment.

Learn how we are working on this at KDE in 'Measuring energy consumption of software' from #Akademy2023, now available online.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/9HTwqF9tETTRgmSiBgAssw

https://youtu.be/43KoxjpNVKA

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