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KDE Gear ☀️ 23.08 🏖️ has got you covered!

KDE's collection of apps hands you the control over your social media, files and folders, instant messaging, productivity, and much more.

Check out what's new:

#Gear2308 #applications

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/23.08.0/

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@LabPlot , KDE's software for data analysis and visualization, creates impressive professional looking charts from your data.

At some point, you will want to present them in a report or essay.

Learn in little over a minute how you can do that with this video tutorial:

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/kh1Dyyt7bRbAqtbG4wFhUJ

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#data #analysis #database #dataviz

Back to school! Last major release for probably a while, a lot of bugs to fix. The largest feature of this release is the new settings QML dialog and an accompanied DBus service.

Currently KDE uses Gitlab at invent.kde.org. Gitlab has been known to not be entirely open. I wonder if KDE has considered moving over to Gitea/Forgejo/Codeberg instead? And if not, how come?

So my workflow is typically hit start -> cmd -> enter which I can usually do these 3 actions in less than 2 seconds on Windows. I've tried a dozen different distros on Wayland, X11, with and without the Nvidia proprietary drivers. KDE search seems to be too slow for me to do this though. Cinnamon, Gnome, Mate, and XFCE don't seem to have this problem. Is there a way to speed up the KDE start search or to at least somehow buffer the enter input so I am not stuck pressing enter again?

Bismuth. Making tiling window management easy. On KDE Plasma. Thanks to this fine person, we have a working Bismuth on Plasma 5.27. It only took the addition of one question mark to the code to bring it to life. Huge kudos to developer. Unfortunately, we will have to build Bismuth from source code. I built a package for Fedora 38, here you go, maybe someone will find it useful! ❤️

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4530083

Learn how to import data from SQL databases into LabPlot, KDE's sophisticated data analysis and visualization application.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/fh4LxdGFHzksu8pd8E1Ufq

#sql #data #analysis #database #dataviz

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This release brings some nice new components for your Kirigami and QML apps.

@kde https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473443

Calling All Artists! The #Plasma6 Wallpaper Contest is now open

We are calling on all artists to submit their original wallpaper designs and compete for the chance to win a brand-new @frameworkcomputer 13'' laptop.

Check out the rules here:

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

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Would you like to host Akademy 2024? Join the KDE Community and organize an unforgettable event.

This is the chance for you and your team of volunteer Free Software enthusiasts to make #Akademy2024 a reality!

Find out how at https://ev.kde.org/akademy/CallforHosts_2024.pdf

This week in KDE: #Plasma6 development continues, aiming for a stabler, more consistent desktop, and easier to use applications.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/11/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-development-continues-2/

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KDE dev Kai Uwe Broulik "accidentally" installed #Plasma6 on his daily driver machine! What happened next will astound you

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https://blog.broulik.de/2023/08/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-contd/

Arjen Hiemstra demonstrates how you can access a #remote #desktop on #Wayland using #Plasma and RDP.

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https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland

Dragging Docks and Tugging Toolbars on Wayland

David Redondo explains how devs are mending dragging window elements around in Wayland and how everything will work as expected in #Plasma6.

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https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/wayland/qt/2023/08/08/xdg-toplevel-drag.html

I wrote an applet that makes an API call every 10 minutes, but I want it to show a message if the computer is offline. This means I need to get the network status within QML. I thought a DataEngine might be available, but there isn't.

I read the code for plasma-nm and found this ~~solution~~ hack:

import org.kde.plasma.networkmanagement 0.2 as PlasmaNM
PlasmaNM.NetworkStatus {
    id: networkStatus
}
PlasmaComponents3.Label {
    visible: networkStatus.networkStatus != "Connected"
    text: i18n("Network disconnected")
}

But I think comparing strings is a terrible way because I don't know what will happen in other locales.

Is there a better way?

Link to my code

Want to try #Plasma6? Check out Neon Experimental, the test bed for KDE's upcoming desktop environment.

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2023/08/04/announcing-kde-neon-experimental/

WARNING: Plasma 6 is still being actively worked on. The software is considered unstable and will likely lead to data loss if used in production. Use for test and bug-hunting purposes only!

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So I've loved the minimalist aesthetic of Elementary's Pantheon desktop for a long time now. I even ran Pantheon (on Arch) for a long time but eventually the quirks and bugs got to me and I ditched it. I've now been using KDE for several years but still sometimes get the itch for that aesthetic again.

I've almost got my KDE desktop to look enough like Pantheon to make me happy EXCEPT for the completely transparent top panel.

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(It's not so easy to see in the smaller image above, but the top panel is slightly transparent. Apologies, here's another screenshot showing it is indeed semi-transparent.)

I have adaptive transparency turned on so that the panel goes opaque with maximised windows all good. The issue as you can see from the screenshot above is that when there's nothing maximised, the top panel is barely transparent let alone fully transparent.

I understand this is from the theme I'm using (Breeze Dark).

I don't want to use Latte dock. And every single set of instructions I have come across about how to alter themes has either been outdated, doesn't work or says something along the lines of, "You need to edit the theme." but doesn't say HOW. I've searched for that too and come up empty - either outdated or doesn't apply to Arch.

Can someone please tell me (bearing in mind that I have Cognitive Impairment so breaking down the instructions is very appreciated!) how I can edit Breeze Dark so that my top panel is completely transparent?

Or if there's a simpler way to achieve this, please let me know! :) TIA!