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Hi all, I'm wondering how Plasma Vaults work for you.

I have a system using an AMD 7840U in performance mode on Debian Trixie (Plasma 6.3.6).

The underlying filesystem is ext4 on an encrypted LVM2 volume (SN850X WD NVMe)

Using a vault with CryFS, a vault with ~200 files takes over a minute to populate in Dolphin. After it is populated, writing to files in it seems mostly reasonable.

I'm just wondering if this is expected, or if there's something wrong on my machine. Is a different algorithm better to use for a vault?

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that System Settings' pages become "smart" and can mark themselves as "not relevant" if, for example, you do not have the hardware to use them. They can also export actions to the sidebar, allowing you to quickly toggle devices on and off. And Discover can now be opened directly from Install buttons on FlatHub.

Read about this, and much more in Nate's blog post:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/09/this-week-in-plasma-quick-toggles-in-system-settings/

#Plasma6 #OpenSource #desktop

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>Cawnonical Mono-Glyph Icon Suite: a complete, system-wide icon theme featuring clean, monotone glyph-style vector icons that can be changed to any colour system wide. https://www.pling.com/p/2298642/

It has been about two months since I completed my icon pack project "Cawnonical" and shared it here. Since then, I have received some amazing feedback that has made it all worth it, plus using my own icon pack (which is why I even made it) has been so satisfying. I can confirm as a daily user that it is the best icon suite (I might be just a bit biased).

Today, my icon pack is now at version 1.3. Each iteration, I've been adding about 100 new app icons and fixing things. *In this version, I have added over 300 symlinks for app ID's to make my icon pack auto-apply better. *

Finishing Cawnonical 1.3, I feel my icon pack is now mature enough to share it again with the community here.

If you saw my post a while back but found my icon pack was missing stuff, check again. Since I have always been making icons as a hobby, I will probably be making iterative updates on Cawnonical into my grave.

Also I do take icon requests on the icon suite's GitHub page: https://github.com/Celeths/Cawnsole-HTPC/tree/main/Cawnonical%20Mono-Glyph%20Icon%20Suite

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/114986870737385043

#Akademy2025 Keynote

Open by Design: How Governments Can Lead the Shift to Digital Sovereignty

Discover how @digitalhubsh is setting the standard for digital sovereignty in Europe.

More details: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/program/

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#KDELinux is still in Pre-Alpha stages and it shows. Was gonna make a video about it, but I decided to honor the Dev's request not to since it's still way too early.

But wow 5.2gb updates and 7.6gb images is way too much. Gotta get the sizes under control dudes !!! @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

https://files.kde.org/kde-linux/?C=M%3BO%3DD

#FOSS #Linux #OpenSource

All the icons in the world and I really didn't like any of them for an app launcher. I'm using this with the dashboard on the icons only task manager but it looks alright with the application launcher as well. I built it using the base of the Konsole terminal icon, adjusted shadows and added the little rounded blocks. Also got the padding just about right to match them in size - at least in my setup.

Others could probably do better but I wanted to try. Now my app dash, konsole, settings all look nice and neat from left to right on the taskbar. Anyway, here's the .svg if you like it.

https://cloud.s6vi.net/s/GeMrDcgoR5oKfNN

After you manage to run the installing program and it fails, please try pkcon updating BEFORE you restart. You may encounter an error with a library (i don't remember its name) that needs to be removed and pkcon has to finish the updates, or your plasma will be broken and you'll be stuck in text-based OS fixing the same problem, except you can't use internet or anything on the same device. Managing it with Konsole while booted helps a lot.

Overall, a pretty good impression from KDE Linux #kdelinux . Everything I tried works smoothly. The only hiccup, the user is not a member of audio group by default, so it needed tweaking to make Milkytracker work. Now my kid is testing Roblox and it's quite smooth, as much as the old laptop allows it.

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Darby Johnston will be showcasing Kdenlive's OpenTimelineIO support at the Academy Software Foundation's Open Source Days. Check it out live tomorrow, 5th of August at 9PM UTC.

https://osd2025vth.sched.com/event/27ctc

#aswf #linuxfoundation #opensourcedays #linux #floss #vfx #otio #opentimelineio #kde #videoediting #kdenlive

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KDE dev Joshua Goins aka @redstrate just brought XP-Pen Artist 22R Pro support to Linux 6.17 as part of the We Care About You Input - KDE Goals project. More info:

https://redstrate.com/blog/2025/07/the-xp-pen-artist-22r-pro-works-on-linux-now/

#linux #kdegoals #kde #artiwithopensource

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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.5 will have automatic day/night theme switching, that you can choose which Global Themes to show on the Quick Settings page, and that you can set dynamic wallpaper coloration to be based on the background color scheme or the time of day, or always light, or always dark.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/02/this-week-in-plasma-day/night-theme-switching/

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#Plasma6 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop

The next Kdenlive Café will be on Wednesday, 6th of August at 7PM UTC. Grab your favorite drink and join the dev team for a chat. Hope to see you there!

https://meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr

#kdenlive #videoediting #floss

@kde

Yo KDE folks

I’m a huge Plasma fan and been messing around with plasmoid dev for a while now. But maaaan, you ever feel like you're doing the same boring setup/build/package dance over and over, instead of actually building cool stuff? Yeah... same here.

So I built a little something to fix that: Prasmoid, a CLI tool that helps you skip the annoying parts and just vibe with the code.

What it does:

• prasmoid init → Sets up a new plasmoid project from scratch. Just answer a few prompts, and boom, your folder's ready. No boilerplate hustle.
• prasmoid preview --watch → Opens your plasmoid in a preview window, auto-restarts it when you save. (Yup, full restart, not internal hot reload… yet)
• prasmoid i18n → Handles translation stuff: .pot/.po file gen, .mo compilation, it's got your back.
• prasmoid build → Packs your project into a .plasmoid file, ready to ship.
• prasmoid format → Cleans up your QML files so you don’t have to stare at messy whitespace.
• prasmoid changeset → Helps manage versions + changelogs without manually doing it all.

Bonus: Custom commands with JS

Prasmoid has its own JavaScript runtime baked in (built using Goja in Go), so you can write project-specific commands in JS. It’s like Node.js scripts, but you don’t even need Node installed. Fully self-contained.

Honestly, I built this to scratch my own itch, but it ended up saving me a ton of time. Now I’m just hoping it helps other Plasma devs too.

It’s open source, and I’d love your feedback, whether you try it, toss in some ideas, or feel like contributing. You’re welcome either way!

GitHub: https://github.com/PRASSamin/prasmoid

Let me know what you think!

If you’re into plasmoid dev, this might save you a lot of headache. 😄

How can I login automatically on Fedora 42 KDE 6.4.3?
Some websites say about going to settings/startup shutdown... but I don't seem to have those settings at all?

I only have the automatic start settings to start programs and the session settings, nothing else about it.

And yes, it's the only account and supposed to be administrator, also it's a fresh install.

How to get KDEConnect working in desktop browsers who support WebExtension:

Install External Application Launcher + Native Client (the latter is on the AUR)

Just select /usr/bin/kdeconnect-handler as the application, [HREF] as arguments and enable it for link as well as tab context.

The handler will open a popup where you can select the target device

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/114896341874166189

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