Gwenview, Elisa, Konqueror and KRDC added to the list of adoptable apps
You can use Gwenview to view and do basic edits to images, Elisa is a sleek music player, Konqueror is KDE's classic file and web browser, and KRDC allows you to visit and use remote in a windows of your local desktop.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Haruna, Kate and KMyMoney (among many others); and a whole new app: Karp, a tool for visually arranging and editing PDF documents.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/25/this-week-in-kde-apps-bugfixing-week/
Fundraiser Appreciation Thread: Thank you for your support!
We thank every single donor and appreciate every donation we have received. Every β¬ will be used wisely and will help support KDE contributors in their task of creating the best Free Software for the whole wide world.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
The fundraiser is not over! We want to reach β¬70K by the end of January, but we would like to start acknowledging all those who have adopted KDE apps and made our community's job easier.
This Week in Plasma: Battery Charge Cycles in Info Center.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/23/this-week-in-plasma-battery-charge-cycles-in-info-center
This week we of course continued the customary bug-fixing, but got some nice new features and UI improvements too!
We have more apps for you to adopt!: Kasts, Labplot, Filelight and Konsole
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
You can adopt Kasts, a very cool and full-featured podcast application which works both on your desktop and your phone:
"This week in KDE Apps" is out!
This week, we made it easier to build KDE applications with Python, let you import your two factor authentication tokens in Keysmith, and made KMail memory usage lighter.
Read all about it at https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/18/this-week-in-kde-apps-python-bindings/
digKam, KDE's image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0.
This version of @digikam improves the Face Management system, adds colored labels to identify important items, increases its list of supported languages to 61, and fixes over 160 bugs.
https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-11-16-8.5.0/_release/_announcement/
KDE For Activists
Free Software activists give you control over technology, and help defend your digital #rights. We create means that allow us to become organized and connected, bypassing utilities controlled by unethical corporations.
"KDE For Activists" helps you too leverage the tools to effectively organize rallies, privately communicate with fellow #community members, and safely manage your own grassroots #movement .
https://kde.org/for/activists/
For activists, by activists.
KDE completes another successful Google Summer of Code!
This year our new contributors worked on LabPlot, Krita, Frameworks, Kdenlive, KDE Connect, games, and much more.
Check out everything that got done in our final #GSoC 2024 report:
https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2024-11-15-gsoc-final-end/
Remember: you too can contribute to KDE by becoming a Supporting Member:
We reached 50% of our goal π!
Thanks to everybody who has supported us, and keep it coming ...
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
P.S.: Look out for the Alpha of KDE's Megarelease 6 coming next week!
@carlschwan @RyunoKi @kde@lemmy.kde.social
So no LLM training, which is what has a large carbon footprint.
Plasma allows you to configure how your desktop looks, manage connections to the network, provides graphical connections to your devices (mice, hard disks, printers, etc.), let's you run your programs with ease, and also lets different programs to graphically communicate with each other (via, for example, drag and drop).
> What is KDE Plasma exactly?
Good question, and one of the harder ones to answer: Exactly, exactly it is "desktop environment". That is, a graphical environment and a series of graphical utilities that allow you to manage most aspects of your computer, and provides the infrastructure needed by your apps to run.
You can see what we spent our money on last year at
https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/
(Scroll down towards the end)
> Wait KDE needs more money?
Yes. We need money to pay for personnel salaries, our yearly
Akademy event, travel for community members to sprints and other events, the maintenance and rent of our tech infrastructure, rent for our Office, taxes and insurance, and other stuff.
KDE's software is always evolving and being worked on. We need money to keep things moving, otherwise the KDE project and most of the software projects that rely on it would die.
@nirogu @kde@lemmy.kde.social @torben
Some of these apps are quite news and have not made there way into many mainstream distros yet.
@mdwalters @kde@lemmy.kde.social @frameworkcomputer
Amazing. No contest. Unanimous decision. Your DIY laptop has been sent.