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Techpaladin, the company founded by a crack team of KDE developers, becomes a KDE sponsor.

From now on, not only will they be developing KDE software for Valve and the Qt Group, but will also be helping fund our community!

https://ev.kde.org/2025/05/30/techpaladin-becomes-kde-patron/

#patron #sponsorship #funding #freesoftware #opensource

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Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 has landed. Devs have made more than 270 changes, correcting bugs, updating features and tweaking the code.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.91/

Now it is time to put all of Plasma through its paces again!

If you are a tester, take it for a spin and submit bug reports to:

https://bugs.kde.org/

#Plasma6 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop #testing

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"This week in KDE Apps" brings news that @kdenlive's Transform effect gets a rotation handle, @LabPlot gets nested plots and a new axis space algorithm, Clock's stopwatch and timer get added to the navigation bar, and so much more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/25/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #videoediting #freesoftware #opensource #linux

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"This week in Plasma" brings wallpapers that transition from light (during the day) to dark (when the sun goes down), better search results in Discover, visual polish for the Audio Volume widget, and tons of other stuff!

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/24/this-week-in-plasma-time-of-day-wallpapers/

#eyecandy #plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware

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"This Week in Plasma" brings a brand new HDR calibration wizard, an improved configuration dialog for the comics widget, textual headers for for audio devices in the volume widget, a new animation for when you empty the trash can, and much, much more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/17/this-week-in-plasma-hdr-calibration-wizard/

#Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware #Linux #desktop

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Testers assemble: Plasma 6.4 Beta has been released!

Plasma 6.4 will be arriving in a month, meanwhile, you can try an unstable version here:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.90/

Remember: this is beta software! This means it has only been partially tested. Install it at your own risk and report bugs to

https://bugs.kde.org/

#Plasma6 #linux #desktop

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KDE projects in Google Summer of Code 2025.

New KDE contributors will be tackling adapting Merkuro to mobile, adding video-conferencing to NeoChat, creating a virtual machine manager for KDE Linux, and many more interesting and useful things.

Discover all the projects at:

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05-12-gsoc-start/

#GSoC2025 #GSoC #mentorship #openSource #FreeSoftware

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"This week in KDE Apps" brings optimizations galore!

Look out for boosts to @Krita's text rendering, improvements to @kdenlive's online resource and audio thumbnail rendering, Qrca's better battery usage, reduced memory usage in @neochat, and more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/12/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #videoediting #design #matrix

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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.4โ€™s enters soft feature freeze, Dolphin and other KDE apps "New File" and "New Folder" dialogs get a visual overhaul, and that the file transfer process now inhibits suspend, among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/10/this-week-in-plasma-inhibit-sleep-while-transferring-files/

#Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware

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Update your Steam Deck! New SteamOS Beta now with KDE Plasma 6.2.5!

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/news

#Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware #gaming #LinuxGaming

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Season of KDE (#SoK) is over and candidates have done great jobs adding new features to @kdenlive developing tools and expanding documentation for @be4foss, and creating educational apps and games.

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05-04-sok-conclusion/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#mentoring #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 4 points 7 months ago

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Some more KDE Connect goodness: during your presentations, use KDE Connect to move through your slides.

Or put your finger on the "Pointer", point your phone at the screen and a flaming circular pointer will appear. Higlight what you need by moving your phone.

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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SkanPage will help you connect to your scanner and you'll be scanning all your important documents quickly and easily in no time.

And to keep an eye on what's going on on your machine, don't miss Plasma's System Monitor. Personalize pages with sensors and keep an eye on what's important to you.

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 5 points 8 months ago

@dom @kde@lemmy.kde.social

We'll ask the maintainer. Hold tight.

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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There are still many apps to be adopted: LabPlot, a very powerful data analysis and visualization suite has all its slots open; as does AudioTube, a useful app that lets you easily find and play music from YouTube.

Check out the full list at

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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Kontact is a complete suite for emails, calendars, contacts, and task. It has been adopted by Matthew Lamont and F.

https://apps.kde.org/kontact/

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

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Spectacle is a powerful app for taking screenshots an screencasts of your desktop and has been adopted by DomiStyle, Nithanim, JB and Thibault Molleman. Hurry! Only one spot left!

https://apps.kde.org/spectacle/

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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Kasts let's you stream or download and plave podcasts on your deskto or phones, and has been Henning Lammert and Marco Ryll. Three adoption spots still open!

https://apps.kde.org/kasts/

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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FileLight, and app that shows how much space you have used on your disks, has been adopted by EisiBaer, Henning Lammert and Thibault Molleman, and still has 2 open spaces.

https://apps.kde.org/filelight/

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 2 points 8 months ago (7 children)

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Konsole, KDE's classic terminal emulator loaded with features, was adopted by Anders Lund, GhulDev, William Wojciechowski and Tobias Junghans.

https://apps.kde.org/konsole/

[โ€“] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (10 children)

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Okular, KDE's PDF, comic and document reader, was adopted by George Fakidis, Paxriel, tmpod, mdPlusPlus, Greg Helding and Archie Lamb.

https://apps.kde.org/okular/

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