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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Kdenlive's spectacular background removal tool, guides on how to make your own ticket extractors for Itinerary (learn how to add your local transport service!), usability tweaks to Dolphin's interface and much more.

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

#apps #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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"This Week in Plasma" brings drag'n'drop now made easy, zoom with a gesture, higher quality for the RDP server, per CPU and task monitoring, and many more tasty goodies.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/03/this-week-in-plasma-move-by-default-when-dragging-and-dropping/

#Plasma #opensource #FreeSoftware

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This week in KDE Apps comes with the news of improvements to @Krita's text rendering feature and the progress made to its migration to Qt6 and Wayland support; that KDE's travel assistants share more features and add support for many more transport and entertainment services; and how our suite of convergent applications receive many exciting updates, among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/27/this-month-in-kde-apps/

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#apps #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

 

KDE Gear ⚙️ 25.04 is out with new exciting features and improvements landing in Dolphin, Kdenlive, Okular, Itinerary, KDE Connect, Tokodon and many, many more.

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0/

#apps #opensource #freesoftware

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Today, tomorrow, and Sunday you can come and visit the KDE Community at our event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India:

https://conf.kde.in/2025/

Meet contributors, learn about our bleeding edge technologies, and try out exciting and fun applications.

#event #india

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KDE adds The Open Source Promotion Program to its list of mentorship programs.

Want to learn how to contribute to an Open Source project? Check out our blog post and start writing your project submission now!

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-03-29-ospp/

#training #onboarding #mentor #universities #ospp

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#KStars debuts a new documentation site!

A comprehensive resource that helps you to get to know and make the most of KDE's fantastic night sky observatory and astrophotography utility.

At the moment, only English is available. More languages coming soon.

https://kstars-docs.kde.org/

#astronomy #astrophotography #nightSky #education #photography

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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation bar; new features land in you chat app of choice; and more languages get added to KDE's educational activities.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/24/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#twika #apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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This Week in Plasma brings launch menu customizations, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator.

We have simplified KMenuEdit allowing you to customize your launch menu with ease, improved the quality of full-screen recordings with Spectacle, set the "Dim Screen for Administrator Mode" to be switched on by default, and enhanced the accessibility and keyboard navigation of Plasma's Calculator.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/22/this-week-in-plasma-6.4-improvements/

#Plasma6 #freesoftware #linux #opensource

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The schedule for conf.kde.in is out!

Explore the KDE community—who they are, what they do, and why it matters, learn about Digital Independence: Your Roadmap to Seamless Self-Hosting, Embracing FOSS in EdTech, and much more.

Check the program here: https://conf.kde.org/event/8/timetable
Don't forget to register: https://conf.kde.org/event/8/registrations/28/

Stay tuned for more updates on what is happening on Day 3.

#cki2025 #KDE

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The new episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" is out covering among other things a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompris, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's just released version 8.6.0.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.

You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.

We also fixed 140 bugs!

https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0/_release/_announcement/

#photography #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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[–] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (11 children)

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Many thanks to Dr. Denis Stogl, Vladimir Solomatin, Akseli Lahtinen, Tjelta Meihack and Nithanim for adopting Kate, KDE advanced text editor and development environment.

https://apps.kde.org/kate/

Likewise, KWrite, Kate's sister editor for those who do not need all Kate's features, was adopted William Herman.

https://apps.kde.org/kwrite/

[–] kde@floss.social 2 points 8 months ago (12 children)

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Dolphin, KDE's powerful gateway to your files, servers and software repos, was was adopted by Ian Lohmann, Anthony Perrett, Linus Seelinger, Nils Martens, mdPlusPlus and txemaq.

https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/

[–] kde@floss.social 2 points 8 months ago (18 children)

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The little known, but very useful KRuler app was adopted by Ofnuts.

https://apps.kde.org/kruler/

[–] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (19 children)

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The increasingly powerful travel assistant Itinerary was adopted bu jxn_30 and Gabriel Karlsson.

https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/

[–] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (20 children)

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fat_malama, Alexandru Traistaru, Neeko iko, Daniel Lloyd-Miller and mdPlusPlus adopted KDE Connect, the app that lets you connect your mobile and desktop devices in multiple useful and fun ways.

https://apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/

[–] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (21 children)

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One of our newer apps, a multiplatform eBook reader called Arianna, was adopted by Erik Bernoth.

https://apps.kde.org/arianna/

[–] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (24 children)

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Merkuro, our next generation calendaring system, has been adopted by manchicken and Nithanim, and there is still space for more adoptions.

https://apps.kde.org/merkuro/

[–] kde@floss.social 3 points 8 months ago (25 children)

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Tokodon, KDE's Mastodon app for desktop and mobile, has been adopted by @petejones, @DaisyLee and Karcsesz, and still has 2 slots left.

https://apps.kde.org/tokodon/

[–] kde@floss.social 2 points 8 months ago (26 children)

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We start by sending out our gratitude to Tanguy Fardet and dabe for adopting NeoChat, our native Matrix chat app that works both on desktop and mobile devices. You can still adopt it as there are 3 slots left.

https://apps.kde.org/neochat/

[–] kde@floss.social 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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Or choose Konsole! KDE's classic terminal emulator that has dozens of tricks up its sleeve that make working on the command line easy, fun and productive:

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5qF1kLp71wZJ4sLqhYEAkd

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

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

[–] kde@floss.social 5 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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You could also sponsor Filelight, a utility that allows you to visually monitor usage of the storage on your computer:

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

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

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