This Week in Plasma: crisper screenshots, better context menus, improved mnemonics, right-handed panels, and more.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/01/this-week-in-plasma-feels-like-a-good-one/
We're ready! Come and visit our booth at #FOSDEM2025!
We're in building AW, level 1, showing off the newest version of Plasma, devices, applications and more.
Come and visit our booth tomorrow and Sunday at @fosdem !
We'll be in building AW, level 1, with other community booths, showing off the newest version of #Plasma6, devices, applications and more.
https://fosdem.org/2025/stands/
Decorate your computer with kool stickers, chat with KDE contributors, test new stuff and join our community!
#FOSDEM #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop #app #Kdenlive #Krita
Lydia Pintscher, Vice President of KDE e.V., receives the European Open Source Award for Advocacy and Awareness ๐!
Congrats @nightrose !
This Week in KDE Apps brings the news that Akonadi gets a bunch of fixes and optimizations, the Barcode Scanner gets a new WiFi QR scanning mode, Tokodon gets a battery of new filtering options, and much more beside, covering Okular, Kaidan, Elisa, Itinerary, Amarok, Calculator, and Bluejay.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/27/this-week-in-kde-apps/
Season of KDE is back with 14 new projects.
15 mentees will work with 11 mentors to add features, develop new educational games, create documentation, improve the power consumption of KDE apps and assist Windows users to migrate to Linux.
Check out all the projects:
https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-01-19-sok-25-welcome/
"This week in KDE apps" brings improvements in usability, accessibility and customization to @arianna, Dolphin and Itinerary, and supercharges to @tokodon ready for the #january20 mass migration.
This week in Plasma: Getting #Plasma6.3 into shape, more KRunner searches, better scaling and a whole lot more:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/18/this-week-in-plasma-getting-plasma-6.3-in-great-shape/
"KDE For Digital Sovereignty" explains how KDE software returns control to institutions, companies and users, and gives you the tools to become the owner of your digital life.
https://kde.org/for/digital-sovereignty/
In "This week in KDE Apps" we look at the usability improvements landing in Alligator, Dolphin, and Itinerary; new features for KMyMoney, Tokodon and NeoChat; and updated versions of Amarok and Skrooge.
Today's specials: meat, chicken, vegan (spinach, tomatoes and chickpeas) with extra Ketchup open sauce!
Mmmmh! Para lamerse los dedos!
That is regular themes.
_Global_ themes also modify the desktop's behavior and hence contain code to do that.
@cyberlyra @socallinuxexpo @kde@lemmy.kde.social @linmob
We have project called @plasmamobile
Pair that with, say, @postmarketOS
And you have got yourself a free and open source privacy-respecting stack for your mobile device.
Disclaimer: does not work on all hardware! Hardware is usually closed and proprietary. check the list:
Note that the CACD is also a non-profit that relies on donations to run these programs. Please consider supporting them at:
To make more things like this happen, to help those that the IT industry left behind or consider mere fodder for the data-grinding machine, to return control over technology to the common people, and protect the environment, we need your help.
Become a supporter. Help us reach the landmark number of 1000 supporters before the launch of #Plasma6.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
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So we also managed to avoid having all those machines ending up in landfills, polluting the soil and waterways because providers of proprietary OSes only want you to buy new stuff and ignore the impact on the environment.
https://floss.social/@be4foss/111980254502881355
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KDE provided the software that allowed to recover machines that had been obsoleted by the successive updates from Microsoft Windows, and this made possible for the CACD to carry out the program.
https://cacd.nationbuilder.com/programs_at_cacd
We provided support and advice so that the teens could familiarise themselves with open source software, saving them from being trapped in the proprietary cycle of buy new hardware, update, be forced to buy new hardware, update, rinse and repeat.
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Plasma 6 tars were made available to packagers yesterday. So, yes, distro packagers and OEM installers already have the software and are installing it now ready for next Wednesday's official release.
@mamus @kde@lemmy.kde.social
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https://kde.org/community/donations/
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