This week in KDE Plasma: The last sprint towards Plasma 6.3
Improvements in usability, exciting features and mechanisms that ensure stability land in the latest Plasma release before 6.3 hits desktops next month:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/11/this-week-in-plasma-final-plasma-6.3-features/
This Week in KDE Apps is out!
This time, we worked on a mobile context menus, various KDE Connect improvements, an experimental version of Amarok based on Qt6, a killer feature for @kdenlive and much more!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/05/this-week-in-kde-apps-mobile-context-menus/
This Week in Plasma: Artistry and accessibility
Aaand... we're back! Happy New Year everyone!
This first 2025 review brings the news of enhancements to touchpads and drawing tablets, KRunner, and Discover, among many over improvements.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/04/this-week-in-plasma-artistry-and-accessibility/
Donor appreciation post: Thank you for all your generosity 💖!
We are close to reaching our first fundraiser stretch goal...
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
... And we want to thank everybody who made this possible. You have guaranteed KDE's survival for yet another year.
We are at 95% of our first stretch goal!
With less than €3,000 to go, our fundraiser is about to cross the €50,000 mark, and we will be entering the final stretch of our campaign.
Will your donation push us over the line?
Adoptable Games - part 🎲🎲
What are your favorite KDE games? Here are some of ours, now up for adoption:
* Kubrick - Rubik's cube simulator with lots of different cubes to pick from
* KGoldRunner - Platformer that combines arcade action with problem-solving
* Picmi - A simple, but surprisingly addictive logic game
* KiGo - Play Go against the computer or friend. Multiple board sizes and levels of difficulties
This year, KDE will be again at #38c3, this time as part of the "Bits & Bäume / about:freedom" assembly, alongside many similar-minded organizations like the @fsfe, @edri, @openstreetmap and more!
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/assembly/bitsundbaeume/_aboutfreedom/
In "This Week in KDE Apps"...
* Itinerary keeps your travel data safe (and lets you import and export it)
* Gardening app PowerPlant gets new looks
* Kaidan, the XMPP chat app, releases version 0.10.0 and 0.10.1
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/15/this-week-in-kde-apps-gear-24.12.0-is-out/
Remember to support your favorite apps donating to our fundraiser!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
Adoptable apps: Games edition 🎲
KDE makes a long list of games, and we will be adding some to the list of adoptable apps over the next few days.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/#adopt
Here are the first four:
* KNights is for playing chess. You can pick the chess engine, play over the Internet, monitor your progress and more.
* KNetWalk is a puzzle game where you have to connect all the computers to the Internet.
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Of course! Also, Plasma Mobile is getting an update to Plasma Mobile 6 at the end of February.
Our Drive for Supporters is still open!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Help us reach 1000 members before Plasma 6 Release Day!
Joshua "@redstrate" Goins works on Plasma bugfixing, improving tablet/gamepad support and the various libraries that Plasma and Gear apps are built upon.
Nate Graham writes the "This week in KDE" weekly blog posts, squishes bugs, makes loud noises when things are broken, and sits on the KDE e.V. Board of Directors.
David Redondo is a Plasma all-rounder currently mainly working on Wayland things and Plasma plumbing.
@merthyr1831 @kde@lemmy.kde.social
We asked a designer to make a logo we could use for the Plasma 6 _CAMPAIGN_, not for Plasma 6 itself.
We asked for something that would remind people of the Plasma logo (a folded piece of paper with three dots), but that also looked like a 6. This what they came up with.
So no, not the new Plasma logo.
Sorry.
We will keep the campaign open so, even if you can't donate by the deadline, you can still get a chance to be mentioned in our acknowledgements later on in the Plasma 6 series.
You make it possible for us to do more and better things for our community and users.
We are also nearing completion of the Supporting Members campaign. Only 16 more to go!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
We are completely floored by your generosity, and thank you for helping us keep KDE running and producing free software for the world.
@kde@lemmy.kde.social
Help organize the fun and suggest activities and games!:
https://discuss.kde.org/t/party-games-for-kdes-megarelease-6-in-february/9435