This Week in Plasma: Better fractional scaling, improved screen color accuracy, maximize a window horizontally or vertically by double-clicking on one of its edges, clipboard data migrated to SQLite.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/14/this-week-in-plasma-better-fractional-scaling/
Microsoft "innovating":
Meanwhile, KDE Connect be like:
KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.12 is out! Check out what's coming in the new versions of Dolphin, Kdenlive, Kate, Okular, NeoChat, and much, much more.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0/
Help support KDE's work! You can still adopt an app at our fundraiser:
Join the KDE End of Year documentation porting sprint 📃! There are currently 58 open tasks up for grabs!
https://discuss.kde.org/t/end-of-year-documentation-sprint/26686
ISO Image Writer, Partition Manager, SkanPage and System Monitor added to the list of adoptable apps.
If using the command line to burn disk images makes you nervous, ISO Image Writer is your friend!
Likewise, creating and modifying partitions can be scary, so why not use KDE's friendly Partition Manager?
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
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In "This Week in KDE Apps": Optilmage's first release; Itinerary's re-design; how Karp, KDE's new PDF designer, has improved its performance; the upcoming KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.12 release; and more.
You too can contribute to keeping KDE's apps going by adopting at our fundraiser:
€30K reached🎉! Thank you generous donors!
We are now on our way towards our 1st reach goal. To celebrate, we have added 4 more apps to our list of adoptable apps.
Discover helps you install, remove and update your software; KolourPaint is an easy to use design program; with KRFB, you can share your desktop over a network; and #GCompris is the wildly popular educational suite with tons of fun activities for kids.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
This Week in Plasma brings disableable KWin rules, less confusing flatpak info in Discover, a more comprehensible icon for wireless headphones, and a flurry of other UI improvements and nice new features.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/30/this-week-in-plasma-disable-able-kwin-rules/
QtGreece 2024 is happening in Athens on December 5th. Join the #Qt community to learn, share ideas, and network.
More details & registration: https://qtgreece.extenly.com/
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Please note that release candidates, although often called "sneak peeks", are still work in progress and must be installed and used with extreme care. They will contain bugs, some of which may still be critical. Do not use this software in production environments. Use for testing only.
You can also help us reach our supporting membership goal! We only need 20 more sign-ups to reach our first goal:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
If you would prefer a one-off donation or more options, check out:
https://kde.org/community/donations/
... But many people are confirming that the current version is already very mature and quite stable. Ultimately it is your choice. Use at your own risk -- and report all those bugs to
The final release is only 10 weeks away!
Remember you can help support KDE by becoming a Supporting Member:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Or by donating to our community:
Neon Unstable Edition is already ready with the updates,
but other unstable repositories of other distros will soon be available too. Look out for openSUSE, Arch, Kubuntu, Fedora, and more.
WARNING: This is #betasoftware, lots of things are untested and can fail. We strongly recommend you do NOT use it in a production environments. The Beta release should only be used for testing and reporting bugs.
@closetfurry For Clip Studio Paint, Krita might be a very good alternative (and it also work on Windows)
For games, anti cheats are indeed still a huge pain :(
Want to join a KDE mentorship program? Develop new technologies, work in a team and kickstart your future career in IT 🚀!
Season of KDE and GSoC will be back early 2024. Watch this space!
Meanwhile, check out notes and ideas from 2023 for inspiration:
@talmage @kde@lemmy.kde.social
To clarify, these are not themes officially supported by KDE.
They are themes submitted by third party creators. We have tested them and seen they are fit to review and recommend (some aren't).
We would recommend contacting the author and give them your feedback.
Their details are available at:
@kde@lemmy.kde.social
Remember can help us bring you more and better Free Software by becoming a supporting member:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Or donating to KDE:
https://kde.org/community/donations/