@opensuse There are some problems in @kde@lemmy.kde.social / @kde@floss.social land.

PackageKit stops working intermittedly and there seems to be no resiliency built-in. This leaves KDE to slowly spiral into self-harm, doom and gloom until such a time (sometimes days later) it blows up and throws you out.

I've had my workstation log me out on three occasions already. Not ok. Especially not ok if new users are getting this experience, but even old dogs like myself feel intimidated.

This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text!

(and yes, this is Spectacle recording itself performing OCR)

Right now the functionality is limited to Spectacle, but the code is in the process of being moved to a library so more apps can benefit, too. Thanks a lot to Jhair Paris, who implemented this feature that will appear in Plasma 6.6!

In addition, many UI improvements landed, as well as some high-priority bug fixes and performance improvements. A good week, I’d say! Have a look

A month after the previous 6.19 release, KDE announced the launch of Frameworks 6.20, expanding its collection of add-on libraries to Qt and enhancing functionality available to developers across various platforms.

Several foundational components receive significant updates in this release. Baloo, KDE’s file indexing subsystem, improves reliability during session management, updates its test infrastructure, and now avoids indexing excessively large mbox files. It also ensures configuration changes in balooctl are written before indexing is toggled, addressing long-standing user-reported issues.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz/post/58790510

I recorded a video and went through the bugs / quirks that make the KDE launcher menu feel so awful.

• Better Waydroid integration (Waydroid is the virtual environment that let's you install and run Android apps)
• A faster and more convenient lock screen
• Halcyon and Folio, the two different interfaces you can choose from, improve blurs, navigation, and settings

And much, much more.

Krita looks so bad on my PC due to me wanting to use a custom colour scheme. I prefer my Qt apps to match, so it's pissing me off that a KDE app uses its own fuckery. (I'm using the flatpak, but my other flatpaked Qt apps are matching, such as Prism Launcher on the bottom of my screeenshot). I've got dark elements on dark elements, and ugh it's so bad...

Loo forward to quality of life improvements in Kate, basic HDR support in Krita on Wayland, touch improvements in Photos, and much more.

This week something that I know a lot of people have been wanting for a long time was implemented: the ability to limit virtual desktops to only the primary screen! Thanks very much to Kristen McWilliam for this long-awaited feature, which arrives in Plasma 6.6.

But wait, there’s more…

This update fixes blurs and screencasts, solves a crash on #FreeBSD, improves usability and accessibility, and more.

Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more.

Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more.

Pick an app, donate €50 or more, and tell us about your choice in the comments:

You will appear as a supporter on the app's apps.kde.org page.

The first 5 apps up for adoption are:

• Tokodon:* KDE's native Fediverse client that works on your desktop and phone
• Knavalbattle: the classic game of battleship you can play against the computer or over the network
• digiKam: a powerful image/photo management software, ideal for people with massive collections
• NeoChat: talk over the free and federated Matrix chat platform with this app that works on your desktop and phone
• Kolf: another KDE classic—play minigolf on your desktop

Is there a way to automatically switch on dark mode like you can turn on night light? Or is it necessary to open the system settings app every time and switch it by hand? I searched around in the system settings but did not find anything about that? Is this a planned feature for a future release or is there a plugin?

Checkout KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest 👻 phase yet, and help us ward of tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

#fundraising #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #donations

Hey there,

I think its not the first time you read about this.

I recently installed a Linux on my gaming pc and I want to fade out of Windows11 and into Linux only. So far so good.

One of my biggest concerns where the colours of my monitors. Since Adrenaline is not available on Linux, I hoped for another solution to get the colours bright and bangy. But it seems impossible with wayland.
And noo, its not a setting that my monitor can provide. It never was and it never will (I write it down since in every thread about this topic, someone was mentioning it sounds like something the monitor setting should handle).

• For X11 there was vibrantLinux.
• A maybe instable solution could be vibrant-cli.
• For games there is Gamescope thanks to Valve. But this only works for Games started from within Steam.

So this means, my Desktop/Browser still is not as bangy as I want it to be.

My search lead me to KWin scripting could be the solution. This is where I need some advice or somebody to confirm!

If I want to increase the overall colour saturation for my monitors, the correct way to go is to create a KWin script that does it, pack it as a package and use it.

I found the KWin Scripting tutorial over at develop.kde.org and I feel like solving this problem could be interesting.

Since I have no experience with JS, ECMA-Scripting or QMA, all this will be new and I want to know beforehand if I walk the right path. If not, a lot of time will be consumed just to realise I was wrong.

Thanks for reading :)

PS: I like KDE very much

PPS: Just if you never heard of Adrenaline: I have Radeon gpu

Thanks to your generous support, we have reached our initial goal, and then surpassed it in a little over two weeks! We have set our next stretch goal and are now looking to raise €75,000 for the KDE Community.

Merci @kde@floss.social pour cette jolie fonctionnalité d'adaptation du thème en fonction de l'heure de la journée

Thanks @kde@lemmy.kde.social for the nice plasma theme changing functionnality

#kde #floss #plasma6 #plasma65