Introducing KDE for Students

Make your #study sessions more productive, compose papers with ease, and ace your #finals with KDE. Our apps and Plasma desktop will give you all you need to succeed during your studies and in #academia... and will even run fine on your old laptop!

https://kde.org/for/students/

#students #school #university #college

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The story of how a KDE contributor became the unwitting live witness of the successes of researchers in the early days of the Large Hadron Collider:

https://social.piewpiew.se/@ohyran/111149517809662853

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#CERN #LHC #physics

Come and visit the KDE stand at the GNU/LinuxDay in Vorarlberg!

Check out all the updates coming to Plasma, try KDE-powered devices and talk to the devs working on the new versions of apps and the desktop.

https://www.linuxday.at/

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#event #LinuxDay

What has changed:
1: Added preview of folders and archives (zip, tar.gz, tar.xz, rar)
2: Now the documents (odt,xlsx,odp and others) are converted to pdf and then shown.
3: Added support for .odp,.ppt,.pptx,.tar.gz,.tar.xz,.zip, and .rar files
4: It is now possible to scroll through the video timeline with the arrow keys.
5: The keyboard shortcuts have been changed.

Many previously required dependencies are no longer needed.
To preview documents (optional) you need to install LibreOffice.

If you want to support me you can find the donations link on the github page: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view

download: https://www.pling.com/p/2083711/
github: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view

Check out our new "KDE for Gamers" guide.

Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!

https://kde.org/for/gamers/

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Become a Plasma 6 Supporter!

#Plasma6 is coming in February 2024. Support KDE with an official membership and your name will be recorded in the release of our brand new desktop environment.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

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Finally got around to looking at this, and… we've basically had this solved in Ubuntu Touch for 6 years already. Long press on space bar to switch to cursor mode, which turns the keyboard into a rudimentary touch pad for moving the cursor and selecting text. It's gained a few features over the years, and is part of maliit-keyboard under @kde Plasma Mobile now too.

https://mastodon.social/@scottjenson@social.coop/111108791774428342

Here's a couple shots of the keyboard in this mode under Plasma Mobile on a @PINE64 #PinePhone as well.

I was thinking, with the recent news of a contributor to GitLab adding support for forge federation, given some time we could see that being enabled in the KDE instance as well, I hope.
So that brings me to a question, if it will be used, will we be able to largely move to reporting and discussing issues on the specific project pages without signing up rather than going to the more generic Bugzilla?
I was really hoping for something like this to happen because I find Bugzilla to be very dispersive and it feels hard to find the issues that you want, unless you remember the syntax needed to filter the results correctly every single time, so much so that I never signed up on there (but maybe I'm just too lazy and I never took the time to actually understand it).
On the other hand I think most other issue trackers integrated in software forges are way more intuitive, as well as having better discoverability, since they're right there by the code base.

If, instead, you won't do it and prefer to keep Bugzilla as the main issue tracking platform, could you tell us why? Is it to keep the developer discussions separate from the user ones so as to keep your GitLab more focused? Or would there be other reasons?

Hi all,

I'm a longtime Windows user and I recently switched to Debian. I'm curious if there's a way to customize the keyboard shortcuts in KDE/Plasma to behave a bit more like they do in windows.

For example:

1. When using the Meta+[Number] to activate a task manager entry, is there a way to change the order that they are opened?
   In Windows, if I have 2 Firefox windows open, Meta+[Number] will always open the "first" Firefox window, unless I keep Meta pressed and press [Number] again.
   KDE, however, will always open the Firefox window that was last used.

2. Is there a shortcut to open a new instance of a window? For example, something like Meta+Shift+[Number] to open a new Firefox window.

I'm using KDE Plasma 5.27.5

Hello everyone. One question regarding plasma browser integration. While testing Floorp browser flatpak installed , the mentioned extension cannot connect to host. Is it a known issue of flatpaks ?

Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session. I’ve read a lot of nervousness and fear about it lately. So today, let’s talk about it!

original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/16knbm9/working_on_a_breeze_dark_theme_for_home_assistant/

I did not make this content.

Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/16krr1e/my_kde_most_beautiful_desktop_nordic/

Invariably, when I try to install themes, or anything from Plasma's menu's I get the following error, If I'm lucky, I get get a few pages in, other times it's right off the bat like this time. Is this due to an overwhelming of the servers or something else?

Developer Kai Uwe talks about a lot of "under-the-hood" stuff (so don't expect many pretty pictures) he's been working on in the last weeks.

Hello fellow kde users, I have a nuisance in dolphin that I do not understand and I’m trying to get rid of, maybe somebody can help

When I open dolphin (my home dir opens first) and click on a directory, e.g. /home/user/Desktop, dolphin freezes for a few seconds (like 10 or so). In this moment, I hear my NAS disks spinning up and the freezing ends when the NAS (samba) is reachable. But I did not access any smb share itself. I clicked on e.g. /home/user/Desktop. My smb shares are mounted via fstab to /home/user/Shares/mountpoint, which I am not actually accessing. Also, this does not happen when I just open dolphin and it shows /home/user/, the short freezing just starts when I click on any directory. This of course never happens when my NAS disks have already spun up and are runnning fine, or I suspect it just is not noticeable then, because it’s not waiting for I/O.

What I tried so far: removing all the kio smb:// shares in dolphin’s left side bar, removing all “places” in left side bar that are mountpoints or “near mountpoints”

Could this maybe have something to do with a trash bin that get’s refreshed? In dolphin’s trash settings I see two smb mountpoints /home/user/Shares/mountpoint having a trash bin.

I’m happy to provide logs and config files, if this helps in any way, just let me know which

Regards

I do quite like the look and use of Falkon and would gladly ditch Firefox for it.

But page load times seem pretty bad.

When I use the scrollbar to move a side up and down, it seems rather sluggish or even lagging.

And the Lemmy website interface does not seem to work at all in Falkon. It keeps loading for a very long time or forever, and once it loads the new content from a new page, it still displays the content from the previous page at the top. Falkon also makes these weird orange borders around the main area of any Lemmy page when I click anywhere inside it.

It feels like a broken mess, and since I don't think anyone would recommend a browser like that, I feel that there has to be something broken on my end.

I'm running Fedora 38 with KDE on my computer. If Falkon runs well on any computer, this one should be one of them. Any idea what the issue might be?

Another 6 weeks have passed since 5.27.7 has been released, so here's the newest update for Plasma 5.27

Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/qt6_wayland_robustness/

You will lose no data, the video you were watching will not skip a frame, and the contents of your clipboard will remain intact.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5C7uct72cxGnEQJn6LqdSn

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#Plasma6

In this blog post, David Edmundson describes how applications will handle a compositor crash in Wayland.

I'm trying to get the scaling right on my 4k monitors, but icons look wonky, and the whole thing doesn't look right. I used to just throw export PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING=1 in /etc/environment or ~/profile, log out and log back in, and I'm good, but now this doesn't do anything. I can't be on wayland 100% since not everything works still. Any idea why this is?