When and how will I be able to show calendar events available through the KDE PIM suite in this desktop widget? They already are in the pop-up calendar display when clicking on at the panel clock:

Thanks to all our generous contributors. You are truly the lifeblood of our community!

But you can still adopt some apps! We have added 5 more:

http://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-an-app

• Plasma System Monitor allows you to monitor the vitals of your system. You can configure more widgets within the app to tailor the monitoring to your needs.
• With Gwenview you can view your images and annotate and edit them.
• Discover lets you easily update and install programs
• With Haruna you can view videos, films and shows. Especially good for binging series thanks to its automatic playlist feature!
• Get from point A to point B thanks to Itinerary, a complete travel-planning app

Here are some fresh new updates about @kde@floss.social Apps from the last two weeks, with some Trust and Safety improvements in NeoChat, performance improvements in Krita and much more!

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/02/last-two-weeks-in-kde-apps/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#kde #twika #linuxApps

I've been using Plasma for about 2 years now and one thing I've never really done is theme it. I use openSUSE and I just use the included dark theme and I don't find it that good. It doesn't look very professional and I sometimes find I can't see buttons because they're too similar in shade to the surrounding area. I've looked through the themes and I don't know if it's an openSUSE or KDE thing but there don't seem to be that many and some seem to give me problems when updating.

Can anyone share some success stories or inspiration? Where do I get decent themes from and which are the good ones? I know I won't be popular for saying this but I think Windows 11 is the best looking OS available right now and I'd like something that feels modern and sleek like that. Are there some tools I need to run fancier themes or make everything look better?

Hello again, this new version 4.0 has taken quite a bit of work since KWin doesn't make it easy for me

Features

• Your windows now extend across empty spaces (This has been like a pain in the ass)

• Windows open on the desktop and screen where you have focus

• Fluid tile has been rewritten with EMACScript modules, improving code efficiency and maintainability More information

Update your script and let me know your feedback

Thank you and have a nice day!!

10 KDE dragons turned up on our doorstep today looking for families to adopt them. Contribute €100 or more to our fundraiser and one of these amigurumi cuties will go and live with you!

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-a-kde-dragon

All Konqis are hand-reared with care and love by a kind lady from Barcelona and are all different and unique.

... Or a KDE Kaiju will adopt you🦖!

These three amigurumi monsters are also looking for families! Donate €200 and choose between the ferocious Konqisaurus Rex, Kinq Konq or Konqzilla:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#-or-adopt-a-kde-kaiju

After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive.

Read the FAQ in the link to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE.

Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included.

As the "Days of Much Spending" near, many of the Plasma-powered hardware vendors have updated their models and have juicy offers for those of you in the market for new hardware.

With that in mind we have updated our hardware page with the latest models and links to the stores where you can find the best deals.

https://kde.org/hardware/

@kubuntufocus@mastodon.social has discounts of up to $150 on their devices.

And @slimbook@linuxrocks.online has recently released their KDE Slimbook VII and offer equally attractive discounts:

https://slimbook.com/en/blog/news-1/post/black-friday-deals-at-slimbook-490

Slimbook is also running the #KDEslimbook campaign where you post a photo of your current Slimbook device,and you can win a fun pack of merch:

https://linuxrocks.online/@slimbook/115582711535975285

The campaign ends December 2, so hurry!

@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…