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submitted 1 year ago by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

The alpha versions of Plasma 6, Gear 24.02 and Frameworks 6 are now available.

Note that "Alpha" means NOT ready for production! Use for testing and reporting bugs only. End users: keep clear.

This is a testing version of KDE's 6th Megarelease. The final version is scheduled to be available in February.

Read the full announcement to get more details on how to get this software onto your test machine and contribute feedback to the devs.

https://kde.org/announcements/kdes-6th-megarelease-alpha

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[-] leekleak@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Woah, love the animation!

[-] kde@floss.social 6 points 1 year ago

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Remember: you too can contribute to KDE by becoming a Supporting Member:

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

[-] Bro666@social.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social

For those curious, the "Building #Plasma6 " animation was made using @kdenlive and then @krita's cel-animation feature.

The whole thing was then finally put together again in Kdenlive.

Yes, we eat our own dog food at #KDE.

After a couple of false starts, the Krita animation tool proved surprisingly easy to use.

Here is the whole thing, but smooth:

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 1 year ago

Sorry: videos don't carry over from Mastodon in the comments. Here it is.

[-] gcala@fosstodon.org 4 points 1 year ago
[-] SigHunter@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I hope this finds it's way to gentoo repository (as masked package or something), I'm very excited for plasma 6

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