[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 5 months ago

There are abrasive people everywhere and everyone has an opinion. In a community without a top-down hierarchical structure, every Tom, Dick and Henrietta thinks they know what's best for the project and will tell you so. Don't take it personally, remember everybody wants what is best, and, if you believe in your proposal, persevere. There is someone who agrees with you.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 5 months ago

For what it's worth, there's the Upcycling Android project by the #FSFE.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 6 months ago

You are working with hypotheticals. We cannot judge what the reasoning is. We can only judge what it is. It may have been done with good intentions as you say. Given MS's track record, highly unlikely, but either way the fact is MS is telling its Windows users that anything that is not Edge and Bing is damaged or malicious. That is anticompetitive bullshit (intentional or not) and FUD.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 7 months ago

I’m looking for an up-to-date Plasma 6 tutorial for making plasmoids. Just a simple “Hello world” done correctly for Plasma 6.

Good point. Let's see if we can find someone to update that.

In the meantime, you may want to visit this page , as it contains dozens of link to resources, chatrooms, and mailing list that will put you in touch with the people that can help with your effort.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 7 months ago

Support of these kind of devices on Wayland is still a bit of hit and miss and WiP AFAIK. I have two devices: a cheapo Wacom Intuos something that didn't work at all a month ago, but now works out of the box, and an XP Pen tablet that is recognised, but I can't configure the drawing area.

I guess what I am saying is "patience". Things are improving every day, but not all devices are totally supported yet.

🤷

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 8 months ago

Ah Yes! Super-useful when combined with the KDE PIM calendar and a location, you get all your todos, events and a the weather forecast in one place. Still Plasma 5 only unfortunately.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 8 months ago

Like there is on Reddit. That's a good idea

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 8 months ago

You can also turn things on its head, like

"Krita supports a wide range of tablets and drawing devices out of the box, so you won't miss expensive closed proprietary alternatives like Photoshop one bit".

👆 improvised, but you get the idea. You get to reference something the user may know (and this helps you out giving them a clear idea of what you are talking about), and you cast "the alternative" (Photoshop) in a less positive light than the free/libre software at the same time.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 8 months ago

I think "free" is okay. If the software does come at no upfront cost, then fine, why not add that as an incentive to get people on board. They will figure out how to "pay back" sooner or later.

I can tell you a word I do avoid, and that is "alternative". It makes FLOSS items sound like cheap knockoffs, always playing catch-up with their supposed proprietary and closed equivalents, always seeking feature parity, but never really getting as good as the original. This is not the case. Most software projects, once they reach maturity, more often than not, evolve into their own thing.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That is my laptop. It is the Nextcloud integration app. The tick means everything is synchronized.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Many KDE recruits have gone on to become valued KDE developers. Aleix Pol, current president of KDE, for example. Aleix started out developing KALgebra, but then went on to do a GSoC in which he worked on Kdevelop. Never worked for Google.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 9 months ago

Why? Taskbars" (really "panels" - "taskbars" are something else) in Plasma can be moved, removed, doubled up, made longer, shorter, wider, thinner... You can configure them any which way you want, or not at all and do away with them altogether.

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