Happy Holidays everyone! And thanks for all the bugs🪲🪲🎄!

Seriously: Hurrah for team bug testers! The bug #reports you are sending in are great! #Tests are thorough and insightful, and your contributions will help make #Plasma6, when it arrives in February, so much better.

Thank you for your time, have a great holiday, and keep the #bugreports coming!

https://bugs.kde.org

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Plasma 6 Beta 2 released! We are nearly there, but more testing needed.

Just in time for the Winter Holidays 🎄, Happy New Beta 🎉!

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta2/

After this second Beta, there will be two Release Candidates, one on the 10th and the other on the 31st of January. All these releases are **not** final, they are for testing and should not be used in production...

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#Plasma6

Fedora on Apple Silicon, with Plasma and Wayland?

That's an impressive feat! Congrats to all the team!!! 🎉 😍

https://social.treehouse.systems/@AsahiLinux/111607682159825520

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Mark your calendars! conf.kde.in 2024 coorganized with CoFSUG is happening from 2-4 February at COEP Technological University, Pune.

The Call for Proposals is now open! Submit your ideas for talks and workshops.

https://kde.org/announcements/conf-kde-in-2024/

#confkdein2024 #CfP #India #conference

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6.

It's not only Plasma on the desktop that is getting a new version, as Devin Lin explains in his blog post,

https://espi.dev/posts/2023/12/plasma-mobile-towards-6/

developers are working hard on getting #PlasmaMobile 6 ready for the #megarelease scheduled for February.

#Plasma6

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Calling all KDE users and new contributors: Season of KDE has started!

Work on kool KDE projects, contribute to Free Software, learn new technologies, become part of a team.

Participating is easy: Check out the #SOK24 ideas page

https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2024

Pick a project, and send a proposal. You have until Monday 8 January 2024!

For more details and links you need, please read this very carefully:

https://discuss.kde.org/t/call-for-proposals-want-to-start-contributing-to-kde-its-time-to-submit-proposals-for-our-mentorship-program-sok24-deadline-8-jan

#SOK #SOK2024 #mentorship #freesoftware #opensource

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Pay your own tribute to a desktop that once ruled the 90s Unix world with Commonality, the fourth and final (for now) entry in Off-Theme:

https://quickfix.es/2023/12/off-theme-presents-commonality/

#Plasma #theming #desktop #Linux

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

digiKam, KDE's powerful photo management application, releases version 8.2.0.

This version brings better support for more languages (up to 61 in the works), and an improved version on Windows.

Look forward to automatic tagging based on content analysis and deep-learning. This feature is currently in pre-production.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-12-03-8.2.0_release_announcement/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#photo #management

One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer?

#Plasma6 #wallpaper #desktop

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

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Want to contribute to KDE? Become a Supporting Member:

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

Or donate to our community:

https://kde.org/community/donations/

With only 91 days left before launch, today we are releasing the 1st Beta of Plasma 6.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/

This is the time when we call on all testers to download and install it, and stress-test all its features.

#Plasma6 #testing #beta

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Give your desktop a strikingly lustrous look with Shades of Purple, the third theme in the Off-Theme series.

https://quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-presents-shades-of-purple/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#theming #plasma

"Giving Tuesday" you say? How about this: KPhotoAlbum, KDE's fast and efficient image organizing and indexing app, releases its 20th anniversary edition 🎂

If in all that time you a haven't used KPhotoAlbum to classify and cut down searching times, you have been seriously missing out.

Give it a go!:

https://www.kphotoalbum.org//2023/11/27/anniversary-release-kphotoalbum-5.12.0/

Want to give back to KDE? Become a Supporter already:

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

Or donate to KDE:

https://kde.org/community/donations/

#GivingTuesday #photos

@kde@lemmy.kde.social