The new episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" is out covering among other things a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompris, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's just released version 8.6.0.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/
digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.
You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.
We also fixed 140 bugs!
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0_release_announcement/
Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5!
The games console has a slow update cycle to guarantee stability for users, but #Valve announced yesterday that both the #Arch base system and the #Plasma desktop environment are being updated to new preview releases.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/529841158837240756
This Week in Plasma brings file transfer progress graphs, per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, improved KRunner search result ordering, and much more to your favourite desktop.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/15/this-week-in-plasma-file-transfer-progress-graphs/
Today KDE is at #FOSSASIA in Bangkok!
Come visit our booth at the True Digital Park West, 111 Sukhumvit Rd, Bang Chak, Phra Khanong, #Bangkok 10260; chat with KDE contributors, try out bleeding edge software and grab some stickers to deck out your computer!
https://www.eventyay.com/e/4c0e0c27
This Week in KDE Apps brings LSP Support in KDevelop, systemDGenie rewrite and big UI changes in Dolphin.
You can also look forward to changes in KStars, #Krita, #Kdenlive, KOrganizer, Merkuro, Kleopatra, Itinerary, Neochat, Kate, KDevelop, Okular, Kastsm Gwenview, and more.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/09/this-week-in-kde-apps/
You're still in time to visit KDE's booth at #SCaLE22x!
Come see us at the #Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA, and don't miss the chance to try out the newest KDE software, grab some merch and chat with community members and contributors.
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x
Last day today!
This week #Plasma has received quite a lot of fixes,
like you can now remove the titlebar and frame from a window directly from the Task Manager, the digital clock gets a nicer-looking font picker dialog, and we have simplified the info shown on Display Configuration, among many other improvements and changes.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/08/this-week-in-plasma-a-very-fixy-week/
We are at #SCaLE22x!
In the Pasadena area? Come visit our booth, try out KDE's newest software, talk to contributors, and grab some stickers!
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x
Our friends from @kubuntufocus will also be running KDE demos on some fancy high-end hardware. Don't miss it!
KDE will be again participating in Google Summer of Code π!
Find out how you can contribute to KDE, learn valuable skills using bleeding edge Free Software technologies and get compensated.
There are already loads of proposals on the GSoC ideas page
https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2025/Ideas
Which one are you going to do?
We also want to thank everyone who donated through the pop-up. We're very grateful for your support!
Many people said they wished they could donate more. Please don't think you didn't make a difference! Every euro will help!
@constancies @kde@lemmy.kde.social @vanillaos
Interesting you should bring that up. Watch this space...
That is regular themes.
_Global_ themes also modify the desktop's behavior and hence contain code to do that.
Note that the CACD is also a non-profit that relies on donations to run these programs. Please consider supporting them at:
To make more things like this happen, to help those that the IT industry left behind or consider mere fodder for the data-grinding machine, to return control over technology to the common people, and protect the environment, we need your help.
Become a supporter. Help us reach the landmark number of 1000 supporters before the launch of #Plasma6.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
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We will keep the campaign open so, even if you can't donate by the deadline, you can still get a chance to be mentioned in our acknowledgements later on in the Plasma 6 series.
You make it possible for us to do more and better things for our community and users.
Remember can help us bring you more and better Free Software by becoming a supporting member:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Or donating to KDE:
You can also help us reach our supporting membership goal! We only need 20 more sign-ups to reach our first goal:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
If you would prefer a one-off donation or more options, check out:
https://kde.org/community/donations/
Remember you can help support KDE by becoming a Supporting Member:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Or by donating to our community:
Neon Unstable Edition is already ready with the updates,
but other unstable repositories of other distros will soon be available too. Look out for openSUSE, Arch, Kubuntu, Fedora, and more.
And let's not forget everyone who contributed by using, testing, or blogging about our projects! Whether it was with code, art, bug reports, social media posts, or anything else, by desinterestedly lending your time and skill, regardless of if it was on a regular basis (shout out to all our hardworking devs!) or with a one-time, flyby commit that sniped a bug out of your favorite app, you too helped make KDE better for everybody this year.
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved
Have a great holiday π!
@kde@lemmy.kde.social