This Week in Plasma: crisper screenshots, better context menus, improved mnemonics, right-handed panels, and more.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/01/this-week-in-plasma-feels-like-a-good-one/
We're ready! Come and visit our booth at #FOSDEM2025!
We're in building AW, level 1, showing off the newest version of Plasma, devices, applications and more.
Come and visit our booth tomorrow and Sunday at @fosdem !
We'll be in building AW, level 1, with other community booths, showing off the newest version of #Plasma6, devices, applications and more.
https://fosdem.org/2025/stands/
Decorate your computer with kool stickers, chat with KDE contributors, test new stuff and join our community!
#FOSDEM #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop #app #Kdenlive #Krita
Lydia Pintscher, Vice President of KDE e.V., receives the European Open Source Award for Advocacy and Awareness 🏆!
Congrats @nightrose !
This Week in KDE Apps brings the news that Akonadi gets a bunch of fixes and optimizations, the Barcode Scanner gets a new WiFi QR scanning mode, Tokodon gets a battery of new filtering options, and much more beside, covering Okular, Kaidan, Elisa, Itinerary, Amarok, Calculator, and Bluejay.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/27/this-week-in-kde-apps/
Season of KDE is back with 14 new projects.
15 mentees will work with 11 mentors to add features, develop new educational games, create documentation, improve the power consumption of KDE apps and assist Windows users to migrate to Linux.
Check out all the projects:
https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-01-19-sok-25-welcome/
"This week in KDE apps" brings improvements in usability, accessibility and customization to @arianna, Dolphin and Itinerary, and supercharges to @tokodon ready for the #january20 mass migration.
This week in Plasma: Getting #Plasma6.3 into shape, more KRunner searches, better scaling and a whole lot more:
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/18/this-week-in-plasma-getting-plasma-6.3-in-great-shape/
"KDE For Digital Sovereignty" explains how KDE software returns control to institutions, companies and users, and gives you the tools to become the owner of your digital life.
https://kde.org/for/digital-sovereignty/
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SkanPage will help you connect to your scanner and you'll be scanning all your important documents quickly and easily in no time.
And to keep an eye on what's going on on your machine, don't miss Plasma's System Monitor. Personalize pages with sensors and keep an eye on what's important to you.
Many app projects do not have the infrastructure to accept donations (but som do: check the individual pages of each app or donate through GitHub).
You donate to KDE, and that reverts to the project maintainers, developers and other contributors.
@rochacbruno @kde@lemmy.kde.social It's the same. Money goes either way to us with more or less the same cut by the payment provider, so it depends on which payment method you prefer.
Today's specials: meat, chicken, vegan (spinach, tomatoes and chickpeas) with extra Ketchup open sauce!
Mmmmh! Para lamerse los dedos!
@cyberlyra @socallinuxexpo @kde@lemmy.kde.social @linmob
We have project called @plasmamobile
Pair that with, say, @postmarketOS
And you have got yourself a free and open source privacy-respecting stack for your mobile device.
Disclaimer: does not work on all hardware! Hardware is usually closed and proprietary. check the list:
Plasma 6 tars were made available to packagers yesterday. So, yes, distro packagers and OEM installers already have the software and are installing it now ready for next Wednesday's official release.
Nate Graham writes the "This week in KDE" weekly blog posts, squishes bugs, makes loud noises when things are broken, and sits on the KDE e.V. Board of Directors.
David Redondo is a Plasma all-rounder currently mainly working on Wayland things and Plasma plumbing.
Remember: you too can contribute to KDE by becoming a Supporting Member:
@nesc @vamp898
KDE devs are working on this. It has become a priority of the "We care about your Input" goal.
https://phabricator.kde.org/T17433
We are currently working on implementing a new virtual keyboard called QVK that will built into Plasma:
https://invent.kde.org/plasma/qvk