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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Kdenlive's spectacular background removal tool, guides on how to make your own ticket extractors for Itinerary (learn how to add your local transport
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Kdenlive's spectacular background removal tool, guides on how to make your own ticket extractors for Itinerary (learn how to add your local transport service!), usability tweaks to Dolphin's interface and much more.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/05/this-week-in-kde-apps/
"This Week in Plasma" brings drag'n'drop now made easy, zoom with a gesture, higher quality for the RDP server, per CPU and task monitoring, and many more tasty goodies.
"This Week in Plasma" brings drag'n'drop now made easy, zoom with a gesture, higher quality for the RDP server, per CPU and task monitoring, and many more tasty goodies.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/03/this-week-in-plasma-move-by-default-when-dragging-and-dropping/
This week in KDE Apps comes with the news of improvements to @Krita's text rendering feature and the progress made to its migration to Qt6 and Wayland support; that KDE's travel assistants share more
This week in KDE Apps comes with the news of improvements to @Krita's text rendering feature and the progress made to its migration to Qt6 and Wayland support; that KDE's travel assistants share more features and add support for many more transport and entertainment services; and how our suite of convergent applications receive many exciting updates, among many other things.
KDE Gear ⚙️ 25.04 is out with new exciting features and improvements landing in Dolphin, Kdenlive, Okular, Itinerary, KDE Connect, Tokodon and many, many more.
KDE Gear ⚙️ 25.04 is out with new exciting features and improvements landing in Dolphin, Kdenlive, Okular, Itinerary, KDE Connect, Tokodon and many, many more.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0/
Today, tomorrow, and Sunday you can come and visit the KDE Community at our event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India:
Today, tomorrow, and Sunday you can come and visit the KDE Community at our event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India:
Meet contributors, learn about our bleeding edge technologies, and try out exciting and fun applications.
KDE adds The Open Source Promotion Program to its list of mentorship programs.
KDE adds The Open Source Promotion Program to its list of mentorship programs.
Want to learn how to contribute to an Open Source project? Check out our blog post and start writing your project submission now!
https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-03-29-ospp/
#KStars debuts a new documentation site!
KStars debuts a new documentation site!
A comprehensive resource that helps you to get to know and make the most of KDE's fantastic night sky observatory and astrophotography utility.
At the moment, only English is available. More languages coming soon.
astronomy #astrophotography #nightSky #education #photography
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation bar; new features land in you chat app of choice;
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation bar; new features land in you chat app of choice; and more languages get added to KDE's educational activities.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/24/this-week-in-kde-apps/
This Week in Plasma brings launch menu customizations, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator.
This Week in Plasma brings launch menu customizations, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator.
We have simplified KMenuEdit allowing you to customize your launch menu with ease, improved the quality of full-screen recordings with Spectacle, set the "Dim Screen for Administrator Mode" to be switched on by default, and enhanced the accessibility and keyboard navigation of Plasma's Calculator.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/22/this-week-in-plasma-6.4-improvements/
The schedule for conf.kde.in is out!
The schedule for conf.kde.in is out!
Explore the KDE community—who they are, what they do, and why it matters, learn about Digital Independence: Your Roadmap to Seamless Self-Hosting, Embracing FOSS in EdTech, and much more.
Check the program here: https://conf.kde.org/event/8/timetable
Don't forget to register: https://conf.kde.org/event/8/registrations/28/
Stay tuned for more updates on what is happening on Day 3.
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
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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!
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,
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/
"Finally #Linux🐧on the official work laptop 💻. I am one of the first in the state administration of #SchleswigHolstein to be allowed to try out the "+1 Linux workstation". 😀"
"Finally #Linux🐧on the official work laptop 💻. I am one of the first in the state administration of #SchleswigHolstein to be allowed to try out the "+1 Linux workstation". 😀"
We are at #SCaLE22x!
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 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:
@Rhababerbarbar @[email protected]
That is the proposal page. Of all proposals, and there are always quite few, the community votes and selects three to work on for two years. This one was not selected.
@Rhababerbarbar @[email protected]
"Sandbox all the things" is not currently a KDE goal.
Spectacle release cycle has moved to that of Plasma and will be installed with Plasma, as a part of Plasma.
It used to be am independent app and on many distros you would install it separately (like on Arch) and its release cycle was that of KDE Gear.
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/GetInvolved
Have a great holiday 🎄!
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!
You donate €50 or more and you can choose an app you would like to express your support for from the list. Your name then appears on the app's apps.kde.org page as a supporter until the next relase of KDE Gear (25.04).
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KBreakOut is the classic brick-busting arcade game.
KTuberling is for the younger users, and lets them build up a potato head, robot, pizza, and more -- with added voices!
Have a fun!
Use KDE Connect:
On your phone, go into wher you keep your files (say, your photo gallery). Select the ones you want to transfer (1). Tap the share button (2), and the devices paired with your phone will show up (3). Tap the computer you want to send your files to and they will show up in the "Downloads" directory of that machine a few seconds later (depending on their size, of course).
It works both ways, also from laptop to phone, and even between phones and computers.
Long press the spacebar on the keyboard on your phone and chose the KDE Connect keyboard (see first picture).
Then click on the KDE Connect plasmoid on your desktop, click in the text box (see second picture) and start typing.
You can also use your phone and KDE Connect as a mouse and keyboard for your desktop.
Some more KDE Connect goodness: during your presentations, use KDE Connect to move through your slides.
Or put your finger on the "Pointer", point your phone at the screen and a flaming circular pointer will appear. Higlight what you need by moving your phone.
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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.
We'll ask the maintainer. Hold tight.
There are still many apps to be adopted: LabPlot, a very powerful data analysis and visualization suite has all its slots open; as does AudioTube, a useful app that lets you easily find and play music from YouTube.
Check out the full list at
Kontact is a complete suite for emails, calendars, contacts, and task. It has been adopted by Matthew Lamont and F.