KDE is turning 28 soon! 🎉 Want to join the global celebration? Host a meetup in your city and connect with the community.
Find out how: https://community.kde.org/28th_birthday.
Let’s celebrate together!
KDE is in Dornbirn today! Meet up with us at our booth at the 2024 edition of Linux Day - Austria 🇦🇹!
We have archived the Dot -- because we have something better now
The Dot has served the KDE Community well as a the source of news for all our projects and contributors.
But, as KDE has grown, the amount of news has grown with us, to the point it has become impractical to filter it all through one source.
Check out our solution:
https://dot.kde.org/2024/09/25/dot-closed-long-live-kde-planet
Curious to know what is happening with current KDE Goals? From workboards to chatrooms, get all the updates and join the discussion! Explore how we're shaping the future at https://kde.org/goals/
Keep up with the exciting news coming out of the KDE apps projects with "This Week in KDE Apps"!
In this issue: NeoChat emojis, Itinerary seats, Gwenview speedups and Android support tweaks, among other things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/16/this-week-in-kde-apps/
Note that this week it is on Monday, but we will be posting about all KDE app news on Sunday from now on.
@constancies @kde@lemmy.kde.social @vanillaos
Interesting you should bring that up. Watch this space...
Plasma 6.2 Beta has been released... Beta testers assemble 🦸♀️!
Please grab it, test it, submit bug reports. Final release will be on the 8th of October.
KDE's Annual report for the year 2023 is out.
Everything you wanted to know about the things we did last year is in this report: the funds we raised, how we spent them, the sprints and events we attended, the projects we took on, the milestones we hit, and much, much more.
The Personal Information Management team release their July and August report
In this report find out how the Itinerary travel assistant will not only help you find your train, but also your seat; what's being done to make KMail's code leaner and cleaner; why changes are being made to the way the project's progress is tracked (plus how you can contribute); and more.
https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-09-01-july-august-2024/
It's an oldish HP Spectre with a foldable touchscreen from 2018.
Actually works very well.
KDE is at the 21st edition of LUDOVIA in Ax-Les-Thermes, Ariège Pyrenees, France. Visit our booth from August 26-28 to explore KDE's digital technology for your classroom.
You can register on-site. See you there!
Check out the #pilet, SoulsCircuit's very cool retro-futuristic handheld tablet/console.
Designed with Free Software, the pilet runs #Plasma and a full range of KDE software.
More at
https://soulscircuit.com/pilet
Follow SoulCircuit and the progress of the piet here:
That would be one of KDE Connects' main functions, yes. It makes sharing any kind of file (photos, videos, whatever) easy.
You can also share the content of your clipboard from your desktop to your phone and vice versa. So you would copy, say, a web address on your desktop, and you would be able to paste it into your web browser on your phone immediately.
Note that due to unforeseen circumstances, we have been unable to ship the new wallpaper, "Reef", with this version of Plasma. However, a new wallpaper will be coming soon in the next 6.2 version of Plasma.
If you can't wait, you can download "Reef" from here:
Apple had to learn the hard way: Under the DMA (thanks @EUCommission !) they were forced to give users a choice regarding the default search engine and browser on their systems.
What are we going to do about Microsoft misleading users?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689
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.
"KDE" is a community of volunteers that makes and distributes Free Software.
"KDE Software" is all the apps, frameworks and libraries the KDE community produces. The KDE Software includes something called "Plasma".
Plasma is a desktop environment for UNIX-like operating systems (e.g. Linux and BSDs) developed by the KDE community.
Hope that helps.
@that_leaflet There is a RSS feed for this blog specifically https://blogs.kde.org/categories/this-week-in-kde-apps/index.xml