In "This Week in KDE Apps"...

* Itinerary keeps your travel data safe (and lets you import and export it)
* Gardening app PowerPlant gets new looks
* Kaidan, the XMPP chat app, releases version 0.10.0 and 0.10.1

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/15/this-week-in-kde-apps-gear-24.12.0-is-out/

Remember to support your favorite apps donating to our fundraiser!:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

#apps #freesoftware #opensource

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After a system start today, I was suddenly prompted with KDE Wallet requiring a password. I have not needed this before, and I could not seem to enter a password it would accept ("Error code -9: Read error - possibly incorrect password."). I can't remember setting this up, but it might have been something I did when I first set up my system. However, I would either have remembered it or stored the password in my main password manager, and there is no trace of it there.

To fix this, I created a new wallet and set that to be the default. Now, it works, and it is generally fine as it was not used for much, but I have one big issue: Signal used kwallet as its credentials manager, and now I can't open the Signal database.

Before I accept my losses and recreate the database from scratch, I wanted to know if anyone have experienced anything similar, and if there are some tips to restoring the original keychain? As I said, I don't know the password, so my guess is that I'm outta luck...

Adoptable apps: Games edition 🎲

KDE makes a long list of games, and we will be adding some to the list of adoptable apps over the next few days.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/#adopt

Here are the first four:

* KNights is for playing chess. You can pick the chess engine, play over the Internet, monitor your progress and more.

* KNetWalk is a puzzle game where you have to connect all the computers to the Internet.

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#fundraiser #donations #games

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This Week in Plasma: Better fractional scaling, improved screen color accuracy, maximize a window horizontally or vertically by double-clicking on one of its edges, clipboard data migrated to SQLite.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/14/this-week-in-plasma-better-fractional-scaling/

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Microsoft "innovating":

https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2024/12/11/sharing-files-between-your-iphone-and-windows-pc-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/

Meanwhile, KDE Connect be like:

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#Microsoft #windows

So, I just had to reinstall my system and I'm now going through setting things up and SDDM was too tiny since I have two monitors that are 4k. So I set a hidpi.conf file in /etc/sddm.conf.d and put this in it

[General]

GreeterEnvironment=QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=1.5,QT_FONT_DPI=192

[Wayland]

EnableHiDPI=true

[X11]

EnableHiDPI=true

But now only the primary monitor is set to 1.5 scaling, and the other one is still set to 2. I also applied the sddm settings from the settings app and still the same results. Anyone knows how to make them both same scaling?

Thank you

Lot's of progress in the audio waveform generation rewrite. Not only there is a HUGE performance boost generating the waveforms but also they are now more precise and in higher resolution.

In the images you can see the before and after. (See Audacity waveform for reference)

#kdenlive #floss #videoediting

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wget -qO - http://archive.neon.kde.org/public.key | sudo apt-key add -

then

sudo add-apt-repository 'deb http://archive.neon.kde.org/user noble main'

then

sudo apt install neon-desktop

KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.12 is out! Check out what's coming in the new versions of Dolphin, Kdenlive, Kate, Okular, NeoChat, and much, much more.

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0/

Help support KDE's work! You can still adopt an app at our fundraiser:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/#adopt

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#apps #FreeSoftware #donate

Join the KDE End of Year documentation porting sprint 📃! There are currently 58 open tasks up for grabs!

https://discuss.kde.org/t/end-of-year-documentation-sprint/26686

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Progress of the OTIO C++ export is coming along nicely. A single #Kdenlive timeline with multiple tracks and clips exported as .otio can now be opened in Resolve.

@kde

#videoediting #resolve #otio #opentimeline

This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incoming

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/08/this-week-in-kde-apps-gear-24.12.0-incoming/

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#KDE #KDEApps #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

This Week in Plasma: Oodles of features!

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/12/07/this-week-in-plasma-oodles-of-features/

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#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

KDE has a massive collection of app, and I combed through them to find some of the lesser-known hidden gems that people may not be aware of. Here is a list of my favorites.

• Kirogi: A ground control software. It only supports a few drones right now, but should get MAVLink support in the future.
• KStars: An astronomy software that lets you view the positions of planets and stars, as well as a whole lot of other features related to astronomy.
• Licentia: A license comparison app. It lets you view and compare free software licenses. It has the full license text as well as a simplified list of features of it.
• KDE Itinerary: An app for travel planning. Well designed, with detailed station views courtesy of Openstreetmap.
• KTrip: Similar to Itinerary, a public transport navigation app
• Alpaka: An Ollama client for running LLMs

When my PC wake up from sleep, all the windows are in the main display (I have 2) and in the top half. Is there a way to save the windows position every x minutes so that when it wakes up I can restore it?

"HOWTO help a KDE Goal" part 1: "We care about your Input"

"We care about your Input" plans to increase the number of supported input devices for Plasma and KDE apps. The aim is to offer the possibility to use assistive devices, gaming controllers of all kinds, and devices for specialised tasks.

You can help by funding developers with their research,

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

and by joining the team, giving feedback, and assisting with the development.

https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/#kde-input:kde.org

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I have a company vpn with globalprotect that needs to autenticate via web interface (saml) All fin when using GNOME and network manager global protect plugin. When on kde no embedded web view pops up in network manager, it takes some time and then fails with an xml error.

Ubuntu 24.04

I want to add a shortcut to create new tab in Konsole, but I want it to be local and not global (CTRL+T is already used by another application). I've searched and it seems that I need to go to Settings → Configure Keyboard Shortcuts, but I don't have the settings anywhere. I read that I should have a menu bar, but...I don't. What's going on with my Konsole??? Thanks!

ISO Image Writer, Partition Manager, SkanPage and System Monitor added to the list of adoptable apps.

If using the command line to burn disk images makes you nervous, ISO Image Writer is your friend!

Likewise, creating and modifying partitions can be scary, so why not use KDE's friendly Partition Manager?

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

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@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#SupportGoodPeople #fundraiser #donations

I have come across this interesting system settings module on Pling store. Is there a way to install it from within system settings like we can a theme, icons, widgets etc.? Or is it necessary to configure the package manager as suggested on the site?

https://www.pling.com/p/2229130

I have downloaded the tar.gz file hoping for a direct way to install it.

I have deleted my Breeze theme for SDDM (don't ask me how and why. lol) and I can't find it anywhere. I have tried sudo pacman -S plasma-workspace, but it is not getting installed. Any other way to install it?
Thank you in advance

Hi everybody!
I've just installed Kubuntu and I'm using Linux gui for the first time.
I have 2 4K screens, one horizontal and one vertical. With Windows I divide the horizontal one in 4 equal parts and the vertical in 3 parts so that all are almost 16:9 and each have it's own taskbar that's so useful to me because I know what I've opened in every virtual screen and if in virtual screen there is Outlook, but I need to take in foreground Chrome that I know it's there (but it's also in other screens), I can click on Chrome on the virtual screen 1 taskbar. If there are no multiple taskbar, I would have to click on Chrome on the main taskbar and select which window I need (which can be problematic because not always it's possible to see what's going on in the small preview).

Is this or something similar possible with KDE plasma (I'm on 6.1.5).

Thanks!