We are at 95% of our first stretch goal!
With less than €3,000 to go, our fundraiser is about to cross the €50,000 mark, and we will be entering the final stretch of our campaign.
Will your donation push us over the line?
Adoptable Games - part 🎲🎲
What are your favorite KDE games? Here are some of ours, now up for adoption:
* Kubrick - Rubik's cube simulator with lots of different cubes to pick from
* KGoldRunner - Platformer that combines arcade action with problem-solving
* Picmi - A simple, but surprisingly addictive logic game
* KiGo - Play Go against the computer or friend. Multiple board sizes and levels of difficulties
This year, KDE will be again at #38c3, this time as part of the "Bits & Bäume / about:freedom" assembly, alongside many similar-minded organizations like the @fsfe, @edri, @openstreetmap and more!
https://events.ccc.de/congress/2024/hub/en/assembly/bitsundbaeume_aboutfreedom/
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/
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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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/
Microsoft "innovating":
Meanwhile, KDE Connect be like:
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:
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
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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In "This Week in KDE Apps": Optilmage's first release; Itinerary's re-design; how Karp, KDE's new PDF designer, has improved its performance; the upcoming KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.12 release; and more.
You too can contribute to keeping KDE's apps going by adopting at our fundraiser:
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.
Kasts let's you stream or download and plave podcasts on your deskto or phones, and has been Henning Lammert and Marco Ryll. Three adoption spots still open!
Okular, KDE's PDF, comic and document reader, was adopted by George Fakidis, Paxriel, tmpod, mdPlusPlus, Greg Helding and Archie Lamb.
Many thanks to Dr. Denis Stogl, Vladimir Solomatin, Akseli Lahtinen, Tjelta Meihack and Nithanim for adopting Kate, KDE advanced text editor and development environment.
Likewise, KWrite, Kate's sister editor for those who do not need all Kate's features, was adopted William Herman.
The increasingly powerful travel assistant Itinerary was adopted bu jxn_30 and Gabriel Karlsson.
One of our newer apps, a multiplatform eBook reader called Arianna, was adopted by Erik Bernoth.
Merkuro, our next generation calendaring system, has been adopted by manchicken and Nithanim, and there is still space for more adoptions.
Tokodon, KDE's Mastodon app for desktop and mobile, has been adopted by @petejones, @DaisyLee and Karcsesz, and still has 2 slots left.
We start by sending out our gratitude to Tanguy Fardet and dabe for adopting NeoChat, our native Matrix chat app that works both on desktop and mobile devices. You can still adopt it as there are 3 slots left.
@frumble @kde@lemmy.kde.social
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.