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:
€30K reached🎉! Thank you generous donors!
We are now on our way towards our 1st reach goal. To celebrate, we have added 4 more apps to our list of adoptable apps.
Discover helps you install, remove and update your software; KolourPaint is an easy to use design program; with KRFB, you can share your desktop over a network; and #GCompris is the wildly popular educational suite with tons of fun activities for kids.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
It's an oldish HP Spectre with a foldable touchscreen from 2018.
Actually works very well.
@merthyr1831 @kde@lemmy.kde.social
We asked a designer to make a logo we could use for the Plasma 6 _CAMPAIGN_, not for Plasma 6 itself.
We asked for something that would remind people of the Plasma logo (a folded piece of paper with three dots), but that also looked like a 6. This what they came up with.
So no, not the new Plasma logo.
Sorry.
> Wait KDE needs more money?
Yes. We need money to pay for personnel salaries, our yearly
Akademy event, travel for community members to sprints and other events, the maintenance and rent of our tech infrastructure, rent for our Office, taxes and insurance, and other stuff.
KDE's software is always evolving and being worked on. We need money to keep things moving, otherwise the KDE project and most of the software projects that rely on it would die.
Neon will have it already. Arch is usually fast, too, as is openSUSE Tumbleweed. Beyond that, not sure. Sorry.
@bgtlover @kde@lemmy.kde.social
These questions will be better addressed by people working on the Accessibility Goal:
https://community.kde.org/Goals/KDE_For_All
On that page you will find links to he Matrix channel and tasks being carried out be the team. They will be able to answer all your questions.
@kde@lemmy.kde.social
Dolphin, KDE's powerful gateway to your files, servers and software repos, was was adopted by Ian Lohmann, Anthony Perrett, Linus Seelinger, Nils Martens, mdPlusPlus and txemaq.
https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/