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kde, 10 months ago to kde

Dragging Docks and Tugging Toolbars on Wayland

David Redondo explains how devs are mending dragging window elements around in Wayland and how everything will work as expected in #Plasma6.

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https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/wayland/qt/2023/08/08/xdg-toplevel-drag.html

A screencast showing how dragging toolbars out and back into a Wayland application will work on Plasma 6.

kde, 10 months ago to kde

Want to try #Plasma6? Check out Neon Experimental, the test bed for KDE's upcoming desktop environment.

https://blog.neon.kde.org/2023/08/04/announcing-kde-neon-experimental/

WARNING: Plasma 6 is still being actively worked on. The software is considered unstable and will likely lead to data loss if used in production. Use for test and bug-hunting purposes only!

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kde, 10 months ago to random

New input ideas: David Edmundson shows us how KDE developers plan to make typing more accessible with multiple clipboard selections, speech-to-text, on-the-fly translation, and more with working examples that will soon be in your applications:

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/new-ideas-using-wayland-input-methods/

An animation showing a speech-to-text module working in the KWrite text editor.

kde, 10 months ago to kde

Want to know how #Plasma6 is coming along? Check out Nate's in-depth analysis on what's done, what devs are working on right now, and what's coming to KDE's next generation desktop environment:

https://pointieststick.com/2023/08/03/august-plasma-6-progress-update/

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kde, 10 months ago to kde

This week in KDE: #Plasma6 is not only gearing up for a big technological shift, but is also adding cool new features and improving the user experience

Look forward to sound themes! Snappier responses! Prettier widgets! More awesome things!

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/28/this-week-in-kde-sounds-like-plasma-6/

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View of theme-selecting settings
A new set of settings which allow you to configure actions based on Discover events

kde, 10 months ago to kde

The therapeutic post of the day: We're trimming the fat from #Plasma6! getting rid of abandoned, bit-rotting and redundant non-features will make for a leaner, cleaner and faster desktop experience:

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/26/what-we-plan-to-remove-in-plasma-6/

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kde, 10 months ago to kde

This week in KDE brings new #Plasma6 features, like changes to the sound theme and when sounds are played, you can now change your active power profile, and log in easier to captive portal pages (like those found at hotels and airports).
Much more at

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/21/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-features/

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Screencap showing three levels of energy profiles, allowing you to choose saving mode, efficiency or full power.

kde, 10 months ago to kde

New LabPlot tutorial

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/9Kmqeefqw35EpEZj914N5p

In this short video you'll learn how to how to fit a distribution to data.

#DistributionFitting #GaussianDistribution, #Log-normalDistribution #Probability Distribution #PoissonDistribution #Binomial #Distribution #ExponentialDistribution #MaximumLikelihood

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kde, 11 months ago to kde

KDE's Annual Report for 2022 has landed 📔 . Read up on all stuff the Community did, the events we went to, how we used the funds generously donated by sponsors and the public, and much more:

https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/

Remember! Your generosity keeps KDE going:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/

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Joseph holds up the Blaue Engel certificate for Okular, the first software app to be certified as environmentally friendly
Attendees to the GNOME/KDE event Linux App Summit pose for the group photo
Two pie charts show where KDE's income came from during 2022 and how it was spent.

kde, 11 months ago to random

KDE is a proud Founding Organization of the Open Policy Alliance.

https://blog.opensource.org/convening-public-benefit-and-charitable-foundations-working-in-open-domains/

kde, 11 months ago to kde

This week in KDE: we modernized the breeze cursors, created a new banner component and released a "KDE For Travelers" webpage.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/07/this-week-in-kde-akademy-approaches/

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Screenshot of the new "KDE for travellers" page.

kde, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to Travel

#Travel season is here! Let #KDE take you to the best spots, most beautiful #beaches, or even #Akademy2023: Check out the new "KDE for #Travellers" guide and... Bon Voyage 🚂✈️🏖️🚢🏛️🕌!

https://kde.org/for/travelers

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Support KDE!: https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/

kde, 11 months ago to random

The KDE booth at @tuebix is open for business!

https://www.tuebix.org/

Close up of a large monitor displaying Krita, the Steam Deck, and an attendee drawing on the draw pad.
Close up of a phone running Itinerary on Plasma Mobile.

kde, 11 months ago to random

Tomorrow we will be at #tubix in Tübingen, Germany! Come and get some stickers and find out about all the exciting KDE news from the people that make it possible:

https://www.tuebix.org/

A photograph of KDE stickers ready for the event.

kde, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

#Microsoft wants to move #Windows fully to the cloud.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/27/23775117/microsoft-windows-11-cloud-consumer-strategy

Don't let them force you to log on to their servers to monitor and control you every time you need your computer.

Take back your desktop! Use Plasma!

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

kde, 11 months ago to random

This week in KDE: we released SDDM 0.20.0, finished porting Plasma 6 to KSvg, improved the performance of Wayland with multi-GPU systems, and tweaked the look of widgets in the panel:

https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/23/this-week-in-kde-sddm/

kde, 11 months ago to random

If you are Redditor, we would like to know your opinion: r/kde has been closed for several days to unsubscribed users in protest for the company's latest decisions. Should we open r/kde up now or wait? Tell us what you think by filling out the poll here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/14f2hym/should_rkde_open_now_or_be_kept_private_until_the/

kde, 11 months ago to random

The KDE Free Qt Foundation is 25 years old today! We have been keeping Qt open for everybody for a quarter of a century already, and here is to another 100+ years of free development!🥂🥳

https://dot.kde.org/2023/06/21/celebrating-25-years-kde-free-qt-foundation

kde, 1 year ago to random

This week in #KDE we did some major refactoring of the Plasma Widgets API, started tracking the Plasma 6 progress on a wiki page, and added a new KDE For webpage to our website.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/06/09/this-week-in-kde-major-plumbing-work-in-plasma-6/

kde, 1 year ago to random

Free Software activists give people control over technology, and help defend their digital #rights. We have created means that have allowed us to become organized and connected, bypassing utilities controlled by unethical corporations.

KDE presents "For Activists": you too can leverage the tools to effectively organize rallies, privately communicate with fellow #community members, and safely manage your own grassroots #movement .

https://kde.org/for/activists/

For activists, by activists.

#activism

kde, 1 year ago to random

@gcompris is KDE's collection of more than 180 fun educational activities for children of all ages, and the team has just released version 3.3!

This version adds عربي (Arabic) and Esperanto to the list of supported languages, new graphics for the Photo Hunter activity, better keyboard handling and many other improvements.

https://gcompris.net/news/2023-06-06-en.html

#education #kids #activities

In the "Letter in words" activity, pupils have to identify letters in a set of words.
In "path encoding", you have to guide Tux through a maze with a set of arrows.
In "ballcatch", kids will learn how to use the arrow keys.

kde, 1 year ago to random

https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/110492899915633839

kde, 1 year ago to random

KDE is developer-friendly 🖥️! Discover all the tools 🛠️, frameworks and libraries that will help you build powerful and cool-looking apps on our brand new "KDE for developers" page:

http://kde.org/for/developers

kde, 1 year ago to random

This week in KDE: HDR is coming to the Plasma desktop🖥️!

https://pointieststick.com/2023/05/20/this-week-in-kde-preliminary-hdr-support/

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2023/05/18/hdr-and-color-management-in-kwin.html

HDR changes the luminance and colors of graphics, allowing for brighter and more detailed highlights, darker and more-detailed shadows, and a wider array of intense colors.

Graphic comparing the color in the sRGB colorspace (the triangle), commonly used in modern desktop environments, to what a human eye can actually perceive (the grey surrounding area).

kde, 1 year ago to random

Google Summer of Code (#GSoC) kicks off on May 29 at KDE! Find out how new contributors will improve Krita, Okular, Kalendar, digiKam, Tokodon and KDE Eco.

https://dot.kde.org/2023/05/16/kde-google-summer-code-2023

KDE's Kalendar / Contacts managemenr app, showing how to add a new event to your schedule.
KDE's Mastodon client, showing followed accounts in the left pane, and KDE's feed on the right pane.
Okular, KDE's document viewer, shows a PDF of the Pepper and Carrot comic.