KDE

Plasma 6.3 is here... and it's Pixel Perfect!

One year on from Plasma 6.0, and this is what you can expect in your next update: massive steps in the support and configuration of drawing tablets, pixel perfect window placing and zoom, extended hardware monitoring, even more customization possibilities, and so much more.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/

#desktop #freesoftware #opensource

@[email protected]

Call for papers for conf.kde.in 2025 is now open!

Organizers of KDE's conference in India are looking for talks relevant to the KDE community and technology, as well as workshops or presentations targeted towards new contributors.

Submit your proposal today!

https://conf.kde.org/event/8/abstracts/

#cki2025 #events #conference #freesoftware #opensource #india

@[email protected]

This week in KDE Apps presents... So many things!

New releases land for @Krita, Glaxnimate, @gcompris and Kstars; and fixes and improvements for Akonadi, Elisa, Dolphin, Falkon, Itinerary, Kasts, Kate, @kdenlive, Krita, KRDC, Marknote, Okular, PlasmaTube, Barcode Scanner,... and @tokodon !

Phew!

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/10/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@[email protected]

This Week in Plasma's final #Plasma6.3 polishing brings a nicer looking Welcome Center, better keyboard navigation for Kate's session's widget, an option make panel pop-ups use the floating style.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/08/this-week-in-plasma-final-plasma-6.3-polishing/

#freesoftware #opensource #desktop

@[email protected]

Here's the icons found on Wikimedia Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Project_Globe2.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schedule.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Project_Agt_multimedia.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crystal_Project_wallet.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuvola_apps_kteatime.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuvola_apps_clock.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nuvola_apps_package_graphics.svg

There's also the dictionary icon still present now in Plasma 6's widget picker!

KDE's recently adopted animation program Glaxnimate releases version 0.6.0 Beta.

This is the first official _test_ release of Glaxnimate under the KDE umbrella and testers are needed to check for bugs. Download the AppImage and try it out!

https://glaxnimate.org/news/releases/0.5.80/

#animation #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #design #videoediting

@[email protected]

KDE's Indian Conference, conf.kde.in 2025 kicks of on the 4th of April.

Join us, along with the Google Developers on Campus group, at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, for three intense days of talks, meetings and hackathons.

https://conf.kde.in/2025/

#cki2025 #event #india #freesoftware #opensource

@[email protected]

Hi!

I posted this on reddit and then saw that kde has a lemmy presence, so I am posting it here also, since I vastly prefer lemmy over reddit.:

Sorry if this isn't the right place, but I have no idea where else to ask, I tried asking at discuss.kde.org but got no answers.

I am using Arch with KDE Plasma and an Nvidia GPU, when I play Steam games almost all of them work flawlessly but...

When I try to play older games (like Shadowrun Hong Kong or the rereleases of Sims 1 and 2, or Civ 4 or 5), the graphics are all scrambled like this:

Scrambled

The funny thing is, this is a photo of my screen, if I use Steam to take a screenshot it shows up normally in the screenshot folder...

Screenshot

As it only happens on old games I am thinking those do something different than newer games, it doesn't matter what proton version I use and it only seems to happen under plasma.

Any help would be appreciated!

The final report of our fundraiser is out. Check out all that was done thanks to your contributions. 💙

Stay tuned for more soon!

https://kdenlive.org/en/2025/02/kdenlive-fundraising-final-report/

@kde

#kde #kdenlive #videoediting #opentimelineio #otio

Searched for a few weeks and could not find any solid solution. Found a KDE thread that said it was a issue with flatpak but I don't even have flatpak installed. Others say it's Wayland, Do non KDE users on wayland get this too?

I know it's for security but it's too damned annoying to be worth it! Should I setup a tiling WM and be done with it? It really is that bad.

All I want to do is play Skyrim without seeing this every 15 minutes!

Show of your creativity with #Krita!

Come and draw Konqi on Krita at KDE's #FOSDEM booth.

@[email protected]

This Week in Plasma: crisper screenshots, better context menus, improved mnemonics, right-handed panels, and more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/01/this-week-in-plasma-feels-like-a-good-one/

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop

@[email protected]

We're ready! Come and visit our booth at #FOSDEM2025!

We're in building AW, level 1, showing off the newest version of Plasma, devices, applications and more.

https://fosdem.org/2025/stands/

@[email protected]

If you're at @fosdem don't forget to drop by the @kde booth and grab yourself a #kdenlive sticker.

#fosdem #kde

@[email protected]

Come and visit our booth tomorrow and Sunday at @fosdem !

We'll be in building AW, level 1, with other community booths, showing off the newest version of #Plasma6, devices, applications and more.

https://fosdem.org/2025/stands/

Decorate your computer with kool stickers, chat with KDE contributors, test new stuff and join our community!

#FOSDEM #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop #app #Kdenlive #Krita

@[email protected]

End Of 10 at #FOSDEM!

#KDEEco 's Call To Action against #eWaste driven by Windows

BoF *Sun 2 Feb 14:00* Room H.3242

Global #FreeSoftware campaign to raise awareness of #Windows 10 EoL and how independent software keeps devices in use & out of the landfill!

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6779-coordinating-a-windows-10-to-linux-upcycling-campaign-across-free-software-communities-worldwide/

Same day just before, learn how #FOSS enables a circular digital economy *11:55-12:05* #Energy #DevRoom H.2214

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5431-software-licensing-for-a-circular-economy-how-foss-reduces-the-energy-consumption-and-carbon-footprint-of-ict/

#EndOf10 #OptGreen #KDE :kde: #OpenSource #Sustainability #Environment

@kde

Don't miss Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss' talk at #FOSDEM!

Joseph, community manager of the @be4foss project, will talk about how IT accounts for 2-3% of global CO2 emissions and how FLOSS and moving to a circular economy can help reduce these emissions.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5431-software-licensing-for-a-circular-economy-how-foss-reduces-the-energy-consumption-and-carbon-footprint-of-ict/

#kdeeco #environmentalism

@[email protected]

Lydia Pintscher, Vice President of KDE e.V., receives the European Open Source Award for Advocacy and Awareness 🏆!

Congrats @nightrose !

@europeanOSacademy

@[email protected]

#OSAAwards #FOSDEM

cross-posted from: https://mastodon.social/users/gcompris/statuses/113916942382386886

GCompris 25.0 released! KDE's compendium of educational activities adds Sanskrit and Georgian to the list of supported languages, and expands the number of activities to 195.

New activities help children develop their artistic creativity, learn arithmetic, and more.

https://gcompris.net/news/2025-01-30-en.html

#education #children #freesoftware #opensource

@education

Running Fedora KDE, I've got two monitors side by side. If I move the mouse slowly from one to the other, it seems to catch on the edge between. It makes interacting with things near the edges of the monitor a pain in the ass, if I overshoot with a large gesture to move the mouse to that region and then some unseen force prevents me from precisely moving the mouse back.

I can't find anything in the settings menu that sounds like it would turn this off. How do I turn this off? It needs to be turned off. I intensely hate it.

Full house tonight at the #Kdenlive Café!

Thanks to all who joined, see you next time.

@kde

A next version of @[email protected] Plasma is just around the corner and it will come loaded with new features for drawing tablets and improved #wayland support. Shout-out to @redstrate for making it happen as part of their work on the We Care About Your Input - #KDE Goals project.

There is even a website with the current status and planned goodies.
https://artonwayland.redstrate.com/

#kdegoals #artwithopensource #digitalart #illustration #wacom #tablet #krita

@[email protected]

This Week in KDE Apps brings the news that Akonadi gets a bunch of fixes and optimizations, the Barcode Scanner gets a new WiFi QR scanning mode, Tokodon gets a battery of new filtering options, and much more beside, covering Okular, Kaidan, Elisa, Itinerary, Amarok, Calculator, and Bluejay.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/27/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #freesoftware #opensource

@[email protected]

The next major release of Kdenlive brings a 300% performance boost for generating audio thumbnails, along with higher-resolution waveforms for greater precision and a refactored sampling method that accurately renders the audio signal. This remarkable work was done by @etiandre and was made possible thanks to your generous contributions to our fundraiser campaign.

Check out all the details at:

https://etiand.re/posts/2025/01/audio-waveforms-in-kdenlive-technical-upgrades-for-speed-precision-and-better-ux/

#kdenlive #kde #videoediting #audio

@kde