KDE

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

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

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]

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

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

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]

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 Plasma: A snazzier time zone picker, smoother corners, sleeker dark modes and slicker panels.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/25/this-week-in-plasma-fancy-time-zone-picker/

@[email protected]

#FreeSoftware #Plasma6 #OpenSource

Grab your favorite drink and join us for the first Kdenlive Café of the year! Come hangout with the developer team, share your ideas and feedback, get some scoops on what's brewing for future releases and connect with fellow editors. Join the community! 💙

📅 Tuesday, January 28th, at 8 PM (UTC)

🌐 https://meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr

#kdenlive #videoediting

@kde

Are you a #filmmaker using #kdenlive? Let us know about your project!

Regardless of whether you are working on making shorts with your mates, features or corporate ads, online or TV shows or music videos, we want to see and promote them all!

We are building a showreel made up of clips from projects edited with Kdenlive. We aim to encourage more artists to move beyond expensive, closed systems to a free way of making movies.

Help us help the next generation of filmmakers! #videoediting @kde

Currently coping from being busy doing everything and also not anything :(

But I am drawing them, since its taking so long, here's a compressed sketch so far, thoughts?

Both Mastodon & Bluesky suggest that you add alt text to images to improve accessibility for the visually impaired
The text is not retained

How can I add alt text to my image files, ideally when I import the files ? Tags I make with Dolphin or Digikam aren't visible except where they're made

Thought I'd ask here before I start submitting feature requests

I'm using KDE Connect to share between an iPhone and a machine running Ubuntu 22.04. For the most part, it works as expected, but clipboard sharing only happens one way.

The problem seems to be that whenever a connection is established between the phone and PC, the phone's clipboard is automatically overwritten with whatever is on the PC's clipboard. If I navigate away from the KDE Connect app to another app to copy some content, the connection is lost. When I navigate back to the app, the connection is re-established, but the iPhone clipboard is again overwritten by the PC.

I'm not sure how to work around this problem. Any advice from the community would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi,

When pressing Super-E when Dolphin is already open, I would like for the existing window to be unminimized and for a new tab to be created, rather than a new window.

How to do this ?

Thanks

Hello everyone!

I have the events from Nextcloud show up in the calendar, and that all works fine, but every update (at least I think it's due to updates) it all gets deselected and I have to tick the boxes again for events to show up.

I wouldn't mind even a hacky solution like a cron job to run at every boot or something like that - but I don't know where calendar settings are stored/configured.

Any help/advice is welcome!
Thanks!

Season of KDE is back with 14 new projects.

15 mentees will work with 11 mentors to add features, develop new educational games, create documentation, improve the power consumption of KDE apps and assist Windows users to migrate to Linux.

Check out all the projects:

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-01-19-sok-25-welcome/

#MentorshipPrograms #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@[email protected]

"This week in KDE apps" brings improvements in usability, accessibility and customization to @arianna, Dolphin and Itinerary, and supercharges to @tokodon ready for the #january20 mass migration.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/19/this-week-in-kde-apps-usability-accessibility-and-supercharging-the-fediverse/

@[email protected]

#ThisWeekInKDEApps #linuxApps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

This week in Plasma: Getting #Plasma6.3 into shape, more KRunner searches, better scaling and a whole lot more:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/18/this-week-in-plasma-getting-plasma-6.3-in-great-shape/

@[email protected]

#desktop #floss #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@kde I've been using Global Menu for a while, but since it is less and less supported, I've finally removed the widget.

However, I did not get the local menu back! Now all my KDE apps have no menu at all.

I thought that restarting the session would fix it, but it did not help. Anybody has any hint on how to fix this?

"KDE For Digital Sovereignty" explains how KDE software returns control to institutions, companies and users, and gives you the tools to become the owner of your digital life.

https://kde.org/for/digital-sovereignty/

#sovereignty #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@[email protected]

Hi All,

So suddenly, my digiKam crashes with the following error messages:

Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
digikam.general: DK_PLUGIN_PATH env.variable detected. We will use it to load plugin...
digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
Path override failed for key base::DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES and path '/snap/digikam/95/usr/bin/qtwebengine_dictionaries'
[6440:6440:0116/182606.271718:FATAL:credentials.cc(126)] Check failed: . : Permission denied (13)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

I've been looking all over to try and find a solution, but I can only find old stuff. I do not seem to have the file '/snap/digikam/95/usr/bin/qtwebengine_dictionaries" so that is probably the problem, but I don't know how to install it.

This is running digiKam from a snap. Kubuntu 24.04.1 LTS x86_64 Plasma 5.27.11

If anybody can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. It broke by itself, so I have been waiting a week or so to see if it would mend itself, but that does not seem to be happening.

Thanks!!