Mail, calendars, notes, tasks, travel... Find out what developers of KDE's personal information management suite of apps have been up to.

Get the breakdown of all the new features, and how everything has been made more reliable, faster and better.

https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-07-01-kde-pim-may-june-2024/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

I am just a regular Linux user with a bit of additional interest in customizing. I can install things from the store, change settings in the GUI comfortably etc.

Occassionally there are things I am looking for are not available already but could be with few simple tweaks. For eg. right now I am looking for an analog clock widget different from the standard one already available. I need to reduce its size and/or change its background.

I believe this could be done by changing the clock source and building a new clock.

Currently I am not knowledgeable enough to do that and also with insufficient free time to learn everything. I would try if there is a standard pre-built ISO configured to this need with all tools pre-installed.

Is there such an option available?

Learn how to reduce the power usage and make your apps more accessible in 8 minutes flat.

https://eco.kde.org/blog/2024-07-02_selenium-guides/

#Selenium #KDEEco

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

First, I'd like to thank everyone involved in KDE for building such a great DE!

One of the features I love about KDE is the ability to have a multiline Icons-and-Text Task Manager. However, I think it could be improved even more. I wanted to share my thoughts and see what others think.

Please consider the attached image. In ① and ② we see what the taskbar looks like when 'Maximum rows' is set to 2. And ③ is a sketch I quickly made to illustrate what I am thinking of. In short:

• I imagine a layout that is more space-efficient and one that doesn't try to look like a grid. Pinned icons don't stretch.
• Instead of 'Maximum rows', we just have a fixed number of rows. And when the opened applications are just a few and they can fit in a single row, I think it would look better if they didn't stretch and take up all the vertical space available, but just take the first row and leave the second one empty.
• If the Digital Clock and the Application Launcher icon could somehow be made smaller, there would be even more free space for other useful stuff and the taskbar would (arguably) look better.

What do you folks think?

both buttons cancel the download, but "proceed" also makes discover freeze, is this a known issue? Also, here's the system info:

KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0
Qt Version: 6.7.1
Kernel Version: 6.9.6-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i3-10105F CPU @ 3.70GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon RX 6600`

I have a fresh install of Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 40. Every time I log into the DE, the Discover application opens automatically on start. How can I disable this behavior so that Discover does not automatically launch? There are no apps configured for autostart in the KDE autostart system settings.

This week in KDE: everything, I think

https://pointieststick.com/2024/06/28/this-week-in-kde-everything-i-think/

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#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

Hello,

Does anyone know if it is possible to order the playlist alphabetically? because I looked in the settings and didn't find an option to do this.

It's kind of annoying to find songs without them being sorted.

Hi,

Crystal Dock v2.1 is out now!

What it is: Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, being simple and easy to use, and cross-desktop support.

The current version (version 2.x) supports KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. Other desktop environments will be considered when they run on Wayland and provide sufficient APIs.

Change log:

New features:

• Floating style: this feature can be turned on/off from the dock's context menu and the floating margin can be set from the Appearance Settings dialog.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed a bug where Sets All Desktops on a window makes it disappear from the dock.
• Fixed a bug where a window that demands attention could have its dock icon flashing even after it has been looked at, until the dock reloads.
• Fixed a bug where setting minimumIconSize larger than maximumIconSize crashes the dock.

GitHub page: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock

GitHub release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock/releases/tag/v2.1

KDE Store link: https://store.kde.org/p/2105085

Blog post: https://dangvd.blogspot.com/2024/06/crystal-dock-v21-released.html

Hope you like it and have a nice weekend!

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112693519928211217

Make it a 2-for-1, join us for the Qt Contributor Summit and then enjoy #Akademy2024 immediately afterwards!

QtCS will be held in Würzburg on the 5th and 6th of September. Register here: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=Z7HQIE15ikSdAarszBEkrArpzSaOjg5Akg0mgdu88JlUNzZTUEk3Q1BURkZWS09PUUdQRU1HVUoySy4u

Submit talks here: https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Contributor_Summit_2024_-_Program

Then, still in Würzburg, from the 7th to the 12th, join our community for #Akademy2024.

Get the latest KDE news, join the projects and help us decide where to go next.

Register for Akademy here: https://akademy.kde.org/2024/register/

@akademy@lemmy.kde.social

I was able to install telepathy-gabble by adding the Debian Buster repos to my Debian Bookworm install and put in my credentials but it does not seem to allow me to change my status or start a new conversation. Is this even possible today?

Bring it back to life again!

Revive your old laptop and reduce toxic e-waste with #FreeSoftware at tomorrow's drop-in workshop in #Berlin with the KDE Eco and #RESI community.

Free of charge. Beginner friendly, no technical knowledge needed!

When: Friday 28 June 2024, 18:00-21:00 CEST

Where: #Moos Moosdorfstr. 7-9 (S Treptower Park)

This event is organized with #ReclaimedSystems as part of a weeklong exhibition on digital sustainability.

@kde

#KDEEco #KDE #OptGreen #OpenSource #eWaste

I've recently updated to Plasma 6.1 and I've loved it so far. However, there's one thing that has made things difficult for me—I can't get to ‘Panel Configuration’ and make changes to my panels.

This screen recording shows me failing to get to the ‘Panel Configuration’ in my top panel (though the same problem exists for all of my panels).

For further context, I use Plasma 6.1 with Wayland on Arch Linux. Some other details from the Plasma Info Center are provided below:

If there's any more information I need to gather in order to resolve this problem or make a bug report, I'd love to know.

After an update I noticed discover was this weird yellow color, I opened settings and noticed it too was yellow, thinking it was some bug, I restarted PC, now everything is yellow. I tried inverting colors but that is something completely different. I'm not even sure what was updated to cause this.

I'm running mint 21.3 with plasma 5.27.11

So I've got plasma 5.27.5 on MX 23 (based on Debian 12) and am sometimes seeing a delay in the lock screen activation after waking from suspend. It's a good few seconds of whatever I had on my screen being being visible before the lock screen pops up. Anyone else get this issue?

What is this message on the lock screen? I get this at really random times and very rarely. Is this a bug? If so, I'll report it. If it's not a big, then what is it?

Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/phone-link-requirements-and-setup-cd2a1ee7-75a7-66a6-9d4e-bf22e735f9e3

This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

A simplified fork of KDE Plasma's default Kickoff Application Launcher

I'm using Endeavour OS, but it didn't happen on plasma 6. Anybody else having this bug?

This week in KDE: Plasma 6.1 cleanups

https://pointieststick.com/2024/06/22/this-week-in-kde-plasma-6-1-cleanups/

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@kde another feature forced really hard on users, with Konsole this time: the color preview

I can't remember when this landed in KDE as it just added to the list of "new KDE features" I tried to ignore while struggling to keep focus, but that list never ceases to expand 😬

moreover, the option to disable that color preview feature I don't need is burried deep: the only way to turn it off is by creating a new Konsole profile 🤦‍♂️

Hi,

On KDE neon 6 using Wayland, OBS 30.1.2 is black when trying "Screen Capture (PipeWire)" or "Window Capture (PipeWire)", when launching from terminal, the following line stands out :

error: [pipewire] Error retrieving pipewire fd: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying

When asking the OBS community, I'm told :

Sounds like a broken PipeWire and/or xdg-desktop-portal install. That would be a question for your distro's support channels

What to do ?

Thanks

SOLVED : the xdg-desktop-portal package crashes since v1.18.3 (see issue report), so downgrading it fixes this.