"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.4’s enters soft feature freeze, Dolphin and other KDE apps "New File" and "New Folder" dialogs get a visual overhaul, and that the file transfer process now inhibits suspend, among many other things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/10/this-week-in-plasma-inhibit-sleep-while-transferring-files/
Update your Steam Deck! New SteamOS Beta now with KDE Plasma 6.2.5!
https://www.steamdeck.com/en/news
Season of KDE (#SoK) is over and candidates have done great jobs adding new features to @kdenlive developing tools and expanding documentation for @be4foss, and creating educational apps and games.
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Kdenlive's spectacular background removal tool, guides on how to make your own ticket extractors for Itinerary (learn how to add your local transport service!), usability tweaks to Dolphin's interface and much more.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/05/this-week-in-kde-apps/
This week in KDE Apps comes with the news of improvements to @Krita's text rendering feature and the progress made to its migration to Qt6 and Wayland support; that KDE's travel assistants share more features and add support for many more transport and entertainment services; and how our suite of convergent applications receive many exciting updates, among many other things.
KDE Gear ⚙️ 25.04 is out with new exciting features and improvements landing in Dolphin, Kdenlive, Okular, Itinerary, KDE Connect, Tokodon and many, many more.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0/
Today, tomorrow, and Sunday you can come and visit the KDE Community at our event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India:
Meet contributors, learn about our bleeding edge technologies, and try out exciting and fun applications.
KDE adds The Open Source Promotion Program to its list of mentorship programs.
Want to learn how to contribute to an Open Source project? Check out our blog post and start writing your project submission now!
https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-03-29-ospp/
#KStars debuts a new documentation site!
A comprehensive resource that helps you to get to know and make the most of KDE's fantastic night sky observatory and astrophotography utility.
At the moment, only English is available. More languages coming soon.
#astronomy #astrophotography #nightSky #education #photography
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation bar; new features land in you chat app of choice; and more languages get added to KDE's educational activities.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/24/this-week-in-kde-apps/
This Week in Plasma brings launch menu customizations, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator.
We have simplified KMenuEdit allowing you to customize your launch menu with ease, improved the quality of full-screen recordings with Spectacle, set the "Dim Screen for Administrator Mode" to be switched on by default, and enhanced the accessibility and keyboard navigation of Plasma's Calculator.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/22/this-week-in-plasma-6.4-improvements/
KDE devs are working on this. It has become a priority of the "We care about your Input" goal.
https://phabricator.kde.org/T17433
We are currently working on implementing a new virtual keyboard called QVK that will built into Plasma:
@Rhababerbarbar @kde@lemmy.kde.social
That is the proposal page. Of all proposals, and there are always quite few, the community votes and selects three to work on for two years. This one was not selected.
@muelsyse @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Spectacle release cycle has moved to that of Plasma and will be installed with Plasma, as a part of Plasma.
It used to be am independent app and on many distros you would install it separately (like on Arch) and its release cycle was that of KDE Gear.
And let's not forget everyone who contributed by using, testing, or blogging about our projects! Whether it was with code, art, bug reports, social media posts, or anything else, by desinterestedly lending your time and skill, regardless of if it was on a regular basis (shout out to all our hardworking devs!) or with a one-time, flyby commit that sniped a bug out of your favorite app, you too helped make KDE better for everybody this year.
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved
Have a great holiday 🎄!
We also want to thank everyone who donated through the pop-up. We're very grateful for your support!
Many people said they wished they could donate more. Please don't think you didn't make a difference! Every euro will help!
@franklin @kde@lemmy.kde.social
You donate €50 or more and you can choose an app you would like to express your support for from the list. Your name then appears on the app's apps.kde.org page as a supporter until the next relase of KDE Gear (25.04).
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* KBreakOut is the classic brick-busting arcade game.
* KTuberling is for the younger users, and lets them build up a potato head, robot, pizza, and more -- with added voices!
Have a fun!
@ivor @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Yes Konqis!