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This Week in Plasma brings the news that, with Plasma 6.4 little more than a week away, developers are hard at work crushing bugs and polishing the code.

In other news: The app launcher menu favorites and the networks list in System Settings are now keyboard-accessible, the Info Center’s Energy graph gets a smooth animation, and much more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/07/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-is-nigh/

#plasma6 #FreeSoftware #opensource

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KDE creates a safe haven for Windows 10 exiles.

In the context of the @Endof10 campaign, we have created a new "for" page, this time "for Windows 10 exiles":

https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/

In it we explain how Linux with Plasma can help users escape the deranged cycle of having to buy a new computer every time Microsoft force-upgrades their operating system.

#Windows11 #Microsoft #endOf10

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[–] kde@floss.social 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)
 

KDE and its eco initiative will have a booth tomorrow at the Umweltfestival in Berlin. The event is free to attend, so come chat with us and let's talk about #endOf10

https://www.umweltfestival.de/

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"This Week in Plasma" brings elegant symbolic icons for the dictionary and web browser widgets, a warning about rising the volume limits, improvements to the Bluetooth pairing wizard, and tons of tweaks and corrections for the upcoming versions of Plasma.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/31/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-stabilizes/

#Plasma6 #freesoftware #OpenSource #desktop

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Techpaladin, the company founded by a crack team of KDE developers, becomes a KDE sponsor.

From now on, not only will they be developing KDE software for Valve and the Qt Group, but will also be helping fund our community!

https://ev.kde.org/2025/05/30/techpaladin-becomes-kde-patron/

#patron #sponsorship #funding #freesoftware #opensource

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[–] kde@floss.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
 

Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 has landed. Devs have made more than 270 changes, correcting bugs, updating features and tweaking the code.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.91/

Now it is time to put all of Plasma through its paces again!

If you are a tester, take it for a spin and submit bug reports to:

https://bugs.kde.org/

#Plasma6 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop #testing

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"This week in KDE Apps" brings news that @kdenlive's Transform effect gets a rotation handle, @LabPlot gets nested plots and a new axis space algorithm, Clock's stopwatch and timer get added to the navigation bar, and so much more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/25/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #videoediting #freesoftware #opensource #linux

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"This week in Plasma" brings wallpapers that transition from light (during the day) to dark (when the sun goes down), better search results in Discover, visual polish for the Audio Volume widget, and tons of other stuff!

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/24/this-week-in-plasma-time-of-day-wallpapers/

#eyecandy #plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware

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[–] kde@floss.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

@nictakiego @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Trash is still just a folder. The widget just makes it easier to interact with.

 

"This Week in Plasma" brings a brand new HDR calibration wizard, an improved configuration dialog for the comics widget, textual headers for for audio devices in the volume widget, a new animation for when you empty the trash can, and much, much more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/17/this-week-in-plasma-hdr-calibration-wizard/

#Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware #Linux #desktop

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Testers assemble: Plasma 6.4 Beta has been released!

Plasma 6.4 will be arriving in a month, meanwhile, you can try an unstable version here:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.90/

Remember: this is beta software! This means it has only been partially tested. Install it at your own risk and report bugs to

https://bugs.kde.org/

#Plasma6 #linux #desktop

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KDE projects in Google Summer of Code 2025.

New KDE contributors will be tackling adapting Merkuro to mobile, adding video-conferencing to NeoChat, creating a virtual machine manager for KDE Linux, and many more interesting and useful things.

Discover all the projects at:

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05-12-gsoc-start/

#GSoC2025 #GSoC #mentorship #openSource #FreeSoftware

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[–] kde@floss.social 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] kde@floss.social 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@nesc @vamp898

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:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/qvk

[–] kde@floss.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] kde@floss.social 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

@Rhababerbarbar @kde@lemmy.kde.social

"Sandbox all the things" is not currently a KDE goal.

https://kde.org/goals/

[–] kde@floss.social 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@sn0n @kde@lemmy.kde.social

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[–] kde@floss.social 1 points 4 months ago

@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.

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