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#Travel season is here! Let #KDE take you to the best spots, most beautiful #beaches, or even #Akademy2023: Check out the new "KDE for #Travellers" guide and... Bon Voyage ๐โ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ข๐๏ธ๐!
Tomorrow we will be at #tubix in Tรผbingen, Germany! Come and get some stickers and find out about all the exciting KDE news from the people that make it possible:
I spent days trying to turn off MS's bloatware on my last machine. Cortana, the AI assistant, cannot be uninstalled. You can, supposedly, turn it off, but it still runs in the background.
On the other hand, I'm very happy with my new machine running Linux. It's noticeably faster, does everything I want, and it doesn't spy on me.
@kde Last time I tried using Plasma, I had to lose two days worth of work in order to wipe, format, and install GNOME (of all things). So apologies, I will stay with Microsoft, whatever harrowing that choice may be
This week in KDE: we released SDDM 0.20.0, finished porting Plasma 6 to KSvg, improved the performance of Wayland with multi-GPU systems, and tweaked the look of widgets in the panel:
If you are Redditor, we would like to know your opinion: r/kde has been closed for several days to unsubscribed users in protest for the company's latest decisions. Should we open r/kde up now or wait? Tell us what you think by filling out the poll here:
The KDE Free Qt Foundation is 25 years old today! We have been keeping Qt open for everybody for a quarter of a century already, and here is to another 100+ years of free development!๐ฅ๐ฅณ
This week in #KDE we did some major refactoring of the Plasma Widgets API, started tracking the Plasma 6 progress on a wiki page, and added a new KDE For webpage to our website.
@kde *the political sentence* is so tone deaf that I'm fucking amazed how you didn't see it. Why did you even think that "sitting on both chairs" is a good thing to brag about in the context of a fucking war? Please remove it, together with your social presence in Russian social network VK.
Free Software activists give people control over technology, and help defend their digital #rights. We have created means that have allowed us to become organized and connected, bypassing utilities controlled by unethical corporations.
KDE presents "For Activists": you to can leverage the tools to effectively organize rallies, privately communicate with fellow #community members, and safely manage your own grassroots #movement .
Free Software activists give people control over technology, and help defend their digital #rights. We have created means that have allowed us to become organized and connected, bypassing utilities controlled by unethical corporations.
KDE presents "For Activists": you to can leverage the tools to effectively organize rallies, privately communicate with fellow #community members, and safely manage your own grassroots #movement .
@gcompris is KDE's collection of more than 180 fun educational activities for children of all ages, and the team has just released version 3.3!
This version adds ุนุฑุจู (Arabic) and Esperanto to the list of supported languages, new graphics for the Photo Hunter activity, better keyboard handling and many other improvements.
@kde@gcompris I like your pride profile picture, even more than GNOME's(yet another thing I prefer KDE over GNOME in); but GNOME's can be kept without pride connotations so they can keep it for multiple months. Hmm, don't actually know which one would be better
KDE is developer-friendly ๐ฅ๏ธ! Discover all the tools ๐ ๏ธ, frameworks and libraries that will help you build powerful and cool-looking apps on our brand new "KDE for developers" page:
@kde I'd love to use KDevelop or even Kate but I mainly do Flutter development and for that the official VSCode extension is sadly king. Especially the hotkey to easily remove or add widgets to the widget tree is game-changing and I can't live without.
Is there an easy way to add such support? Not sure if LSP support and using the official LSP server for Dart is good enough...
HDR changes the luminance and colors of graphics, allowing for brighter and more detailed highlights, darker and more-detailed shadows, and a wider array of intense colors.
@kde Eagerly waiting for this. I got an expensive HDR, 144hz monitor recently but only been able to get 144hz working properly.
Soon HDR(even if limited) : โ
Last thing I think will be smooth scaling for Wayland and xwayland apps. For now, i have to enable letting xwayland apps handle their scaling option. But it's hit or miss.
Google Summer of Code (#GSoC) kicks off on May 29 at KDE! Find out how new contributors will improve Krita, Okular, Kalendar, digiKam, Tokodon and KDE Eco.
@kde Really looking forward to the automatic tag assignment on Digikam, fantastic news! Have been experimenting with the "detect aesthetic image using deep learning" and am loving it! Nice to see that Digikam and Krita, my two favourites, are getting support!
The Plasma Sprint is over, and devs have made headway working towards #Plasma6: double-click becomes the default for opening files and folders, there's a new default task switcher, floating panels are activated by default, and the release cycle changes, among many other things.
@kde Those are some nice changes already. Very glad I won't have to change to double-click myself, and it's way easier to tell focus now in that screenshot. New task switcher looks nice, too.
#PlasmaMobile news for April: 3 new #apps, PowerPlant, MarkNote, and OptiImage land in Plasma Mobile; Tokodon invites you to explore #Mastodon; NeoChat helps you organize events through #Matrix with #location sharing; and much, much more.
@kde Hi. Can Tokodon support #Peertube? I mean following, watching and commenting on channels/videos across different instances. Currently I think it only opens the Peertube link in the browser.
Season of KDE 2023 is over! 8 new KDE contributors improved Tokodon's accessibility, added controls to AudioTube, prepared KDE apps for eco-certification, improved Spectacle's annotation tools, setup workflows for creating Flatpaks, and much, much more.
News for KDE's personal information management software ๐ง ๐๏ธ ๐ซ : Kalendar's contact editor gets overhauled and shares more with KOrganizer, Itinerary supports more travel documents, Akonadi improves database handling, and more.
@kde Hi KDE Team!
I have an unrelated set of questions:
Whatโs the design idea behind putting more and more menus into hamburgers, where they are less accessible? (Got a link?)
Is this trend going to continue?
Is there a plan to make it easy to keep classic, usable menu bars?
@kde
Tell me that you are from germany without telling me you are from germany.
Person who wrote the kde itinerary text:
"It is rare that a train or bus depart or arrive on time."