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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: kde.org/announcement... This is beta software! This means it has only been partially tested. Install it at your own risk and report bugs to bugs.kde.org
- KDE input handling in spring 2025: Jakob Petsovits wrote a really cool blog post about the improvements in Plasma 6.4. input stack, funding and how you can help! blogs.kde.org/2025/05/14/i... #goals #input
- "This week in KDE Apps" brings optimizations galore! Look out for boosts to Krita's text rendering, improvements to Kdenlive's online resource and audio thumbnail rendering, Qrca's better battery usage, reduced memory usage in NeoChat, and more. blogs.kde.org/2025/05/12/t...
- "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. blogs.kde.org/2025/05/10/t... #Plasma6
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- Update your Steam Deck! Now with KDE Plasma 6.2.5! www.steamdeck.com/en/news #Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware #gaming #linuxgaming
- Reposted by KDE#KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Improves Support for Multi-Screen Setups, NVIDIA GPU Users 9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6... @kde.org #Linux #OpenSource
- 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. mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05... #mentoring #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
- "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. blogs.kde.org/2025/05/05/t...
- "This Week in Plasma" brings drag'n'drop now made easy, zoom with a gesture, higher quality for the RDP server, per CPU and task monitoring, and many more tasty goodies. blogs.kde.org/2025/05/03/t... #Plasma #opensource #FreeSoftware
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- LabPlot, the project for #statisticians, #researchers, #scientists, #engineers, #educators and #students, publishes version 2.12 of its free comprehensive #dataAnalysis and #visualization tool. labplot.org/2025/04/28/l...
- This week in KDE Apps: improvements to Krita's text rendering feature, KDE's travel assistants share more features and add more transport and entertainment services; and our suite of convergent applications receive many exciting updates, among many other things. blogs.kde.org/2025/04/27/t...
- This week in Plasma: Plasma labels newly installed apps, checks whether your mic is muted, helps you run apps using your GPU, and much more. blogs.kde.org/2025/04/25/t...
- This week in Plasma: System Monitor lets you easily check what your background services are up to, Bluetooth widget helps you keep track of the number of devices connected to your computer, and KRunner "understands" more measurements, no matter how archaic. blogs.kde.org/2025/04/19/t...
- 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. kde.org/announcement... #apps #opensource #freesoftwar
- The #Akademy2025 Call for Participation (CfP) is now open! Don't miss your chance to share your project and present your ideas to the community. The CfP will close on 15th May 2025. Find more details and submit your talk at akademy.kde.org/2025/cfp/ #KDE #cfp #techevent #foss #linux
- Today, tomorrow, and Sunday you can come and visit the KDE Community at our event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India: conf.kde.in/2025/ Meet contributors, learn about our bleeding edge technologies, and try out exciting and fun applications. #event #india
- Join us at #Akademy2025! Registration is now OPEN. Discover inspiring talks, hands-on workshops, BoFs, and coding sprints. Connect with KDE contributors, fix bugs, develop new features, and be part of the open-source future! akademy.kde.org/2025/register/
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- #Akademy2025 is happening in Berlin, Germany, and online from Saturday the 6th to Thursday the 11th of September. Mark your calendars! More details: akademy.kde.org/2025/ #KDE #FOSS #techevent #fossevent #linux
- KDE Plasma 6.3.4, a bugfix release for April, is now out and is now available for all distros. kde.org/announcement...
- 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! mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-03... #training #onboarding #mentor #universities #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. kstars-docs.kde.org #astronomy #education
- This Week in Plasma brings a massive performance improvement to Spectacles screen recordings, a cleaner login screen for multi-monitor setups, and a less cluttered configuration page for displays. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/29/t...
- "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; and new features land in you chat app of choice. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/24/t... #twika #apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
- This Week in Plasma brings an easier way to customize you launch menus, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/22/t... #Plasma6 #freesoftware #linux #opensource
- The schedule for conf.kde.in is out! Explore the KDE community—who they are, what they do, and why it matters, learn about Digital Independence: Your Roadmap to Seamless Self-Hosting, Embracing FOSS in EdTech, and much more. Check the program here: conf.kde.org/event/8/time...
- "This Week in KDE Apps" is out! It covers a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompis, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's new version 8.6.0. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/t...
- digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0. Includes a face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system, automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality. www.digikam.org/news/2025-03...
- Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5! The games console has an update cycle that guarantees stability, but @valvesoftware.com announced yesterday that both the Arch base system and the #Plasma desktop environment have been updated. store.steampowered.com/news/app/167... #gaming #linux
- This Week in Plasma brings file transfer progress graphs, per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, improved KRunner search result ordering, and much more to your favourite desktop. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/15/t...
- Today KDE is at #FOSSASIA in Bangkok! Come visit our booth at the True Digital Park West, 111 Sukhumvit Rd, Bang Chak, Phra Khanong, #Bangkok 10260; chat with KDE contributors, try out bleeding edge software and grab some stickers to deck out your computer! www.eventyay.com/e/4c0e0c27 #thailand
- This Week in KDE Apps brings LSP Support in KDevelop, systemDGenie rewrite and big UI changes in Dolphin. You can also look forward to changes in KStars, Krita, Kdenlive, Merkuro, Kleopatra, Itinerary, Neochat, Kate, KDevelop, Okular, Kastsm Gwenview, and more. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/09/t...
- You're still in time to visit KDE's booth at #SCaLE22x! Come see us at the #Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA, and don't miss the chance to try out the newest KDE #software, grab some merch and chat with community members and contributors. Last day today! www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x
- Fixes in #Plasma this week: you can now remove the titlebar and frame from a window from the Task Manager, the digital clock gets a nicer-looking font picker dialog, and we have simplified the info shown on Display Configuration, among other improvements and changes. blogs.kde.org/2025/03/08/t...
- Finally #Linux on the official work laptop. I am one of the first in the state administration of #SchleswigHolstein to be allowed to try out the "+1 Linux workstation". norden.social/@jze/1141209...
- We are at #SCaLE22x! In the #Pasadena area? Come visit our booth, try out KDE's newest software, talk to contributors, and grab some stickers! www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x Our friends from Kubuntu Focus will also be running KDE demos on some fancy high-end hardware. Don't miss it! #event
- "This week in Plasma" covers how KRunner now sees in color, the disk widget finds errors in your drives, Spectacle gets a spectacular overhaul, and much, much more! blogs.kde.org/2025/03/01/t... #desktop #Plasma #Plasma6 #opensource #freedesktop
- KDE will be again participating in Google Summer of Code 🎉! Find out how you can contribute to KDE, learn valuable skills using Free Software technologies and get compensated. There are already proposals on the GSoC ideas page community.kde.org/GSoC/2025/Id... Which one are you going to do?
- Can you help us get KDE's software on all those new devices🔧? KDE is hiring! ev.kde.org/resources/jo...
- The latest episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" covers big changes in Krita, KDE's popular art app; SystemDGenie's re-design; and Dolphin's new, more compact statusbar. blogs.kde.org/2025/02/25/t...
- "This Week in Plasma" brings refinements for the weather widget, digital clock, System Settings, Widget Explorer side bar, and more. blogs.kde.org/2025/02/22/t...
- This Week in KDE Apps covers new releases for Kaidan, Tellico and Amarok; usability improvements for Itinerary, Kasts and Kate; fixes for KOrganizer and Konsole; and new stuff in Merkuro and SystemDGenie. blogs.kde.org/2025/02/17/t... #apps #freesoftware #opensource
- This Week in Plasma explains how we deal with post-release issues in the wake of Plasma 6.3—and how more testers are needed, and lists the UI improvements arriving in 6.3.1, and the new features lined up for 6.4.0. and beyond. blogs.kde.org/2025/02/15/t...
- Plasma 6.3 is Pixel Perfect! This is what you can expect in your next update: massive steps in the support and configuration of drawing tablets, pixel perfect window placing and zoom, extended hardware monitoring, even more customization possibilities, and so much more. kde.org/announcement...
- Call for papers for conf.kde.in 2025 is now open! Organizers of KDE's conference in India are looking for talks relevant to the KDE community and technology, as well as workshops or presentations targeted towards new contributors. conf.kde.org/event/8/abst... #cki2025 #opensource #india
- This week in KDE Apps presents... Many things! New releases of Krita, Glaxnimate, GCompris and Kstars; and improvements for Akonadi, Elisa, Dolphin, Falkon, Itinerary, Kasts, Kate, Kdenlive, Krita, KRDC, Marknote, Okular, PlasmaTube, Barcode Scanner,... and Tokodon. blogs.kde.org/2025/02/10/t...
- This Week in Plasma's final #Plasma6.3 polishing brings an nicer looking Welcome Center, better keyboard navigation for Kate's session's widget, an option make panel pop-ups use the floating style. blogs.kde.org/2025/02/08/t... #freesoftware #opensource #desktop
- KDE's recently adopted animation program Glaxnimate releases version 0.6.0 Beta. This is the first official _TEST_ release of Glaxnimate under the KDE umbrella and testers are needed to check for bugs. Download the AppImage and try it out! glaxnimate.org/news/release...
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- KDE's Indian Conference, conf.kde.in 2025 kicks of on the 4th of April. Join us, along with the Google Developers on Campus group, at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, for three intense days of talks, meetings and hackathons. conf.kde.in/2025/
