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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...

✨A week ago, we presented the inaugural European Open Source Awards and welcomed the new #Academy members! 🤔Wondering what #EOSA is set out to do? 👉Read our latest article on the Awards and its future : lnkd.in/dQneNmaj #opensource #european #digitalisation #innovation #oshardware #ossoftware

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/

KStars, KDE's full featured app for #astronomy aficionados, releases version 3.7.5. KStars boasts a new dome slit visualization on the sky map, the possibility to record video sequences from the camera, and enhanced scheduler loading and settings management. knro.blogspot.com/2025/02/ksta...

Show of your creativity with #Krita! Come and draw Konqi on Krita at KDE's #FOSDEM booth.

This Week in Plasma: crisper screenshots, better context menus, improved mnemonics, right-handed panels, and more. blogs.kde.org/2025/02/01/t...

We're ready! Come and visit us at #FOSDEM2025! We're in building AW, level 1, showing off the newest version of Plasma, devices, applications and more. fosdem.org/2025/stands/

Come and visit our booth tomorrow and Sunday at #FOSDEM2025! We'll be in building AW, level 1, showing off the newest version of Plasma, devices, apps and more. fosdem.org/2025/stands/ Decorate your computer with kool stickers, chat with KDE contributors, test new stuff and join our community!

Don't miss Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss' talk at #FOSDEM! Joseph, community manager of the KDE Eco project, will talk about how IT accounts for 2-3% of global CO2 emissions and how FLOSS and moving to a circular economy can help reduce these emissions. fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

Lydia Pintscher, Vice President of KDE e.V., receives the European Open Source Award for Advocacy and Awareness 🏆! Congrats @lydiapintscher.bsky.social ! Thanks @eosa.bsky.social !

GCompris 25.0 released! KDE's compendium of educational activities adds Sanskrit and Georgian to the list of supported languages, and expands the number of activities to 195. New activities help children develop their artistic creativity, learn arithmetic, and more. gcompris.net/news/2025-01...

This Week in KDE Apps brings the news that Akonadi gets a bunch of fixes and optimizations, the Barcode Scanner gets a new WiFi QR scanning mode, Tokodon gets a battery of new filtering options, and much more besides. blogs.kde.org/2025/01/27/t... #apps #freesoftware #opensource

This Week in Plasma: A snazzier time zone picker, smoother corners, sleeker dark modes and slicker panels. blogs.kde.org/2025/01/25/t...

Season of KDE is back with 14 new projects. 15 mentees will work with 11 mentors to add features, develop new educational games, create documentation, improve the power consumption of KDE apps and assist Windows users to migrate to Linux. Check out the projects: mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-01...

"This week in KDE apps" brings improvements in usability, accessibility and customization to Arianna, Dolphin and Itinerary, and supercharges to Tokodon ready for the #january20 mass migration. blogs.kde.org/2025/01/19/t... #ThisWeekInKDEApps #linuxApps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

This week in Plasma: Getting Plasma 6.3 into shape, more KRunner searches, better scaling and a whole lot more: blogs.kde.org/2025/01/18/t... #floss #freesoftware #opensource #desktop

"KDE For Digital Sovereignty" explains how KDE software returns control to institutions, companies and users, and gives you the tools to become the owner of your digital life. kde.org/for/digital-... #sovereignty #opensource #freesoftware

In "This week in KDE Apps" we look at the usability improvements landing in Alligator, Dolphin, and Itinerary; new features for KMyMoney, Tokodon and NeoChat; and updated versions of Amarok and Skrooge. blogs.kde.org/2025/01/12/t...

This week in KDE Plasma: The last sprint towards Plasma 6.3 Improvements in usability, exciting features and mechanisms that ensure stability land in the latest Plasma release before 6.3 hits desktops next month: blogs.kde.org/2025/01/11/t...

KDE Testers Assemble! Plasma 6.3 Beta is here. The first big KDE release of 2025 is just around the corner. Plasma 6.3 will be hitting desktops in about a month. Meanwhile, we need testers to try out the beta and submit bug reports so we can work on making it perfect. kde.org/announcement...

⚠️ATTENTION KPhotoAlbum USERS!⚠️ Update to KPhotoAlbum 6.0.1! Version 6.0.0 contains a bug that can lead to data loss in the KPA database. Several special circumstances must concur for this to happen, and the photos themselves WILL NOT be affected, only the tags. www.kphotoalbum.org//2025/01/06/...

This Week in KDE Apps is out! This time, we worked on a mobile context menus, various KDE Connect improvements, an experimental version of Amarok based on Qt6, a killer feature for Kdenlive and much more! blogs.kde.org/2025/01/05/t... #kde #twika

This Week in Plasma: Artistry and accessibility Aaand... we're back! Happy New Year everyone! This first 2025 review brings the news of enhancements to touchpads and drawing tablets, KRunner, and Discover, among many over improvements. blogs.kde.org/2025/01/04/t...

You did it! You helped KDE raise €50,000... and €100,000 elsewhere. We knew you were all very magnanimous, but your generosity has exceeded our expectations. Thanks to your contributions we can all look forward to doing great stuff in 2025. See you there! kde.org/fundraisers/... #freesoftware

Donor appreciation post: Thank you for all your generosity 💖! We are close to reaching our first fundraiser stretch goal... kde.org/fundraisers/... ... And we want to thank everybody who made this possible. You have guaranteed KDE's survival for yet another year.

We are at 95% of our first stretch goal! With less than €3,000 to go, our fundraiser is about to cross the €50,000 mark, and we will be entering the final stretch of our campaign. Will your donation push us over the line? kde.org/fundraisers/... #fundraiser #donations #freesoftware #opensource

You don't need to donate or be a developer. KDE is a large community and can use talent from many fields. Have a look at community.kde.org/Get_Involved That lists just a subset of areas where you can contribute.

Adoptable Games - part 🎲🎲 What are your favorite KDE games? Here are some of ours, now up for adoption: * Kubrick - Rubik's cube simulator with lots of different cubes to pick from * KGoldRunner - Platformer that combines arcade action with problem-solving kde.org/fundraisers/...

In "This Week in KDE Apps"... * Itinerary keeps your travel data safe (and lets you import and export it) * Gardening app PowerPlant gets new looks * Kaidan, the XMPP chat app, releases version 0.10.0 and 0.10.1 blogs.kde.org/2024/12/15/t... Remember to support our work!: kde.org/fundraisers/...

Adoptable apps: Games edition 🎲 We are adding KDE games to the list of adoptable apps: kde.org/fundraisers/... Here are the first four: * KNights is for playing chess. Pick the chess engine, play over the Internet, monitor your progress and more. [Continued >] #fundraiser #donations #games