KDE Gear ⚙️ 24.08 -- Akademy Edition has been released.
This release brings new features to the powerful Dolphin file explorer and manager, the Kdenlive video editor, KDE's web browser Falkon, and much more.
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.08.0/
And don't miss the future of KDE and sign up for #Akademy2024 today. Only 2 weeks left!
Astronomy aficionados rejoice! KStars 3.7.2 🔭 has just been released and it comes with more features and easier parameter tuning that will help you take better photographs of the Cosmos🌠.
KDE urges the European Commission restore #funding for free software through Next Generation Internet (NGI).
Read the open letter here:
Mail, calendars, notes, tasks, travel... Find out what developers of KDE's personal information management suite of apps have been up to.
Get the breakdown of all the new features, and how everything has been made more reliable, faster and better.
https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-07-01-kde-pim-may-june-2024/
Learn how to reduce the power usage and make your apps more accessible in 8 minutes flat.
Phone Link is Microsoft's late and closed source alternative to KDE Connect. It requires you sign in to a Microsoft Account for it to work.
This means all the transactions between your phone and your PC are monitored and sucked up by Microsoft.
KDE will be at OpenSouthCode in sunny Málaga this weekend! Visit our booth on Friday June 21 from 10am to 7:30pm and on Saturday June 22 from 10am to 2pm:
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2024
And on Saturday you can also attend an in depth @kdenlive workshop for beginners at 10am where you will learn all the basics you need to get started in #videoediting using free software.
https://www.opensouthcode.org/conferences/opensouthcode2024/program/proposals/693
Come visit us at OpenExpo Europe happening in Madrid today and learn about Plasma and KDE apps.
For more details, visit https://openexpoeurope.com
Our Drive for Supporters is still open!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Help us reach 1000 members before Plasma 6 Release Day!
Joshua "@redstrate" Goins works on Plasma bugfixing, improving tablet/gamepad support and the various libraries that Plasma and Gear apps are built upon.
Nate Graham writes the "This week in KDE" weekly blog posts, squishes bugs, makes loud noises when things are broken, and sits on the KDE e.V. Board of Directors.
David Redondo is a Plasma all-rounder currently mainly working on Wayland things and Plasma plumbing.
@merthyr1831 @kde@lemmy.kde.social
We asked a designer to make a logo we could use for the Plasma 6 _CAMPAIGN_, not for Plasma 6 itself.
We asked for something that would remind people of the Plasma logo (a folded piece of paper with three dots), but that also looked like a 6. This what they came up with.
So no, not the new Plasma logo.
Sorry.
We will keep the campaign open so, even if you can't donate by the deadline, you can still get a chance to be mentioned in our acknowledgements later on in the Plasma 6 series.
You make it possible for us to do more and better things for our community and users.
We are also nearing completion of the Supporting Members campaign. Only 16 more to go!:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
We are completely floored by your generosity, and thank you for helping us keep KDE running and producing free software for the world.
Remember can help us bring you more and better Free Software by becoming a supporting member:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Or donating to KDE:
IMPORTANT
Please note that release candidates, although often called "sneak peeks", are still work in progress and must be installed and used with extreme care. They will contain bugs, some of which may still be critical. Do not use this software in production environments. Use for testing only.
You can also help us reach our supporting membership goal! We only need 20 more sign-ups to reach our first goal:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
If you would prefer a one-off donation or more options, check out:
https://kde.org/community/donations/
... But many people are confirming that the current version is already very mature and quite stable. Ultimately it is your choice. Use at your own risk -- and report all those bugs to
The final release is only 10 weeks away!
@merthyr1831
We also used it in an animation - but, again, only in the context of the campaign.