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Kubuntu Focus becomes a KDE patron!

Creators of high-powered laptops and desktop computers that come with KDE's Plasma desktop and software preinstalled, @kubuntufocus offers excellent out-of-the-box experience for professional users.

dot.kde.org/2023/04/11/kubuntu

This image shows three Kubuntu Focus machines, two laptops on the left, a mini-box desktop computer on the right.
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Kubuntu Focus logo.
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Kubuntu Focus laptop, displaying the Plasma desktop and an illuminated keyboard.
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A Kubuntu Focus-branded mini-box computer.
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digiKam 8 has landed 📸! After two years of development and bug stomping, the newest version of KDE's advanced digital photo management app is finally here.

digiKam 8.0 comes loaded with new features, not least of which are a brand new online manual (available at docs.digikam.org/en/index.html), support for more than 10 new RAW formats, a new OCR tool that will help you lift text out of images, and much, much more.

digikam.org/news/2023-04-16-8.

digiKam Manual — Digikam Manual 8.3.0 documentation
digiKam showing a whimsical field of yellow flowers with a large tree in the background. The words "Welcome to digiKam 8.0.0" appear superimposed on the image, along with the EXIF details of the image, including the camera, lens, etc.
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The OCR screen shows a list of images containing text that digiKam is ready to read.
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A screenshot of the new online documentation.
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A shot of the options available from under the hamburger menu. You will find the hamburger menu in the upper right-hand corner of digiKam's main window.
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KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04 has landed! Today we are focusing on the new arrivals 🛸 to Gear. Many of these apps are ready to work both on computers and phones, like Tokodon, a cool Mastodon client; or the tube 📺 apps, AudioTube and PlasmaTube; the Kasts podcast app; and many more

Also don't miss all the new features in Kdenlive, NeoChat, Dolphin, Gwenview, Itinerary, Kalendar....

kde.org/announcements/gear/23.

A view of KDE's Plasma desktop, showing a variety of Gear 23.04 apps, such as Elisa, NeoChat, Itinerary, PlasmaTube, and Tokodon.
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Okular, KDE's PDF reader, now has a sidebar which can be moved around!
Filelight graphically shows you the state of your disk (and other storage devices). In this image you can see the new sidebar with a textual description too.
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KDE's screenshot Spectacle, shown here displaying the option of annotating a screencap directly as it happens.
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Do you work at Microsoft* but also miss a powerful terminal emulator? New in KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04: Konsole now works on Windows too!

More at:

kde.org/announcements/gear/23.

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* We couldn't think of another reason of why you would still be using Windows over Plasma 🤷

KDE's terminal emulator Konsole running on the latest MS Windows.
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g10 Code becomes a KDE patron🎉! g10 Code are the creators and maintainers of , the vital engine 🔒 that is one of the fundamental technologies that ensures 🔑 and online.

dot.kde.org/2023/04/25/g10-cod

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