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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.

dot.kde.org/2023/05/04/season-

Arrows pointing to changes made to AudioTube.
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A screenshot showing the improvements made to the holiday support in the digital clock widget in Plasma.
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An animation showing off some new features in Spectacle's annotation tool.
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news for April: 3 new , PowerPlant, MarkNote, and OptiImage land in Plasma Mobile; Tokodon invites you to explore ; NeoChat helps you organize events through with sharing; and much, much more.

plasma-mobile.org/2023/05/05/t

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This Month in Plasma Mobile: April 2023
optimage helps you easily optimize images, making them smaller (in megabytes) while still keeping them looking good.
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Screenshot of MarkNote, a new Plasma Mobile-compatible application that lets you create notes using the flexible MarkDown formatting notation.
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A view of KDE's Mastodon client, Tokodon, and its new feature that allows you to explore your instance in search of new users to follow.
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PowerPlant helps monitor your plants so that you know when to water them and take care of them.
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The Plasma Sprint is over, and devs have made headway working towards : 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.

pointieststick.com/2023/05/11/

Many thanks to @tuxedocomputers 🖥️ for hosting this event ❤!

The Plasma team during the sprint.
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Mock up of how windows will look up with a slightly darker headbar to indicate focus.
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The new default task switcher makes choosing the app you want to work with easier.
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This week in KDE: HDR is coming to the Plasma desktop🖥️!

pointieststick.com/2023/05/20/

zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/20

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.

Photo of a an HDR video playing on a non-HDR desktop environment. The colors of the video are much more intense and vivid, making the background desktop environment look drab in comparison.
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Graphic comparing the color in the sRGB colorspace (the triangle), commonly used in modern desktop environments, to what a human eye can actually perceive (the grey surrounding area).
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