"TOTAL (WINDOWS) RECALL" - The story of a woman framed by technology.
Discover the terrifying world #Microsoft has in store for us at
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
and support #FreeSoftware to stop it from happening.
"TOTAL (WINDOWS) RECALL" - The story of a woman framed by technology.
Discover the terrifying world #Microsoft has in store for us at
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
and support #FreeSoftware to stop it from happening.
This Week in Plasma: spoooooky ooooooooom notifications!
In this episode: We moved! And we added a useful service to detect out-of-memory (OOM) conditions, did some UI polishing, and also a lot of bug-fixing!
Read all about it here:
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/02/this-week-in-plasma-spoooooky-ooooooooom-notifications/
The latest issue of This Week in KDE Apps is here: find out what's new in the Dolphin, Itinerary, digiKam, Elisa, GCompris, Kate projects and more.
In this issue we look at Dolphin's new accessibility features, Itinerary's travelling aids, a new GCompris educational activity, and a bunch of upcoming KDE apps, among many other things.
Donate to our Fundraiser, Support Good People!
@gnome, @tdforg, @fsfe and many other community-driven Free and Open Source organizations are the Good People of the tech world.
This year we are asking you consider them (and also maybe us!) when you #donate . Help out the people that fight for your digital rights, your privacy,and your right to not be exploited by predatory corporations in the tech industry.
In this issue of "This Week in KDE Apps": We start migrating Kontact to Windows, Itinerary shows you where you are going (on a map!), and you get to Adopt an app!
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/10/this-week-in-kde-apps-adopt-an-app/
KDE completes another successful Google Summer of Code!
This year our new contributors worked on LabPlot, Krita, Frameworks, Kdenlive, KDE Connect, games, and much more.
Check out everything that got done in our final #GSoC 2024 report:
https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2024-11-15-gsoc-final-end/
"This week in KDE Apps" is out!
This week, we made it easier to build KDE applications with Python, let you import your two factor authentication tokens in Keysmith, and made KMail memory usage lighter.
Read all about it at https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/18/this-week-in-kde-apps-python-bindings/
Breaking Fundraiser News: More than halfway there💰!
We have already raised more than 60% of our first fundraiser goal! Thanks to the generosity of all or donors, we are now well on the way of reaching €30,000 before the end of November.
Will your donation push us over the finishing line?
This Week in Plasma: Battery Charge Cycles in Info Center.
blogs.kde.org/2024/11/23/this-week-in-plasma-battery-charge-cycles-in-info-center
This week we of course continued the customary bug-fixing, but got some nice new features and UI improvements too!
Fundraiser Appreciation Thread: Thank you for your support!
We thank every single donor and appreciate every donation we have received. Every € will be used wisely and will help support KDE contributors in their task of creating the best Free Software for the whole wide world.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
The fundraiser is not over! We want to reach €70K by the end of January, but we would like to start acknowledging all those who have adopted KDE apps and made our community's job easier.
We start by sending out our gratitude to Tanguy Fardet and dabe for adopting NeoChat, our native Matrix chat app that works both on desktop and mobile devices. You can still adopt it as there are 3 slots left.
Tokodon, KDE's Mastodon app for desktop and mobile, has been adopted by @petejones, @DaisyLee and Karcsesz, and still has 2 slots left.
Merkuro, our next generation calendaring system, has been adopted by manchicken and Nithanim, and there is still space for more adoptions.
One of our newer apps, a multiplatform eBook reader called Arianna, was adopted by Erik Bernoth.
fat_malama, Alexandru Traistaru, Neeko iko, Daniel Lloyd-Miller and mdPlusPlus adopted KDE Connect, the app that lets you connect your mobile and desktop devices in multiple useful and fun ways.
The increasingly powerful travel assistant Itinerary was adopted bu jxn_30 and Gabriel Karlsson.
The little known, but very useful KRuler app was adopted by Ofnuts.
Dolphin, KDE's powerful gateway to your files, servers and software repos, was was adopted by Ian Lohmann, Anthony Perrett, Linus Seelinger, Nils Martens, mdPlusPlus and txemaq.
Many thanks to Dr. Denis Stogl, Vladimir Solomatin, Akseli Lahtinen, Tjelta Meihack and Nithanim for adopting Kate, KDE advanced text editor and development environment.
Likewise, KWrite, Kate's sister editor for those who do not need all Kate's features, was adopted William Herman.
Okular, KDE's PDF, comic and document reader, was adopted by George Fakidis, Paxriel, tmpod, mdPlusPlus, Greg Helding and Archie Lamb.
Konsole, KDE's classic terminal emulator loaded with features, was adopted by Anders Lund, GhulDev, William Wojciechowski and Tobias Junghans.
FileLight, and app that shows how much space you have used on your disks, has been adopted by EisiBaer, Henning Lammert and Thibault Molleman, and still has 2 open spaces.
Kasts let's you stream or download and plave podcasts on your deskto or phones, and has been Henning Lammert and Marco Ryll. Three adoption spots still open!
Spectacle is a powerful app for taking screenshots an screencasts of your desktop and has been adopted by DomiStyle, Nithanim, JB and Thibault Molleman. Hurry! Only one spot left!
Kontact is a complete suite for emails, calendars, contacts, and task. It has been adopted by Matthew Lamont and F.
There are still many apps to be adopted: LabPlot, a very powerful data analysis and visualization suite has all its slots open; as does AudioTube, a useful app that lets you easily find and play music from YouTube.
Check out the full list at
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Haruna, Kate and KMyMoney (among many others); and a whole new app: Karp, a tool for visually arranging and editing PDF documents.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/25/this-week-in-kde-apps-bugfixing-week/
Gwenview, Elisa, Konqueror and KRDC added to the list of adoptable apps
You can use Gwenview to view and do basic edits to images, Elisa is a sleek music player, Konqueror is KDE's classic file and web browser, and KRDC allows you to visit and use remote in a windows of your local desktop.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
Black Friday bargain special! Adopt an App for €49.50!
And find out why funding free software communities is a better use of your money than spending it on stuff you probably don't need.
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
This Week in Plasma brings disableable KWin rules, less confusing flatpak info in Discover, a more comprehensible icon for wireless headphones, and a flurry of other UI improvements and nice new features.
https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/30/this-week-in-plasma-disable-able-kwin-rules/
We are at 99% of our first fundraising goal! Will your donation push us over the finishing line? And will you do it today?!??!
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
