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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.

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202

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.

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This is a picture of KDE's pet dragons, Katie and Konqi. Katie is on the left holding a box with slot in it, and Konqi, on the right, is putting a coin into the box.
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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.

apps.kde.org/neochat/

Screenshots of NeoChat on mobile and desktop.
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Tokodon, KDE's Mastodon app for desktop and mobile, has been adopted by @petejones, @DaisyLee and Karcsesz, and still has 2 slots left.

apps.kde.org/tokodon/

A screenshot of Tokodon showing KDE's feed on Mastodon.
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Merkuro, our next generation calendaring system, has been adopted by manchicken and Nithanim, and there is still space for more adoptions.

apps.kde.org/merkuro/

Merkuro shows the month of November with appointments and tasks.
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One of our newer apps, a multiplatform eBook reader called Arianna, was adopted by Erik Bernoth.

apps.kde.org/arianna/

Arianna shows opposing pages of text and a pop-up with information about one of the characters in the story.
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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.

apps.kde.org/kdeconnect/

The mobile component of KDE Connect, showing options you can carry out with a connected desktop, like "Send files", "Send clipboard", "Presentation mode" etc.
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The increasingly powerful travel assistant Itinerary was adopted bu jxn_30 and Gabriel Karlsson.

apps.kde.org/itinerary/

Itinerary showing a trip on a map covering both Germany and France.
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The little known, but very useful KRuler app was adopted by Ofnuts.

apps.kde.org/kruler/

KRuler, looking like a realistic ruler overlaid on the desktop, measures pixels across apps.
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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.

apps.kde.org/dolphin/

Dolphin displaying bookmarks, files, a terminal and a pop up menu with the Git integration option highlighted.
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Many thanks to Dr. Denis Stogl, Vladimir Solomatin, Akseli Lahtinen, Tjelta Meihack and Nithanim for adopting Kate, KDE advanced text editor and development environment.

apps.kde.org/kate/

Likewise, KWrite, Kate's sister editor for those who do not need all Kate's features, was adopted William Herman.

apps.kde.org/kwrite/

A screenshot of Kate showing the structure of a software development project.
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A screenshot of KWrite showing a QML file.
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Okular, KDE's PDF, comic and document reader, was adopted by George Fakidis, Paxriel, tmpod, mdPlusPlus, Greg Helding and Archie Lamb.

apps.kde.org/okular/

Okular showing how you can use it to annotate a PDF document.
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Konsole, KDE's classic terminal emulator loaded with features, was adopted by Anders Lund, GhulDev, William Wojciechowski and Tobias Junghans.

apps.kde.org/konsole/

Konsole, with its terminal pane split into three and a sidebar on the right showing the SSH assistant.
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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.

apps.kde.org/filelight/

A screenshot of FileLight displaying how much the directories and files take up on a hard disk.
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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!

apps.kde.org/kasts/

Kasts showing podcast episodes on the desktop.
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Kasts displaying podcast episodes on an android mobile device.
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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!

apps.kde.org/spectacle/

Spectacle is being used here to capture a screenshot of a whole desktop.
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Kontact is a complete suite for emails, calendars, contacts, and task. It has been adopted by Matthew Lamont and F.

apps.kde.org/kontact/

KMail, one of Kontact's components, displaying a long list of emails.
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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

kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202

LabPlot displays many datasets as different graphs.
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A list of songs and albums AudioTube has found on YouTube and are ready to be played.
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A bunch of multicolored dragons holding up a load of KDE app icons.
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"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.

blogs.kde.org/2024/11/25/this-

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Composite image showing screenshots of Konsole, Karp, and Skanpage
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