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This week in KDE: the Plasma 5.20 beta is here!
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 23rd of January 2021 07:48:54 AM Filed under
Well folks, you finally have a chance to test out Plasma 5.21, in beta form! Please do install it and find all the bugs we missed. Bug reports have already started pouring in, and we’ll fix them as fast as we can in the next month.
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Kate now has a searchable HUD-style command palette that lets you trigger menu items with super speed! It’s activated using the Ctrl+Alt+I shortcut, and we’re investigating adding it to other KDE apps as well in the form of a re-usable framework component.
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KDE Plasma 5.21 BETA Released. Download and Test Now.
Submitted by arindam1989 on Thursday 21st of January 2021 05:44:56 PM Filed under


The KDE team announced the release of KDE Plasma 5.21 BETA and it is available for download and test. KDE Plasma 5.21 brings many new features such as a new kickoff menu, low-latency compositing, Wayland updates, new apps, and more. Here's what's new and how to download & test.
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KDE Plasma 5.21 Desktop Enters Beta, Here’s How to Test It Right Now
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Thursday 21st of January 2021 04:10:40 PM Filed under
Packed with numerous new features and improvements, the KDE Plasma 5.21 desktop environment promises a brand-new application launcher, a new dark theme for the Plasma desktop and a light theme for applications, a refreshed color scheme for all default KDE apps, as well as the highly-anticipated Plasma System Monitor app.
Of course, there will also be a lot of KWin and Wayland improvements that should reduce latency and smooth animations throughout the entire desktop environment, better compatibility with GTK applications, especially with apps written in GTK 4.
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Cutelyst 2.14.2 and ASql 0.27 released!
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 19th of January 2021 07:46:59 PM Filed under
Cutelyst a Qt Web Framework and ASql an asyncronous SQL library for Qt got new releases.
The Cutelyst version 2.14.0 was made in December but was a silent one, I had some issues in production but weren’t related to Cutelyst, the .1 release included some contributions by Adriaan de Groot, I also did some changes for Qt 5.15 and Qt6 but for Qt6 a new major version is needed.
Besides a bunch of fixes, a major regression on the plaintext benchmarks got fixed, unfourtunately not in time for round 20, but thanks to ASql you will Cutelyst got a better scoring on SQL related benchmarks.
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Krita 4.4.2 Released
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 19th of January 2021 05:10:22 PM Filed under
Today, the Krita team ihas released Krita 4.4.2. With over 300 changes, this is mainly a bugfix release, though some key new features, too!
Sharaf Zaman’s Google Summer of Code project has landed in this release! Compatible with Inkscape, Krita now provides the second independent implementation of SVG Mesh Gradients. Mesh gradients are used on vector objects and can deliver really natural looking results...
Also: Krita 4.4.2 Released with New Tools, Brushes, and Halftone Filter
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KDE Customization Guide: Here are 11 Ways You Can Change the Look and Feel of Your KDE-Powered Linux Desktop
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 17th of January 2021 03:25:03 PM Filed under


KDE Plasma desktop is unarguably the pinnacle of customization, as you can change almost anything you want. You can go to the extent of making it act as a tiling window manager.
KDE Plasma can confuse a beginner by the degree of customization it offers. As options tend to pile on top of options, the user starts getting lost.
To address that issue, I’ll show you the key points of KDE Plasma customization that you should be aware of.
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KDE: On KDE e.V., OSM, and SoK
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 16th of January 2021 09:24:51 PM Filed under
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KDE e.V. board meeting January 2021 | [bobulate]
A few times per year, the board of KDE e.V. gets together for a board meeting. While we also meet once a week for an hour to keep track of what is happening within the organization, the longer meetings are when big tasks are undertaken and the dusty corners are tidied up.
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KDE OSM Indoor Map Demo App
Last year KDE Itinerary got an indoor map view for airports and train stations, using a specialized map renderer and using raw OSM data as source. Improving that by contributing to upstream OSM data as well as our MapCSS styles now got a bit easier.
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Season Of KDE - The Beginning
Hello KDE Community I am Manav Sethi an engineering student from India and I got selected for Sok this year .
I will be working on creating an app for the Promo Team which will be used to post to multiple social media platforms at once. Since the Promo team Members spend time posting the same thing on multiple platforms this will definitely help in increasing their efficiency.
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The new beginnings- Season Of KDE
Hello KDE community! I am Sai Moukthik Konduru, an undergrad from India. This pandemic gave me a chance to explore my interest in programming, and it has been a roller-coaster ride, to say the least. Recently I got to know about the concept of Open-source projects. The idea of collaborating and learning from the best and brightest minds across the globe has pumped me up so much that I started looking for organizations to work with. I found the KDE community thanks to a youtube video and got to know about the Season of KDE. I was not sure if I was good enough to be a part of Sok. But thanks to Devin Lin (who helped me make my first open-source contribution and is also my mentor for SoK), I am confident that I can complete this project as long as there is this huge community behind me.
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This week in KDE: text reflow in Konsole!
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 16th of January 2021 11:41:18 AM Filed under
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This week in KDE: text reflow in Konsole!
This week a huge new feature landed in Konsole: it now reflows the text when you resize the window! This feature can be turned off if you don’t like it, but comes on by default. It works really well. Thanks very much to Carlos Alves and Tomaz Canabrava for this work! It will be released in Konsole 21.04.
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KDE Will Reflow Text In Konsole On Window Resizing, Kirigami Icons Now Use Less RAM - Phoronix
KDE developers have remained very busy in the new year working to improve their open-source desktop stack.
Following last week's near total rewrite of the KWin compositing code there has been an interesting batch of new improvements this week. Some of this week's highlights include:
- KDE's Konsole now re-flows text when resizing the window. The functionality is enabled by default (but there is an option to disable it).
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How to use KDE's productivity suite, Kontact
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Saturday 16th of January 2021 08:30:50 AM Filed under
In prior years, this annual series covered individual apps. This year, we are looking at all-in-one solutions in addition to strategies to help in 2021. Welcome to day 6 of 21 Days of Productivity in 2021.
In the long, long ago, when compiling a kernel was the only way to get wifi drivers, a graphical environment was mainly for running a web browser and opening lots of terminal windows. The look and feel was a mishmash of whatever toolkit the author of the program chose to use. And then, in 1996 Matthias Ettrich proposed and later released the first version of KDE. It was based on the then proprietary Qt toolkit (since made Free and Open Source). This release sparked what can only be called a desktop revolution on Linux, with the creation of the GNOME Desktop using the at-that-time FOSS GTK Toolkit. Between KDE and GNOME, Linux went from a only computer people use Linux operating system to a robust desktop environment for everyone.
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Discover Fedora Kinoite: a Silverblue variant with the KDE Plasma desktop
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 15th of January 2021 06:37:41 PM Filed under

Fedora Kinoite is an immutable desktop operating system featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. In short, Fedora Kinoite is like Fedora Silverblue but with KDE instead of GNOME. It is an emerging variant of Fedora, based on the same technologies as Fedora Silverblue (rpm-ostree, Flatpak, podman) and created exclusively from official RPM packages from Fedora.
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