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The Krita team releases version 5.2 of KDE's immensely popular painting app today 🖌️🎉.

This new version of @Krita brings enormous improvements to its text handling features, FFmpeg integration for better animation export, and better support for more file formats, among many other improvements.

Read the full list of new features and enhancements here:

https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-2-released/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Help us reach our Supporting Members goal 🥅!

We want to sign up 500 KDE Supporting Members before Plasma 6 is released in February. We have already reached more than 💯.

Let's give it a push!

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

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If you would like to donate just once, that's great too!:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Cool KDE Plasma trick: [Meta] + [v]

You know how you can use [Ctrl] + [v] to paste in place the last thing you copied to the clipboard, right?

A cool and productive-enhancing variant of that available in #KDE 's #Plasma desktop is that, when copying and pasting a lot of different things, you can hold down the [Meta] ("Windows") key and hit [v], and a list of all the elements available on the clipboard will pop up so you can choose what to paste next.

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Hello, I use the terminal (F4) option in Dolphin all the time. Until tonight, the terminal window would change depending on whether I was in my local box or my server. Today, I noticed that the terminal window would NOT reflect my server box even though the GUI window to my server was active. Is this a new bug, or a new 'feature'?

Hi

I have a laptop with Ryzen 5900 HX and nvidia RTX 3070 GPU with kubuntu 22.04 (kernel 5.15) installed. The thing is I tried to switch the driver from 520 (it freezes quite often on when entering the desktop and sometimes freeze when doing normal activities like browsing) to 440 (lesser freeze But it still happened randomly). the current solution: hard-reset the computer, which is a notoriously bad solution. So, I have an idea by wipeout everything and downgrade to Kubuntu 20.04 which is older. But, I think it is much more stable. Do you think downgrading is good idea?

Hello! Yesterday I submitted my first merge request to a KDE software! I forked the repo, applied the edits, committed them and pushed to my fork, and then from gitlab created a merge request. after a few hours, the author pushed something into the master, making my merge request 1 commit behind the master. On the merge request details page, I now get this error:

Merge blocked: the source branch must be rebased onto the target branch.  [rebase without pipeline]  [rebase]

If I try to click on [rebase], I get this red error:

Source branch is protected from force push

what should I do to make my merge request "mergeable" again?

The Story of Gcompris Part 2

The story of @gcompris, KDE's successful educational software used for and by millions of children worldwide, is rich and complex. Find out how GCompris came to be through this series produced by @kdab .

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/3DKXgo5L7dcU5XKgr5D14t

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You can help make GCompris even better by becoming a KDE Supporting Member. Find out how here:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

#education #activities #kids

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Not sure if this is the best place to post it.

Introducing KDE for Students

Make your #study sessions more productive, compose papers with ease, and ace your #finals with KDE. Our apps and Plasma desktop will give you all you need to succeed during your studies and in #academia... and will even run fine on your old laptop!

https://kde.org/for/students/

#students #school #university #college

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The story of how a KDE contributor became the unwitting live witness of the successes of researchers in the early days of the Large Hadron Collider:

https://social.piewpiew.se/@ohyran/111149517809662853

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#CERN #LHC #physics

Come and visit the KDE stand at the GNU/LinuxDay in Vorarlberg!

Check out all the updates coming to Plasma, try KDE-powered devices and talk to the devs working on the new versions of apps and the desktop.

https://www.linuxday.at/

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#event #LinuxDay

What has changed:
1: Added preview of folders and archives (zip, tar.gz, tar.xz, rar)
2: Now the documents (odt,xlsx,odp and others) are converted to pdf and then shown.
3: Added support for .odp,.ppt,.pptx,.tar.gz,.tar.xz,.zip, and .rar files
4: It is now possible to scroll through the video timeline with the arrow keys.
5: The keyboard shortcuts have been changed.

Many previously required dependencies are no longer needed.
To preview documents (optional) you need to install LibreOffice.

If you want to support me you can find the donations link on the github page: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view

download: https://www.pling.com/p/2083711/
github: https://github.com/Nyre221/dolphin-quick-view

Check out our new "KDE for Gamers" guide.

Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming, KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!

https://kde.org/for/gamers/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Become a Plasma 6 Supporter!

#Plasma6 is coming in February 2024. Support KDE with an official membership and your name will be recorded in the release of our brand new desktop environment.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

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Finally got around to looking at this, and… we've basically had this solved in Ubuntu Touch for 6 years already. Long press on space bar to switch to cursor mode, which turns the keyboard into a rudimentary touch pad for moving the cursor and selecting text. It's gained a few features over the years, and is part of maliit-keyboard under @kde Plasma Mobile now too.

https://mastodon.social/@scottjenson@social.coop/111108791774428342

Here's a couple shots of the keyboard in this mode under Plasma Mobile on a @PINE64 #PinePhone as well.

I was thinking, with the recent news of a contributor to GitLab adding support for forge federation, given some time we could see that being enabled in the KDE instance as well, I hope.
So that brings me to a question, if it will be used, will we be able to largely move to reporting and discussing issues on the specific project pages without signing up rather than going to the more generic Bugzilla?
I was really hoping for something like this to happen because I find Bugzilla to be very dispersive and it feels hard to find the issues that you want, unless you remember the syntax needed to filter the results correctly every single time, so much so that I never signed up on there (but maybe I'm just too lazy and I never took the time to actually understand it).
On the other hand I think most other issue trackers integrated in software forges are way more intuitive, as well as having better discoverability, since they're right there by the code base.

If, instead, you won't do it and prefer to keep Bugzilla as the main issue tracking platform, could you tell us why? Is it to keep the developer discussions separate from the user ones so as to keep your GitLab more focused? Or would there be other reasons?

Hi all,

I'm a longtime Windows user and I recently switched to Debian. I'm curious if there's a way to customize the keyboard shortcuts in KDE/Plasma to behave a bit more like they do in windows.

For example:

1. When using the Meta+[Number] to activate a task manager entry, is there a way to change the order that they are opened?
   In Windows, if I have 2 Firefox windows open, Meta+[Number] will always open the "first" Firefox window, unless I keep Meta pressed and press [Number] again.
   KDE, however, will always open the Firefox window that was last used.

2. Is there a shortcut to open a new instance of a window? For example, something like Meta+Shift+[Number] to open a new Firefox window.

I'm using KDE Plasma 5.27.5

Hello everyone. One question regarding plasma browser integration. While testing Floorp browser flatpak installed , the mentioned extension cannot connect to host. Is it a known issue of flatpaks ?

Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session. I’ve read a lot of nervousness and fear about it lately. So today, let’s talk about it!

original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/16knbm9/working_on_a_breeze_dark_theme_for_home_assistant/

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