digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8.6.0.
You can look forward to a smarter face management tool, an improved auto-tagging system that identifies elements in your images, fully automatic red-eye removal, and a new image quality feature that classifies images according to their aesthetic quality.
We also fixed 140 bugs!
https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-03-15-8.6.0/_release/_announcement/
Valve's Steam Deck updates to Plasma 6.2.5!
The games console has a slow update cycle to guarantee stability for users, but #Valve announced yesterday that both the #Arch base system and the #Plasma desktop environment are being updated to new preview releases.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1675200/view/529841158837240756
This Week in Plasma brings file transfer progress graphs, per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, improved KRunner search result ordering, and much more to your favourite desktop.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/15/this-week-in-plasma-file-transfer-progress-graphs/
Today KDE is at #FOSSASIA in Bangkok!
Come visit our booth at the True Digital Park West, 111 Sukhumvit Rd, Bang Chak, Phra Khanong, #Bangkok 10260; chat with KDE contributors, try out bleeding edge software and grab some stickers to deck out your computer!
https://www.eventyay.com/e/4c0e0c27
This Week in KDE Apps brings LSP Support in KDevelop, systemDGenie rewrite and big UI changes in Dolphin.
You can also look forward to changes in KStars, #Krita, #Kdenlive, KOrganizer, Merkuro, Kleopatra, Itinerary, Neochat, Kate, KDevelop, Okular, Kastsm Gwenview, and more.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/09/this-week-in-kde-apps/
@frumble @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Long press the spacebar on the keyboard on your phone and chose the KDE Connect keyboard (see first picture).
Then click on the KDE Connect plasmoid on your desktop, click in the text box (see second picture) and start typing.
You can also use your phone and KDE Connect as a mouse and keyboard for your desktop.
Some more KDE Connect goodness: during your presentations, use KDE Connect to move through your slides.
Or put your finger on the "Pointer", point your phone at the screen and a flaming circular pointer will appear. Higlight what you need by moving your phone.
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SkanPage will help you connect to your scanner and you'll be scanning all your important documents quickly and easily in no time.
And to keep an eye on what's going on on your machine, don't miss Plasma's System Monitor. Personalize pages with sensors and keep an eye on what's important to you.
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
Kontact is a complete suite for emails, calendars, contacts, and task. It has been adopted by Matthew Lamont and F.
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!
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!
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.
@juhele @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Use KDE Connect:
On your phone, go into wher you keep your files (say, your photo gallery). Select the ones you want to transfer (1). Tap the share button (2), and the devices paired with your phone will show up (3). Tap the computer you want to send your files to and they will show up in the "Downloads" directory of that machine a few seconds later (depending on their size, of course).
It works both ways, also from laptop to phone, and even between phones and computers.