Read about what we did, the projects we started, the events we visited, how much money we raised 💶, where we spent your donation, and everything else that went on within the Community 📈 during the past year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/4473591

Register: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/register Program: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/program

#KDE #Linux #BananaMystery #FOSS #Akademy2025 #kde

We've been working on improving On-Screen Keyboard support in computers, mobile devices and TVs as part of the We Care About Your Input - KDE Goals initiative.

Check out what has been done so far in Plasma Virtual Keyboard and tell us what you'd like to see next. 💻️📱📺️

It seems to be available as nightly right now, and crashes if attempted to open. Is it being planned?

Edit: disable KDE nightly repo and only use stable, and it works! I'll be testing it out!

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.

Come on, for f*ck's sake, remove this !

... you'll soon be getting a smooth sleek scrollable panels, a shimmering splash of HDR colour, and a sweet suave KISS💋.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/4376804

We recommend everybody update to this patch release which is available from our download page:

https://labplot.org/download/

New features and enhancements are coming in the next major release. Stay tuned!

#FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #DataAnalysis #DataViz #Science #Statistics #Research #NLNet

The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the release of version 25.08.0 packed with over 300 commits of bug fixes and lots of polishing to give you a pleasant editing experience in the summer heat.

The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the release of version 25.08.0 packed with over 300 commits of bug fixes and lots of polishing to give you a pleasant editing experience in the summer heat.

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.08.0/

@kde

#linux #videoediting #kde #video #floss #artWithOpenSource #kdenlive

Dolphin generates previews for video files through ffmpegthumbnailer; but it also generates a few sequence images from the video when the mouse is hovered over it

what is this feature called?

I want to troubleshoot why some video files are getting the thumbnails generated, but not the sequence of images, and have found it quite diifcult finding something specific to this feature - all sorts of problems solved seem to be related to the thumbnail system itself, not the sequence of images

The plan is to install Linux for my brother this week!

He is excited, but one thing I'm trying to figure out is how best to make multi-seat work.

His use-case is a bit special: he turns his 2nd monitor into a 2nd seat when he invites a friend over to play games.

There seem to be 4 main ways to get this to work

1. Using systemd-logind
2. Using virtual machines with usb passthrough
3. Using Xorg
4. Using a supported Wayland compositor

Solution 1 doesn't work because the PC has a single GPU. Plasma wayland also needs a workaround to recognize other logind seats.

Solution 2 is not ideal because the PC is not very high-spec. It's a bit tedious, but it is straightforward and well supported.

Solution 3 is not ideal because Xorg is dead. I wasn't able to test this because at some point my Xorg installation broke, but apparently Xorg does support multi-cursor with xinput. (Note that it does not necessarily work in Xwayland, because Xwayland exposes wayland seats, not udev devices.)

Solution 4 is where I lack knowledge. I know the core Wayland protocol supports multi-seat, and clearly Weston implemented this feature. Does Plasma Wayland support this in any way? Even if it was configuring a seat and giving it exclusive access to a client? Or maybe it's possible to run a lightweight compositor underneath which understands multi-seat, and run two nested compositors on top of it?

Sigh

"This Week in Plasma" brings fixed bugs, improved UIs.

Coming up: much more soothing sounds, better accessibility for notifications (sans annoyances), and Konsole and Kate passing Wayland activation tokens back and forth, opening up interesting possibilities for inter-app synchronization.

Find out more at

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/16/this-week-in-plasma-a-lot-of-polishing/

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop #Plasma6

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=task-gnome-desktop+task-xfce-desktop+task-kde-desktop+task-cinnamon-desktop+task-lxqt-desktop&show_installed=on&want_percent=on&want_legend=on&from_date=2025-01-01&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1

Congratulations @gnome on your 28th anniversary!🎂🥳

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Hi. I am relatively new to linux and even newer to KDE. I just discovered Activities and it seems like a tool that will be just about what I was looking for to keep school work separated from my regular tasks. I have two things that I would like to change but I don't know if it is possible. Maybe someone could help. I would appreciate it.

The first thing is the panel / taskbar apps. If I change the order on one Activity it will move the app order on the other Activity. I looked in the settings for Icons-Only Task Manager but couldn't find anything that would help despite seeing some guides that said to do so.

The second thing is the Activity Bar widget. Right now it shows my Activities as Everyday and School in text horizontally at the end of the panel. It would be great if it could be a vertical switcher or small icons or something. As it is it takes up a good amount of space on the panel. I attached an image.

I am on Fedora 42 on a Framework 13" laptop.

If there are ways to adjust the settings to do the things I am looking for I would love to learn.

Thanks!

KDE Gear 🌞 25.08 - Summertime edition has arrived! Look forward to new features in Itinerary, Dolphin, NeoChat and more.

Whether you need to brush up on your languages to visit exotic lands, plan your trips, keep up to date while on the move, meet up with friends and colleagues, create content from your holiday clips, or just chill as your quaint steam engine trundles up a picturesque peak, KDE Gear 🌞 25.08 has got you covered.

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.08.0/

#apps #freesoftware #OpenSource

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

Hi all, I'm wondering how Plasma Vaults work for you.

I have a system using an AMD 7840U in performance mode on Debian Trixie (Plasma 6.3.6).

The underlying filesystem is ext4 on an encrypted LVM2 volume (SN850X WD NVMe)

Using a vault with CryFS, a vault with ~200 files takes over a minute to populate in Dolphin. After it is populated, writing to files in it seems mostly reasonable.

I'm just wondering if this is expected, or if there's something wrong on my machine. Is a different algorithm better to use for a vault?

>Cawnonical Mono-Glyph Icon Suite: a complete, system-wide icon theme featuring clean, monotone glyph-style vector icons that can be changed to any colour system wide. https://www.pling.com/p/2298642/

It has been about two months since I completed my icon pack project "Cawnonical" and shared it here. Since then, I have received some amazing feedback that has made it all worth it, plus using my own icon pack (which is why I even made it) has been so satisfying. I can confirm as a daily user that it is the best icon suite (I might be just a bit biased).

Today, my icon pack is now at version 1.3. Each iteration, I've been adding about 100 new app icons and fixing things. *In this version, I have added over 300 symlinks for app ID's to make my icon pack auto-apply better. *

Finishing Cawnonical 1.3, I feel my icon pack is now mature enough to share it again with the community here.

If you saw my post a while back but found my icon pack was missing stuff, check again. Since I have always been making icons as a hobby, I will probably be making iterative updates on Cawnonical into my grave.

Also I do take icon requests on the icon suite's GitHub page: https://github.com/Celeths/Cawnsole-HTPC/tree/main/Cawnonical%20Mono-Glyph%20Icon%20Suite

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that System Settings' pages become "smart" and can mark themselves as "not relevant" if, for example, you do not have the hardware to use them. They can also export actions to the sidebar, allowing you to quickly toggle devices on and off. And Discover can now be opened directly from Install buttons on FlatHub.

Read about this, and much more in Nate's blog post:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/09/this-week-in-plasma-quick-toggles-in-system-settings/

#Plasma6 #OpenSource #desktop

@kde@lemmy.kde.social