Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6.
It's not only Plasma on the desktop that is getting a new version, as Devin Lin explains in his blog post,
https://espi.dev/posts/2023/12/plasma-mobile-towards-6/
developers are working hard on getting #PlasmaMobile 6 ready for the #megarelease scheduled for February.
Calling all KDE users and new contributors: Season of KDE has started!
Work on kool KDE projects, contribute to Free Software, learn new technologies, become part of a team.
Participating is easy: Check out the #SOK24 ideas page
https://community.kde.org/SoK/Ideas/2024
Pick a project, and send a proposal. You have until Monday 8 January 2024!
For more details and links you need, please read this very carefully:
digiKam, KDE's powerful photo management application, releases version 8.2.0.
This version brings better support for more languages (up to 61 in the works), and an improved version on Windows.
Look forward to automatic tagging based on content analysis and deep-learning. This feature is currently in pre-production.
https://www.digikam.org/news/2023-12-03-8.2.0_release_announcement/
One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer?
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https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Or donate to our community:
Give your desktop a strikingly lustrous look with Shades of Purple, the third theme in the Off-Theme series.
https://quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-presents-shades-of-purple/
"Giving Tuesday" you say? How about this: KPhotoAlbum, KDE's fast and efficient image organizing and indexing app, releases its 20th anniversary edition ๐
If in all that time you a haven't used KPhotoAlbum to classify and cut down searching times, you have been seriously missing out.
Give it a go!:
https://www.kphotoalbum.org//2023/11/27/anniversary-release-kphotoalbum-5.12.0/
Want to give back to KDE? Become a Supporter already:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/
Or donate to KDE:
We are at the Qt World Summit 2023! Come and visit our booth!
Check out our new gadgets, talk to devs and grab some kool Konqi stickers.
Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades?
Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.
Google Summer of Code 2023 is over, but our contributors' work lives on!
Discover the new features, like email support in Merkuro, automatic photo tagging in digiKam, moderation options in Tokodon, and more through the stories of the people who implemented them.
