Today, tomorrow, and Sunday you can come and visit the KDE Community at our event in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India:
Meet contributors, learn about our bleeding edge technologies, and try out exciting and fun applications.
KDE adds The Open Source Promotion Program to its list of mentorship programs.
Want to learn how to contribute to an Open Source project? Check out our blog post and start writing your project submission now!
https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-03-29-ospp/
#KStars debuts a new documentation site!
A comprehensive resource that helps you to get to know and make the most of KDE's fantastic night sky observatory and astrophotography utility.
At the moment, only English is available. More languages coming soon.
#astronomy #astrophotography #nightSky #education #photography
"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation bar; new features land in you chat app of choice; and more languages get added to KDE's educational activities.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/24/this-week-in-kde-apps/
This Week in Plasma brings launch menu customizations, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator.
We have simplified KMenuEdit allowing you to customize your launch menu with ease, improved the quality of full-screen recordings with Spectacle, set the "Dim Screen for Administrator Mode" to be switched on by default, and enhanced the accessibility and keyboard navigation of Plasma's Calculator.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/22/this-week-in-plasma-6.4-improvements/
The schedule for conf.kde.in is out!
Explore the KDE community—who they are, what they do, and why it matters, learn about Digital Independence: Your Roadmap to Seamless Self-Hosting, Embracing FOSS in EdTech, and much more.
Check the program here: https://conf.kde.org/event/8/timetable
Don't forget to register: https://conf.kde.org/event/8/registrations/28/
Stay tuned for more updates on what is happening on Day 3.
The new episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" is out covering among other things a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information management suite (email, calendar, contacts, etc.), new levels in KDE's educational activity collection GCompris, fixes for Amarok, and digiKam's just released version 8.6.0.
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/
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/
KDE devs are working on this. It has become a priority of the "We care about your Input" goal.
https://phabricator.kde.org/T17433
We are currently working on implementing a new virtual keyboard called QVK that will built into Plasma:
@Rhababerbarbar @[email protected]
That is the proposal page. Of all proposals, and there are always quite few, the community votes and selects three to work on for two years. This one was not selected.
Spectacle release cycle has moved to that of Plasma and will be installed with Plasma, as a part of Plasma.
It used to be am independent app and on many distros you would install it separately (like on Arch) and its release cycle was that of KDE Gear.
And let's not forget everyone who contributed by using, testing, or blogging about our projects! Whether it was with code, art, bug reports, social media posts, or anything else, by desinterestedly lending your time and skill, regardless of if it was on a regular basis (shout out to all our hardworking devs!) or with a one-time, flyby commit that sniped a bug out of your favorite app, you too helped make KDE better for everybody this year.
https://community.kde.org/Get/_Involved
Have a great holiday 🎄!
We also want to thank everyone who donated through the pop-up. We're very grateful for your support!
Many people said they wished they could donate more. Please don't think you didn't make a difference! Every euro will help!
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.
We would like to remind you that both @Krita and @kdenlive are currently running fundraisers:
#Krita :
@ivor @[email protected]
Yes Konqis!