I have a very cool Core 2 Duo laptop here that runs Linux Mint.

And it is pretty aweful. Would love to put Fedora Kinoite (Atomic KDE) on there, manual upgrades on shutdown, minimal set of apps.

But I dont know how well Plasma works on such old hardware. It is pretty bloated and messy sometimes, Dolphin and plasmashell are my biggest worries (the whole panel and widget stuff is sooo complex).

Has anyone tried Plasma?

An alternative would be LXQt with KWin once 6.1 comes out and it has full Wayland support.

Great to see that krfb-virtualmonitor is usable with wayland! So, kde is compatible with the wireless pc-on-tv feature on samsung tv.

My secondary head for my couch-office!

I'm using task switcher with Recently used sort order, but I still feel unsure if it's the same behavior

This is an issue that I know for a fact that is not specific to plasma, but I came here to ask for help since I run Plasma and I'm hoping that there is something I can change on the DE to fix it. Caps-lock is very slow and causes THis ISsue, and it is driving me crazy. I'm the person who can never learn how to use the shift to capitalize my letters and use caps-lock religiously. I have been using this fix on xorg, but it doesn't work on wayland, and I'm now back to square one. Any kind soul here knows how I can fix this issue? Thank you

MBition, the company that designs and implements infotainment systems for Mercedes-Benz, has become a KDE patron.

MBition uses KDE technologies and developers' know-how to create attractive and responsive interfaces that make Mercedes vehicles easier to drive and safer for their occupants.

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

https://ev.kde.org/2024/05/07/mbition-becomes-kde-patron/

Does that exist ?

Thanks

I was working on some stuff on my PC and stepped away for a bit, and on returning noticed notifications on it that some files had been downloaded via KDE Connect from my phone. I was using my phone at the time, and didn't send the files.

I know that you can quietly download files from a phone with its paired device (i.e. no notification on the phone, nor prompting permission) from allowed directories, but these files weren't from those directories, so...What may have happened here?

Glitched notifications, or something else?

Also, the downloaded files weren't anywhere on my PC, so... 😕

edit: I found an issue report I think may be what I was seeing: KDE Connect spams the desktop with a torrent of old notifications.

I've seen a lot of conflicting information on the topic, so I'm curious if there is an updated official policy that I haven't been able to find.

I wrote a blog post about my experiences on daily driving Plasma Mobile

I'm moving from ChromeOS to Manjaro. I want to put the Task Manager on the right edge of the screen, but don't see how to do this. I'm pretty sure this was possible a long time ago.

Running KDE Plasma 5.27.11 and Wayland.

This week in KDE: Looking towards Plasma 6.1

https://pointieststick.com/2024/05/03/this-week-in-kde-looking-towards-plasma-6-1/

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social \#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

Kdenfun on Fridays - some timeline joy before diving into serious work.

@kde

\#kdenlive #videoediting #streamdeck #elgato

So, I like working with tiled WMs sometimes though not always. And Polonium is working great for that in Plasma 6. But as I said, I don't want it enabled 24/7. And rather than open settings and toggling it on and off every time, it'd be wonderful if I could harness the power of KDE activities and automatically toggle it on in a particular activity and off on any other. Is it possible?

The Adwaita Icon Theme no longer follows the FDO icon naming spec breaking KDE applications on Fedora 40 Workstation and Co. See the concrete state of the issue in the linked article.

After a few months of using @archlinux with the @kde desktop I have moved back to @fedora don't get me wrong I love love Arch btw, but Fedora has won my heart over. It just works... Well besides the dual screen thing but that is a wayland issue. I guess I use X11 till that issue is resolved.

KDE will mentor ten projects in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year. Congrats to everyone who got selected!

This year's wide range of projects includes Python support for the KDE Frameworks and Labplot, PDF Javascript forms support in Okular, more powerful subtitles in Kdenlive, and much more.

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2024-05-gsoc-2024/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

\#Kdenlive 24.05 beta is ready for testing! Checkout new features like Group Effects and automatic subtitle translations. Other highlights include a huge performance boost to the spacer tool and improvements to multiple bins. Also, audio capture is back. 😉

https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/unstable

@kde

\#videoediting

Jeremy Soller 🦀 (@soller@fosstodon.org) [System76 Principal engineer, Pop!_OS Maintainer, and Redox OS BDFL] writes:

> If you are a #KDE developer, I want to talk to you about: > > - How can COSMIC apps better fit in when running a Plasma session > - How can KDE apps better fit in when running a COSMIC session

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112330811960096279

> \#Akademy2024 awaits your voice! Don't miss the chance to present your application, ideas, or best practices. Submit your proposals by May 24, 2024. > https://akademy.kde.org/2024/cfp/ > > Be inspired by our past sessions from Akademy 2023: https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/p/fndy89wuSCGHhyujXR72e8 > > https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsHpGlwPdtMp67EH84ljQohyCdqjCraU2&si=GoCWSL0lpB61Bvtc > > @akademy@lemmy.kde.social

I don’t use it and it keeps ruining my day. I recently got a vertical mouse that I’m still not 100% used to, and the paste triggers every time I press the wheel by mistake.

Since it just checked for updates already, hence the notification...

Thanks

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.0 "Castaway"! The new 3.0 is the first stable Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5 based version of Amarok, and first stable release since 2018, when the final Qt4 based version 2.

I was trying to analyze my phone's storage through Filelight, but it just gets frozen after I select the phone's folder. I didn't find anything in Bugzilla regarding this problem. Is the protocol supported at all in the app?

I have a wacom graphics tablet that I want to use, but the builtin drivers of plasma 6 do not have enough customizability for me/don't do what I want them to, so I wanted to use the opentabletdriver package, which worked well for me on plasma 5, but the builtin driver is still active even when opentabletdriver is and I then have 2 cursors (the one from the plasma 6 drivers is invisible tho) at different positions and am effectively unable to use the tablet. So I was wondering how to disable the builtin driver, I looked it up but all I found was the same question on reddit, so I thought I'd try asking here.

Another problem is that I also just don't have the settings tab for the tablet on X11, only on the Wayland session, the driver is still active in X11 but with default settings, giving me effectively 1/4 of the tablet for my primary monitor.

I can't really use Wayland, as of now my nvidia card still causes a lot of flickering in games.

UPDATE: I did a fully system update today and there are some changes now, plasma's driver does not interfere with opentabletdriver driver on the X11 Session anymore.

The Wayland Session does not detect my tablet on it's own at all anymore, however when I start the opentabletdriver daemon with the tablet in artist mode, plasma detects this and hijacks it, making any settings in the opentabletdriver ineffective (-> the Settings in the kde Settings also don't seem to do anything). However by Setting the driver to absolute mode (which I believe to just move the mouse to the right position) it works like it normally does in absolute mode.

conslusion: After an update everything works on X11 and artist mode is broken on Wayland (at least for me), still an option to disable the builtin driver would be nice

Hi, sadly I have a very limited internet connection (10 Mbit). When I'm watching a video and then install something in Discover, it takes almost all the bandwidth and the video begins to stutter & buffer. Somebody knows if there's a way to limit the download speed for discover - preferably without installing additional software?

This week in KDE: megabytes and gigabytes for all

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/26/this-week-in-kde-megabytes-and-gigabytes-for-all/

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social \#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

Gracias @kde por las empanadas. Estaban muy buenas.

You don't need a new computer for up-to-date software ... just the right software!

Come to #Umweltfestival 2024 in #Berlin to learn about the role of independent #FreeSoftware in the sustainable use of hardware.

🗓️ Sunday 28 April, 11-19h 📍 Straße des 17. Juni (Brandenburg Gate)

\#KDEEco together with #FSFE (@fsfe) and Bits & Bäume (@bitsundbaeume\_berlin) will be there! Some in the #GNOME and #postmarketOS community may be joining as well :)

@kde

\#KDE #BMUV #UBA #GermanEnvAgency #OpenSource

Impressions after a week using KDE Neon: Amazing

It's been fairly stable as I would expect from an LTS. There's LOT of hiccups with whatever is happening in the tray area (power and battery sometimes doesn't work).

Language is pretty screwed up. I speak both English/Spanish in a Spanish location. Installer chooses half spanish and english in the /etc/locale, and has issues changing it in the frontend.

Overall nothing I can't fix as I put stability overall

@kde #linux #kde

I wonder how software licensing fits into this new EU right-to-repair directive. It seems pretty critical for repairability!

Press release: Right to repair: Making repair easier and more appealing to consumers

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240419IPR20590/right-to-repair-making-repair-easier-and-more-appealing-to-consumers

"Manufacturers [...] will be prohibited from using contractual clauses, hardware or \software\ techniques that obstruct repairs."

@kde

\#RightToRepair #KDE #GNOME #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

(h/t GNOME Berlin)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1171992

> In this video, we talk to Aiśwarya Kaitheri Kandoth (Aish) who tells us about the growth of free software in Kerala, India, and of her role in the take-up and evolution of GCompris in schools there.

I was thinking that creating communities like "kate" or "kdenlive" would help organize the instance.

Does this make sense? Or is the instance too small for that?

Hi,

How to make code folding buttons appear not only at start of blocks, but also at end of blocks, like the following in JetBrains ?

!

Thanks

I’m looking for an up-to-date Plasma 6 tutorial for making plasmoids. Just a simple “Hello world” done correctly for Plasma 6.

The tutorial is for Plasma 5 and doesn’t work for 6 as I have no idea what I’m doing, and I haven’t found a decent way to debug these. plasmoidviewer doesn’t provide great error messages.

I found a tutorial on Medium for Plasma 6; following it I get the not-useful-at-all message on screen ("Sorry, there was an error loading Hello World."), and this in my terminal:

kf.plasma.quick: error when loading applet "ca.taffer.hello" QList()

I even installed KDevelop hoping it might have a project template, but no luck. And the “Get more templates” button in KDevelop does nothing. 🤷

I realize Plasma 6 is very recent, but my first forays into hacking for it have been insanely frustrating, which isn’t the new dev experience I want.

This week in KDE: sprints, enhancements, and kebabs

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/19/this-week-in-kde-sprints-enhancements-and-kebabs/

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social \#KDE #Plasma #KDEPlasma #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

cross-posted from: https://swg-empire.de/post/842090

> Finally the Onboard on screen keyboard works on Wayland > > This is too great not to share. Wayland devs hate this trick! I'll copy what I did from the bug report. > > > As a workaround you can use https://github.com/Supreeeme/extest to make Onboard work. Compile it as a 64 bit library and launch onboard with > > > > env LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib64/libextest.so onboard > > > > If you want to use it with KDE you can add > > > > X-KDE-Wayland-VirtualKeyboard=true > > > > to its desktop-file. > > > > I used kwin rules to get rid of window decorations and have it always on top without stealing focus. If someone knows how to make all other windows smaller when it's active that would be great. > > > > Only problem remaining is that sometimes the keys get stuck on touch input. At least on my Steam Deck on OpenSUSE. >

https://github.com/IgKh/katvan

Available as an Appimage.

Needs typst installed in the same directory or PATH to allow rendering and export.

Typst is a new, simpler alternative to LaTeX, written in Rust. It did a big headstart, seems to be in a great state and has a lot of sponsors!

!preview graphic

Currenlty there only is a VSCode / VSCodium Extension and a Webapp. A Kate extension would be great of course.

There also is a Language server for Typst which seems actively maintained.

Alternative

Typst has a watch mode, which automatically compiles the PDF.

You can then edit the source with any editor you want (best with LSP) and preview the PDF with Okular.

typst watch document.typ & okular document.pdf & kate document.typ