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This week in KDE: features and UI polish

https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/26/this-week-in-kde-features-and-ui-polish/

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I was inspired by a recent blog post about contributing to KDE, but just found out I'm apparently blocked. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

This summer, #Kdenlive is all about the ASS. Yup you heard it right, .ass subtitle support is coming along with some nifty other features like multiple subtitle tracks. Stay tuned for more.

https://seri037.github.io/blog/posts/development/4/

#gsoc #gsoc24

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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112840545764269318

Take a break from #Akademy2024 sessions and explore Rothenburg ob der Tauber with us on September 11! Explore one of Germany's best-preserved medieval towns, walking tour, climb the town hall tower for stunning views, and more.


> Details and registration: https://akademy.kde.org/2024/daytrip/

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I always see:

• people being told they can contribute to KDE with C++/QML
• people being told they can contribute to KDE without code

But I don't often see:

• people being told that they can contribute to KDE with code that is not C++

I like C++, QML, and even CMake, but you might not be interested in them or you might just not be willing to spend time learning another language, and that's perfectly fine.

In this blog post I list a few KDE projects that you might not know about that might be written in your preferred language or in a specialized format you have expertise or interest in.

By far, the most popular programming language actively used in KDE other than the expected languages is Python.

We also have stuff that would interest sysadmins (containers), packagers (snap/flatpak) and web developers.

So Plasma has Activities, which is something I noticed a while back. I haven't really found any use for it other than maybe having a different desktop layout so I was wondering what everyone else used it for.

No shade to the people who added it, just curious.

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112829455939019985

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#Akademy #KDE #freesoftware #workshop

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Hello, First post! Having a minor issue but not sure it's worthy of a bug report yet (or rather, whose bug it is). Note: the blacked out icons in the screenshot are not part of the problem - they just contained personal info, so blacked them out manually.

At least a couple times a day, when I click on my desktop, it resizes itself, leaving a large black region around it, and cutting off icons. I've only seen one other similar report, but it was just on Reddit with no solution found. When it happens, I have to change my resolution to something else and back.

I'm kinda stuck on Debian Testing for now (bookworm generation), but I can bump specific packages to Sid or external repo, if someone knows what I need.

Otherwise, is there any other known fix? I can't help but think this may be another Wayland issue (I've had several and they're usually weird...see my dual monitor setup below for an example).

Other system details:

Software:

• Plasma 5.27.11
• Frameworks 5.115.0
• Qt 5.15.13
• Kernel 6.9.9

Hardware:

• Ryzen 5950X
• RX 6900 XT
• Dual monitors (3440x1440 & 1920x1080 - I mention because it looks like the desktop gets resized to 1080 and I noticed previously on Cinnamon, the system would get confused as to which monitor was supposed to be primary from time to time, causing weird issues...maybe a clue that it's a Wayland issue. Also, windows struggle to remember their positions on my 2nd monitor, after screen unlock or resolution change)
• 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD, MSI Tomahawk, etc...a decently high-end system from 3-4 years ago.

I still want plasma to report the crash, i just dont want to see it

I have two laptops, I'll call them laptop 1 and laptop 2.

Laptop 1 is my gaming laptop, and laptop 2 is a very low-spec one that I use as a jellyfin server. Here's the neofetch result for both of them:

Laptop 1

Laptop 2

The problem

On both of them, I copied a 5GB folder from the laptop to my 3.0 usb flash drive, I used this rsync command on each:

rsync -a --progress folder_path destination_folder_path

How is this possible? The Laptop 1 is way superior than laptop 2. The laptop 1 has an nvme SSD while laptop 2 has an old 320GB HDD, yet the transfer speed difference is insane.

Does KDE affect the folder copying somehow? If I copy a file on the same SSD on laptop 1, the speed reaches more than 400MB/s.

What is going on here?

KDE urges the European Commission restore #funding for free software through Next Generation Internet (NGI).

Read the open letter here:

https://kde.org/announcements/2024_ngi_openletter/

#freesoftware #EU

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This past two weeks in KDE: fixing sticky keys and the worst crashes

https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/19/this-past-two-weeks-in-kde-fixing-sticky-keys-and-the-worst-crashes/

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I am not a KDE dev, but interested in that topic.

To partiticipate you can sign up in the forum, and maybe stay a bit and help other users ;)

I have no idea why Mozilla doesnt show this theme.

I use Breeze Dark, as I am a simple guy :)

But the "Breeze Dark" Theme on AMO (firefox insider name for addons.mozilla.org :D) is just wrong?

So I created my own one, with the Addon "Firefox Color" and the Plasma Color-Picker.

Enjoy!

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112800881921935569

The #Akademy2024 schedule is here!
Find out all about KDE's goals, what's new in the latest wave of desktop and mobile applications, and how KDE Eco is saving the environment, backends, frontends, and KDE for work, life and fun.
https://akademy.kde.org/2024/program/

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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/LabPlot/statuses/112796650843881221

The latest release of #LabPlot is here! 🚀 🙂

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LabPlot 2.11 comes with many new features and improvements in various areas.

Go get it!
➡️ https://labplot.kde.org/download/

Read more about the release here:
➡️ https://labplot.kde.org/2024/07/16/labplot-2-11-released/

#DataAnalysis #DataScience #Analytics #Data #DataAnalytics #DataViz #DataVisualization #Science #Statistics #Mathematics #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #KDE #Education #Business

I love Breeze icons but every now and then I would like to change, needless to say that most of the sets have their default colors and do not respect the Plasma user's choice of accent.

There is a Fediverse-wide canvas event at canvas.fediverse.events (currently temporarily down with no ETA). Is the KDE community participating?

I redrew this Kiki icon as pixel art and I can, and probably will, place this image myself, as it's just 282 non-white pixels; I just want to know if anyone is going to draw the KDE logo, Konqi or other imagery so we can all be in one area.

1:1 image that can be used as a template:

If you have any KDE art you'd like to add, including better versions of Kiki, feel free to post them! I can adjust the palette into this year's 34-color one or even redraw high-res images as pixel art for you.

No post this week.

See you next week for what will probably be an extra large installment!

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I have two vaults set up using CryFS, one is large and the other one is small >1Gb

The small one mounts perfectly fine, the larger one doesn't mount it launches Dolphin but shows the file directory is empty

It doesn't throw any errors, just this weird behavior happens.. I checked the vaults hidden directory all my files are still there but encrypted ( just seeing random folders )..

Is there a way to force it to mount using the command line ?

Does anybody know a program that does this?

Every time I tried to enable the device auto mount on my second hard drive, it never worked. I always had to manually mount it through KDE's GUI whenever I wanted to access it's content.

I later researched and found out that I could edit the /etc/fstab file with my second hard drive's UUID, which caused it to always mount on startup as I wanted.

So my question is, why doesn't KDE auto mount also replicate this process of editing the /etc/fstab?

The KDE auto mount never worked on plasma 6, I believe it's something related to wayland (even though I don't understand how they could be related).