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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

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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."

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(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/

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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!

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

Hi,

After offline updates, KDE neon shows the GRUB menu, despite being otherwise disabled.

How to prevent that ?

Thanks

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Is there an option in plasma to snap mouse pointer automatically to default button in a dialog box?

I get the idea behind it for sure but why use our available ram for this? I thought whatever init functionality would just wipe clean /tmp at boot.

Right now what I'm looking at is that if a system has 16gbram KDE Neon uses half of it for /tmp.

The thing is applications could output to /tmp for a plethora of reasons that could maximize that. Whether you are a content creator or processing data of some sort leaving trails in /tmp the least I want is my ram being used for this thing regardless.

Basically if you drop-in a 10GB file in /tmp right now (if your setup has tmpfs active) you will see a 10GB usage in your htop. Example in https://imgur.com/a/S9JIz9p

I'm not here to pick a fight but as a new KDE Neon user I'm scratching my head on the why after years in Arch Linux.

Installed KDE Neon today but the whole tray area popup is not working?

Updated everything using pkcon update. After installing everything works fine it just that there's nothing when you try to open things like wife selector or power management features.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14567153

I've installed Arch Linux with KDE Plasma 6 on it, but the widget system tray is not working as intended... Does someone have a solution? THX

The second maintenance release of the 24.02 series is out with performance optimizations when moving clips in the timeline and across multiple project bins, packaging improvements to macOS and Windows versions and fixes to copy/paste of effects, rotoscoping, Nvidia encoding among others.

https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/04/kdenlive-24-02-2-released/

#kdenlive #opensource #videoediting #floss

@kde

I dont do video editing, but I guess a kdenlive community on this server would make sense?

If people are interested, I am sure that would be beneficial :D

Look! No ads!

Take back control. Choose Plasma.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

(Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128640/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-app-recommendations)

#Windows #Windows11 #Plasma6 #Microsoft

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This week in KDE: Explicit Sync

https://pointieststick.com/2024/04/12/this-week-in-kde-explicit-sync/

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