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We just held our 2023 sprint and worked hard on improving KDE's video editor Kdenlive for three days straight.

We tackled bugs affecting grouped clips, the #effects workflow, the organization of menu items, and much more.

Read the full report at:

https://kdenlive.org/en/2023/11/kdenlive-sprint-recap-november-2023/

#videoediting

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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.

https://kde.org/announcements/2023-gsoc-end/

#GSoC #mentorship #outreach

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Draw some inspiration for your desktop with the boldly monochromatic Graphite, the second global theme in the Off-Theme series.

https://quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-presents-graphite/

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Let me preface this with I was reinstalling my Arch system when Linux 6.6.1 killed the computer's boot cycle. (Dell Optiplex 990 i7) system. Anyway, I needed to get this back up and running and since I couldn't even get it to boot, I did a reinstall relying on my backups and on the Linux LTS for now. I am an early adopter with software and wanted to modify my repo to use the KDE-Unstable branch. To my surprise, upon rebooting after running an update, I was looking at the shiny new KDE 6 desktop! I was thinking maybe just a newer point release.

The Good

It looks surprisingly nice! You can certainly tell that a lot of work has been put into this version.
The new Dolphin interface is looking quite awesome! Nate Graham on his site details the changes, but it looks and feels more cohesive and unified across the board.

I had a crash while browsing SDDM screens in their system settings, by canceling it and it killed it, but the reporting system for the failure seemed to be extra fluid and submitted it without much input from my end. Nice Touch!

Interestingly enough

They have done some major work on the system settings and I think this will take some training of muscle learning from KDE Plasma 5. It seems a bit more logical if you will. And the change from single click to double click by default is a huge bonus for me. The KDE version number indicated something around 5.27.11 (If I remember correctly), so it isn't quite 6 , but I expect that to change once the desktop is finalized in Feb 2024.

The Bad

It's feature incomplete, If you need to change your desktop wallpaper, the option to right click in discover on the picture to set it is no longer there.
The sound settings, and other functions listed in Nate's blog just don't exist in the build I tried, but I respect that with it being Alpha.

The Ugly

This will probably apply to Arch only, but if you update it through KDE-UNSTABLE's repo in Arch, there is no way that I could find to fully remove it and reinstall it easily even by using the sudo pacman -Syuu command. So, be forewarned.

Disclaimer

Yes, I know, this is Alpha and not meant for daily use. I never intended for it to be installed through their unstable repo, but lesson learned. :) I'm glad I was able to take a glimpse at it and I now feel confident in knowing that on my 12 yr old machine, it ran nice and fluid and smoothly. It can only get better from there!

For now, I'll for sure stick with deploying it in a VM for further testing. :)

Send us your wallpaper design and make Plasma 6 look awesome!

Submit your art before midnight (UTC) November 14 and you could win a @frameworkcomputer Laptop 13 DIY Edition.

https://discuss.kde.org/t/wallpaper-competition-announcement/3773

#Plasma6 #wallpaper #competition

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I mean to post in the !opensuse community, but it doesn't seem very active. And with plasma 6, I mean, the alpha version.

Everytime I want to play a video (no matter whether the codec is h.264 or h.265), this happens:

When I play it using VLC, it works just fine. I'm running Arch with all the codecs installed. How do I fix this? Please don't tell me to switch to another video player, if I wanted to, I would have done it already.

The alpha versions of Plasma 6, Gear 24.02 and Frameworks 6 are now available.

Note that "Alpha" means NOT ready for production! Use for testing and reporting bugs only. End users: keep clear.

This is a testing version of KDE's 6th Megarelease. The final version is scheduled to be available in February.

Read the full announcement to get more details on how to get this software onto your test machine and contribute feedback to the devs.

https://kde.org/announcements/kdes-6th-megarelease-alpha

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Add some retrofuturistic flair to your desktop with Nostrum, the first global theme in the Off-Theme series:

https://quickfix.es/2023/11/off-theme-presents-nostrum/

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Software influences energy consumption. Knowing how to minimize it can improve battery life and is greener for the environment.

Learn how we are working on this at KDE in 'Measuring energy consumption of software' from #Akademy2023, now available online.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/9HTwqF9tETTRgmSiBgAssw

https://youtu.be/43KoxjpNVKA

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/7492459

"Chill your Champagne bottles – it’s official: the KDE Plasma 6.0 + KDE Frameworks 6.0 + KDE Gear 24.02 Mega Release™ that will take KDE software to the next level is going to happen on 28th February 2024! Let’s have a look at what I’ve been up to in the past two months, again working mostly on either Qt itself or dealing with its behavior changes on the application side."

Cool KDE Plasma Tip: Quickly access task manager apps with [Meta] + [number]

@[email protected]'s task manager usually lives in the panel located by default at the bottom of your desktop (see attached image).

Quickly open or display apps shown in the task manager by holding down the [Meta] (aka "Windows") key and hitting one of the number keys at the top of your keyboard.

Reach the first app on the left with [Meta] + [1], the second from the left with [Meta] + [2], etc.

#Plasma #KDE #tip

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We are nearing the halfway mark on our Plasma 6 drive to get 500 Supporting Members

Will you push us over that line?

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

#Plasma6 #fundraiser

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Ever since the renaming Mercuro starts and immediately crashes. Has anyone else experienced that?

The new KDE PIM report is out, bringing news of improved email, calendaring, contacts, and travel apps.

Your favorite email, calendaring, contacts, and travel utilities gained offline AI capabilities, PGP encryption and signing for calendar invitations, an improved look for Merkuro and much more.

https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2023/2023-11-01-kde-pim-september-october-2023/

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THE KUBE IS BACK!

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/188

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#Plasma6

To show the panel above a game window, without Firefox, Dolphin windows, the start menu etc popping up alongside it?

I'm using the 'Move keyboard focus between panels' keybind as a non-reliable workaround right now.

Hello!

I'm still using X11, and one of the things that's keeping me there is that I make heavy use of a launch-or-focus script, so that I hit a certain hotkey and no matter what a browser/chat/editor/terminal/file-manager/etc. shows up focused on my current desktop.

In the world of Wayland, this isn't so easy. If this can be recreated at all, I think it'll have to be made to rely on some sort of interface to Kwin.

I don't think it's possible now, but might it be in the future?

Here's my script, let's see if the lemmy interface mangles it (EDIT: yes, the last character should be an ampersand, not &):

#!/bin/zsh -ex

# -- Usage --
# ./toggle_window.zsh LAUNCH_CMD [ WM_CLASS [ CHECK_CMD ] ]

# -- Defaults --
# WM_CLASS and CHECK_CMD each default to the value of LAUNCH_CMD

# -- Examples --
# ./toggle_window.zsh dolphin
# ./toggle_window.zsh wezterm-gui org.wezfurlong.wezterm
# ./toggle_window.zsh firefox firefox firefox-bin
# ./toggle_window.zsh \
#   'flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=telegram-desktop --file-forwarding org.telegram.desktop' \
#   telegram-desktop telegram-deskto
# Yes, "telegram-deskto" without a final p. Hmm.

# -- Dependencies --
# - procps (pgrep)
# - wmctrl
# - x11-utils (xprop)
# - xdotool

# -- TODO --
# - wayland

launch_cmd=(${(z)1})
wm_class=${2:-$1}
check_cmd=${3:-$1}

if [[ $(xprop -id $(xdotool getactivewindow) WM_CLASS) =~ \"$wm_class\" ]] {
  xdotool getactivewindow windowminimize
} else {
  wmctrl -xR $wm_class || true
}

pgrep -u $USER -x $check_cmd || exec $launch_cmd &

Check out Off-Theme, a series that showcases creative global themes to spice up the look and feel of your Plasma desktop.

In this intro, we guide you through the process of preparing your system for the eye-popping #themes of upcoming episodes.

https://quickfix.es/2023/10/going-off-theme-the-prologue/

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#plasma #customization #desktop #Linux

Every time I try to create a new post in this community I notice that the post is never created, it keeps on loading forever.

Getting a little more technical, when I use the browser's developer tools analyze the request, I notice that I get a "language not supported" error message with a 400 status code on the response.

Is this intentional or is this a bug?

I use Endeavour OS (Arch based btw) and I've noticed that when I select to choose a new image as my wallpaper, it doesn't support the .webp format.

Does plasma desktop not support .webp images as wallpaper? Am I doing something wrong?