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Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

@Corb_The_Lesser @kde @[email protected] yeah the new wizard had to be completely rewritten for Qt6 and still requires a bit of work and testing with various email providers. 😔

KDE's educational software for kids, GCompris, releases version 4.0 with 8 new activities. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@leopold @riodoro1 it wasn't a gnome app, but a gtk gnu app.

AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

@kellyaster @Bro666 Pretty hungry but I'm cooking a ratatouille right now to fix this issue :)

Come meet the KDE team at FOSDEM! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

@shaan7 @kde @[email protected] You go to Fosdem or the next Akademy, and you buy one :)

Plasma 6 - RC 2 is landing on Wednesday. Get ready to Ask Us Anything! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

@Bro666 No it will be in building H this year, next to gnome, mastodon and mozilla

Is it true that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@parens The last financial report for 2022 is available https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/#working-groups_

and for 2021 https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2021/#working-groups_

Is it true that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@parens @troyunrau Exactly, it took me 5 years from my first contribution to finally getting hired full time to work on some KDE and KDE related open source code. And I'm very prolific in term of contributions (https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan).

It's quite an issue to get money, the current budget KDE e.V. has is around 200 000€ a year and that pays for a few part time employees. I'm lucky that I found a company interested in developing a commercial open source project based on KDE (gnupg/g10 code).

Is it true that Thunderbird collected more donations than KDE? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

@troyunrau @leopold We now create .exe and .appx for each app using Craft. The ultimate goal is to automatically submit the job artifact when releasing to the microsoft store https://blogs.kde.org/2023/12/20/gitlab-microsoft-store

We also do the same for some app for submitting to our own F-Droid repo on Android.

I create a new KDE style called Brise. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@misophist @Andy no in french it's pronounced exactly the same as in German and English 😂

One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@justin @kde @[email protected] we don't want people to vote on them. This will be decided by community judges.

One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

@jsh @kde According to https://discuss.kde.org/t/finalists-announcement/7862 yes, there will be an additional wallpaper pack with some of the wallpaper from the competition.

Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

@SanchoPanza @kde @[email protected] Also it's way easier to communicate to non Linux users that Plasma is an operating system than a desktop environnement has Windows and macOS have no concept of desktop environnement.

Or do you call macOS aqua?