cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/114533729540697944

The #Akademy2025 Call for Participation (CfP) has been extended until the 31st May. Submit your talks now!

https://akademy.kde.org/2025/cfp/

@[email protected]

Hello,

I have a fresh install of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma 6.3.5.

Every time I open an app which needs root privileges (such as myrlyn) I’m greeted by the KDE su window to enter my password. Even if I tick “Remember my password”, this does not have any effects, and the next time I’m asked for my password again.

Any idea on how to ensure the “Remember my password” setting in KDE su is honoured?

Thanks!

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/30544197

I noticed this recently, and now if I hover or click the network icon on Plasma, I see all my docker bridge networks, not just the normal Wifi and wired networks available.

Why did those start to show up, and how do I get rid of them?

"This Week in Plasma" brings a brand new HDR calibration wizard, an improved configuration dialog for the comics widget, textual headers for for audio devices in the volume widget, a new animation for when you empty the trash can, and much, much more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/17/this-week-in-plasma-hdr-calibration-wizard/

#Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware #Linux #desktop

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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/114516619366007525

Ever wondered how Akademy, the annual world summit of KDE, got its name?

Drop your guesses in the comments below! 👇
Was it inspired by a place? A person? A pun? Something totally unexpected?

The real story will be revealed soon — stay tuned!

#Akademy #Akademy2025 #KDE #techevent #foss #floss #opensource

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Testers assemble: Plasma 6.4 Beta has been released!

Plasma 6.4 will be arriving in a month, meanwhile, you can try an unstable version here:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.90/

Remember: this is beta software! This means it has only been partially tested. Install it at your own risk and report bugs to

https://bugs.kde.org/

#Plasma6 #linux #desktop

@[email protected]

KDE input handling in spring 2025:

Jakob Petsovits wrote a really cool blog post about the improvements in Plasma 6.4. input stack, funding and how you can help!

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/14/input-handling-in-spring-2025/

#kde

@kde

New Tumbleweed snapshot 20250512 released!

Packages changed:
*** Loaded with full @kde Love
grab it and enjoy it

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Official announcement
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/TAR4XMMDZ4GJWDMNFPTGTUXAR3KCY2EM/

Had a nice 3-day conference in #Gujarat, #India last month by #KDE. I published a blog post on my experiences here https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/kde-india-conference-2025/.

Check out the @prav project - an initiative I am involved in for mass adoption of privacy-respecting messaging.

I made up my mind to attend due to @sahil . Thanks to @bshah for organizing. Joseph, @double_a_runi and @arshubham for great time.

Also thanks to @contrapunctus for reviewing the draft before publishing.

Cc @[email protected] and @[email protected]

KDE projects in Google Summer of Code 2025.

New KDE contributors will be tackling adapting Merkuro to mobile, adding video-conferencing to NeoChat, creating a virtual machine manager for KDE Linux, and many more interesting and useful things.

Discover all the projects at:

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05-12-gsoc-start/

#GSoC2025 #GSoC #mentorship #openSource #FreeSoftware

@[email protected]

"This week in KDE Apps" brings optimizations galore!

Look out for boosts to @Krita's text rendering, improvements to @kdenlive's online resource and audio thumbnail rendering, Qrca's better battery usage, reduced memory usage in @neochat, and more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/12/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #videoediting #design #matrix

@[email protected]

#Kdenlive 25.04.1 is out with several fixes and improvements.

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.04.1/

@kde

#videoediting #editing #floss #artWithOpenSource

New Sunday, new episode! Today we'll discuss the alternative installation methods in @kde Linux, we'll discuss the late Kamoso port to Qt 6 and qml6glsink and everything in-between. @sitter and I will be discussing this today at 19h CEST in https://twitch.tv/daft/_code. Note it's one hour later than usual!

Hello! I wanted to make some order in my screenshots, it would be extremely helpful if I could define defaults based on the app that is currently focused when taking the screenshot, if that's at all possible given Wayland's restrictions.
Do you know if there's a way, I haven't found any setting like that in Spectacle, but maybe there's some kind of workaround?

Edit: to add to @[email protected]'s solution, a few tweaks to make it a little easier to handle:

1. If you want the actual screenshots to be placed elsewhere, you can create a symbolic link to that path with the name of the directory that is generated when you save the screenshot, e.g. I use it for a game, I tried to save a screenshot of it and it created a directory named "Genshin Impact", so I replaced that with a symlink to where I want it to be ("Pictures/Games/Genshin Impact/Screenshots")
2. Since the title is only added when you take an "Active Window" screenshot, you can trigger it with Meta+Print Screen and as a bonus the screenshot is automatically saved with this shortcut, without needing to change other settings

"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.4’s enters soft feature freeze, Dolphin and other KDE apps "New File" and "New Folder" dialogs get a visual overhaul, and that the file transfer process now inhibits suspend, among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/10/this-week-in-plasma-inhibit-sleep-while-transferring-files/

#Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware

@[email protected]

I recently installed KDE Plasma to my Debian system after using Gnome my entire life. I still quite enjoy gnome, but I think that its workflow is better suited to a mobile system like my laptop.

Using Plasma on my desktop system has been revolutionary - there is a stupid amount of functionality in here. In particular, widgets, themes, and activities are just so well implemented for the most part - I really feel like I can tailor the GUI to my needs and wants, and I think this is an enormous part of what is making Linux a truly modern OS when compared to proprietary alternatives.

The more I tweak things, the more the system feels truly like MY system - something that I don't think I could make work with proprietary software.

I was not a big fan of the splash screen until I found out that, of course, it can be disabled or customized as well - so now I find myself making vector graphics to customize that as well haha.

My only real regret is that having been on Gnome originally, some Gnome stuff can get in the way (though I do still kind of like using GDM instead of SDDM). Whenever I should do some big update/upgrade I am for sure installing plasma from the get go.

As someone who is new to KDE overall, and particularly with a system that has Gnome still partially installed, if there is anything I should know, I would appreciate it. Furthermore if anyone has any favorite widgets and whatnot, I would love to hear about them as well.

Thank you

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/114466110364436729

There are only 8 days left to submit your talk for #Akademy2025—send us your proposal by 15 May 2025: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/cfp/

And don’t forget to register to join us in Berlin, Germany, or online: https://akademy.kde.org/2025/register/

@[email protected]

Update your Steam Deck! New SteamOS Beta now with KDE Plasma 6.2.5!

https://www.steamdeck.com/en/news

#Plasma6 #opensource #freesoftware #gaming #LinuxGaming

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Season of KDE (#SoK) is over and candidates have done great jobs adding new features to @kdenlive developing tools and expanding documentation for @be4foss, and creating educational apps and games.

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05-04-sok-conclusion/

@[email protected]

#mentoring #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Kdenlive's spectacular background removal tool, guides on how to make your own ticket extractors for Itinerary (learn how to add your local transport service!), usability tweaks to Dolphin's interface and much more.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/05/05/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

@[email protected]