This Week in KDE Apps brings the news that Akonadi gets a bunch of fixes and optimizations, the Barcode Scanner gets a new WiFi QR scanning mode, Tokodon gets a battery of new filtering options, and much more beside, covering Okular, Kaidan, Elisa, Itinerary, Amarok, Calculator, and Bluejay.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/27/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #freesoftware #opensource

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The next major release of Kdenlive brings a 300% performance boost for generating audio thumbnails, along with higher-resolution waveforms for greater precision and a refactored sampling method that accurately renders the audio signal. This remarkable work was done by @etiandre and was made possible thanks to your generous contributions to our fundraiser campaign.

Check out all the details at:

https://etiand.re/posts/2025/01/audio-waveforms-in-kdenlive-technical-upgrades-for-speed-precision-and-better-ux/

#kdenlive #kde #videoediting #audio

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Grab your favorite drink and join us for the first Kdenlive Café of the year! Come hangout with the developer team, share your ideas and feedback, get some scoops on what's brewing for future releases and connect with fellow editors. Join the community! 💙

📅 Tuesday, January 28th, at 8 PM (UTC)

🌐 https://meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr

#kdenlive #videoediting

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This Week in Plasma: A snazzier time zone picker, smoother corners, sleeker dark modes and slicker panels.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/25/this-week-in-plasma-fancy-time-zone-picker/

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#FreeSoftware #Plasma6 #OpenSource

Currently coping from being busy doing everything and also not anything :(

But I am drawing them, since its taking so long, here's a compressed sketch so far, thoughts?

Are you a #filmmaker using #kdenlive? Let us know about your project!

Regardless of whether you are working on making shorts with your mates, features or corporate ads, online or TV shows or music videos, we want to see and promote them all!

We are building a showreel made up of clips from projects edited with Kdenlive. We aim to encourage more artists to move beyond expensive, closed systems to a free way of making movies.

Help us help the next generation of filmmakers! #videoediting @kde

Both Mastodon & Bluesky suggest that you add alt text to images to improve accessibility for the visually impaired
The text is not retained

How can I add alt text to my image files, ideally when I import the files ? Tags I make with Dolphin or Digikam aren't visible except where they're made

Thought I'd ask here before I start submitting feature requests

I'm using KDE Connect to share between an iPhone and a machine running Ubuntu 22.04. For the most part, it works as expected, but clipboard sharing only happens one way.

The problem seems to be that whenever a connection is established between the phone and PC, the phone's clipboard is automatically overwritten with whatever is on the PC's clipboard. If I navigate away from the KDE Connect app to another app to copy some content, the connection is lost. When I navigate back to the app, the connection is re-established, but the iPhone clipboard is again overwritten by the PC.

I'm not sure how to work around this problem. Any advice from the community would be appreciated. Thanks!

Hi,

When pressing Super-E when Dolphin is already open, I would like for the existing window to be unminimized and for a new tab to be created, rather than a new window.

How to do this ?

Thanks

Hello everyone!

I have the events from Nextcloud show up in the calendar, and that all works fine, but every update (at least I think it's due to updates) it all gets deselected and I have to tick the boxes again for events to show up.

I wouldn't mind even a hacky solution like a cron job to run at every boot or something like that - but I don't know where calendar settings are stored/configured.

Any help/advice is welcome!
Thanks!

Season of KDE is back with 14 new projects.

15 mentees will work with 11 mentors to add features, develop new educational games, create documentation, improve the power consumption of KDE apps and assist Windows users to migrate to Linux.

Check out all the projects:

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-01-19-sok-25-welcome/

#MentorshipPrograms #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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"This week in KDE apps" brings improvements in usability, accessibility and customization to @arianna, Dolphin and Itinerary, and supercharges to @tokodon ready for the #january20 mass migration.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/19/this-week-in-kde-apps-usability-accessibility-and-supercharging-the-fediverse/

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#ThisWeekInKDEApps #linuxApps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

This week in Plasma: Getting #Plasma6.3 into shape, more KRunner searches, better scaling and a whole lot more:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/18/this-week-in-plasma-getting-plasma-6.3-in-great-shape/

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#desktop #floss #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

@kde I've been using Global Menu for a while, but since it is less and less supported, I've finally removed the widget.

However, I did not get the local menu back! Now all my KDE apps have no menu at all.

I thought that restarting the session would fix it, but it did not help. Anybody has any hint on how to fix this?

"KDE For Digital Sovereignty" explains how KDE software returns control to institutions, companies and users, and gives you the tools to become the owner of your digital life.

https://kde.org/for/digital-sovereignty/

#sovereignty #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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Hi All,

So suddenly, my digiKam crashes with the following error messages:

Qt: Session management error: Could not open network socket
digikam.general: DK_PLUGIN_PATH env.variable detected. We will use it to load plugin...
digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
Path override failed for key base::DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES and path '/snap/digikam/95/usr/bin/qtwebengine_dictionaries'
[6440:6440:0116/182606.271718:FATAL:credentials.cc(126)] Check failed: . : Permission denied (13)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

I've been looking all over to try and find a solution, but I can only find old stuff. I do not seem to have the file '/snap/digikam/95/usr/bin/qtwebengine_dictionaries" so that is probably the problem, but I don't know how to install it.

This is running digiKam from a snap. Kubuntu 24.04.1 LTS x86_64 Plasma 5.27.11

If anybody can point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. It broke by itself, so I have been waiting a week or so to see if it would mend itself, but that does not seem to be happening.

Thanks!!

I've started using Yakuake as a terminal recently. The only thing that's bothering me is the fact, that the window background doesn't actually get transparent even though I enabled the corresponding setting. I found some older mentions of this, but no solution so far.

I'm using Plasma 6.2.5 and Wayland, anybody got an idea what might be wrong? Anybody got transparency working?

Hi,

Is there any remote desktop app that works on KDE neon 6.2 with Wayland ?

Thanks

Hi,

When pressing Ctrl-Alt-T when Konsole is already open, I would like for the existing window to be unminimized and for a new tab to be created, rather than a new window.

How to do this ?

Thanks

My Keyboard has a chattering problem. On Windows I was able to run a program that would detect this and fix it. I believe I could use the built-in keyboard bounce accessibility feature to solve this, but the lowest setting it will allow me to use is 100 ms. When I type normally I will sometimes push a key that fast (e.g., hitting backspace a lot or in a video game). Is it possible to lower this settings to something like 10 ms? Maybe via the terminal?

Edit:

Potential workaround found. In ~/.config/kaccessrc manually change it to something like 10. Save and reboot. It didn't seem to take hold if I didn't reboot. Even typing this now I am seeing some problems, but I also hear the ding indicating it is working. Change BounceKeysRejectBeep to false to get rid of the ding. A comment on the bug mentioned 40 ms, so maybe that's a good sweetspot.

[Keyboard]
BounceKeys=true
BounceKeysDelay=10
BounceKeysRejectBeep=true

Kash

Back in 2017, a bug report was created on bugzilla asking for 'Locally Integrated Menus' like the Unity desktop. This was a feature where the menubar of an app was displayed in the titlebar, appearing on hover by default (though you could make it always visible).

Over the next couple years there was some development, but it was mostly in individual window decorations such as "Material Decoration". In 2021, there was a merge request made to finally add LIMs into KDE plasma as an option for titlebars. Unfortunately, due to proximity to the release of plasma 6, reliance on x11, and "a technical disagreement over where it should live" [Guido Iodice, @giodice, 2023 comment under merge request], the merge request has had no changes since August 11, 2021.

Personally, I would love to have this feature as it would save a entire menubar's worth of vertical space on my screen and would allow me to make use of some of the dead space in my titlebars. similar sentiments were expressed throughout the threads under both the bug report and the merge request. many people also talked about giving the option of showing on hover (like unity) or showing always (my preference), and some even suggested making it the default behavior. Do you think this would be a good feature?

@[email protected] this might make for a good video https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375951 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/breeze/-/merge_requests/126/commits

Running android 14, oneUI v6.1.1. I go to filesystem expose > add storage location in the connect app, but I can't figure out a way to path to videos. Maybe that's considered a protected system folder and hidden or something? I notably can't manually type a path, so even having that may not help. I need a way to get there via the GUI.