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This week in KDE: Discover and more

https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/02/this-week-in-kde-discover-and-more/

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Hi,

Crystal Dock v2.2 is out now!

What it is: Crystal Dock is a cool dock (desktop panel) for Linux desktop, with the focus on attractive user interface, being simple and easy to use, and cross-desktop support.

The current version (version 2.x) supports KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland. Other desktop environments will be considered when they run on Wayland and provide sufficient APIs.

Change log:

New features:

• New 3D style: reminiscence of Sun's Project Looking Glass and Apple's Mac OS X Leopard/Lion. This feature comes as default but can be turned on/off from the dock's context menu. Also this only applies to a dock in bottom position of the screen, for aesthetic reasons.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed a bug where task indicator does not change from 'active' to 'inactive' if the new active window is the dock itself.

GitHub page: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock

GitHub release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-dock/releases/tag/v2.2

KDE Store link: https://store.kde.org/p/2105085

Have a nice weekend!

Hi,

Crystal Remix icon theme v2.3 is out now!

What it is: Crystal Remix is a Crystal icon theme for modern Linux desktop environments, created from KDE 3's Crystal Project and Crystal Clear icon themes (mainly Crystal Project).

Change log:

General:

• Added size 96 (mainly useful for file managers)
• Added some missing application and mimetype icons
• Updated icons for terminal apps

KDE Plasma 6:

• Added some missing icons for system tray and Dolphin's context menu

GitHub page: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-remix-icon-theme

GitHub release link: https://github.com/dangvd/crystal-remix-icon-theme/releases/tag/v2.3

KDE Store link: https://store.kde.org/p/1226130

Have a nice weekend!

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112885751118415045

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When we launch Dolphin, we see a pane on left side listing both mounted and unmounted partitions. If I click on any partition, I can view it but I do not get permission to write to that.

As a regular user who is the only user for this PC, how can I set it up so that it gets mounted on clicking with full permission?

just curious but does anyone know any reasons for why I would want to install plasma-pa over KMix?

To me it seems like KMix should be the default nowadays seeing as it's built on Pipewire rather than plasma-pa with pulse, but maybe I'm missing something that someone might have insight on (besides backwards compatibility which is completely fair and reasonable)

Reason why I'm asking this is due to the archlinux package group plasma opting to include plasma-pa as a default whereas KMix is included in as a default for the group kde-applications

After Plasma 6 update, Dolphin started freezing every time I opened it. It freezes like 10 seconds every time. Doesn't freeze when information pane is closed.

It freezes about 10 seconds either when I click on search button.

I tried it in both Wayland and X11 and it makes no difference?

I think it is not a bug. What should I do?

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/LabPlot/statuses/112875517452958913

Labplot gets funding from NLnet to work on Live Data Analysis, Python Scripting, and Statistical Analysis ❗🚀

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Is there any way to speed up the task switcher pop in animation? I find it way too slow. Ideally I'd like it to be as fast as the one on cinnamon as I switched for it to KDE

Removing the color-coding of mimetypes, for accessibility for "color blind" people. (Like me!)

(this is not my work, just posting here)

So... I just set my keyboard in KDE settings to Dell Latitude(i have a dell latitude) and now i can press the volume keys and they work, and pressing fn lets me press F* keys. But, my menu doesn't open. I've set it to alt+f1, alt+volume mute, and meta+a, but no luck. I am on plasma 5.24.7, using trisquel gnu/linux(triskel variant). I am using X11.

thanks for the help!

Hi, I recently had trouble getting Wayland to work, so I was on X11. No w I finally managed to have it autodetect the resolution and not mirror the screen to my second monitor. However, now my PC is extremelly laggy (stutter every ~2 seconds, even the cursor) and I don't have a task bar. Right-clicking on the desktop doesn't do anything and pressing CTRL+ALT+T does make a small Konsole logo jump up and down on the cursor, nothing actually opens up. Moving the mouse into the top left corner does trigger the view of desktops (this post was written while I am currently in this wayland session).

Since I have an nvidia gpu (specifically a 30xx series) I followed the Archwiki, specifically under "Wayland" I set the environment variables under Requirements and then enabled the drm kernel mode setting in /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf and confiormed after a restart that the modeset was in fact 1 via the command under DRM kernel mode setting in the NVIDIA article.

After that I added the rest of the early loading stuff and regenerated the initramfs and rebooted, which is where I am now. I can't find any more info on what to do and would appreciate all help.

(This is a copy-paste from my post on redit)

This week in KDE: features and UI polish

https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/26/this-week-in-kde-features-and-ui-polish/

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Hey all, not sure how I managed this, but over the years I somehow managed to configure different paths which are listed in kf5-config. The for instance the cache path should be /home/matt/.cache, but kf5-config lists it in /mnt/data/matt/home/.cache. I'm sure this was intentional at one point but now i'm trying to fix up my partitions.

So my question is - how do I change the paths listed in kf5-config to where it should be on the root partition (/home/matt/...)?. I'll move the actual data from where it is onto the root partition, I just need to know how to change that paths are configured in kf5-config.

Cheers

kf5-config paths:

cache:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.cache/
config:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.config/:/mnt/data/matt/home/.config/kdedefaults/:/etc/xdg/
data:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/local/share/
emoticons:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.local/share/emoticons/:/usr/share/emoticons/
exe:
/usr/lib/libexec/:/usr/bin/
html:
/mnt/data/matt/home/.local/share/doc/HTML/:/usr/share/doc/HTML/

etc.. etc..

Edit: I just wanted to add that these paths are different from what is listed in qtpaths:

$ qtpaths --paths CacheLocation
/home/matt/.cache/<APPNAME>
$ qtpaths --paths ConfigLocation
/home/matt/.config:/home/matt/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg

Solved:

Turns out that it expands symlinked directories.

I was inspired by a recent blog post about contributing to KDE, but just found out I'm apparently blocked. Does anyone know how to resolve this?

This summer, #Kdenlive is all about the ASS. Yup you heard it right, .ass subtitle support is coming along with some nifty other features like multiple subtitle tracks. Stay tuned for more.

https://seri037.github.io/blog/posts/development/4/

#gsoc #gsoc24

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cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/akademy/statuses/112840545764269318

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I always see:

• people being told they can contribute to KDE with C++/QML
• people being told they can contribute to KDE without code

But I don't often see:

• people being told that they can contribute to KDE with code that is not C++

I like C++, QML, and even CMake, but you might not be interested in them or you might just not be willing to spend time learning another language, and that's perfectly fine.

In this blog post I list a few KDE projects that you might not know about that might be written in your preferred language or in a specialized format you have expertise or interest in.

By far, the most popular programming language actively used in KDE other than the expected languages is Python.

We also have stuff that would interest sysadmins (containers), packagers (snap/flatpak) and web developers.

These past two weeks in KDE: fixing sticky keys and the worst crashes

https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/19/this-past-two-weeks-in-kde-fixing-sticky-keys-and-the-worst-crashes/

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So Plasma has Activities, which is something I noticed a while back. I haven't really found any use for it other than maybe having a different desktop layout so I was wondering what everyone else used it for.

No shade to the people who added it, just curious.

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Hello, First post! Having a minor issue but not sure it's worthy of a bug report yet (or rather, whose bug it is). Note: the blacked out icons in the screenshot are not part of the problem - they just contained personal info, so censored them out manually.

At least a couple times a day, when I click on my desktop, it resizes itself, leaving a large black region around it, and cutting off icons. I've only seen one other similar report, but it was just on Reddit with no solution found. When it happens, I have to change my resolution to something else and back.

I'm kinda stuck on Debian Testing for now (bookworm generation), but I can bump specific packages to Sid or external repo, if someone knows what I need.

Otherwise, is there any other known fix? I can't help but think this may be another Wayland issue (I've had several and they're usually weird...see my dual monitor setup below for an example).

Other system details:

Software:

• Plasma 5.27.11
• Frameworks 5.115.0
• Qt 5.15.13
• Kernel 6.9.9
• Wayland

Hardware:

• Ryzen 5950X
• RX 6900 XT
• Dual monitors (3440x1440 & 1920x1080 - I mention because it looks like the desktop gets resized to 1080 and I noticed previously on Cinnamon, the system would get confused as to which monitor was supposed to be primary from time to time, causing weird issues...maybe a clue that it's a Wayland issue. Also, windows struggle to remember their positions on my 2nd monitor, after screen unlock or resolution change)
• 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD, MSI Tomahawk, etc...a decently high-end system from 3-4 years ago.

I still want plasma to report the crash, i just dont want to see it