cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/5524279

The collection comes with 197 activities, including 2 new ones: "Drawing wheels", an activity for drawing with a gear rotating in a cogwheel; and "Multiple choice questions", an activity that can be enabled through GCompris-teachers (see below).

https://gcompris.net/news/2026-02-04-en.html

But probably the biggest news it the official release of GCompris Teachers, a companion application for teachers that lets you create customized datasets and receive pupils results for some activities.

Check out the full release announcement here:

https://gcompris.net/schools-en.html#gcompris-teachers

And download the teachers' manual from here:

https://docs.kde.org/stable_kf6/en/gcompris-teachers-handbook/gcompris-teachers-handbook/gcompris-teachers-handbook.pdf

Is Free Open Source software GCompris made by volunteers and is fully translated to 23 languages, but has nearly full translations for double that.

Why not help us complete translating GCompris and cover more languages? Visit

https://invent.kde.org/education/gcompris/-/wikis/Developers-corner/How-to-translate

And find out how you too can contribute!

Until now, I have been using Visual Studio Code to develop my PHP projects. However, I would like to give Kate a try, even though it offers slightly less in terms of overall scope. My PHP projects are usually organized in folders. In VSCode, I can save these as “workspaces” and also save various settings that only apply to that one project/workspace. I couldn't find any workspaces in Kate. I therefore assume that the equivalent is “projects.” Is that correct?

If so, how can I open a specific project? I haven't found a way to save a project under a specific name, so I have no idea how to open an existing project later.

Can someone briefly explain to me how working with projects in Kate is supposed to work?

BTW: I usually edit PHP files in a local directory, but when I save them in VSCode, the changes are also transferred to another computer via SFTP at the same time. Is there a similar option in Kate? I mean, without me having to trigger anything else.

This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:

https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/recognition-of-work-on-open-source-as-volunteering-in-germany#petition-main

This would bring fiscal and funding advantages for FLOSS organizations and the volunteers themselves.

If you are a German citizen, please sign the petition and let's get our volunteers the recognition they deserve!

Do you have something similar in your country? Why not help your national FLOSS projects get the status and support they often desperately need? Start your own petition!

Constantly when I try drag & drop on Dolphin & Firefox, the dragging stops mid-way before I stop holding left click, it’s a showstopper for me using KDE. I found others have this issue as well but is there anything I can about it? I’m using Wayland, NixOS, and a Logitech G604 mouse.

Hi all, Linux noob here!

I was wondering if it’s possible to change the behaviour of the context menu a bit. Right now, the menu appears when the right mouse button is pressed down. I’d love for it to only appear after the button is released.

I tried looking around online but couldn’t find anything, sadly.

Any help appreciated!

Coming from years of using GNOME, so please forgive me, if this is a stupid question.

When I have kwrite open and multiple documents open (one in each tab) and i press usual shortcuts like strg+c, strg+v, strg+s and so on, I get a annoying popup, which tells me that the shortcut has multiple meanings and it can't do what I want. If I have only 1 document open, it works fine.

From my point of view, this looks like a bug. Or do I have to setup something special?

Im using Arch Linux with kwrite 25.12.1

That means that Plasma 6.6 is only 3 weeks away. If you don't mind playing around with unstable software, please give it whirl and report bugs to

https://bugs.kde.org/

The Bouncy Ball widget is now available for Plasma 6 thanks to Filip Fila's crazed night of coding.

Hi, I have good news for those who use a tilling system. I have been working these month on a new system for Fluid tile with the aim of making it easier to maintain and more reliable when moving your windows

During the rewrite, I had to discard some user options that increased the possibility of a error. These options did not add any real value, and I preferred to prioritize reliability of the script

Features

Shortcuts

• Fluid tile | Toggle window to blocklist: Disables the window that is active or has focus so that it does not interact with Fluid tile. If the application name was already included in the block list in the user configuration, the list will take precedence over this shortcut.

  • Sequence: Meta+F

• Fluid tile | Change tile layout: Change the layout of the tiles and rearrange the windows

  • Sequence: Meta+Alt+F

You can change them in the system settings https://codeberg.org/Serroda/fluid-tile/wiki/Shortcuts

Breaking changes

• WindowExtendTileChangedDelay now by default is 300, change in your user settings with this value
  • More info: https://codeberg.org/Serroda/fluid-tile/wiki/Animations

Now, windows will always expand when possible, the UI cannot be disabled, and whenever you move a window to a tile that already has windows, they will always be swapped

These variables will stop working:

• WindowsOrderMove
• WindowsExtendOpen
• WindowsExtendClose
• WindowsExtendMove
• WindowsExtendMinimize
• WindowsExtendResize
• UIEnable

I recommend you take a look at the wiki where it will clarify your doubts https://codeberg.org/Serroda/fluid-tile/wiki

One more thing, this time the news isn't so good

Since my laptop keyboard broke (for whatever reason, neovim doesn't work well without a keyboard /s), I don't have the money to repair it right now, and I have to study for my firefighter exams, there will be fewer updates to the script in the coming months

I encourage you to try it out and let me know what you think. If you find any errors, you can report them in the repository

https://codeberg.org/Serroda/fluid-tile/issues

Have a nice day!

Edit: Demo video https://youtu.be/SKre99-ud-U

Hello!

Two years ago, I published a post explaining how to hide the desktop preview banner (https://lemmy.ml/post/8802064). Since then, that flag has been renamed, so I think it's a good time to remind everyone of its existence.

Currently, the setting flag has been renamed from HideDesktopPreviewBanner=true to ShowDesktopPreviewBanner=false in the ~/.config/kdeglobals file, under the [General] section.

~/.config/kdeglobals

[General]
ShowDesktopPreviewBanner=false

⛲ Source: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/92bcd0dfd0cb0c574006363eb287178e563b7c7e/shell/desktopview.cpp#L97

Have a good day!

SoK is KDE's mentorship program that introduces new contributors to Free Software. This year our mentees will help improve the state of Plasma, KDE Connect, KDE's games, KDE Eco, translations, KDE's websites, internal data collection and more.

Is there a way to fix this problem?, some text is now being showed correctly like hover texts using the oxygen theme.