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A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.

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@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

As the "Days of Much Spending" near, many of the -powered hardware vendors have updated their models and have juicy for those of you in the market for new hardware.

With that in mind we have updated our page with the latest models and links to the stores where you can find the best .

https://kde.org/hardware/

A tall screenshot of KDE.org's hardware page, where we recommend Plasma-powered devices. Here you can find links to TUXEDO Computers', Slimbook's, Kubuntu Focus' and Valve's Steam Deck sites
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@kubuntufocus has discounts of up to $150 on their devices.

https://kfocus.org/

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And @slimbook has recently released their KDE Slimbook VII and offer equally attractive discounts:

https://slimbook.com/en/blog/news-1/post/black-friday-deals-at-slimbook-490

Slimbook is also running the campaign where you post a photo of your current Slimbook device,and you can win a fun pack of merch:

https://linuxrocks.online/@slimbook/115582711535975285

The campaign ends December 2, so hurry!

@thor@mast.ttk.is avatar thor , to KDE Icelandic

@opensuse There are some problems in kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE / @kde land.

PackageKit stops working intermittedly and there seems to be no resiliency built-in. This leaves KDE to slowly spiral into self-harm, doom and gloom until such a time (sometimes days later) it blows up and throws you out.

I've had my workstation log me out on three occasions already. Not ok. Especially not ok if new users are getting this experience, but even old dogs like myself feel intimidated.

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@thor @opensuse kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE

PackageKit is not a KDE project. Please log a report with FreeDesktop.

Here is how:

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/pk-bugs.html

@jzb@hachyderm.io avatar jzb , to random

The @kde project is doing a somewhat novel (I think?) fundraiser. It's encouraging people to donate by "adopting" apps they find useful and giving donors credit on the app's page on apps.kde.org.

I decided I should chip in for Kid3, the audio tag editor -- I have used Kid3 extensively for years and years. It only seems right to give a little something back.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

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@oleksandr @jzb

Donations go to the common KDE pot that is used to benefit all projects and contributors.

But it is worth pointing out that the Adoption Drive serves to shine a light on KDE's apps. KDE is more than just Plasma, Plasma, Plasma.

During the Drive, we get lots of comments from users that say things like: "Oh! I didn't even know such-and-such existed. Just what I needed!". This is useful for everybody.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-an-app

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@oleksandr @jzb

The Adoption Drive is also a great motivator for contributors. The humans who create KDE's app are by and large volunteers. Money is not a motivator for them. Seeing how users appreciate their work is. The Adoption Drive makes users' appreciation explicit.

One take-away of the above for all readers is: if you like your software open and free, don't be shy and thank your friendly neighborhood FLOSS dev now and frequently! Often it is all they need to keep going.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

news: Talking of , we have 5 more you can adopt:

  • Spectacle is Plasma's inbuilt screen capture app. It can snap pics, record videos, edit them, and will son be able to extract text from captured images.

  • KMahJongg is a classic patience game where you have to match pairs of Mah Jongg pieces and clear the board.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-an-app

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A screenshot of KMahJongg showing a new game with all the Mah Jongg tiles laid out in the shape of a beetle.
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[... continued]

  • Partition Manage is a fundamental piece of kit that allows you to edit, remove, create and in general manage partition on all connected storage devices.

  • ISO Image Writer, likewise, takes the guesswork out of creating bootable USB drives for testing or installing new operating systems.

  • Kleopatra manages all your digital certificates, signatures and cryptographic keys for your email, messages, and everything else.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-an-app

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@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

news: We reached our first goal of €50,000 in a week and have now surpassed our first stretch goal of €75,000. Our final stretch goal is to reach €100,000 before the end of year.

Want to help out? There's an ever-growing list of for you to adopt, a Black Friday fundraiser special on the way that will explain KDE's work in computing, and more activities coming up.

Donate now and contribute to funding KDE through 2026:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

The KDE dragons, Katie and Konqi, stand on either side of a jar into which golden coins are falling.
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@trezzer@social.linux.pizza avatar trezzer , to random

@kde Bringing up a touch keyboard in KDE on my Fedora 42/43 tablet, I get a bunch of flickering around the bottom taskbar as if they are battling out who gets to stay on top, but I am unsure whether to report to KDE or Fedora. I assume the default keyboard is part of KDE?

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@trezzer

Please report this to

https://bug.kde.org

giving as much detail as you can.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

news: We are about to break 75,000€ and enable our final stretch goal.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

To push things along, we are putting 5 more up for adoption:

  • Elisa — KDE's sleek and flexible music player that works both on your desktop and mobile

  • KDE Connect — your one stop solution for synching everything on your phone with your desktop and vice versa

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KDE Connect running on a phone, showing how it can be used to control media being played on your computer.

KDE Connect running on a phone, showing how it can be used to control media being played on your computer.
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[... Continued from prior toot]

  • KDiff3 — a tool for comparing up to 3 files, merge them, create a patch, etc

  • KRename — a powerful tool for batch-renaming multiple files

  • Photos — Previously known as Koko, this is an image viewer that works on your desktop and mobile, and comes with basic editing functions.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adoptable-apps

KRename showing a list of image files (with previews) that can be renamed.
Photos (Koko) showing the photos contained in a directory.

@mingu@fosstodon.org avatar mingu , to random

plasma on Firefox store, after the recent update.

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@mingu

There is a new feature that allows you (not us) to search your browser history with your desktop search (e.g. KRunner or similar).

This feature can be easily switched off within the extension's options menu.

I mean, c'mon, why would KDE, a non-profit with no commercial interest in anything, a community run by volunteers, have any interest in where you have been online? Please be serious.

Screenshot showing the Plasma extension's configuration and an arrow pointing to the checkbox that deactivates the inclusion of the browser history in desktop search results.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , (edited ) to random

announces desktop machine and goggles powered by KDE's desktop.

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steamframe

But this is. A cool looking set of black VR goggles with two futuristic looking controllers lay on a beige surface.
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@kde@floss.social avatar kde , (edited ) to random

We have nearly reached our first stretch goal! Will your push us into our 's next phase?

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

And we have five more you can adopt:

  • Changing Kdenlive for KMyMoney, an easy to use personal finance manager by KDE

(Kdenlive will be running their own fundraiser soon)

  • KBruch is an educational program that helps you learn how to solve fractions

  • KTorrent lets you create and download files via BitTorrent

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KTorrent shows a user downloading a raw image of KDE Linux from the BitTorrent network.
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[< ... Continued from prior post]

  • KomoDo takes a TODO text and turns it into an easy to use graphical list of tasks

  • KFourInLine is the classic four-in-a-row game you can play against a human or the computer.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adoptable-apps

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@warriormaster@mastodon.social avatar warriormaster , to random

Today I learned that @kde likes to spread anti-memes on reddit

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@warriormaster

That account is not associated with KDE.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

2025 Fundraiser news: We have added 5 more items to our list of adoptable :

  • Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for power users.
  • Amarok is a full-featured music/radio/podcast player that has made a spectacular comeback
  • Yakuake is a terminal emulator that is always on hand and that you can quickly unfold from the top of your screen

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-an-app

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The Yakuake terminal emulator, that unfolds from the top of your screen, and is currently showing a bash system monitoring app.
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[... Continued from prior toot]

  • Kid3 helps you easily tag your music files
  • KDiskFree is an efficient no-frills app that shows you how much space you have left in your storage media.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-an-app

KDiskFree showing a system with several hard disks, and how full they are.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , (edited ) to KDE

Timothée and Aiswarya Giet, maintainers and contributors of KDE's educational suite @gcompris , visit () on holiday, but then end up helping local educational officials improve their setup, adding two new local languages to and getting featured in national and local press.

A productive vacation.

https://timotheegiet.com/blog/floss/gcompris-meets-kite-in-kerala-2025.html

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Another newspaper cutting, but in Malayalam, a language unfortunately I can't read 😬, but there is a photo of Timothée looking on as kids work on computers in a school computer lab.
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@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.2.:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.2/

This update fixes blurs and screencasts, solves a crash on , improves usability and accessibility, and more.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to KDE

KDE's GSoC report is out!

Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, @Krita , @kdenlive , Cantor, , and more.

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-11-04-gsoc-end/



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The Karton virtual machine manager adds new features
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@ArnaudOffline@pouet.chapril.org avatar ArnaudOffline , to random French

Please @kde stop adding a K into your apps names.

kde ,
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@ArnaudOffline

Gwenview, Haruna, Dolphin, Itinerary, Plasma, NeoChat...

Nowadays, when KDE devs (who are free to name their projects however they want, by the way) slap a "K" on the name of an app, it is done a bit ironically, a bit out of nostalgia.

And a bit to annoy people like you 😉.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , (edited ) to random

"Adopt an App" is back! You can now show your love for your favorite apps through our fundraiser.

Pick an app, donate €50 or more, and tell us about your choice in the comments:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-an-app

You will appear as a supporter on the app's apps.kde.org page.

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The first 5 apps up for adoption are:

  • Tokodon: KDE's Fediverse client that works on your desktop and phone
  • Knavalbattle: classic game of battleship you can play against the computer or over the network
  • digiKam: powerful image/photo management software, ideal for people with massive collections
  • NeoChat: talk over the free and federated Matrix chat platform with an app that works on your desktop and phone
  • Kolf: another classic—play minigolf on your desktop

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#adopt-an-app

A screenshot of digiKam showing the main editing window and a picture of handsome doggy.
A screenshot of NeoChat on mobile, showing previews of different rooms.
A screenshot of the second level of Kolf, surprisingly addictive and tricky mini-golf simulator.

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First adoptions are in! Thank you for supporting KDE and our developers!

kde OP ,
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@picturavis

Please note we are having some problems with showing supporters on some of the app pages. These pages are generated by scripts that draw data from the apps' code repositories and we have identified some apps that have problems in their metadata. We think we know what is going on and working to solve the issue.

Supporters' names will show up shortly.

Thank you for your patience.

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@Ciantic A dev is asking you politely to file a bug report here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1on705o/kde_cant_snap_google_chrome_tabs_to_corners_when/nmuz85b/

Complaining on social media will often not reach the people you need to inform.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

Enjoy being creeped out? Check out our two Halloween special fundraiser horror stories 🦇 "Night of the Living Bed" and "The Colour out of Waste".

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

In a dead blackened wasteland, a dead tree stands as a haunting warning for unwitting travellers...

In a dead blackened wasteland, a dead tree stands as a haunting warning for unwitting travellers...
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@beejay@social.tchncs.de avatar beejay , to random

I'm a bit disappointed by @kde that the yellow wallpaper is neither set as default, nor even available/included!

I WANT THE BANANA!!

kde ,
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@beejay

We cut it out from here for the promotional materials:

https://www.pexels.com/photo/fresh-banana-with-spots-on-yellow-peel-7194974/

We never intended to make it an official wallpaper. But the original author is licensing that image under a very generous license and you can use it.

I guess what we're saying is you're going to have to make your own wallpaper 🍌 .

@pacific_woman@app.wafrn.net avatar pacific_woman , to random

@kde can you and @gnome get into a fistfight and livestream it please thx

-switch-to-whoever-wins -im-gonna-keep-using-cinnamon

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@pacific_woman @gnome

This is what a "fistfight" between GNOME and KDE would look like:

Two handsome dogs hugging.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

... And thus we have reached the season of witches, d[a]emons 😈 and zombie [procceses] 🧟!

Checkout KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest 👻 phase yet, and help us ward of tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

Konqi cosplaying as Bernard Bernoulli and Konqi ghost art CC BY-SA leggy2fast
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If you didn't have the chance to read our Halloween stories, they are still available at

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025_hw/

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

As we are at it, don't forget this:

https://floss.social/@gnome/115459002652537815

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , (edited ) to random

Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!

Thanks to your generous support, we have reached our initial goal, and then surpassed it in a little over two weeks! We have set our next stretch goal and are now looking to raise €75,000 for the KDE Community.

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

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@radmorecameron

Yeah, probably next week. We have a Halloween special coming tomorrow first though.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to random

Plasma 6.5.1 has been released.

A week on from the release of Plasma 6.5, this brings many corrections and improvements.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.1/

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KDE can continue operating at this rate because we can pay for infrastructure, support our devs at sprints and meetups, and recruit new contributors through our promotional activities at events.

We need your help to keep these activities alive. Remember to donate to our yearly fundraiser!

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/

@Starcross@mk.absturztau.be avatar Starcross , to random

Kinda thankful we didn't have the main campus tech center workstations upgraded to Windows 11 yet. The upgrade nukes your start menu layout and just gives something generic which means I lose my tile layout. Thankfully I am able to screenshot my layout from this campus so I know what I want to have pinned when we upgrade these systems to 11.

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@argv_minus_one @Starcross

There are several tiled launcher menus you can download available from "Get New Widgets":

@Darkcoffee@mstdn.ca avatar Darkcoffee , to random

@kde hi! Love your Plasma Desktop, it's my all time favourite!

I saw a NeoChat app for Android, but it seems to not be working properly on my device (missing send and attachment buttons, for example). Is it because it's made for a specific open source phone os?

Also, that NeoChat client doesn't seem to allow me to use my encryption key, it asks me for a backup file only, which I don't have.

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@Darkcoffee

NeoChat on Android is still in heavy development I am afraid 😬 . We are glad you would try it and maybe even send in bug reports:

https://bugs.kde.org

but maybe be cautious for everyday use.

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Donate €200 and get a signed copy of "Ada & Zangemann"!

We are giving away copies of the fun book that's teaching the world about Free Software.

@kirschner , the author, will be signing and personalising the books exclusively for donors to our fundraiser.

Help a great cause and get a great perk!

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#get-a-signed-dedicated-copy-of-ada--zangemann

Only five copies available!

Inside the book, we are treated to a view of the village where Zangermann and Ada live.

Inside the book, we are treated to a view of the village where Zangermann and Ada live.
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@kirschner

Amazing generosity from all of you!

We're down to 1 (one, uno, ein, एक, واحد) copy. Who wants it?

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#get-a-signed-dedicated-copy-of-ada--zangemann

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@kirschner

... Aaaand they're all gone! Thanks everyone! When we get more perks, we'll let you know.

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@szkodnix @kirschner

It's a great book

@clickhere@mastodon.ie avatar clickhere , to random

So, @kde 's Plasma, is kinda-sorta a user interface for whatever operating system a computer is running?

https://mastodon.ie/@[email protected]/115411523406937280

(Yes, this is the kind of basic bitch question you can expect from me, a tech illiterate who's slowly trying to de-microsoft, de-google, etc.)

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@clickhere

In Linux (and other operating systems) it is not like that. You can have a Linux operating system which just shows a terminal window, a black screen with text where you control everything by typing in commands—effective, but not very friendly this.

OR...

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@clickhere

You can add a "desktop environment", a graphical layer that gives you all the bells and whistles most modern users expect to count on when they switch on their computers: a sleek looking background, menus, icons, mouse control... stuff like that.

Plasma (https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/) is one of such desktops environments, but there are many more:

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@clickhere @brad @burnitdown

Remember you can try before you install! Test several different desktops by running them from a USB stick before you install anything on your hard disk.

Install the one you are most comfy with.