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"This Week in Plasma" brings fixed bugs, improved UIs

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Screenshot of a notification advising that a USB device has been connected to your machine.
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6

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Screenshot of System Settings showing the day/night global theme chooser.
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"This week in Plasma" brings the news that you will be able to configure the rotatable dial on your drawing tablet in Plasma 6

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Talking of awesome KDE apps, digiKam 8

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A view of digiKam's main screen, with a beautiful picture of a view in the central pane, a map indicating where the photo was taken on the left, and the file's metadata on the right.
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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that Dolphin gets new looks, and its connectivity to Samba shares improves; Photos, the image viewer that ...

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A screenshot of Photos showing some pictures in the users storage.
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that QtQuick-based KDE software acquires inertial scrolling using touchpads, the inbuilt RDP service supports syncing clipboard text between client and serv…

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A screenshot of KDE's Plasma 6.4 desktop with several applicatios open, including System Settings (on the RDP configuration page), Discover (showing the most popular downloaded apps) and Dolphin, showing and open folder with several files.
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Party like it's the End Of 10!

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Screenshot from the KDE For Windows 10 Exiles page: https://kde.org/for/w10-exiles/ The top panel from kde.org can be seen (from left to right): Products, Develop, KDE For You, Help, Get Involved, Donate. In the center on a deep blue background is the text: "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles. Upgrade your software, not your computer."
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Do you use a drawing tablet with Linux?

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A sticker-like square graphic with a dark background and colourful writing that reads: "HELP US IMPROVE TABLET SUPPORT" There s a "KDE Goals" logo in the upper right hand corner and a bunch of stylised images representing drawing tablets in the bottom right hand corner.
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"This week in Plasma" brings the news that Discover's list views can now be navigated with the keyboard, and that we met another accessibility ...

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A screenshot of KRunner, showing how much easier it is to read a selected item.
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La Akademy-es arranca de nuevo esta mañana a las 10 CEST

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Attendees at the KDE booth at Akademy-es/OpenSouthCode discuss KDE-enabled hardware. In the foreground an attendee draws the KDE logo on a tablet using Krita.
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KDE at Fête de la Moritzplatz in Berlin this Saturday 21 June, 14-17h!

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Screenshot (modified) from the official website of Fête de la Musique: https://www.fetedelamusique.de/ The words "Fête de la Musique 2025" are written over an image of a small concert in a Berlin park.
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Plasma Mobile News📳!

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[Microblog] Plasma 6

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This coming weekend, on Friday 20 and Saturday 21, @ kde_espana will be in # Málaga for # Akademy -es

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A panoramic view of the harbour of Málaga.
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6

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This Week in Plasma brings the news that, with Plasma 6

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*KDE for Windows 10 Exiles*

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Screenshot from the website "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" showing the cube, a visual way for arranging desktops.
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"This Week in Plasma" brings elegant symbolic icons for the dictionary and web browser widgets, a warning about rising the volume limits, ...

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Close up of Plasma's icon tray showing a stylized icon of an open book, symbolizing the dictionary icon, and an equally stylized world globe, symbolizing the Interwebs.
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Techpaladin, the company founded by a crack team of KDE developers, becomes a KDE sponsor

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Techpaladin's logo
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[Microblog] Plasma 6

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A screenshot of Plasma 6.4 Beta showing an open launch menu in the lower left hand corner, Firefox in the background, Discover and Dolphin in the front.
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"This week in KDE Apps" brings news that @ kdenlive 's Transform effect gets a rotation handle, @ LabPlot gets nested plots and a new axis space ...

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"This week in Plasma" brings wallpapers that transition from light (during the day) to dark (when the sun goes down), better search results in ...

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A screenshot of Plasma's wallpaper settings, showing the option that activates for time-of-day wallpapers
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"This Week in Plasma" brings a brand new HDR calibration wizard, an improved configuration dialog for the comics widget, textual headers for for ...

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KDE projects in Google Summer of Code 2025

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Under the Google Summer of Code logo, Katie and Konqi, KDE's pet dragons have fun contributing to open source projects.
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"This week in KDE Apps" brings optimizations galore!

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A screen shot showing Krita, KDE's program for graphical designers, artists and painters. The artist is working on image of Konqi, KDE's pet dragon, who is opening a box out of which CD's parcels and other icons representing software packages float. Across the top of the canvas you can read "Konqi gets gifts"
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6

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The new and very visually appealing dialog that let's you create new files and folder. Across the top, you have an icon of a purple folder and text box to write in the name of the folder you are about to create. Across the bottom a rainbow array of folder icons with different colours and designs. It is pretty!
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Update your Steam Deck!

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Picture of the Steam Deck games console in desktop mode running Plasma 6.2.5.
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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 ...

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A screenshot of the new GUI for the emulation tool KdeGuiTest (formerly known as KdeEcoTest).
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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Kdenlive's spectacular background removal tool, guides on how to make your own ticket extractors for ...

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The Peruse comic reader was migrated to Qt6.
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"This Week in Plasma" brings drag'n'drop now made easy, zoom with a gesture, higher quality for the RDP server, per CPU and task monitoring, and many ...

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This week in KDE Apps comes with the news of improvements to @ Krita 's text rendering feature and the progress made to its migration to Qt6 and ...

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A sample of Krita's rendering of text along a curve.
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[Microblog] KDE Gear ⚙️ 25

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in this picture Konqi, the KDE dragon, is opening a box and icons and apps are floating out. Rays of golden light spread out from the box, lighting up a desktop showing some of the apps being released with KDE Gear ⚙️ 25.04.
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@ prav table in @kde conference in Gandhinagar, # Gujarat

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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings a lot of improvements to your email, calendar and contact apps; devs consider improvements to Dolphin's new navigation ...

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A screen shot that shows Merkuro the calendar-editing dialog window.
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This Week in Plasma brings launch menu customizations, better screen recordings, and improvements to Plasma's calculator

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A screen shoot of the new, clearer KMenuEdit, which you can use to customize Plasma's default launch menu .
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The new episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" is out covering among other things a massive amount of improvements to KDE's personal information ...

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Kleopatra, displaying it is new separate notepad feature.
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digiKam, KDE's full-featured photo management software, releases version 8

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A view of the Face Management tool.
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This Week in Plasma brings file transfer progress graphs, per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, improved KRunner search result ordering, and much ...

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A screenshot of a fancy-pants graph showing progress of a file transfer.
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Today KDE is at # FOSSASIA in Bangkok!

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A view of KDE's booth at #FOSSASIA. On a table with a red tablecloth printed with the FOSSASIA logo are two laptops showing KDE software. Two young men stand behind the table doing the "thumbs up" sign. On the left is a bright blue banner with the KDE logo.
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This Week in KDE Apps brings LSP Support in KDevelop, systemDGenie rewrite and big UI changes in Dolphin

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A screen shot of KStars, showing the new altitude graph in the scheduler table.
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You're still in time to visit KDE's booth at # SCaLE22x !

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Two children, maybe 7 or 8, try out Krita, the full-featured painting program for artists, on a laptop at KDE's booth.
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This week Plasma has received quite a lot of fixes,

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Screenshot showing a windows Task Manager context menu, showing the options to remove the titlebar and frame.
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We are at # SCaLE22x !

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View of KDE's 2023 booth at Scalex20. A banner hangs from the wall, showing a bunch of icons for KDE apps on blue background. Below, the booth itself is loaded with laptops, phones and other devices, as well as stickers.
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"This week in Plasma" covers how KRunner now sees in color, the disk widget finds errors in your drives, Spectacle gets a spectacular overhaul, and ...

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KDE will be again participating in Google Summer of Code 🎉!

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People in what looks like a conference hall or a classroom, must have their hands raised, as if volunteering for something. At the bottom you can see the Google Summer of Code logo, plus sign and the KDE logo.
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The latest episode of "This Week in KDE Apps" covers big changes in Krita, KDE's popular art app; SystemDGenie's re-design; and Dolphin's new, more ...

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"This Week in Plasma" brings refinements for the weather widget, digital clock, System Settings, Widget Explorer side bar, and more

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A screenshot of Plasma's Digital Clock contextual menu
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This Week in KDE Apps covers new releases for Kaidan, Tellico and Amarok; usability improvements for Itinerary, Kasts and Kate; fixes for KOrganizer ...

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Screenshot of SystemDGenie
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This Week in Plasma explains how we deal with post-release issues in the wake of Plasma 6

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The inline media player gets a speed selector.
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[Microblog] Plasma 6

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Call for papers for conf

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Attendees to the 2024 edition for conf.kde.in pose in a conference hall.
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This week in KDE Apps presents

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The painting program Krita gets ported to Qt6.
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This Week in Plasma's final # Plasma6

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A floating popup over a panel.
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KDE's recently adopted animation program Glaxnimate releases version 0

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KDE's Indian Conference, conf

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2024 group photo of attendees to conf.kde.in
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KStars, KDE's full-featured app for # astronomy aficionados, releases version 3

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KStars telescope simulator now comes with dome slit visualization.
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This Week in Plasma: crisper screenshots, better context menus, improved mnemonics, right-handed panels, and more

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Plasma's trash context menu.
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Come and visit our booth tomorrow and Sunday at @ fosdem !

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A desk with a laptop and a monitor, both showing KDE's Plasma desktop. Stickers with logos of KDE, Kdenlive, Krita, Gcompris and pictures of Konqi and Katie lie scattered around. On either side are two plushy penguins.
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End Of 10 at # FOSDEM !

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Screenshot of BoF announcement on FOSDEM website. On the top left is FOSDEM'25. Under this the text reads: """ Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide Track: BOF - Track B Room: H.3242 Day: Sunday Start: 14:00 End: 15:00 """
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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, ...

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Tokodon menu showing the "Configure filters" option.
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This Week in Plasma: A snazzier time zone picker, smoother corners, sleeker dark modes and slicker panels

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Season of KDE is back with 14 new projects

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Image of a try bending in the wind entitled "Bending Will", created by Robert Streeter using Krita. Distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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"This week in KDE apps" brings improvements in usability, accessibility and customization to @ arianna , Dolphin and Itinerary, and supercharges to ...

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This week in KDE Apps thumbnail Usability, accessibility and supercharging the Fediverse
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This week in Plasma: Getting # Plasma6

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Composite image showing screenshots of Dolphin, the volume widget, and system settings
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"KDE For Digital Sovereignty" explains how KDE software returns control to institutions, companies and users, and gives you the tools to become the ...

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Screenshot of the top of the "KDE for Digital Sovereignty" page, showing the first section entitled "Developed by humans for humans"
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In "This week in KDE Apps" we look at the usability improvements landing in Alligator, Dolphin, and Itinerary; new features for KMyMoney, Tokodon and ...

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Composite image with screenshots of Skrooge, KeySmith, Merkuro, and NeoFetch
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This week in KDE Plasma: The last sprint towards Plasma 6

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Composite of screenshots of the printer configuration settings, a modal menu for links, and a notification for NeoChat.
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This Week in Plasma: Artistry and accessibility

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Screenshots of some of Plasma's utilities: Discover, KRunner and system settings
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[Microblog] You did it!

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Let's make Windows 10 the last version ever used!

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Screenshot of community stage talk announcement at 38C3 website. On the right is the KDE Eco logo of a blue K and a green leaf growing out of it. Under the logo is the website address eco.kde.org. The text reads: """ Event 38c3 / CCC / Stage YELL 11:00-11:40 Day 2 Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide Windows 10 security updates end on 14 October 2025, KDE's 29th birthday and also, ironically, International E-Waste Day [1] (you cannot make these things up!). Hundreds of millions of functioning devices [2] will become e-waste. This means manufacturing and transporting new ones, which is perhaps the biggest waste of all: hardware production alone can account for over 75% of a device's CO2 emissions over its lifespan. """
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Bring it back to life!

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Screenshot of workshop announcement at 38C3 website. The text reads: Youth Operating Center / Bits und Bäume 38C3. Hole ihn zurück ins Leben! Kinder-Edition / Bring it back to life! Kids Edition 29.12, 12:00–15:00 (Europe/Berlin), GF1 Saal 5 Sprache: Deutsch Schenk deinen Kindern in diesem Workshop mit KDE Eco ein „neues“ altes Linux-Spielgerät. / Give your kids a “new” old Linux gaming device in this drop-in workshop with KDE Eco. Bring your own device.
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Donor appreciation post: Thank you for all your generosity 💖!

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Katie and Konqi on a chrsitmassy background. Konqi is putting a coin into a collection box Katie is holding.
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We are at 95% of our first stretch goal!

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Adoptable Games - part 🎲🎲

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Kubrick, a cool-looking Rubik's cube simulator.
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In "This Week in KDE Apps"

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A composite with screenshots from Okular, PowerPlant, and Itinerary.
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[Microblog] KDE Gear ⚙️ 24

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A screenshot of Marble
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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings improvements to Haruna, Kate and KMyMoney (among many others); and a whole new app: Karp, a tool for visually ...

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Composite image showing screenshots of Konsole, Karp, and Skanpage
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SFSCon is this weekend in Bolzano/Bozen!

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Screenshot from the BoF (Birds of a Feather) announcement with the title "Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows-10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide". To the right of the screenshot is a QR code for the link included in the toot.
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"TOTAL (WINDOWS) RECALL" - The story of a woman framed by technology

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What happens when your operating system 🤖 develops ideas of its own?

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KDE's pet dragon Konqi, dressed up as Shaun of "Shaun of the Dead".
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Want KDE to be around another #28, 50, 100 years?

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A bunch of dragons, all different colors and displaying different skills: painting, writing, coding, documenting...
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Happy Birthday to us 🎂🎉!

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Konqi is excited and happy, as he has a birthday cake with a candle that says "28"! Happy birthday Konqi!
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"What's New In The Revised Blue Angel Criteria" 💙

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9th graders learn Linux for the environment!

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[Microblog] KDE urges the European Commission restore # funding for free software through Next Generation Internet (NGI)

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[Microblog] Bring it back to life again!

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[Microblog] Explore KDE and Free Software, learn about e-waste, and register for the upcoming "Bring It Back!

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[Microblog] MacBook Air owner?

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[Microblog] Opt out?

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[Microblog] Digital sustainability workshop in Berlin 3 June!

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