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People should always be able to search by keyword rather than navigate menus.
Especially if we (who make human-computer interfaces) do not want people to turn to life-destroying chatbot interfaces.
Are #KDE and #Gnome or others working on a standard way to do that in each program?

KDE Plasma 6.7 bringt Detailverbesserungen
Versionspflege: KDE hievt den Plasma-Desktop auf Stand 6.7. Jeder Bildschirm kann nun einen virtuellen Desktop bekommen.
https://www.heise.de/news/KDE-Plas…

A huge shoutout to KDE Plasma’s screenshot tool.
The ability to make quick edits on screenshots, blur or pixelate irrelevant content is very useful.
Thank you devs ♥️
#kde #kdeplasma

That hybrid approach applied. Chimera Linux takes care of a great base, including KDE. I use verified Flatpaks for all major things (librewolf, vlc etc). Distrobox for that one akward application I need. Setup of that on Chimera is as painless as it can be. I do the same on Slackware, although I make some essential pkgs myself also. So, trusted base, containerized applications. No AUR here. Anymore 🤣

@… I love the title bars. I used to have that style with KDE Plasma.

Mostly (points at himself) it's staring you in the face. I wanted for the work laptop: musl, zfs and encryption, no systemd, the latest KDE. And then i remembered the excellent write-up by @… , installing a Chimera Linux base with all that. And Chimera has 6.7 in the repos. A perfect combo!

Hey @…, just thought I'd let you know that your donation box for the anniversary fund raiser at https://kde.org/anniversaries/30 seems to be blocked by uBlock Origin, which causes the bu…

Hmmmm, I can't get KDE's contacts/calendar apps to work with my Radicale caldav/carddav server at all... Even tho Planify and all iOS apps work fine with it.
KDE's apps can fetch all collections on the adding server screen, but won't show them on the main views (plus says "offline" in settings)

Hot take
The KDE fedora shipping on default on framework laptop is a good thing.

Is there still a Solus distro with KDE Plasma?
<#KDE

from my link log —
Rust in a KDE project.
https://jbbgameich.github.io/misc/2020/12/21/rust-in-a-kde-project.html
saved 2020-12-28

Mapovšní šíření zškonů o ověřovšní věku na internetu
https://proton.me/cs/age-verification
Vlšdy po celém světě činí věk podmínkou pro přístup k určitým čšstem internetu. Tato stršnka sleduje, kde jsou takové zškony v účinnosti, kde se prosazují a jak k tomu různé země přistupují.
vypad…

In the absence of meaningful progress from the KDE team before their stated X11 rugpull, SonicDE (a continuation of KDE-X11) may offer some hope, or if nothing else a bridge to some future æon when KDE-Wayland is finally sufficiently functional: https://sonicde.org/

Kudos to the maintainers of ChimeraLinux for putting such a gem together and quietly, but persistingly, updating it to the latest and greatest (here with KDE 6.7.3). Thanks! 🤓 🍻
#chimeralinux #kde

PSA: In #kde Meta(Windows)-P brings up the menu to switch display configuration; so meta-P, enter switches you to external display only; Meta-P, Meta-P, enter brings you back to internal only. (enabling the HDMI on a laptop with a broken display)
Bonus advice: Label which monitor input your HDMI cable is going to so you can select it on the menu without trying all 3 of them, 6 times.

Hello #linux and #kde people specifically!
Is there a way to tell on the OS level if the system prefers a dark/light theme?
Not talking about running:
```bash
kreadconfig6 --group "General" --key "ColorScheme" --file kdeglobals
```
But someth…

Still enjoying Linux desktop but some edges are rough. Today's goal: play the new Boards of Canada album from the download I just bought.
The good thing about Linux is there's almost always some workaround, there must be 100 ways to play music in this environment. It's just comical than this simple task is so complicated.

After a great month on ChimeraLinux and a week updating and running Obelix, my NixOS KDE, it is now time for a closer look at Kalpa. I'll spend a later blogpost on how I got there and what has actually been picked up very well in that project. Back on a roll!
#kalpa #opensuse

@… Thought you might be interested in this printer discussion that came up in response to KDE Linux dropping the hplip package/kernel. Apparently there's whole sets of printers still being sold that only work with hplip and don't support ipp?

A new home for the work laptop. Introducing asterix-danang, my own bootc image, based on Fedora Kinoite. to be found here: https://github.com/danangineer/asterix-danang
KDE 6.7, distrobox, homebrew, all fluff removed.

Huge kudos to the #KDE team, #konsole now shows a little progress bar. This is nice

@…

No it's not. And it's far from perfect. But it gets less on my nerves than KDE.

I suspect my path to a "as I want it" experience goes through a minimal set of building blocks around a (tiling) window manager and some config files.

But I haven't found the time for that yet.

I have prioritise…

I found an answer, suggested an improvement:
<https://discuss.kde.org/t/what-is-the-default-compose-key-in-kde-plasma/46471/8?u=grahamperrin>
@…

Libreoffice started the enshittification that I already saw in KDE by mutilating menus that have been there for decades. This seems to be the new thing in OSS development. I can't really advance things, so I just change UI stuff because I can do it. Maintainers shouldn't accept that enshittification.

Only a few months left until KDE drops X11 forever, and they STILL haven't fixed fractional scaling in themes OR gesture configurability, both of which are fully working in X11, and the latter of which would be mitigated by simply stripping the hardcoded gestures currently baked into kwin_wayland and allowing the user to find their own way. (As ever, my kwin6 patches are available on GitHub if you'd like to do exactly that.)
I'm sure they're all working on Very Importan…

What can you do when your home has been taken back by the landlord?
Talking KDE here, no worries.
With Jtown's demise (um grande abraço @… !) it also gives me freedom again.
And nothing is as brittle as my solemn pledges, so I'm (re)building my bootc KDE image. Don't want no one else but myself be responsible for the mess I make 😆

TIR (today I realised) that in KDE/Linux you can place all kinds of interesting files in ~/Templates, for instance:
"CREATE_URL.url"
containing the text:
[InternetShortcut]
URL=PASTE_URL
and the Dolphin file manager will allow you to choose it from the "Create New" menu. Neat 🙂

Funkcja "extract full content" w czytniku RSS "Capy Reader" to takie złoto... Bardzo brakuje mi tego w akregatorze na KDE, przez co czytam newsy tylko na telefonie.

#RSS

"… FreeBSD defaults to KDE Plasma, …"
No, it does not.
Also, Jack Wallen's link for his statement is to an article for Plasma on Linux (not on FreeBSD).
Cc @…

@…

I didn't.
I got a Tuxedo InfinityBook earlier this year and tried to like KDE Plasma (in Tuxedo OS) for four months.
Couldn't do it.
Really tried. They put so much love into it, must be good, right?
Well, it's not for me.
Reinstalled with GNOME.
Happier, no regrets.

@… also:
https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/proj-laptop/issues/28
― the linked 'KDE with Wayland' document puts KDE in …

@… "Can you switch to ttys other than ttyv8 with Ctrl Alt Fn while KDE or Cinammon is running?"
I get a black screen (in VirtualBox) for ttyv0, ttyv1, ttyv2, ttyv3, ttyv4, ttyv5, ttyv6, ttyv7 – all eight – in response to the key combinations. Confirmed using the soft keyboard.

Realized I'm currently running KDE, Gnome and Cosmic. For the 1st time since 2019 there's no windowmanager around. Am I sundowning my ADD? I sure am getting lazy. Let's grab that Slackware iso later today and get me some tilers.

FreeBSD: vt no longer visible when switching away from desktop environments at ttyv8
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1urf879/freebsdrelease_in_virtualbox_vt_no_longer_visible/
Bugged environments include KDE Pla…

The unintended consequences of living on the edge of FreeBSD. Self inflicted damage done 😆
#freebsd #kde
https://…

Is there any specific explanation why KDE Wayland on FreeBSD uses so much RAM? 2.3 to 2.5 gb? For me personally it doesn't matter, all these discussions are beyond me, it's not 1972 anymore. But it is noticeable and I wonder why.
#freebsd

So much for being crusty.
Slackware Current, kernel 7.0.10 and Plasma 6.7 beta 2 (6.6.91).
Thnks @… 🍻 🥳
#slackware #kde

@… the linked post in The FreeBSD Forums is about KDE as an option in FreeBSD Installer.
FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE did not include this breakthrough.

That Dakotaraptor is awesome. This mornings iso did work for me. 7:49 minutes install, encrypted, tpm unlock, homebrew, distrobox, flatpak, GnomeOS. Most interestingly: this is not a distro, it's an image, with everything included. Hope the team will make a KDE Dakota. But this is great. Exciting tech that just works.
#bluefin

Can't seem to get my SIM to work either, KDE says the APN password is wrong even tho it's what everyone says is the correct one online. On Android it works automatically, so I wonder if I can somehow see what infos Android is using so I can copy them over.