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We have over 1000 Supporting Members! KDE's growth is fuelled by its funding. You can help: become a supporting member and get your name inscribed in Plasma's Hall of Fame: Or make a one time donation:
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You can now add widgets to your desktop in macOS Sonoma #WWDC23
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Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more... #Plasma6
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Look! No ads! Take back control. Choose Plasma. (Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu: ) #Windows #Windows11 #Plasma6 #Microsoft
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Black Friday deals on ALL KDE SOFTWARE!!!1!! 100% OFF! (also tomorrow, and the day after that, and the next day, and the next one after that too, and ...)
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Started from the bottom (left), now we’re here. #Windows11
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Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we've been doing for decades? Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.
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. @gnome and @kdecommunity deepen their commitment to work together and unveil KNOME, a new desktop that brings users the best of both worlds:
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Guess what? You'll never have to sign up for anything using Plasma!
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Windows 11 Pro will soon require a Microsoft Account
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Check out Maui Shell, a beautiful and classy KDE graphical environment that will work on your desktop, tablet and phone.
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An Enthusiastic Plasma User: An Illustrated Epic. By mrAnmol Original post on reddit:
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KDE is working with @gnome to create a common, fair, sustainable and open app ecosystem, not a desktop. The @gnome and KDE communities want to provide users with free and open applications that will respect their privacy and rights. That is what @LinuxAppSummit is about.
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#Windows7 will stop receiving updates next Tuesday, 14th of January. We want to help Windows users upgrade to something better. You can help too: Help upgrade to KDE's Plasma desktop. #Upgrade2Plasma
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KDE is turning 25 years old soon. What is one thing you appreciate about KDE? Tell us in the comments!
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KDE is 24 years old today! Share in the comments your favorite KDE memory, ye olde screenshots, photos from events, tell us about antique merch you have collected over time, or about anything else from your ❤️ story with KDE.
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#Microsoft wants to move #Windows fully to the cloud. Don't let them force you to log on to their servers to monitor and control you every time you need your computer. Take back your desktop! Use #Plasma !
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@JenMsft Welcome in the club!
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Plasma 6 Release Candidate 1 has landed. We are less than 50 days away from the final version of #Plasma6 . Along with Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 24.02, the Megarelaease on the 28th of February will be one of the biggest upgrades in KDE's history.
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Plasma 6.0.1, the first batch of corrections and enhancements to Plasma 6.0, has landed The next update will be delivered promptly next Tuesday, 12th of March. #Plasma6
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Congratulations to our friends on the release of GNOME 40! We can't wait to try out what's changed this release! 🎉🎉🎉
@gnome
GNOME
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We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 40! After countless hours of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates! See the release highlights at #GNOME40 #releaseday #OpenSource
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Check out @gnome 3.32. Congratulations to the @gnome community for an awesome job well done!
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KDE releases today Plasma Mobile 6 with a renewed base system and apps This version comes with an improved shell, a new home screen with heaps of features, enhancements of the base system, improvements in apps and much more. #Plasma6 #PlasmaMobile
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Plasma 5.20, by all accounts a massive release, is here. Plasma 5.20 comes with tons of new features and improvements which will make your Plasma desktop experience easier, smoother and more fun.
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Plasma 5.21 is out and it is the prettiest thing ever. Check out the new wallpaper, the easy-to-use application launcher, the brand new system monitor, and dozens of other improvements that make 5.21 the ideal desktop for you.
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With only 91 days left before launch, today we are releasing the 1st Beta of Plsama 6. This is the time when we call on all testers to download and install it, and stress-test all its features. #Plasma6 #testing #beta
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KDE is 27 years old today 🎂! Happy Birthday to us! A good time to check out all our kool stuff: And help us keep KDE alive and kicking for 1000 years more (at least)!:
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WARNING: Global themes and widgets created by 3rd party developers for Plasma can run arbitrary code. Exercise extreme caution when using these products. A user has had a bad experience installing a global theme and lost personal data.
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THE KUBE IS BACK!
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KDE is 2️⃣6️⃣ today! Happy Birthday to us!🎉🎂🥳🥳
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We are not done yet... #Plasma6
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Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition is here! It brings a glossier Breeze theme, a beautiful new wallpaper, new features, faster and re-designed tools and much more. #KDE25years
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KDE and @thepine64 Introduce the PinePhone - KDE Community edition. Experience the future of KDE's open mobile platform here:
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This is what *real* verification looks like. Come join us on Mastodon 🐘.
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Plasma 5.25 is out! This release introduces A LOT of new things: new gestures, both for touchpads and touchscreens; more customizing, including tinted windows, and synced colors and wallpapers; floating panels; and much more.
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As developers of our own frameworks, the software that is so easy to overlook but is at the same time so hard to develop and is so essential, KDE sincerely congratulates @gnome on the release of GTK 4. Well done GNOME!
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GTK 4.0 is now available!
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. @gnome resolves the patent suit brought against it by Rothschild Patent Imaging and scores a win for all Free Software communities. Congratulations @gnome !
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KDE Plasma 5.19 is out and it is sleeker and more polished than ever. Check out the new and beautiful photographic avatars, clean and consistent desktop components and widgets, and the easy-to-use System Settings and Discover software center.
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Plasma 5.24 - "Perfect Harmony" has landed. Manage your windows with flair with Overview, become a poweruser thanks to KRunner's help assistant, enjoy the beauty of Plasma and its tweaked accents and themes, and so much more. #Plasma5_24
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According to "Spenser Confidential" ( @netflix ), the FBI uses Plasma. If it is good enough for the FBI, it is good enough for you. Discover Plasma:
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One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer? #Plasma6 #wallpaper #desktop --- Want to contribute to KDE? Become a Supporting Member: Or donate to our community:
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Congratulations GNOME!
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GNOME
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We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of GNOME 3.34, "Thessaloniki"! This release marks six months of intense effort from our developers, designers, and contributors, and we are thrilled to finally make it available to you all 😊
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Go @gnome ! KDE is rooting for you!
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GNOME
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We did it! We came together as a community and met our fundraising goal to defend software freedom from patent litigation.💙Next up comes the hard part - winning this lawsuit and setting precedent. Stay tuned for updates as we progress forward
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Whew, would you look at the time... It's our birthday today! 🥳 What are your dreams for KDE in the next year? Let us know!
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Plasma 6 Beta 2 released! Nearly there, but more testing needed. Just in time for the Winter Holidays 🎄, Happy New Beta 🎉! After this Beta 2 there will be two Release Candidates on Jan. 10 and 31. The final release will be on Feb 28.
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KDE Connect is now available for iOS! Connect your desktop to your phone and other devices for easy file transfers; remote mouse control; remote control of presentation slides; synchronized clipboard and pasteboard; and much more.
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Check out our new "KDE for Gamers" guide Whether you are into casual, retro or AAA #gaming , KDE has something for you 🎮🎲!
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Congrats on the launch of GNOME 3.36! Keep up the great work! 🎉
@gnome
GNOME
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We're thrilled to announce the official release of GNOME 3.36 "Gresik" 😀. This version contains 6 months of work by the GNOME community and includes many improvements, performance enhancements, and new features. Please see the link below for more info:
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Our mastodon account is verified and we didn't have to pay Elon Musk $8. Come follow us there!
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Students at Indian schools get books that teach them about @Krita_Painting . Source: The book on the publishers' website: Scroll down and choose the Class 6 tab to see the table of contents. #krita #education #art #painting
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The KDE Community is right behind @gnome in the defence against patent trolls. You can help them out too.
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GNOME
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We're trying to defend #FOSS against patent trolls. Please help us:
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KDE roadmap for 2021: Production ready Wayland, fingerprint support, brand new start menu, and more
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The winner of our weekly screenshot competition is /u/jom4d4. The screenshot shows the Plasma Moe theme and Latte Dock and an app using the Lightly theme. Check it out at: #screenshotSunday
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Congrats GNOME for another awesome release! 🎉
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GNOME
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We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 41! After six months of work from the GNOME community, this release brings many exciting updates! See the release notes for all the details: #GNOME41 #releaseday #OpenSource
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#KDETip : You probably know that you can press and hold the [Alt] key and left click and drag with your mouse to move windows. But did you know you can press and hold [Alt] and then RIGHT click to resize them?💡 Note: From Plasma 5.20, instead of [Alt] use [Meta] (Windows key).
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Interesting things coming to Plasma.
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Say hello to Plasma 5.15, the newest version of KDE's acclaimed desktop environment.
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Plasma 5.18 is out: easier system settings, interactive notifications, emojis, wallpapers and so much more:
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KDE ❤️ @debian . Thanks for Buster!
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oh and we will never ask you this
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Happy Birthday @gnome 🎂!
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@gnome
GNOME
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It's our birthday today! We are now the wise age of 22. 😋 Join us in reminiscing these past years by sharing some of your favorite GNOME memories!
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Congratulations for the release of GNOME 3.38! 🎉
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We're excited to announce the official release of GNOME 3.38 "Orbis"! After months of work from the GNOME Community, this release brings many new features and improvements. It also brings us a new release video! #Linux #opensource
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And the Winner of the Plasma 6 Wallpaper Competition is... “Sun/Comet”! 🏆 Congratulations to the winner 🖌️ and we look forward to enjoying your work on our desktops.
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It's ❤ Free Software day and KDE's brand new Plasma 5.27 desktop is out! Get the new tiling system and cherish the tidiness; or the improved Discover and adore all the apps; or the multi-screen system and don't miss a thing. More ❤ here: #ilovefs
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Steam Deck, virtual reality and the #Plasma dektop.
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まだまだ問題が多そうだけど、Steam Deck にVR HMDを繋げてみた。
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KDE's Plasma 5.27 Beta desktop is now out! Get an advance peek into what is coming in February, check for bugs 🪳, and help the devs polish the features and code! Look out especially for the big multi-monitor refactor and KWin's new tiling capabilities.
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Now KDE Connect can hook up your Windows machine as well! The Windows version of KDE Connect gets official support and you can get the beta version right now from the Microsoft Store. Exclusive link-only access:
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Plasma 6 RC2 is now out! Ask Us Anything about this release and the upcoming Megarelease in general TODAY, Jan. 31, on Reddit and Lemmy at 6 pm UTC. This is the final test release before KDE publishes Plasma 6.0, Gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 on February 28.
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Plasma 5.22 is here! KDE's desktop is more reliable, adaptable and fun than ever before. Revel in the adaptive transparency, find stuff easily with the global menu search and reach windows faster with the enhanced task manager features.
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ATTENTION KNOME USERS We are happy you enjoyed the joke (and if you missed it, you can still visit 's landing page), but KDE and @gnome are even happier you enjoy our software.
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KDE roadmap for 2020: Accessing remote filesystems, root privileges for Dolphin, auto-rotation for mobile devices and much more.
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The new KDE Slimbook is here. This @AMDRyzen 4800H machine from @SlimbookEs is sleek, light and powerful, with a beautiful screen and all the features of KDE's #Plasma desktop and apps.
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Great news: KMail finally gets approval to use @Google Sign In. You can now access GMail with KDE's powerful email client again, while at the same time keeping your Google account password safe.
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KDE would like to thank our "good" friends at @NeowinFeed for their contribution to this year's April Fools' joke. Unfortunately they missed the memo (again!) as there are still two months to go until April 1st 🤡.
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Congrats GNOME! 🎉🥂
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GNOME
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We're proud to share the release of GNOME 42! After months of hard work from all our teams, this release brings many improvements and exciting new features, like dark mode! #GNOME42 #releaseday
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We reached 💯000 followers on Twitter! 🥳🍾🎉
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Plasma 5.13 is here: faster and sleeker; more control (stop & start media playing in browsers from the desktop, open & close vaults from KDE Connect, easily configure external monitors); more beautiful (blurs, transparencies, improved icon integration)
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You know we had to do it... #10yearchallenge #PlasmaDesktop
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KDE Plasma 5.17 Beta is out now! ⚙️ Thunderbolt device management ⚙️ Night Color on X11 ⚙️ Redesigned settings pages ⚙️ Fractional scaling on Wayland ⚙️ ...and more 📅 You have three weeks to test it until the final release.
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EXCLUSIVE! NEW Plasma 6 feature leak!: Not putting a watermark on your desktop guilting you into buying a new computer.
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KDE believes in the power of diversity and inclusion. Women* enrich our community, shaping more inclusive and accessible tech. 💡 Join us in embracing diversity, inclusion and #FOSS . Be part of our Community to inspire inclusion: #InspireInclusion #KDE
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The KDE Free Qt Foundation is 25 years old today! We have been keeping Qt open for everybody for a quarter of a century already, and here is to another 100+ years of free development!🥂🥳
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KDE is on everything, from NASA's and CERN's workstations to... Animatronic tails? Yep, on those too. Check out miTail, your own personal animatronic tail controlled by a KDE-powered Android app.
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Do you work at Microsoft* but also miss a powerful terminal emulator? New in KDE Gear ⚙️ 23.04: Konsole now works on Windows too! More at: --- * We couldn't think of another reason of why you would still be using Windows over Plasma 🤷
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Happy New Year 🎉! This week in KDE: Dolphin gets root operations, Konsole lets select applications, and KWin nets > 8-bit colorizations... (in Wayland).
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. @ubuntustudio , the Linux distribution "for creative humans", will move to KDE Plasma by default for future releases. Plasma's "better tools for graphics artists and photographers" and lightness make it the ideal desktop for Ubuntu Studio's users.
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KDE's Plasma 5.17 just landed! Check out the new smart notification system, improved and expanded System Settings, increased usability and gestures and much more!
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Plasma Mobile working on @Puri_sm 's Librem 5 devkit. #PlaMoSprint
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. @valvesoftware recommends a KDE-powered operating system for Steam Deck game developers:
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Calling All Artists! The #Plasma6 Wallpaper Contest is now open We are calling on all artists to submit their original wallpaper designs and compete for the chance to win a brand-new Framework 13'' laptop. Check out the rules here:
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It's coming! The date for the big release of KDE's new desktop environment has been set. #Plasma6 should land on your computer in February 2024 🤞.
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KDE received $200,000 from the Pineapple Fund! We will use it to make KDE applications and environments more usable, develop more ways of protecting users' privacy, and build a larger and even more inclusive community. More information at
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KDE Plasma's System Monitor gets a facelift and a new backend, letting you keep track of all your machine's resources, such as how much space you have left on your hard disks, the load on your CPU and the applications slowing down your system.
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Krita 4.0 is here! A new brush set from @davidrevoy , SVG support on vector layers, combined brushes, Python scripting and the spanking new Colorize Mask Tool makes this one of the most exciting releases yet. Go @Krita_Painting !
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Plasma 5.16 is out! Check out all the new features and marvel at the improvements that now make working with Plasma smoother and more fun!
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Plasma 5.26 has landed! Check out the new features and flexibility of Plasma's widgets, the spectacular adaptive and animated wallpapers, and how to power your TV with Plasma Big Screen.
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