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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
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 ...)
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.
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.
#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
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.
#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
!
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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)!:
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.
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
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.
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!
.
@gnome
resolves the patent suit brought against it by Rothschild Patent Imaging and scores a win for all Free Software communities. Congratulations
@gnome
!
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.
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
One of these 6 beauties will become the wallpaper for Plasma 6. Which one do you prefer?
#Plasma6
#wallpaper
#desktop
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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 😊
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
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.
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.
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:
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
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
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
#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).
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
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.
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
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.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🤡.
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
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)
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.
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
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!🥂🥳
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.
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:
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* We couldn't think of another reason of why you would still be using Windows over Plasma 🤷
Happy New Year 🎉! This week in KDE: Dolphin gets root operations, Konsole lets select applications, and KWin nets > 8-bit colorizations... (in Wayland).
.
@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.
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!
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:
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
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.
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
!
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.