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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 Wayland support; that KDE's travel assistants share more features and add support for many more transport and entertainment services; and how our suite of convergent applications receive many exciting updates, among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/27/this-month-in-kde-apps/

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Massive @[email protected] presence at #Grazer @linuxtage today 😎
Info booth with lots of different #SteamDeck and other devices, and an impromptu hacking corner 😅

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Umfangreiche @[email protected] Präsenz auf den #Grazer @linuxtage 😎

Infostand mit #SteamDeck und zahlreichen anderen Geräten, sowie eine spontan geformte Hacker-Ecke 😅

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The image on the right is how the settings app look on macOS 12. On macOS 13 (2022) it was changed to look more to the one on the left, with all the sections selectable in a sidebar and a smaller window. Many users have complained about it, saying that it sacrificed function for form and is part of making macOS more like iOS by mindlessly copying phone UIs onto computers which it isn't meant for. I think its alright, not terrible. And it's the norm with settings apps looking like that in Windows, KDE, Gnome, and some other DEs.

I know it was available in KDE 4 and 5 and haven't seen it updated for 6 which I understand. It has come in handy to organize some of the more important folders for myself and family like this:

My question is, is there a different way of assigning folder colors without the plugin? I imagine a custom icon, but I admit, right clicking and choosing the tint made it dead simple! :)

Concentrated hacking at the @[email protected] #Plasma #sprint at #TUGraz while a sudden thunderstorm delays our lunch break ⛈️

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Day 2 of the @[email protected] #Plasma #sprint is in full swing 💪

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Having a well deserved dinner after a productive @[email protected] #Plasma #sprint day.
Picknick Style in #Graz City #Park

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I'm wondering how I can disable the autoscroll in Okular because whenever I'm type into a form field the autoscroll keeps preventing me from seeing the text that's above the form which makes using Okular quite frustrating.

Besides that using Okular has been perfect✨, decades ahead of Adobe Reader🤗

I'm currently using the 25.04.0-1 version

@[email protected] #Plasma #sprint at the #TUGraz campus Inffeldgasse ahead of @linuxtage 2025 is in full swing.

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@[email protected] #Plasma people hard at work at @realraum

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I think it is confusing and not sorted correctly. There are categories in Window Managment>Desktop Effects:

1. Accessibility

2. Appearance: This has things I don't think even reflect the title of the category. And why does it have minimize and restore windows animations? Shouldn't those have their own? It also has the "Fall Apart" animation. Shouldn't that belong to the "Window Open/Close Animation"? When applied, it overrides whatever you choose in "Window Open/Close Animation". I'm a bit confused. Bottom line, this one has a variety of things, not only appearance things.

3. Focus

4. Peak at Desktop Animation

5. Tools

6. Virtual Desktop Switching Animation

7. Window Management

8. Window Open/Close Animation

Could very well be my rusty English, I don't know. Am I the only who thinks that this section of the settings is kind of mixing many things?

I have an issue with hints where I can’t disable the border. In the Kwin Debug Console, the hints window is actually a layer and shows up as KWin::LayerShellV1Window.

I've tried Helliboard and Fossify keyboard, and both have issues through KDE remote. Would anyone have a recommendation for a more privacy focused keyboard that works with KDE remote?

Edit: to explain

Helliboard doesn't pass caps.

Fossify keyboard doesn't backspace

The Kubuntu Team is happy to announce that Kubuntu 25.04 has been released.

Codenamed “Plucky Puffin”, Kubuntu 25.04 continues our tradition of giving you Friendly Computing by integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

The release features the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop, KDE Gear 24.12.3, kernel 6.14, and many other updated applications and libraries.

Every four months, the KDE community rolls out a new wave of app releases all at once.

These updates cover a wide range of needs. Whether you’re managing personal files on your laptop or overseeing servers located thousands of miles away, KDE offers powerful tools to help you stay in control. Need to troubleshoot someone’s system remotely from the comfort of your sofa? There’s an app for that, too. From creating short viral clips for social media to producing full-length documentaries, KDE’s creative tools have you covered. And when it’s time to unwind, you can count on KDE for enjoying music, movies, or a good book.

Keep reading to discover what’s new in KDE Gear 25.04…

KDE Gear ⚙️ 25.04 is out with new exciting features and improvements landing in Dolphin, Kdenlive, Okular, Itinerary, KDE Connect, Tokodon and many, many more.

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0/

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Hi,

Since the VSCode header changed, the official KDE Breeze theme no longer works for it.

Thanks

Edit: None of the answers I got work so I went ahead and filed a bug in KDE bugzilla: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502901

Neither CTRL Q or CTRL W work for me. I set a hotkey for the window operations menu in Settings app > Shortcuts > KWin > Window Operations Menu, but then pressing the close button in the context menu that shows, closes the window of the other window I was focused on and not the debugger.

I think this has been this way for a little while, but Breeze offers the ability to take it from the half squared/half rounded window decoration to a full rounded version. You just have to enable the thin border option in the Breeze window decoration settings. (sorry I'm not at a Linux OS right now to say exact name of the setting).

HOWEVER, I discovered that Firefox has included the option to make it's own bottom border rounded on Linux, which up until then was a sore point for KDE themes. To enable it, in Firefox about:config, turn "widget.gtk.rounded-bottom-corners.enabled" to "true" and restart Firefox.

I have no idea how long that FF setting has been there, but I'm really glad it is.

Now we have fully rounded window decorations and a proper looking DE. Thanks!!