What's new in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 43?

* New Anaconda WebUI installer
* Automatic updates for Kinoite (which is based on Fedora KDE)
* Latest updates from @kde Plasma 6.4.5 with improvements in tiling, color management, accessibility, and more!

➡️ fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-i…

#Fedora #FedoraKDE #KDE #Linux #OpenSource

What’s new in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 43 - Fedora Magazine

Fedora has released Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition 43 to the public. The Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition is well suited for many needs.  It combines the reliable and trusted Fedora Linux base with the KDE Plasma Desktop environment.

^{Troy Dawson (Fedora Project)}

KDE Plasma 6.5 released

KDE is on a roll lately, and keeps on rolling with today's release of KDE Plasma 6.5. As the project itself notes, this release focuses on relatively small improvements, refinements, and other niceties, without making any massive changes. With Linux desktops taking accessibility more seriously lately than ever before, I want to focus on the accessibility improvements first.

The Orca screen

osnews.com/story/143605/kde-pl…

#KDE

"The #Orca screen reader now announces caps lock state changes, and screen readers will now describe the Shortcuts and Autostart pages more optimally. A new grayscale color filter for people sensitive to colors, developers have done a full pass to eliminate bright flashes in the UI, and the desktop zoom feature will now follow the text insertion point. Keyboard navigation has been improved, and a few other small changes have been to improve #accessibility."

mstdn.social/@osnews/115413333…

#KDE #Linux

Survived my first ever KDE e.V. board meeting! I'm super happy about the trust the KDE community/e.V. membership put on me by electing me yesterday to the board at the general assembly and will try my best to not disappoint them!

#kde

OK Linux folks. With #KDE hitting 29 years old, I'm curious about switching my gaming PC from Windows 11 to KDE. The games I play are listed on ProtonDB as being gold or platinum, so I think I'm good as far as gaming goes, but I have some other software concerns.

What do y'all use for cloud file storage/syncing?

What do you use for image editing/creation?

Where can I find out if my Razer Leviathan and HyperX mic will work on KDE?

Ich teste momentan ja #Gnome unter #Fedora auf meinem Arbeitsgerät, während ich eigentlich seit Jahren privat und vorher beruflich #KDE #Plasma gewohnt bin.

Weiß noch nicht ob ich dabie bleibe. Ich muss mich ehct bei sehr vielen DIngen umgewöhnen und einiges umbiegen bzw. nach meinen Bedürfnissen konfigurieren. Aber eigentlich will ich den Desktop ja nicht zu stark verbiegen...
An anderen Stellen vermisse ich Features.

Nein, ist natürlich nicht alles blöd: Gnome ist wirklich schick und fühlt sich wie aus einem Guss an, außerdem gibt es auch wirklich tolle #GnomeCircle Apps.

Gibt es tolle Exklusiv-Features oder Workflows, die ich mir mal anschauen sollte? 👀

Die geschmeidigste Version war, glaub ich, die 14. Ich bedauere, dass man danach den #Unity #Desktop aufgegeben hat.

Er hat m. M. nach ein innovatives Bedienkonzept gehabt. Schließlich möchte ich kein besseres Windows, weshalb ich mit dem #KDE Desktop oder #Linux #Mint nie richtig warm geworden bin. Das sind trotzdem gute Projekte.

I heard that KDE could use some fundraising campaign artwork, so calling all artists who may follow me:

• If you like KDE stuff like Krita or Plasma etc..
• And if you like Konqi and Katie

We could use some artwork: Drawings of Konqi and Katie for fundraising efforts. Here is a good example: community.kde.org/File:Konqui-…

The promo folk will explain more what they need specifically, I'm mostly a messenger.

It is volunteer work (so very likely no payment) and the artwork will have to have permissive license such as CC-BY-SA. And I understand for many artists that's a lot to ask.. But you never know if you don't ask right?

There's different style campaigns for different holiday seasons. If you're interested, let me know here or my email, and I'll give out details how to contact the promo team. You can also chat with them directly through their Matrix channel: community.kde.org/Get_Involved…

Here's examples of various artwork we have: community.kde.org/Promo/Materi…

Edit: I don't think there's participation limit either. :)

And yes, this makes you a contributor to KDE! :)

#KDE #Linux #Krita

Nate Graham's latest blog post: "a Mac-like experience on Linux"

pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/…

#KDE #Plasma #GNOME #OSX

A Mac-like experience on Linux

In 2016, after being a Mac guy for 23 years, I took the plunge and made a full-time switch to Linux. I did my research, and over and over again encountered the idea that GNOME was good for MacOS re…

^{Adventures in Linux and KDE}

Cómo hacer que el cliente de correo @thunderbird muestre el diálogo de archivos de Plasma de #KDE en vez del de #GNOME

Buscando ví la sencilla solución a este pequeño contratiempo. Así que veamos de qué manera más sencilla podemos cambiar este comportamiento.

victorhckinthefreeworld.com/20…

Cómo hacer que Thunderbird muestre el diálogo de archivos de Plasma de KDE

Thunderbird en el escritorio Plasma de KDE usa el diálogo de archivos GNOME a la hora de añadir un adjunto o guardar un archivo. Veamos cómo modificar eso.

^{Victorhck in the free world}

But, @gnome, #KDE is six months ahead! How will you catch up?

So few are old enough to even get that joke now! 😝

Cc: @federicomena @karen

#GNOME #Linux #GNU #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

#nextcloud made it possible for me to (self-)host my (and my family's) phone calendars, contacts, and even when pictures are taken, they get uploaded to our Nextcloud instance, and NOT to google/apple.

10/10, would recommend for any household looking to #degoogle.

Others include #searxng, has literally replaced all monolithic search engines, works great, no ads or AI

#mastodon, for my #activitypub based social network

#matrix for chatting with my social network

and also #KDE.

Last month, I spent about a week working on Plasma Bigscreen, hoping to get it back in Plasma releases again!

Read about it on my blog: espi.dev/posts/2025/07/plasma-…

#kde

Do you use a drawing tablet with Linux? You can share your device info in two easy steps - no coding skills required! 💙

Help KDE devs like @redstrate build driver support.

More info at:

github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hi…

#linux #tablet #wacom #huion #stylus #artwithopensource #kde #freesoftware

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

finally some good fucking content

old.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/…

#KDE #GNOME

[arch-announce] Plasma 6.4.0 will need manual intervention if you are on X11

lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…

#archlinux #linux #kde #x11

I'm trying to get back into longer form writing. Today I am advocating for a cross organizational effort to have a consistent donation framework.

#flathub #gnome #kde

ypsidanger.com/rethinking-dona…

Rethinking Donations for Applications

One of the worst things about being a Linux user is that you have to deal with Linux users from time to time. Like the time an extension author had to quit due to being shit on by users.

^{Jorge Castro}

Ok how about a new UI guideline:

You can have a menubar or a toolbar with six redundant buttons just taking up space, but not both.

#KDE #Qt #Qt6 #UI #UX

Emmanuele Bassi explains how portals tie everything together in modern Linux app development at #LAS2025. #gnome #kde #opensource #linux

Program: buff.ly/7MmXKp3

#Akademy2025 is happening in Berlin, Germany, and online from Saturday the 6th to Thursday the 11th of September.

Mark your calendars!

More details: akademy.kde.org/2025/

#KDE #FOSS #techevent #fossevent #linux

@akademy@lemmy.kde.social

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Last donations of 2024 made! This time I donated money to the following great FOSS projects:

- Codeberg: donate.codeberg.org/
- GNOME: gnome.org/donate/
- KDE: kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202…
- LibreOffice: libreoffice.org/donate/
- Thunderbird: thunderbird.net/en-US/donate/

Which projects did you support this year? #opensource #donations #codeberg #gnome #kde #libreoffice #thunderbird

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👉 "The core issue is that open source contributors are not paid fairly. 60% of open-source maintainers are unpaid volunteers, and just 13% make a living as professional project maintainers, according to the 2023 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report."

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How do we fund open source?

Experts with deep experience across open-source software communities share their opinions on how to sustain this critical ecosystem.

^{Bill Doerrfeld (InfoWorld)}

Improvised @neochat sprint at C-Base with @tobias and James Graham

#kde #matrixConf

Only a few days left to submit your #LAS2024 talk! Make sure to submit your proposal by Aug 21: conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/…

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Excited for #LAS2024 in Monterrey, Mexico? Get all your travel info, including visas, transport, and hotels, right here: linuxappsummit.org/local/

#LinuxAppSummit #KDE #GNOME #opensource

Interested in tooling for development and QA on immutable / image based Linux?

Checkout discourse.gnome.org/t/towards-… by @tchx84

Feedback welcome ! This is a collaboration between @gnome @codethink and @sovtechfund ❤️

#Linux #systemd #Silverblue #GNOME #freedesktop #KDE #Ubuntu #SUSE #Fedora #NixOS #postmarketOS

Towards a better way to hack and test your system components

Introduction Hey everyone, I recently joined Codethink and I am contributing to the improvements being made to GNOME OS, through the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF), to make it easier and more useful in day-to-day development and testing tasks, among othe…

^{GNOME Discourse}

Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!

Blog post: davidrevoy.com/article1030/deb…

#linux #x11 #wayland #debian #fedora #krita #plasma #kde