David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE's software), and everything in between....
In addition to that Josh said, we have a list of mobile friendly first party applications here: https://plasma-mobile.org/ It's not completely up to date and is missing some newer additions.
Is there a dedicated page tracking updates specifically to KDE Connect?
It is part of KDE Gear, so generally in the gear release announcement. The last few releases were not that big in term of feature but the next one includes some goodies.
Does Connect use BTLE?
KDE Connect will have the Bluetooth backend enabled by default with the next gear release (24.02). I'm not sure if this is BTLE or normal Bluetooth.
Could you guys implement an auto tethering option between phone/PC?
No idea :(
How instant are notifications synced?
For me it is pretty instant. I never miss my Bereal notifications thanks to it :)
Do notifications disappear on one side or the other when viewed on one or the other platform?
Yes
Maybe implement a “link to KDE” notification toggle to mirror the “link to windows” functionality of Android?
Related to a previous post about Thunderbird collecting 6.4 million dollars in 2022 and KDE only 200k, I'm wondering why people do not donate or do not donate more to KDE....
I donate periodically to KDE, but my major gripe is that I don’t know where the money is going. They have no financial reports that can be easily found
this is because giving money individually to a KDE subproject is a lot of logistic and unless the project is big and receive a lot of money, the amount collected for the individual project won't be enough to do anything meaningful for the project. But we had a trial with Kdenlive specific fundraising, which worked reasonably well last year so maybe we will see more subprojects specific fundraising in the future.
there’s no public tracking of their income or expenditure like on opencollective
yeah aside from the graphs in https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/#working-groups_ we don't publish detailed logs of every single transactions as they contain private details like how much our contractors are getting paid. KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit in Germany and the tax offices is very vigilant that nothing weird happens.
it’s not easy to find KDE devs (aka who is actually on the KDE team) so that one could sponsor individual devs
This developers accepting donations often have this info on their website. It's also possible to find KDE related people on liberapay https://liberapay.com/search?q=kde
I have signed up about 3 or 4 days ago and still can’t log in. I didn’t add an email, just a user name. I answered the question and all. Is there anyone who can approve my sign up request? Thanks
Apologies for the downtime of lemmy.kde.social. I made a minor update to our lemmy instance on Friday and this was a bad idea as this broke the server. I roll-backed our server from the last backup but ended up with the same issue. I unfortunately didn’t had the time to investigate the issues during the weekend....
It would be great to have and I actually started writing tiny bit of code for this, but unfortunately my bandwidth is already saturated with maintaining merkuro, tokodon, neochat and a bunch of other apps.
But if someone is interested in writing an app, I’ll be happy to help a bit.
I wrote an applet that makes an API call every 10 minutes, but I want it to show a message if the computer is offline. This means I need to get the network status within QML. I thought a DataEngine might be available, but there isn’t....
KDE was a huge part of my life for well over a decade, from when I first installed a v1 beta, to when I got my CVS commit rights circa 2000, to coding and organizing events all the way through 2010. Eventually, though, my life went a different direction....
Hello! I made my account on invent.kde.org a long time ago with my old email, but now I don’t use it anymore and I’d like to update it. I managed to add and verify it, but I’m unable to set it as primary email address. Is this impossible?...
#Travel season is here! Let KDE take you to the best spots, most beautiful #beaches, or even #Akademy2023: Check out the new “KDE for #Travellers” guide and… Bon Voyage 🚂✈️🏖️🚢🏛️🕌!...
I applied github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/114 to lemmy.kde.social, this should fix some federation bug and I can now follow this community with my Mastodon account by searching for @kde
Improvements to QTextDocument ( carlschwan.eu )
Kirigami Addons 1.1.0 ( carlschwan.eu )
Klevernotes: UI changes, performance improvements and more! ( discuss.kde.org )
A post of mine was deleted without note, what is going on?
Edit: it was a bug where I was not sure if it is a bug or just a config issue....
AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease.
David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE's software), and everything in between....
Why don't you donate (or donate more) to KDE?
Related to a previous post about Thunderbird collecting 6.4 million dollars in 2022 and KDE only 200k, I'm wondering why people do not donate or do not donate more to KDE....
This week in KDE: Wayland by default, de-framed Breeze, HDR games, rectangle screen recording ( pointieststick.com )
Hi, I have released a program similar to Apple's Quick Look. ( lemmy.world )
It is a very simple program that allows you to have a quick overview of the contents of some files....
Is there anyone who actually approves sign ups to the kde instance?
I have signed up about 3 or 4 days ago and still can’t log in. I didn’t add an email, just a user name. I answered the question and all. Is there anyone who can approve my sign up request? Thanks
Meta: downtime this weekend
Apologies for the downtime of lemmy.kde.social. I made a minor update to our lemmy instance on Friday and this was a bad idea as this broke the server. I roll-backed our server from the last backup but ended up with the same issue. I unfortunately didn’t had the time to investigate the issues during the weekend....
Frameless view with QtWidgets ( carlschwan.eu )
Lemmy app from KDE?
We have Tokodon for Mastodon and NeoChat for Matrix, but KDE app for Lemmy is missing here. Are there any plans for making one?...
Kirigami Addons 0.11.0 is out! ( carlschwan.eu )
This release brings some nice new components for your Kirigami and QML apps.
How to get network status in QML?
I wrote an applet that makes an API call every 10 minutes, but I want it to show a message if the computer is offline. This means I need to get the network status within QML. I thought a DataEngine might be available, but there isn’t....
New ideas using Wayland Input Methods ( blog.davidedmundson.co.uk )
Akademy 2023 blog posts
Here are some blog posts from KDE contributors about their experience in Thessaloniki:...
Today I did a very sad thing
KDE was a huge part of my life for well over a decade, from when I first installed a v1 beta, to when I got my CVS commit rights circa 2000, to coding and organizing events all the way through 2010. Eventually, though, my life went a different direction....
This week in KDE: Akademy approaches ( pointieststick.com )
Is it possible to change primary email on invent.kde.org account? + bonus question
Hello! I made my account on invent.kde.org a long time ago with my old email, but now I don’t use it anymore and I’d like to update it. I managed to add and verify it, but I’m unable to set it as primary email address. Is this impossible?...
#KDE releases "KDE for Travellers" a guide to KDE tools (and other FLOSS utilities) to assist you on your trips ( kde.org )
#Travel season is here! Let KDE take you to the best spots, most beautiful #beaches, or even #Akademy2023: Check out the new “KDE for #Travellers” guide and… Bon Voyage 🚂✈️🏖️🚢🏛️🕌!...
Federation bug fixed
I applied github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/pull/114 to lemmy.kde.social, this should fix some federation bug and I can now follow this community with my Mastodon account by searching for @kde
This week in KDE: we released SDDM 0.20.0, finished porting Plasma 6 to KSvg, improved the performance of Wayland with multi-GPU systems, and tweaked the look of widgets in the panel ( pointieststick.com )
KDE Social Lemmy instance is live
Hello world!