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A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
Want to know how KDE Linux is going? Check out "This Month in KDE Linux"
https://pointieststick.com/2026/03/14/this-month-in-kde-linux/
March's issue brings the news that updates in Discover now show real numbers instead of just "unknown"; #Kapsule, the service that let's you persistently run whole systems in containers, is ever more integrated with KDE's other software; #Kup, KDE's backup tool, now comes preinstalled...
... And much more!
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...
You can use long-presses on your regular keyboard to access alternative glyphs—just like on your phone, e.g. press and hold down [$] and a popup appears that let's you choose between €, £, ¥, ¢, ₹. Also new is that you can download and install alternative sound themes and that we reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows on screens using more fractional scale factors, and much more!
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/this-week-in-plasma-press-and-hold-for-alternative-characters/
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
digiKam version 9.0.0 is now out!
@digikam@fosstodon.org , KDE's image/photo management software 📷, now supports more RAW formats from more cameras, comes with improved preview and media support, makes reviewing items easier thanks to the new _Survey_ tool, and much, much more.
https://www.digikam.org/news/2026-03-08-9.0.0_release_announcement/
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign
#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg@floss.social and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.
Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.
KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen@techhub.social.
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
Plasma 6.6.1 has been released with a week’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors.
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...
Plasma 6.6 is here (duh!), we fixed those widgets the new release broke 😬, we made the close buttons on the "Thumbnails" task switcher more legible, and the “Terminate this frozen window” dialog got a spinner, among many more tasty things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/21/this-week-in-plasma-6.6-is-here/
#Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #desktop #linux #FreeBSD #OpenBSD
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
The #LliureJam26 clock is already ticking! Build the ultimate free desktop game in 13 days 👾🕹️!
Organized by @gnulinuxvalencia@floss.social and with the collaboration of @kde_espana@floss.social , this year's LliureJam wants participants to create an original desktop game (think Minesweep, Snake, or Patience) using free technologies and frameworks.
You have 13 days! Go, go, go 🚀!
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
KDE has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code 2026.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations
Through GSoC, KDE seeks to encourage new contributors to join Free Software projects long term and ensure the continuity of FLOSS.
This year's proposed ideas cover improving Okular, Kdenlive, digiKam, and our localization infrastructures, among others.
https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2026/Ideas
The list is still open. If you would like to participate in GSoC 2026 with your own idea, check out
https://community.kde.org/GSoC#Instructions_for_potential_contributors
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
Plasma 6.6 is now live!
In Plasma 6.6, Spectacle can read texts from screenshots; we trial-run our very own on-screen keyboard for touchscreens; and we have a new first-time wizard that let's users configure their passwords, timezones, keyboard and networks, on preinstalled systems; among many, many more marvelous things.
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
#Kapsule gives #KDELinux users real, persistent development environments without compromising the immutable base system.
According to the dev: "It shipped. People are using it. It hasn't caught fire."
Find out how it works and the state of development at:
https://blog.lasath.org/2026/02/kapsule-it-shipped-and-nobody-died.html
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that polishing for Plasma 6.6 (due in 10 days) continues, that the Window List widget gets sorting and section headers, System Setting loses all inapplicable hardware pages, and the window manager remembers tiling padding per screen, among many other marvelous things.
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/07/this-week-in-plasma-beefed-up-window-list-widget/
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
You don't need to pay Apple or start a new subscription to unleash your creativity. We asked creatives what free software they use to get the job done and here are their picks.
A thread 🧵
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
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.
A worldwide technology community 🌍 Creators of the Plasma desktop & a variety of Free and open source applications that let you control your digital life.
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 @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org 13'' laptop.
Check out the rules here:
https://discuss.kde.org/t/wallpaper-competition-announcement/3773
