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Most, likely 95+% of users will never even realise. Hell, they didn’t realise when we switched them over to Wayland by default in Plasma 6. Even less so now with NVIDIA at last getting their act together, and devs having spent many human-hours in figuring out support for graphic tablets and so on. And even less a year from now when we have full feature-parity with X11.
You may be underestimating the competency and speed of KDE devs. These people are the effing top.
Will there be people who still need X11 a year+ from now? Maybe, it will be for really niche reasons though: very specific hardware (most most common tablets and drawing pads are already supported) or really old legacy software their company requires them to use.
Either way, there will be compatibility layers, distros and maybe even forks of Plasma with X11 support, so this is all a non-issue.
1·26 days ago5 more apps added to the list of adoptable apps:
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Spectacle is Plasma’s inbuilt screen capture app. It can snap pics, record videos, edit them, and will son be able to extract text from captured images.
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KMahJongg is a classic patience game where you have to match pairs of Mah Jongg pieces and clear the board.
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Partition Manager is a fundamental piece of kit that allows you to edit, remove, create and in general manage partition on all connected storage devices.
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ISO Image Writer, likewise, takes the guesswork out of creating bootable USB drives for testing or installing new operating systems.
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Kleopatra manages all your digital certificates, signatures and cryptographic keys for your email, messages, and everything else.
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We are about to break 75,000€ and enable our final stretch goal. To push things along, we are putting 5 more apps up for adoption:
- Elisa — KDE’s sleek and flexible music player that works both on your desktop and mobile
- KDE Connect — your one stop solution for synching everything on your phone with your desktop and vice versa
- KDiff3 — a tool for comparing up to 3 files, merge them, create a patch, etc
- KRename — a powerful tool for batch-renaming multiple files
- Photos — Previously known as Koko, this is an image viewer that works on your desktop and mobile, and comes with basic editing functions.
KDE’s Plasma Mobile is out to challenge spying, wall-gardened, proprietary mobile ecosystems.
Help us break up the #mobile #phone #duopoly by donating to our #fundraiser:
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/
We have nearly reached our first stretch goal! Will your #donation push us into our #fundraiser’s next phase?
And we have five more #apps you can adopt:
- KMyMoney is a personal finance manager by KDE. It comes with a large set of features while being easy to use for the non-technical user
- KBruch is an educational program that helps you learn how to solve fractions
- KTorrent lets you create and download files via BitTorrent
- KomoDo takes a TODO text and turns it into an easy to use graphical list of tasks
- KFourInLine is the classic four-in-a-row game you can play against a human or the computer.
We have added 5 more items to our list of adoptable apps:
- Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for power users.
- Amarok is a full-featured music/radio/podcast player that has made a spectacular comeback
- Yakuake is a terminal emulator that is always on hand and that you can quickly unfold from the top of your screen
- Kid3 helps you easily tag your music files
- KDiskFree is an efficient no-frills app that shows you how much space you have left in your storage media.
Live long and prosper
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KDE can continue operating at this rate because we can pay for infrastructure, support our devs at sprints and meetups, and recruit new contributors through our promotional activities at events.
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… Aaaand they’re all gone! Thanks everyone! When we get more perks, we’ll let you know.
Amazing generosity from all of you!
We’re down to 1 (one, uno, ein, एक, واحد) copy. Who wants it?
https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/#get-a-signed-dedicated-copy-of-ada--zangemann
Absolutely.
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Plasma 6.5 is out, and it is a modern, versatile, accessible desktop environment ready for private citizens, companies, and public institutions. Experience it yourself, and you will realise we are on to something big.
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KAKE!!!
Whoops! Thanks & corrected.
Get in touch with the folks running the “We care about your input” goal at
https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/#kde-input:kde.org
They may be able to advise something.
Wow! Excellent work! Would you not want to make this an official KDE project and get the full support from KDE?
Most KDE projects are acts of (dare I say it) love 💘 . People start projects, contribute to them, and maintain them, because they love them. The original spark may be need, an itch that needs scratching, but what keeps a project going is the thought that “wouldn’t it be fun if…”.
So that’s your first reason.
The second reason is that the status quo doesn’t stay the same forever. You are right: support for Linux on streaming for Linux users sucks and is often deliberately fked. But the status quo of, say games on Linux… oh, what? Five years ago? Also sucked and was deliberately fked, and look now.
KDE is not a company. It’s contributors do not have to adhere to schedules or the current status quo. They can wait and improve as they wait. Very often the work they put into pays off in the future for the benefit of everybody.
And that is reason number 2.
The dragons may have all been adopted, but, in the true spirit of FLOSS, we give you the instructions on how to make your own!
Grab the instructions as a PDF document from the “thank you” page you see after donating:
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or directly download them from here:
http://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2025/thanks_paypal/konqipattern.pdf
And get crocheting!