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Hello! I'm new to Linux, and using Plasma 6.2, and I'm finding the Application Launcher incredibly finicky to work with. The primary issue is that the category changes on cursor pass-over, and so ends up requiring some surprisingly precise mouse or touch-pad movements to avoid changing the selected category.

Is there a way to change this behaviour? Digging through various settings panels hasn't unearthed an obvious toggle or set of options, and Google hasn't unearthed the secret either. I'm starting to lose hope on this front.

Am I missing something obvious? Is there a way to make it so the category only changes after a hover of some appreciable amount of time? Or even a click?

This Week in Plasma: Battery Charge Cycles in Info Center.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/23/this-week-in-plasma-battery-charge-cycles-in-info-center

This week we of course continued the customary bug-fixing, but got some nice new features and UI improvements too!

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identity.kde is supposed to be used across KDE websites based on my understanding. But I am not able to login using my ID from identity.kde.

Does anyone know why or should I create a new account there?

I just noticed today that if I needed to add a new widget to my desktop/panel, I had to right click on the desktop/panel, enter edit mode/show panel configuration, click on "add or manage widgets, click on "Get new" then click on "download new plasma widget" THEN the store opens then I searched for the widget I needed. Then you are in this limbo state where the desktop is in edit mode, but you can still type into the store. Then if I wanted to add that widget to my desktop, I'd have to go back to the "add or manage widgets" and click it again and then find the new widget. Why so many steps to add one thing? Or I can go into Discover to look for it, install it and then repeat most of those steps I already mentioned. Am I the only one? I can't be, can I?

This Week in Plasma: Battery Charge Cycles in Info Center

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/23/this-week-in-plasma-battery-charge-cycles-in-info-center/

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Slay gorl, slay all day 💅💅💅 Was gonna make it metaphorically represent people designing Breeze, but idk about that rn lol.

IA has full res images BTW: https://archive.org/details/katie-makeup

[If I forgot something AGAIN I might cry] [Feedback would be VERY VERY much appreciated :>]

Can anyone tell me what these yellow exclamation marks mean?

We have more apps for you to adopt!: Kasts, Labplot, Filelight and Konsole

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

You can adopt Kasts, a very cool and full-featured podcast application which works both on your desktop and your phone:

https://apps.kde.org/kasts/

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#SupportGoodPeople #fundraiser #donations

Just donated to KDE and adopted Okular, their really nice PDF reader, which I use on a daily basis <3
Thanks for working on a good FOSS desktop experience, I hope this helps :D

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#kde #fundraiser #donations #SupportGoodPeople #AdoptAnApp #okular

Breaking Fundraiser News: More than halfway there💰!

We have already raised more than 60% of our first fundraiser goal! Thanks to the generosity of all or donors, we are now well on the way of reaching €30,000 before the end of November.

Will your donation push us over the finishing line?

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

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I think Konqi has a bug? Pls help

"This week in KDE Apps" is out!

This week, we made it easier to build KDE applications with Python, let you import your two factor authentication tokens in Keysmith, and made KMail memory usage lighter.

Read all about it at https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/18/this-week-in-kde-apps-python-bindings/

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This Week in KDE Apps: Python bindings

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/18/this-week-in-kde-apps-python-bindings/

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digKam, KDE's image organiser for amateur and pro photographers, releases version 8.5.0.

This version of @digikam improves the Face Management system, adds colored labels to identify important items, increases its list of supported languages to 61, and fixes over 160 bugs.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-11-16-8.5.0_release_announcement/

#photography #images

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This Week in Plasma: Discover and System Monitor with a side of WINE

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/11/16/this-week-in-plasma-discover-and-system-monitor-with-a-side-of-wine/

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The documentation trifecta, Kate, KWriter and Okular added to our fundraiser Adoption List.

Show your support and #AdoptAnApp!

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

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KDE For Activists

Free Software activists give you control over technology, and help defend your digital #rights. We create means that allow us to become organized and connected, bypassing utilities controlled by unethical corporations.

"KDE For Activists" helps you too leverage the tools to effectively organize rallies, privately communicate with fellow #community members, and safely manage your own grassroots #movement .

https://kde.org/for/activists/

For activists, by activists.

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KDE completes another successful Google Summer of Code!

This year our new contributors worked on LabPlot, Krita, Frameworks, Kdenlive, KDE Connect, games, and much more.

Check out everything that got done in our final #GSoC 2024 report:

https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2024-11-15-gsoc-final-end/

#mentorship #training #contributing

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I have recently bought this Acer monitor which is a matte finish IPS screen with resolution of 1920x1080 and diagonal size of 23.8.

I generally prefer small fonts on screen to get maximum information density. But after getting this monitor, I feel that the fonts are not clear, blurry or pixelated.

What KDE System Settings > Appearance > Fonts should I use to get crisp fonts at low sizes such as 10 or 8? What fonts are good at low sizes for display?

Questions: Should I force the DPI to 96 as I used to do on my previous monitors? Some solutions are suggesting that I increase the DPI and lower font size. How does that work?

Note: I do not like scaling and making things bigger than they are already, I am trying to shrink the size rather.

My primary OS is PCLinuxOS but I also use Neon, Fedora KDE.

Want to adopt one of these cute rascals? 🐬

Dolphin added to our list of Adoptable apps:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/

#SupportGoodPeople #AdoptAnApp #donations

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I have the latest kubuntu 24.10 and my TV is reporting that it is being sent a HDR10 signal.

Is there a way to manually switch it to connect using Dolby Vision?

My Apple TV 4k connects using Dolby Vision.

(I want to play Dolby Vision files without tone mapping, since my TV supports DV.)

It was once said over the grapevine that: "Our C++ API documentation has some issues, our QML API documentation has a lot of issues."

And it was true, but that is to change soon! As you might know, there is an ongoing effort to port our documentation from Doxygen to QDoc, and you can help with that.

This is a task that has been adopted by the Streamlined Application Development Experience championed by Nicolas Fella and Nate Graham as part of the KDE Goals initiative.

We would like to invite you to join our porting sprint effort to finish this task. On November 14th at 1PM UTC, we'll be hanging out in the Matrix room working on this. Hope to see you there.

Some prerequisites:

• Ability to use a terminal
• Extra disk space (30GB minimum)
• Some familiarity with APIs

Check out the instructions prepared by Thiago Sueto on how to get started porting a project to QDoc.

How can I make KDE respect my choices for download location
I use different browsers to do different tasks, but downloading a file/image goes where ever location I used last, ignoring what I set my browsers download location to be