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digiKam, KDE's powerful photo managing software, reaches version 8.3.0

@digikam 8.3.0 is translated to more than 60 languages, helps you create time-lapse video with frame luminosity equalization, and comes with a smart tagging assistant that analyses the content of your pictures.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2024-03-17-8.3.0_release_announcement/

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Tbh, I'm still super impressed with smoothness of :kdenew: KDE Plasma5 on :postmarketos: PostMarketOS on such an old phone (Samsung Galaxy A300FU). Truly an achievement. Of course it is far from optimal (e.g notifications can clutter the screen and their close button are out of bound of the display).

Well done @kde@floss.social , @kde@lemmy.kde.social and @postmarketOS 👏🏼

Plasma 6 changed the way scrollbars work for some reason. Now when you click somewhere with mouse1 the elevator jums there and the window content scrolls accordingly.

Previously, it would scroll by one window's worth in the appropriate direction. If you wanted to jump to a given location, you just used mouse2 (typically the scroll wheel button nowadays). It has worked that way everywhere for literally decades.

After reading the very weird explanation for the change, I can only conclude that the devs don't even know how to use their interface.

Hence my question, is there a setting somewhere to switch back to the traditional behaviour?

In Plasma 6, multiple regression happened to the application dashboard, which is by far my favorite launcher. I did file bug reports and all that, but I would love to try to contribute by fixing some of the bugs. Where do I start and what are the required skills?

This was fixed for me since 5.27 but it resurfaced with 6.0. Breeze/Lightly/etc are fine; it's Aurorae themes with fractional scaling in Wayland that have the issue. Not sure whether it's a bug or something left over from somewhere in my system.

The mental pretzel is finally over.

KDE 6 seems to have gotten rid of run command, mark taskbar entry and log to a file options in applications specific settings under notification settings, only play a sound and show message in popup actions remain.

Are there any plans to bring back this functionality in future updates?

This week in KDE: Dolphin levels up

https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/15/this-week-in-kde-dolphin-levels-up/

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I have a 720p integrated screen and a 1440p external monitor, I only have one active at a time, so they share panels.

I have a global menu on my top panel and when I'm using the 720p screen on some applications that menu can overflow and cause the right plasmoids to move offscreen.

Is there any way of making each screen use different panels or failing that is there a solution to this that doesn't involve removing the global menu as it is?

This year #Kdenlive is participating in Season of KDE with two projects. Check out the progress of the students:

Implementing Multi-format Rendering:
https://ajayslog.vercel.app/posts/season-of-kde-01/

Enabling editing of keyframe curves and advanced keyframe types:
https://aisuneko.moe/posts/sok24-blog1/

#kde #sok #videoediting

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Gerade kam das #Plasma6 Update von KDE auf #openSUSE #Tumbleweed heraus - das Update ging mehr als nur Glatt von der Bühne!

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Attention people in Southern California! KDE is coming to town (to set up a booth a SCaLE21x).

Come visit us at @socallinuxexpo at the Pasadena Convention Center, enjoy some talks, meet KDE contributors, marvel at our technological... er... marvels, and have a good time!

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x

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#SCaLE21x #event #linux

I have a 3D printing software that does not display well on Wayland. Instead of relogging to start a x11 session is there a way to force that one software to display in x11 instead of Wayland?

Edit

AddingQT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to the enviroment variables was the solution for me.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

Now that kde added support for hdr, is there a way I can watch videos in hdr with firefox or do I need to wait a bit more for that?

Anyone knows how to add a key-binding in konsole that binds a key combination to a sequence of actions?

Maybe, this could be achieved via a script?

In my case, I just want a key-binding to switch to a certain tab and send the command !! (last used command). This is super-useful while developing. I can do the first action with standard konsole keybinding and the second action using a qdbus command. I don't know how to put them together...

Exciting news! 🚀 #Kdenlive 24.02 is here with major upgrades, including Qt6 & KDE Frameworks 6. It's faster, sleeker, and sets the stage for the next decade.

(Flatpak package will be out soon)

https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/03/kdenlive-24-02-0-released/

#videoediting

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I haven't seen the update come through to my system but since I have a more-than-slightly-borked grub setup, I have a feeling it could be to do with that.

As a side note RE: above -- Are people running a kernel newer than 6.5.0-18-generic ?

This is a small Tutorial how to convert Konsole to never, I mean never, open a new window again.

I mean, we moved away from Windows for a reason, right?

Also, I will show you how to use a different shell and add custom right-click actions for various useful things.

No new windows

Go to Konsoles Settings, the second checkbox is "open all konsole windows in a single process". Check this, as it is needed.

Now to edit the system desktop entry, never do this in place, copy it to your user directory, entries here always overwrite system ones. (This can be used to hide apps too, use touch ~/.local/share/applications/name.desktop)

cp /usr/share/applications/konsole.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

Now edit this file with your editor.

Replace Exec=konsole with Exec=konsole --new-tab.

Profile: Different Shell

Bash is the default and I highly advise against using chsh if you want to use fish, zsh or others.

Instead, create a new Konsole profile, set its default command to for example /usr/bin/fish and set it as default profile!

Profile: Distrobox

If you use Distrobox, you may want a profile that launches it directly. The advantage is that you can color it differently and much more.

In the settings create a new profile and set the startup command to distrobox enter Boxname.

Mine is for Fedora, while my main system is Fedora Atomic KDE.

Custom right-click actions

You can remove unneeded translations from the desktop entry to make it easier to work with.

In the Actions= line you define what you want. Below the main entry you put the actions with name, icon and command.

Here I have examples for launching the Distrobox Profile, opening a root shell and opening a remote ssh session.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
TryExec=konsole
Exec=konsole --new-tab
Icon=utilities-terminal
Categories=System;TerminalEmulator;
Actions=FedoraBox;root;ssh;
X-DocPath=konsole/index.html
X-DBUS-StartupType=Unique
X-KDE-AuthorizeAction=shell_access
X-KDE-Shortcuts=Ctrl+Alt+T
StartupWMClass=konsole
Keywords=terminal;console;script;run;execute;command;command-line;commandline;cli;bash;sh;shell;zsh;cmd;command prompt
Name=Konsole
GenericName=Terminal
Comment="$GenericName"

[Desktop Action FedoraBox]
Name=Distrobox
Icon=fedora-logo-icon
Exec=konsole --new-tab --profile FedoraBox # this launches "distrobox enter FedoraBox"

[Desktop Action root]
Name=root Terminal
Icon=folder-root-symbolic
Exec=konsole --new-tab -e pkexec $SHELL #or define a shell like fish

[Desktop Action ssh]
Name=ssh to X
Icon=folder-remote-symbolic
Exec=konsole --new-tab -e ssh user@IP:PORT -i /path/to/key

Note that I removed the actions for "new tab" and "new window". For some reason Plasma shows the "open new window" always, and due to the replacement this opens a new tab instead.

Ctrl+Alt+t, opening from Dolphin and more will also open a new tab.

Btw, if somebody can help me figure out how to focus the Konsole window when opening a new tab, that would be nice. This is currently missing

NEW VIDEO OUT NOW!!!
https://youtu.be/pAU-A11RKUc

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Hello all,

I have created a post on reddit to fix the issue where SDDM doesn't scale well on plasma 6, and wanted to share it here in case anyone is having the same issue

I have two monitors that are 4k and SDDM wasn't scaling correctly on either of them. It was too small and was very annoying. I tried many ways to fix it, but nothing helped. Applying plasma settings to SDDM from the settings didn't help either. Some kind soul recommended an Arch wiki piece that helped me fix it. I want to share with everyone just in case. And here is the screenshot on what to do in case the wiki is not clear enough. Navigate to /etc/sddm.conf.d and create a new file and call it hidpi.conf (in case you don't have it), then add the following lines to it and save:

[Wayland]

EnableHiDPI=true

[X11]

EnableHiDPI=true

[General]

GreeterEnvironment=QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2,QT_FONT_DPI=192

You can change the QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS=2 to any number to fit the size of your screen. I set mine to 1.75 since it is the perfect scaling for my 27" monitor. Hope this helps. Have a good day

Game affected by it: DBD (my other games are isometric, but I doubt it's only DBD).

Anyone has this issue? More importantly, anyone found a solution? IDK if that matters, but I use 2 toolbars which go over the window, but neither get highlighted, so I do not believe they're stealing the focus. I tried hiding them and it didn't help, further making me believe they're not the issue.

This week in KDE: a deluge of new features

https://pointieststick.com/2024/03/08/this-week-in-kde-a-deluge-of-new-features/

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