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KDE's Annual Report for 2022 has landed 📔 . Read up on all stuff the Community did, the events we went to, how we used the funds generously donated by sponsors and the public, and much more:

https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/

Remember! Your generosity keeps KDE going:

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@kde@lemmy.kde.social

From the drop down menu on discover.

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.

Well today I was cleaning up my linkedin connections, trying to keep the network relevant (fewer vectors for spam or whatever) and I removed all but four of my dozens of KDE and former KDE contacts. It was interesting clicking through each profile -- so many of those early contributors are now CEOs, presidents, partners, founders, etc. Open source software experience, and the KDE community experience clearly drew in a lot of very talented and ambitious people.

So now I'm just here to reminisce. How's everyone doing? When did you discover KDE?

Hello! I'd like to write a little frontend for klipper, KDE's clipboard manager. I can access its content with qdbus:

qdbus org.kde.klipper  /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.getClipboardHistoryMenu

qdbus org.kde.klipper  /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.getClipboardHistoryItem 5

but how can I activate the selected item, placing it first? If it's only text, I can do this:

qdbus org.kde.klipper  /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.setClipboardContents "$(qdbus org.kde.klipper  /klipper org.kde.klipper.klipper.getClipboardHistoryItem 5)"

but what if it has a different MIME type, like an image or a file? Is there a way to tell klipper "activate element 5"?

Bugs that may have muddled data when imported, or features missing from charts, or crashes in edge case circumstances have now been resolved.

There's a proposal at the linked blog post for how to clean up the config directory.

The post goes into detail which changes would be required in KDE software using Qt.

After reading, I just have one question (the blog does not seem to have a comment section): how does this handle transitioning from the old location to the new location? Imagine having a katerc config file under ~/.config and one under ~/.config/kate (which is the suggestion from the post) - should those be merged once and then the old one gets deleted?

Hello! Is it possible to remove this text shadow?

in the desktop settings there is no such option

This week in KDE: we modernized the breeze cursors, created a new banner component and released a "KDE For Travelers" webpage.

https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/07/this-week-in-kde-akademy-approaches/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

I came across this setting, but I'm not sure what it does. ~~What is an activity? What are the files of that activity?~~ I watched this video, so I have an idea of what activities are, but it still doesn't clarify what this setting does.

I would like to be able to configure a shortcut that allows me to, for example, switch one workspace to the right by the shortcut <meta> + <scrollwheel-up>. I tried configuring this in the "Shortcuts" section of System Settings, but it didn't appear to work.

Hey, friends! I have a weird issue that I'm hoping someone can suggest a fix for, cause I have searched all over and cannot find an answer.

Essentially, for the last several months, I randomly get these black flashes that happen at the top of my screen. They take up the top 1/4-1/3 of my display and they're gone in an instant. They happen at random times. Not while I'm gaming, but sometimes when I'm watching a non-fullscreen video, browsing the web, etc. I cannot purposefully trigger it, I have no clue what it is. The only thing I can think of is maybe it's krunner, because it's positioned similarly to the krunner search bar? I really have no clue.

It seems to pop up more often while I'm active (typing, scrolling, clicking, etc.) but not in any one particular program or at any particular time, and it definitely happens when I'm inactive, too. It's really hard to pin down what triggers it.

Specs:
OS: Fedora 38 (KDE Spin)
Display Server: X11 (but it happens on Wayland, too)
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

My system/software is fully up to date.

I'm always running OpenRGB, GWE, and Mullvad VPN in the background, and I often have Firefox, Element, and/or Steam open at any given time. I don't think it's any of those, but I'm including this info in case it could be, or if it's helpful.

Any advice is welcome! Thank you.

If I have my phone unlocked and the app open it seems to work on my computer but after a while it just seems to stop working completely.

It appears that spectacle currently only gives you the options to record "Workspace", "Selected Screen", and "Selected Window". It would be nice to also have the option to record a selected area in the same way as you can select an area for screenshots.

I couldn't find any issue for this on GitLab. I figured I'd ask here first, as I don't really want to go through making a KDE Identity to open an issue on GitLab if I don't need to.

Solution

It appears that the screen recording option only shows when you take a screenshot from within the full spectacle program:

If you don't take a screenshot from within the program, then you don't get that option, as seen here:

I had spectacle set to not take a screenshot automatically on startup, so I never saw this option:

Original Post

I read here, here, and here that Spectacle v23.04 has apparently gained a screen recording funcionality. I have v23.04.3 of spectacle, and It appears to not have such a functionality. Is there some special way to enable it?

• OS: Arch Linux (kernel v6.4.1-arch2-1)
• DE: KDE Plasma v5.27.6, Wayland

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1114285

For quite some time now, KDE has intermittently been unable to go to sleep. It will either go to a black screen with the cursor still showing, and the computer running, or it will show a half frozen sddm looking screen with the computer still running. The computer, in both cases, will be wholly unresponsive, and the only way to get out of it is to forcefully shutdown the PC by, for example, holding the power button.

Has anyone else been having this issue?

• OS: Arch Linux (kernel v6.4.1-arch2-1)
• DE: KDE Plasma v5.27.6, Wayland
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4690k
• GPU: AMD Radeon RX-6600

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 23.04.3 as the third and last maintenance update in the latest KDE Gear 23.04 open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other platforms.

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?

bonus question (probably unrelated): On identity.kde.org, if I try to add the new mail address I get Email Address "*****@******.***" has already been taken., but I don't recall creating two accounts there (although it's not impossible). So I went to Reset Password and it asked me the username and the mail address. I tried every single possible username I've ever used in my entire life (there are 3 of them, not so difficult) but it kept saying Email address does not match those known for the given username for my "real" username (registered with the old mail), and Username does not exist. for all other tries. Is there a way to understand what's going on?

thanks in advance for any help!

I started using kalender as my task manager because of the recommendation, and I am really liking it but right now I opened it and it shows me my mail tasks 3 times for whatever reason. How can I fix it?

#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 🚂✈️🏖️🚢🏛️🕌!

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Fairly standard release, adds some new features and fixes some bugs.

I want a task manager for kde and if it could sync with google tasks or something it'd be swell

You can now test version 6 of KDEs Plasma Desktop by using the unstable edition of KDE Neon. Not all distributions offer an easy way of installing Plasma 6, for now (for good reasons, too).

I only know of one other distribution, that offers an easy way of testing a Plasma 6 version: KaOS: https://kaosx.us/news/2023/kaos04/ (Feel free to add comments to other distributions or e.g. wiki pages with easy installation instructions).

Be aware that in any of the above versions, there will very likely be lots of (smaller and bigger) bugs, as this isn't even considered an Alpha-Release, yet, and still heavily in development.