The alpha versions of Plasma 6, Gear 24.02 and Frameworks 6 are now available.

Syndicated from the fediverse. Read and engage on the original instance.

Note that "Alpha" means NOT ready for production! Use for testing and reporting bugs only. End users: keep clear.

This is a testing version of KDE's 6th Megarelease. The final version is scheduled to be available in February.

Read the full announcement to get more details on how to get this software onto your test machine and contribute feedback to the devs.

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Woah, love the animation!

Remember: you too can contribute to KDE by becoming a Supporting Member:

For those curious, the "Building #Plasma6 " animation was made using @kdenlive and then @krita's cel-animation feature.

The whole thing was then finally put together again in Kdenlive.

Yes, we eat our own dog food at #KDE.

After a couple of false starts, the Krita animation tool proved surprisingly easy to use.

Here is the whole thing, but smooth:

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Sorry: videos don't carry over from Mastodon in the comments. Here it is.

I hope this finds it's way to gentoo repository (as masked package or something), I'm very excited for plasma 6