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/

access and review

and censor and re-use and use to train their AI... Basically they own your art.

Edit: That said, most predictable scummy move of Adobe's long history of scummy moves.

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We're on it. We have to remove some stuff (namely x/Twitter) and a add a bunch of new stuff. Thanks for the reminder though.

Edit: W e would like to apologise and thank you for your patience in stuff like this. We are understaffed in the promotion and communication department (besides, modifying public websites can only be carried out by people with the proper permissions for logical reasons), and we often have to put off stuff that is not a top priority. We are currently working on making sure the fundraiser stays on track and the announcement for KDE Gear coming out next week.

Again, thank you for your patience.

I'm sorry you feel this way, but again you are barking up the wrong tree as we can't do anything about it... except what you can do too: protest to the people who want to impose this upon us.

Bringing this issue up here or on Discuss is pointless: We know, we are aware, we are against it, we don't want it, we realise there are ulterior motives from corrupt actors, and we will do what we can to oppose them.

But this, posting to Discuss, complaining about KDE being indifferent here (which it isn't) is probably the most unproductive thing you could do. You are tying up resources of volunteers who are already on your side. Like you say organising a protest, writing to the powers-that-be, educating your local/state/national representative, all these thing help.

But this is just consuming volunteers' time up in moderating a potential flamewar on a topic that we (and I would argue everybody else here) already knows about.

Two of these are not KDE issues. The themes you are using don't work because the authors didn't port them, like we asked third party developers do... twice. Same goes for the calendar widget you are using. Go bug em, champ.

KDE cannot be held responsible for third party add-ons, but, for everything else: https://bugs.kde.org

I think that KDE's track record shows that devs do not remove stuff just because. Quite the contrary.

But sometimes stuff does get removed and often it is because or it is unmaintained (and been so for a while), or because it is built on some old technology that cannot be replicated in the new environment without a complete rewrite.

In both cases, the reason a feature is discontinued boils down to a lack of resources.

Fortunately, the solution is simple: do your part.

KDE is a porous, grassroots and welcoming community. Join us and become part of the effort to build one of the largest and most diverse collections of end user, publicly-owned, free software projects in existence.

I know, I know: "but I can't code", etc., etc. But there are many things you can do to help. You can help organise Akademy 2024, you can translate menus and system messages, you can write documentation, draw wallpapers, design icons, edit videos, support booth staff at events, triage and report bugs, or just donate and contribute to financially supporting devs who still have to hold down pesky day jobs that get in the way of coding for KDE... The list goes on and on.

The point is, regardless of your level of technical knowledge, the more resources you free up elsewhere, the more time the people who do know how to code will have to maintain and translate software and features in the new Plasma 6 environment.

But where is this letter coming from? Did kde implement the age verification?

No.

I haven’t seen any confirmation about it.

It hasn't even been considered.

The same principles can be applied to jumping from one desktop environment to another, for example, from #Plasma to #Gnome...

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/gT1rKp7QWu7S4GYsKtw87x

... And can provide a way to save the state of an application to disk, stopping the app in its tracks and removing it from memory, so that later you can restore it just where you left off.

https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/3Sb8KKCmdQcPgoQsyK24YE

Two more that didn't make it over from mastodon:

Gwenview, Dolphin, digiKam, AudioTube, Elisa, NeoChat, GCompris...

It is true we are always complaining how understaffed project X and app Y are, but we are not a company, but an association run by volunteers.

In that context, if someone comes in and decides to work on a new project Z, there is no-one with the authority to tell them to go and work on X or Y instead.

That is not how we solve understaffing in KDE. Instead we have to recruit people directly into the understaffed projects. We cannot take them away from whatever their pet projects are.

Also, Karton, does not worsen the understaffing of Plasma in any way. On the contrary: we now have a new developer contributing to the overall KDE software stack that will possibly later tackle stuff in other areas of Plasma, as projects tend to overlap with each other.

What are you talking about. We spend zero effort on AI.

Rude, but a teachable moment:

This is our standard answer to people who need reminding that KDE is a community powered by volunteers and that each contributor works for free to bring you the best software they can make with the means they have.

"them" is "one and half people" (per their "about"). Give them some time... Or, you know, pitch in.

KAKE!!!!!

• First correction ✔️

• Second one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

I know we are kind of boring with this, but...

https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Start_Here.21

This sounds like the perfect junior job anyone can do, with or without technical knowledge and zero need for coding, but that would, at the same time, substantially improve users' experience.

KDE is a Community with fuzzy edges, not a company, not a members-only club. Use the links in the page mentioned above 👆 and explain how you want to help.

Edit: And, yeah, you would very likely get a more positive reaction to what can be boiled down to a valid suggestion if you expressed yourself in slightly politer terms.

a. It is not ugly, how dare you

b. it is what machines looked like in the 80s and 90s, and it is that retro look the maker is going for

Then you got banned with no right to appeal, just like everywhere else

Damn right