digiKam, KDE's photo 📷 and image manager, reaches version 8.8.0.

This version includes importing and exporting tag hierarchies to and from text files; consistent and accurate color representation across macOS, Windows and Linux (with Wayland); an enhancement tool that lets you blur backgrounds or subject in a photo, enabling creative depth-of-field effects; among many other new features and improvements.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-10-19-8.8.0/_release/_announcement/

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"This Week in Plasma" brings fixed bugs, improved UIs.

Coming up: much more soothing sounds, better accessibility for notifications (sans annoyances), and Konsole and Kate passing Wayland activation tokens back and forth, opening up interesting possibilities for inter-app synchronization.

Find out more at

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/16/this-week-in-plasma-a-lot-of-polishing/

#Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop #Plasma6

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Congratulations @gnome on your 28th anniversary!🎂🥳

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KDE Gear 🌞 25.08 - Summertime edition has arrived! Look forward to new features in Itinerary, Dolphin, NeoChat and more.

Whether you need to brush up on your languages to visit exotic lands, plan your trips, keep up to date while on the move, meet up with friends and colleagues, create content from your holiday clips, or just chill as your quaint steam engine trundles up a picturesque peak, KDE Gear 🌞 25.08 has got you covered.

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.08.0/

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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that System Settings' pages become "smart" and can mark themselves as "not relevant" if, for example, you do not have the hardware to use them. They can also export actions to the sidebar, allowing you to quickly toggle devices on and off. And Discover can now be opened directly from Install buttons on FlatHub.

Read about this, and much more in Nate's blog post:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/09/this-week-in-plasma-quick-toggles-in-system-settings/

#Plasma6 #OpenSource #desktop

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KDE dev Joshua Goins aka @redstrate just brought XP-Pen Artist 22R Pro support to Linux 6.17 as part of the We Care About You Input - KDE Goals project. More info:

https://redstrate.com/blog/2025/07/the-xp-pen-artist-22r-pro-works-on-linux-now/

#linux #kdegoals #kde #artiwithopensource

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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.5 will have automatic day/night theme switching, that you can choose which Global Themes to show on the Quick Settings page, and that you can set dynamic wallpaper coloration to be based on the background color scheme or the time of day, or always light, or always dark.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/08/02/this-week-in-plasma-day/night-theme-switching/

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In today's Daft Code stream, @AleixPol and @sitter will talk about the latest KDE Goals Plasma Keyboard push, Kirigami, QML and other nifty things. They will be joined by @espidev. Join them live at 18:00 CEST on https://twitch.tv/daft/_code

#kde #osk #kirigami #qml #dbus #coding #virtualkeyboard #kdegoals

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"This week in Plasma" brings the news that you will be able to configure the rotatable dial on your drawing tablet in Plasma 6.5, the Welcome Center gets accessibility improvements, and automatic wallpaper transitions linked to you day/night cycle are coming soon:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/12/this-week-in-plasma-tablet-dials-and-day/night-cycles/

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Love KDE? Now you can wear your love too.

Whether you're customizing your desktop or your hoodie, KDE gear is a fun way to show your support for open-source, creativity, and community. Grab a tee, a mug, or a sticker to let the world know you're Konqi and Katie approved.

Explore the collection:
CafePress: https://www.cafepress.com/shop/KDE
Freewear: https://www.freewear.org/KDE

#KDE #merch #FOSS #OpenSource

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KDE devs have been quietly working on Plasma Keyboard, a new on-screen keyboard for desktop and mobile part of the “We Care About Your Input” KDE Goals initiative. Although not ready for texting yet, it has been making progress. Hopefully it'll be in a screen near you soon. Join the effort!

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-keyboard

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The latest issue of "This week in Plasma" brings the news that now there's a pop-up preview for folders on the desktop that are empty, that the Plasma Virtual Keyboard is coming along nicely, and that screen recordings of specific windows now capture that window's popups too:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/05/this-week-in-plasma-chugging-along/

#Plasma6 #FreeBSD #OpenSource

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Talking of awesome KDE apps, digiKam 8.7.0 has just been released!

KDE's full-featured image and photo managing software enhances its face detection and recognition feature, improves support for GPU actions, and updates its RAW decoder, G'MIC plugin, and more.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0/_release/_announcement/

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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that Dolphin gets new looks, and its connectivity to Samba shares improves; Photos, the image viewer that works both on desktops and mobiles, can share photos again; and KRetro, the app for retro gaming, gets one step closer to being incubated as an official KDE app, among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/29/this-week-in-kde-apps/

#apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that QtQuick-based KDE software acquires inertial scrolling using touchpads, the inbuilt RDP service supports syncing clipboard text between client and server, and session restore (Plasma remembering the position and size of windows) is coming to Wayland, among many other things:

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/28/this-week-in-plasma-inertial-scrolling-rdp-clipboard-syncing-and-more-session-restore/

#desktop #linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Plasma6

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Do you use a drawing tablet with Linux? You can share your device info in two easy steps - no coding skills required! 💙

Help KDE devs like @redstrate build driver support.

More info at:

https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors?tab=readme-ov-file#contributing

#linux #tablet #wacom #huion #stylus #artwithopensource #kde #freesoftware

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"This week in Plasma" brings the news that Discover's list views can now be navigated with the keyboard, and that we met another accessibility standard by improving the readability of graph axis labels, as well as of selected items in KRunner and Discover, among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/21/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-has-arrived/

#plasma6 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop

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La Akademy-es arranca de nuevo esta mañana a las 10 CEST

https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2025

Estaremos atendiendo al público malagueño para instalar #Linux en sus ordenadores y tendremos más actividades en el stand.

¡Ven y libera tu ordenador!

#EndOf10 #OpenSource #events #FreeSoftware

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Preparando la fiesta de instalación de Linux que se celebrará en Málaga el sábado en al marco del Akademy-es:

https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2025

¡Malagueños, liberemos esos ordenadores!

#EndOf10

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Plasma Mobile News📳!

@NGIZero Core is funding work on the power management stack; the task switcher gets gestures back; the lockscreen and notifications were redesigned; KDE's very own convergent web browser, Angelfish, has been overhauled and now supports gestures; and look forward to improvements to Discover, Clock, Dialer and more.

https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/06/18/dev-log/

#plasmamobile #mobile #freesoftware #opensource

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