What are /r/kde's favorite Products & Services?

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Yeah, KDE is not perfect and there is a long road ahead. But compared to other projects, even Gnome, it's by far the most promising player. But please, focus on new developers more. T

he docs are written like a wiki. Consider creating something like this https://developer.elementary.io/ and especially this https://elementary.io/docs/code/getting-started#git something written in more "digestible" form.

Elementary is focusing on developers a lot recently and while it seems not important from the point of view of the "veteran" KDE devs, I think KDE would make a huge mistake if it ignores the new developers.

So, updated docs, more digestible and easy-written getting started guide and perhaps a few video tutorial of creating a simple text editor and perhaps simple widget would be great.

A well thought out and prepared 20 or 30 minute video would be great.

Maybe even showing how to use KDevelop instead of QtCreator.

And the most important thing is to use a simple language and not to advance and in depth explanations.

Example of what I mean: "Remember how when we compiled our code, we used the valac command and the argument --pkg gtk+-3.0? What we did there was make use of a "library". If you're not familiar with the idea of libraries, a library is a collection of methods that your program can use. So this argument tells valac to include the GTK+ library (version 3.0) when compiling our app."

Experienced programmers will jump to docs, you need to think just about the beginners. Just my 3 cents.

I am not seeing this on my Neon systems, using the deb file as opposed to a snap or flatpak.

Probably just whatever source you are using is missing the relevant icon file. Not a distro or KDE issue, methinks.

Sorry you're being downvoted. You're not crazy; this exists. It's internally called Click Methods in libinput, and you're looking to use the option called clickfinger: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/1.11.3/clickpad_softbuttons.html

Probably if you're editing some HTML/CSS in a terminal text editor and want to see the colors. It's a popular feature in many graphical text editors. For example https://atom.io/packages/highlight-colors.

Get sponsor block! https://sponsor.ajay.app/

They already have the money from the sponsor anyway so skipping the sponsored part is fine.

Ps. I use Freetube that has sponsorblock built in https://freetubeapp.io/

<strong>Simple Screen Recorder</strong> is by far the best if you want a lot of power but want a simple straight forward approach to the settings.

<strong>Open Broadcaster Software (OBS)</strong> is by far the best and most powerful overall solution for Linux. It is also the most complicated to use. If you want a ton of control and lots of cool features including live overlay images then you want OBS.

Kazam is problematic for me most of the time so I gave up on it.

recordmydesktop - is utter garbage whether you use the gtk version or the qt version. In fact, the developer of it agrees and abandoned it years ago. All articles that still mention this app as a suggestion proves they have no idea what they are talking about and those people should be ignored.

Vokoscreen is another option but I've never been able to get it to work, I'm not sure why but it would just constantly crash on me so I gave up on it as well.

It is possible, but it requires installation of protonmail-bridge and some additional configuration of your email client. Theoretically you can use any email client you'd like once you successfully have protonmail-bridge up and working.

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https://protonmail.com/bridge/install

I believe this was created for plasma mobile. I've seen a very similar interface somewhere on Android before; it works great for small touch screens.

If you want alarms, KAlarm is an actual desktop app.

Do you know that the Kali developers recommend against using it as a desktop distro? It's meant to only be a live environment for pentesting work.

First you should join the Plasma Mobile channel (https://www.plasma-mobile.org/join/). You'll get any questions answered there.

Then you'll need to pick something you want to work on. That can be anything from low-level stuff to basic shell functions to applications. You can use https://www.plasma-mobile.org/findyourway/ to find something suitable for you.

You don't need to understand every aspect of the codebase (it's huge). Just pick something you are interested in and start digging in. You'll learn a lot and always find new things to improve

I use Clementine which is a fork from Amarok 1.4.

https://www.clementine-player.org/

Remote control using an Android device, a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.

Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player

Search and play songs you've uploaded to Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive

Don't know about Google Play tho and think not?

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That is a bug that is fixed in 5.23,wait until arrives on Manjaro or if you want it already you can change branch from stable to testing.

Right now i'm on testing branch and only have a minor bug with the application launcher,the sound issue you posted is not here.

<code>/etc/skel/</code> contains files which will be added to any new user's home directory.

~/.kde/ or ~/.kde4/, depending on distro, houses KDE configuration.

More correctly, you may be able to achieve what you want by editing files in /usr/share/kde4/. Your distro's package manager should have a command for listing files that belong to a package; use it to find what options you have. e.g. on Debian you could do dpkg -L kdm to find out where KDM's global settings come from.

EDIT: If you're basing your distro on something dpkg-based (Debian, Mint, Ubuntu, etc.), then rather than making your own version of each package you want to change, you could create a single package that uses dpkg's diversion system to replace config files from other packages.

I quite like Oxygen, but we don't have anyone with expertise in font design, so there's nobody to maintain and improve it. It was made by Vernon Adams who was a highly talented font designer who made many popular fonts. He was involved in a serious scooter accident in 2014 and passed away in 2016. Here are some of the fonts he has made: https://fonts.google.com/?query=Vernon+Adams

LO has its own GUI toolkit called VCL, is supposed to be OS-agnostic and relies on plugins to integrate it with an specific OS. You need two things:

• An integration plugin: libreoffice-kde or libreoffice-gtk
• An icon style: libreoffice-style-breeze

Install those two packages and choose breeze or breeze-dark as your icon style. You'll get something similar to this:

https://i.imgur.com/VYiuHqN.png

The steps depends on what distro you're using but if you're using a distro based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS i would recommend you to add the libreoffice-fresh PPA, just be careful that X.0.0 versions usually has a higher probability of having critical bugs if you're unlucky.

https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Kvantum is a theme engine to have these blur like effects easily on your ui

If u too want to try it.. First of all you would need a theme Manager called Kvantum and then just install Kvantum themes from the KDE store

Just my opinion but krunner is far from a second class citizen:

It has plenty of great features (some can be found in the official page)

It integrates well with other software and KDE itself (switch desktops, firefox bookmarks, firefox tabs, marble, go to specific window, run web searches, dolphin...)

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I believe that HUD feature is not part of krunner, not by laziness but by design: the devs chose not to include it to krunner so that krunner is not bloated.

(BTW

Alfred is Mac only and not open source

Unity is old and not supported by Canonical anymore and apart from HUD, it lacks a lot of features that krunner had for years)

I am currently using Manjaro (Arch-based) without any issues at all. You can also use the architect installer to customize your build.

https://odysee.com/@TechHut:1/jingos-v0.8-world%E2%80%99s-first-linux-based:8

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they're open about it, it's not some grand conspiracy. it's in their terms of service

Strawberry Music Player all the way! It's a modern fork of Clementine that's actively maintained and doesn't remove high-res audio playback like Clementine did :)

I thought this was kind of interesting. The linux community tends to be rather harsh towards KDE for some unknown reason.. and just perusing around /r/linux or /r/linux_gaming or /r/unixporn, sometimes it seems like just about nobody uses it. When I do see discussion about it outside of this subreddit, usually it starts spawning comments about how bad/buggy/resource-hungry/etc they think KDE is.

Not a terribly big sample size (582 users), but it's nice to see it on top.

In other news... in the last 30 days (rightmost column), KDE Neon was the 15th most viewed page on Distrowatch :D http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=popularity

The missing feature is called "coasting" or "kinetic scrolling". And I agree it sucks when it doesn't work.

Recent Ubuntu based distros use libinput as their touchpad driver. Older versions of Ubuntu used the Synaptics driver. Synaptics implemented coasting but it had a quirk. Suppose in Firefox you start a scroll so it coasts and then go to press ctrl+tab to switch tabs. As soon as ctrl is pressed the current page zooms out. This is because the touchpad driver is still sending a scroll signal to the app, so it executes the ctrl+scroll down function which is zoom out.

libinput is a newer driver. They implemented coasting the "proper" way, which requires application support. If apps don't support coasting with libinput you get no coasting at all. It does fix the quirk of Synaptics. Over time more apps will get support for coasting, either natively or by being based on a UI framework that has support.

I find so few apps currently have coasting support it's too painful to run libinput. So I install the old Synaptics driver, xserver-xorg-input-synaptics. In a few years libinput support may be widespread enough to make it worthwhile.

I run Kubuntu LTS. Perhaps more up to date distros, especially rolling release distros will have newer versions of apps with better coasting support.

Kubuntu 20.10 reached end of life at July 22nd so you won't get more updates, maybe you want to upgrade to version 21.04. Take a look to this link for more info https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-20-10-groovy-gorilla-reaches-end-of-life/

We rely on 3rd party libraries/drivers to handle mouse input. As far as I know, none of them support customizing the curve beyond choosing whether or not to have mouse acceleration enabled at all. Here's what libinput does (the default on most distros these days): https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/pointer-acceleration.html

Wayland on Plasma isn't quiet there yet, and they don't claim that either, that's why they announced the roadmap for this year getting a "production ready" Wayland https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/01/kde-plans-for-2021-wayland-fingerprint

> Windows doesn't care that much about userspace programs - thought Linux got kinda cranky about that?

That's absolutely not the case. On non-hardened Linux, any application can mess with any other application's memory, as long as the target is running as the same user. With SELinux or AppArmor, such things can be prevented, but even then it's trivial to disable SELinux or install a custom policy allowing the trainer to modify the game's memory, as long as you have root.

> And, subsequently, why I wondered - is there somewhere in the Vulkan/MESA/Wayland subsystems a way to similarly "compromise" everything...or do you have to run a Linux PC like a console with a deliberately broken everything in order to do it?

There is no need to "compromise" anything if you're root. You can just do things, and no protection will be able to permanently get in your way, since you are root and root is god.

> If so, so be it...but there's a healthy amount of Linux games out now and an equal amount of pirates...haven't seen one trainer for any of them.

There's always good old scanmem. It's not a targeted trainer, but it shows that what you're suggesting is absolutely possible.

you may be thinking of Neon which is the distro that can also run KDE Plasma that is made by the same people, I believe.

To make it more confusing though... Neon is based on Ubuntu ;)

Unfortunately, no, there isn't currently any supported (or even reasonably safe unsupported) way to upgrade the underlying version Ubuntu to the most recent non-LTS version of Ubuntu. And the KDE Neon team states that they "plan only to base on the latest LTS version of Ubuntu" for the foreseeable future.

But I, for one, hope that the KDE Neon team will eventually offer an option to upgrade to the latest non-LTS version of Ubuntu.

I suppose it wouldn't be feasible to do so for Ubuntu 17.10, and Ubuntu 18.04 will be an LTS. But maybe, if we ask nicely, and if there is enough interest, the KDE Neon team will consider such an option to upgrade when Ubuntu 18.10 is released.

As for why I want an option to upgrade to the latest vrsion of Ubuntu, I prefer to have access to newer versions of software directly from the Ubuntu repositories, without the need to compile on my own or resort to an untrusted ppa. For example, QEMU on Ubuntu 16.04 is stuck at v2.4, whereas QEMU on Ubuntu 17.04 is at v2.8. Also, I find that on newer hardware, the latest version of Ubuntu typically performs better than an older LTS. So having an option to upgrade would be helpful for me.

I hope that I don't offend any Kubuntu devs by saying so, but if it were up to me, Kubuntu would cease development, and the Kubuntu devs would instead focus on helping release versions of KDE Neon based on the latest Ubuntu releases (including non-LTS releases). But it's their free time, and so I suppose they should do with it whatever they want.

Windows 10 already has that. There's a setting called "Acrylic" that, when enabled, adds blurred transparency to the profile you enable it in. I'd never consider it my favourite terminal, but from what I've seen it's still way better than what's usually available in windows.

Canonical offers paid support for Ubuntu as well for all of it's Flavors. https://www.ubuntu.com/support

Also, if you search DistroWatch or Google around a bit, you'll find distros that still use KDE 4 and even a current fork of KDE 3.5.x called Trinity Desktop Project which can be installed with an Ubuntu base, among other options. In the open source world, if there is one thing we're definitely not lacking, it's choices.

Instead of cherrytree, check out QOwnNotes. It stores notes as plaintext markdown files, has optional Own/Nextcloud integration, and looks better within Plasma.

I made the switch last week after some gtk bug/misconfiguration prevented cherrytree from starting and am quite pleased yet. Plaintext files are a huge plus compared to cherrytrees rtf/xml format!

I don't use Arch now so I don't what minimal packages are your need, but you can try this meta package: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/kde-development-environment-meta/

Basically you need to install required packages.

Spectacle is in both kde-applications and kdegraphics. You can't blame the DE or distro if you don't download it all.

If anyone is interested, you can read the original announcement from 1996 that was posted on Usenet.

You can also see a few screenshots of each version on KDE's website as well which gives a nice look back into how much it has evolved over the years.

For me tried them all and found SolydXK KDE Debian based>Kubuntu>KDE Mint.

But a Good start is Kbuntu and will fulfill the majority of users needs. Tho personally like the Stability and KDE implementation of SolydXK.

http://solydxk.com/

So worth checking out. Otherwise Kubuntu would be my second choice.

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What about GeckoLinux? https://geckolinux.github.io/

All the good stuff from openSUSE without the hassle for new Linux users. Otherwise, there is Linux Mint KDE, but I don't know about their KDE integration.

I'm another one who is liking openSUSE Tumbleweed a lot although I'm a recent transplant from Kubuntu. It also has a good implementation if you install and use their back ports ppa.

For something a bit different that tries to give a pure Qt experience, try Chakra OS or Kaos

The documentation for how these things work overall is unfortunately very much sparse.

For Android devices probably, SailfishOS HADK https://sailfishos.org/develop/hadk/ is one of great reference (again in form of steps, but have some explanation on how things work).

But again depends on if this is what you are looking for? or you are looking for more high-level/userspace side of things?

Regarding the stylus, developers are usually tied to the keyboard, and thus would never use a stylus to control their device. Not to blame them, but development in free software communities is often driven by "scratching your own itch". I know what I am talking about, because my brother is bothering me since 10+ years, when "Linux" is finally able to replace Windows on his stylus tablet, and why I (as a developer) "don't do anything about it" (or any other developer, for that matter).

Windows (even Windows Vista) is still ahead in stylus support compared to free alternatives. Configurable pen flicks, gestures, cursive handwriting recognition in multiple languages, on-screen keyboard that is switchable to handwriting input etc.

On the positive side, Wacom support in libinput/Wayland has been added, see e.g. https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/tablet-support.html and it now needs more integration in desktop environments, applications, and (more importantly) in GUI toolkits.

See e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/5dylj0/fedora_25_wayland_wacom_as_primary_mouse_input/ for a similar discussion, which is not really Fedora related.

Neon would get you the stable base of 18.04 with constant updates to KDE Plasma. Might be the balance you're looking for.

Neon has behaved very well for my wife, who prefers it. I use Kubuntu, because I'm less interested in the bell-n-whistle stuff.

I think it was a mistake to include KDE in "KDE Neon" name and host it under kde.org because this makes it look like a flagship or official distro at first glance to most people, which it isn't, and it's not even a distro but a repository.

Your best bet for something well supported, actually working and fully fledged at this is probably LineageOS for microG for your particular phone. It's non-Google Android with the Google Play Services replaced with a open source replacement called MicroG.

Then use it with F-droid for open source apps, and then maybe the Yalp Store (available in F-droid) for the few things you can't replace with open source like Banking apps. It has OTA updates and from personal experienced Just WorksTM.

That being said, I really hope that there is more a solid future for Purism Phone/Plasma Mobile/Jolla Sailfish/UBports. But like people said, your phone's software is very much tied to the hardware. I have a Sailfish phone running for a relative who needs a basic phone with a few Android apps, but you kinda learn to live with a few quirks. But that is even only for a select few Xperia XA2 models.

I think the fact that, in response to OP's post, the distro recommendations are all over the place - openSUSE, Fedora, Arch, Neon, and a few derivatives or minor ones like Chakra, Manjaro and KaOS, shows we are definitely lacking a KDE flagship distro that hits the nail in the head, and no, KDE Neon is not it.

I think most of the issue lies in that, apart from openSUSE, which seems to be the odd one out, the mainstream distributions have a lack of care for KDE, they just assemble the KDE packages and then leave you with that. Arch is sure great and fun, but are you really going to use them in more than a single-user, single machine setup? It's a PITA. As for Manjaro, Chakra, KaOS, they can spare you the hassle of installing Arch, but then is it really any different or better for that matter?

I don't know, I am rooting for openSUSE to become more user-friendly, because to be honest the KDE distro landscape seems rather bleak at this moment.

It's not stupid. They even have it in their FAQ that you should use pkcon to upgrade which I suppose does apt full-upgrade. On KDEneon just doing apt upgrade will eventually break something because it doesn't remove/replace packages as needed for some updates.

These should be optional, you can try without and see what works/doesn't for you. As a side note, you can download the appimage from the kdenlive website (https://kdenlive.org/en/download/). It's a bit bulky, but you won't have any troubles of missing packages.

Happy editing.

The video accompanying each release of KDE can be a good thing. Otherwise, I don't have any video in mind but I'm sure, with the recent announcement concerning Unity, a lot of them appeared on YT.

For the text part, maybe I have an idea on how to do this. I'm not a designer but I can imagine something similar to this page or this page with alternate left and right text/images which show major features of plasma (but a bit longer and with a button for more description for features like virtual desktop or activities).

I also visited the different KDE website and have some opinions about how they are made. The global design is really nice but menus, for example, are not consistent between websites. The menu of Neon website is really nice for example, and would looks also good on kde.org. Especially, it's easy to navigate to different parts of KDE community with it.

I don't have much time but I would be happy to help and contribute to the website.

Not on Testing or kde unstable - Just updated about an Hour ago

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=-last_update&amp;q=plasma&amp;maintainer=&amp;flagged=

Terminal Output with screenfetch:

QML debugging is enabled. Only use this in a safe environment.

OS: Arch Linux

Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.6.15-arch1-1

Uptime: 1h 31m

Packages: 764

Shell: bash 5.0.17

Resolution: 1920x1080

DE: KDE 5.70.0 / Plasma 5.19.0

WM: KWin

GTK Theme: Breeze [GTK2/3]

Icon Theme: breeze

Disk: 32G / 227G (15%)

CPU: AMD FX-6100 Six-Core @ 6x 3.533GHz

GPU: GeForce GTX 970

RAM: 1619MiB / 16024MiB

[ant@archlinux ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu

[sudo] password for antech:

:: Synchronising package databases...

core is up to date

extra 1705.7 KiB 1379 KiB/s 00:01 [#############################################################] 100%

community 4.9 MiB 1964 KiB/s 00:03 [#############################################################] 100%

multilib is up to date

:: Starting full system upgrade...

there is nothing to do

[antech@archlinux ~]$

Kubuntu backports -> plasma 5.8 LTS

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports sudo apt update sudo apt full-upgrade

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports

Thank you for your support.

The point still is, however, that, with donations and sales, Krita made only about €45000 in 2020. That is not enough to cover the cost of a couple of junior developers, let alone a senior one. And that is not even taking into account operational costs.

This situation forces the foundation to choose carefully what it works on, forcing them to put some stuff on hold.

If the fund takes off, the situation may improve.

Someone still seems to be working on it from time to time. There is a BasKet GitHub repository that has commits up until a few weeks ago. For what it's worth, the most current commit mentions https://launchpad.net/basket as the new web page of the project.

You mean weeks...

Its being backported to 15.10

https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports?field.series_filter=wily

Presently on 5.4.3, should be on 5.5.1 fairly soon.

5.5.x will also be the default version in 16.04 LTS (which is only about 4 months away)

There's <code>kwalletmanager</code> (if you're on arch), which lets you disable KWallet for good. Right after I disabled kwallet, I removed kwalletmanager, too. KWallet never bothered me ever since.

Check out SyncThing. https://syncthing.net/

I use this to sync all my stuff between multiple PCs, phones. Have used it for 5+ years, no issue.

Personally I use Joplin for notes, and SyncThing to sync them.

Markdown is not standardized, and different services implement it differently. The original variation of Markdown, however, implemented it as 4 spaces at the start of each line. It is in fact Github and other websites that implement it 'incorrectly' (but really, it's just not a standardized format).

Here's the relevant excerpt from that page:

> To specify an entire block of pre-formatted code, indent every line of the block by 4 spaces or 1 tab. Just like with code spans, &, <, and > characters will be escaped automatically. > > Markdown: > > If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict, > you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes: >
> <blockquote> > <p>For example.</p> > </blockquote> > > Output: > > <p>If you want your page to validate under XHTML 1.0 Strict, > you've got to put paragraph tags in your blockquotes:</p> >
> <pre><code>&lt;blockquote&gt; > &lt;p&gt;For example.&lt;/p&gt; > &lt;/blockquote&gt; > </code></pre>

I view KDE as the best and most user friendly customizable UI. Plasma and KDE really are amazing and I think they're the future of Linux UI.

Gnome is great but some developers say it's not supposed to be themeable (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/10/on-gtk-themes-broken). XFCE themes are good but really they're just GTK3 themes with a window manager theme.

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I read that thread and the discussions reminded me of flamewars of yore.

Maybe look into kdevelop with kdevelop-python. Same editor as kate but proper language integration. And according to this django integration is nice (But I have not the slightest clue how trustworthy that is...just one of the first search results for kdevelop and django)

Do you mean the binary division of the selected wmnode described in 'Manual Mode' here: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm? So that the new window tiles inside the selected node with the window that formerly occupied the entire space?

Use the KWin window rules, Active/Inactive opacity

https://userbase.kde.org/KWin_Rules_Window_Attributes#Window_Attributes

KDE Mover-Sizer also works pretty well. Does the double-alt LMB/RMB action too (RMB restore/maximize, LMB minimize).

The tiny little zone you get to drag/resize is infuriating after doing the Alt-drag dance for years. Or windows that are arbitrarily locked to a size, for that matter.

Two must have additions, IMO.

Latte Dock - https://store.kde.org/p/1169519/

I use this instead of the native panels due to all the extra features it has.

Quarter Tiling kwin script - https://store.kde.org/p/1187647/

It gives you really nice tiling functionality, with gaps if you like, and hotkeys to toggle floating mode if required. (Note, I’ve found it struggles a little with dual monitors but is great on a single monitor).

I don't think this is possible with the stock panel. The equivalent "windows can cover" setting is functionally the same, but doesn't look as good.

That said, have a look at latte dock, the successor of now dock. It can be set up to look just like the default plasma panel, and supports smart hide.

Technically there is a Neon PPA but the devs recommend against it.

> https://neon.kde.org/faq#morph-kubuntu

> We recommend that you install a fresh KDE neon from the provided ISO images. But you can indeed add an APT repository to switch from Kubuntu to KDE neon. This is absolutely not tested or supported. If things take a turn for the worse you are expected to be knowledgable enough to repair your system on your own. A web search should quickly give you relevant information on how to do this.

So better to use KDE Neon. Depending on how latest you want your software, you can install User edition (latest stable versions of KDE, probably the best) or Testing Edition (beta versions) or Unstable Edition (built daily from git master). Unless you're a developer, User edition is going to be new enough.

KDE Neon exists to provide rolling updates for all KDE software on top of the stable Ubuntu LTS base. And if you really want nightlies from git, the Unstable ISO is there to tinker with.

I would recommend a clean install, rather than trying to migrate from Pop OS. The main difference is that Neon comes with a fairly minimal number of pre-installed apps.

Before wiping Pop, do apt-mark showmanual and make a list of all the software you'd want to install on the new system.

If you don't want to reinstall:

https://neon.kde.org/faq#morph-kubuntu

> Can I turn Kubuntu into KDE neon with a PPA? > > We recommend that you install a fresh KDE neon from the provided ISO images. But you can indeed add an APT repository to switch from Kubuntu to KDE neon. This is absolutely not tested or supported. If things take a turn for the worse you are expected to be knowledgable enough to repair your system on your own. A web search should quickly give you relevant information on how to do this.

Or you could upgrade to Kubuntu 20.10 which has Plasma 5.19.5.

There is KDE Neon Developer Git-Unstable edition, but it is based on Ubuntu LTS which might not be what you want. Sadly, there are AFAIK no comparable options based no Arch - unless you want to compile everything for yourself.

I found my prompt isn't visible all the time, so I've started moving elements into tmux's status bar. Some full screen terminal apps also present the info.

I haven't tried st for a while, I'll give it another go! I've been using kitty to much delight the past few months.

sometimes use it for DigiKam, showfoto and amarok. If you have the ram run virtualbox with your choice of distro. this way you are more current and up to date. quick hint, goto http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ this gives you a live usb with portable virtualbox on it. go to perfered filemanager and find where it says 'virtualize this key'

My favorite place for wallpapers and beautiful photos is https://unsplash.com, I download a collection of whatever my current state of mind wants and have them slideshow as wallpaper!

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The more advanced features of the 4.* series of Gwenview used the kipi-plugins to do the work, the same ones shared with DigiKam. DigiKam itself is currently in beta with the Qt5 port, and the kipi-plugins are getting there but not all are done.

https://www.digikam.org/node/749

Gwenview was just ported faster. I'd imagine once the work is done on the plugins Gwenview will have all of it's abilities again. Most of kipi is already done, but according to the linked article, there's still a few sticking points with Qt5. The relevant bit is about halfway down in the article.

This is the website:

https://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/

There's a set of instructions for getting it on most popular distros. The git version in the AUR was in July 2020. You'll have to reach out to Maarten Baert to get any more info.

Android is tricky. It uses an older modified linux kernel but it is not the usual GNU/X/Wayland/Linux distro you're using. Most Android Apps are written in Java and run on Android's Runtime (formerly Dalvik, hence the Oracle lawsuit...).

There are Android emulators that will work. Anbox is pretty good but still has performance issues and apps aren't always compatible. Speed depends on your hardware.

https://anbox.io/

EDIT unfortunately if you're looking for a good experience, the best solution may still be a cheap Android tablet.

OP is using Tree Style Tab (I spotted the icon on his screenshot), but there are alternatives such as Sidebery.

1. what's that even mean? who's stopping you from putting certain files into certain folders or create soft links or whatever you're implying by organizing files? that's not even DE-related.
2. never used this. if i need to find something than find & locate are my best friends. And if you can't use cli, just press Ctrl+F in dolphin - it works just fine. Also what do you mean tag files? Do you mean like this: https://www.tagspaces.org/ ? You mean this is a BASIC thing? Did i miss something and every other DE's and OS's have this feature available out of the box?
3. who ever uses these? i don't know how you use your computer, but in my case 99.9% of the time there are apps on the screen and not desktop. Mostly maximized windows. And all widgets i need are at the panel so i get what i need without having to minimize all windows or switch to another virtual desktop.
4. that's just straight bs. Cold start gives you ~350M(if you don't autostart dozens of apps) and it stays about the same throughout the whole uptime(maybe it will up to 500M but what's 200M in our time, one extra tab in chrome?). If you experience a noticeable memory leaks then report a bug if you want it fixed. Because everyone* else is quite happy that the memory usage is at least twice lower than with gnome.

* not you of course

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Check this:
https://kate-editor.org/post/2021/2021-03-29-kate-21.04-feature-preview/
Subject "Generic output tool view" explains what it is for.

I rather find it bad that I have a very small area to click on for a tab if I have XXXXXX free space ;=) I can understand that others see this differently.

But as said below in the other comment, I have no issues with having more options, even a full extra option tab in Settings just to fine tune the tabbing.

But somebody must provide a patch for it ;=)

https://kate-editor.org/post/2020/2020-07-18-contributing-via-gitlab-merge-requests/

Afraid not really..sorry, I never have to write c++ in windows..and in linux I use kdevelop...which is again the same ktexteditor plugin...but in this case the "kdevelop" shell for is most likely more code than the editor plugin. So for sure not "lightweight". ;)

For a very simple editor there is always notepad++ on windows, as far as I remember is has c++ syntax highlighting and including of compiler commands...

I never installed oxygen-transparent myself, but according to the screenshot here it seems like the theme does exactly what you're asking you without need for further intervention. Am I missing something?

(K)Ubuntu, like most non-rolling distributions, do not update versions except for serious bugs or security issues. In fact, a fix for a such an issue is usually backported to avoid regressions from other commits.

You either have to find a third-party PPA that offers newer Latte versions, or use a (rolling) distribution which gets updated versions regularily.

I found https://launchpad.net/~rikmills/+archive/ubuntu/latte-dock, see also https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/05/unofficial-latte-dock-ppa-appears-wild for instructions.

In the same line as other comments, Matrix is becoming a viable option for bridging other messenger protocols into one place (e.g. https://www.beeper.com/ or https://element.io/element-one)

It would be interesting to see an app like this take advantage of those and become a one-stop shop for messaging while allowing Matrix devs to handle the maintenance of the bridges. Then it would work on Plasma Mobile and desktop Plasma.

Looking forward to seeing how all this develops!

>Nobody may be using korganizer among the KDE devs. :P

You may be right. Although in Phabricator you can read that there was already a fix which broke something kolab-related. So maybe KDE devs are only using kolab server exclusively and not, like in my case, mailbox.org. :D

For me, the reason to want to use KDE PIM, is its deep integration within plasma. I really likes the feature of having my events within the clock widget etc. :)

Worth it if not for Kmail, then for privacy and security - change to something from EU that complies with GDPR and doesn't collect data about you (for example https://posteo.de or https://mailbox.org).

you can use heroic games launcher as a replacement for EGS, the main problem with Fortnite is anti-cheat though.

Since Fornite uses EAC and EAC is owned by Epic Games, I am not so sure how big their motivation is to actually support that......

see: https://lutris.net/games/fortnite/

Install the <code>plasma-desktop</code> package for an even more barebones desktop. No Dolphin. No Konsole. No Network Manager. Just a desktop.

if you are someone that uses a smartphone like i do, kde connect is heads and shoulders above any other comparable unix tool for controlling your computer with your smartphone

android app is free software and available on https://f-droid.org/. its installed on kde plasma by default. might have to pull it up on the kde start menu or w/e the applications button is called there at the bottom

Thanks for your suggestion, but... It's my understanding that doing that is discouraged. The Tor Project strongly recommends only using the Tor Browser. One reason is to prevent leakage of IP address by things like DNS lookups, extensions, etc. The other reason is that Tor Browser doesn't just use Tor to mask the IP address - it also has a number of privacy-related custom patches which significantly reduce the browser's fingerprint, protecting against tracking. I'd love to be able to just use a regular browser, but I don't think it's a good idea. :(

I've been looking for that too. It seems like it's not available in the Neon repos as the file should be "plasma-vault" but it is in the Kubuntu Beta ppa https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/beta/+packages?field.name_filter=vault&amp;field.status_filter=published&amp;field.series_filter=

I installed this font manager. Seems to work pretty well and will do what KDE's font manager is supposed to do.

EDIT: Here's another link with a screenshot.

My parents could afford our very first computer back in 2005 (which of course came with Windows) and like in 2006-2007 I learned about Launchy. I was amazed by that concept of just typing things instead of going through the nightmare of submenus from the 'start' menu - and, most of all, its looks.

I liked it so much that even when I could fully switch to Linux (ubuntu, specifically) in (late?) 2007, I looked if I could install Launchy on it. And after a while, it was available thanks to Qt. But had to miss it as I didn't wanted Qt stuff on my computer, I was using Gnome (when it was good, Gnome 2).

There was a Gnome alternative which name I can't remember right now, it was kind of clunky and didn't offered the same capacities as Launchy, I missed it. The turn of things on Gnome 2 was the last straw for me, actually I didn't waited to even test Gnome 3 and switched to KDE. So yes, in a way Launchy was one of the things that made me switch to KDE.

Yet the first thing I installed there was Launchy. Until I learned about krunner which was even better.

Well, not that much - krunner was waaaaaaay faster than Launchy, even back then, but I still miss some design details - like when it suggest an application, or folder, or whatever, it shows its icon.

It's like edging, you build up those updates and then update all at once. Feels good.

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Also, I think the haskell packages are for pandoc iirc https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/pandoc/

Add Pixabay videos to the list of online resources

The Online Resources panel currently lists 5 resources: Freesound, Internet Archive Movies, Pexel Photos, Pexel Videos and Pixabay Photos. I would also be good to add Pixabay Videos (https://pixabay.com/videos/), Internet Archive audio and still photos, and maybe audio files available at the Free Music Archive (https://freemusicarchive.org/).

It would also be good if users could add their own resources, either with a form or by editing a simple text config file, although I have no idea how hard this would be.

Either way, good job developing Kdenlive.

^(I'm a bot that automatically posts KDE bug report information.)

> Too bad Firefox and GIMP insist on GTK crap

https://launchpad.net/~plasmazilla

The PPA works fine on Debian as well.

Edit: As well as: https://www.linux-apps.com/content/show.php?content=36077 Although I haven't tested it with current editions.

An immature response from an incompetent developer. No surprise.

>I hope that you wrote some blog as it for Kernel Linux

Linux is the polar opposite of Akonadi: carefully engineered, thoroughly debugged, by a team of some of the world's best software developers. Not these rank amateurs.

>Xorg

No need. The Wayland developers have already criticized the hell out of it, and are in the process of replacing it.

>LibreOffice

LO has some bloat issues, but not nearly as catastrophic as Akonadi.

>KDEPIM team is small but I think that we make a good work. Perhaps you should read kde-commit to see all fixes that we did…

Did they involve removing Akonadi? No? Then they aren't good enough.

>Nobody forced you to use KMail !

Aye, but somebody forced us not to use KMail, namely the idiots that decided to migrate it to Akonadi.

>I didn’t see a patch from you about KMail to try to fix it.

The patch was linked to from the blog post.

Its all down to your distro and if they use rolling release or not.

For example, arch users can check https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/plasma-desktop/ to see if the new update is ready, and if not, we flag it out of date and ask the maintainer if they need assistance if it takes a while.

Most distros' users just wait for their package manager to tell them the update is ready.

It seems that your comment contains 1 or more links that are hard to tap for mobile users. I will extend those so they're easier for our sausage fingers to click!

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "one"

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I use arch linux and the official package uses qt4. I use vlc-nightly which is based on qt5 instead but compiling it too often does not make sense and sometimes it introduces bugs. https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/vlc/

That is very good work and very convincing.

I have never checked out the video footage on Pexels. Quite nice.

Found the content you used here: https://www.pexels.com/video/man-using-a-laptop-7328470/.

Brilliant!

KIO_GDrive looks great and easy to use. So it's properly more fitting for you, with kkiiddaa suggestion.

Myself I use rclone. But you have to tweak, not out of the box good experience.

https://rclone.org/

In unity you could press and hold alt for a second or so. Kinda convenient, but really annoying if you make frequent use of shortcuts.

Kde also had an implementation in 2012, but I think it is discontinued at the moment:

http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/appmenu-runner-hud-like-functionality.html

IIRC multiple changing standards, ubuntu doing its own thing etc. . Similar to the situation with global menus.

Maintain? It's just text like comments. If somebody is spamming. You ban him, or, the IP range etc. You don't even create any content, the users are. Maintaining is not an issue in this case. The cost of this thing is minimal, it's just text, no images (you can disable avatars etc.) Here is a demo: http://www.phpback.org/demo/ it's a simple system based on CodeIgniter - so it can be tweaked pretty easy. It would be ideal for users submitting and voting of ideas for KDE and Plasma etc.

For kmymoney their main support is via KDE 's forums as well as a mailing list, among other places, as listed on their website.

https://kmymoney.org/support.html

Just noticed that they have revamped their website recently. Looks nice.