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  Konqi plushie available for pre-order at 45 USD + free shipping, up to 10 at a time. We heard your feedback and worked with Fourthwall to get the #Konqi #plushie down to 45 USD with free shipping worldwide. Pre-orders last until October 17! https://merch.kde.org/en-eur/products/konqi-plushie

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  The @gcompris@mastodon.social team has released version 26.2. KDE's suite of #educational activities for #children is now available in 28 languages, and partially translated to 19 more. GCompris comes with more than 100 activities and games that cover a wide range of subjects. GCompris works on Linux, Windows, macOS and Android. https://gcompris.net/news/2026-09-23-en.html #education #fun #apps #games #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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  We apologise if any of our messaging over the past days has created confusion. For the sake of clarity: 1. KDE is open, diverse and accepting and we have the track record to prove it. Please come join us and see for yourself. 2. KDE does not harbour "fascists" and we have the track record to prove it. 3. We are not writing a set of "pro-LLM" policies. Quite the contrary. The current draft actually restricts its use much more than currently codified. [Continued >]

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  Nate Graham's first-hand, blow-by-blow account on what went down: https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-and-ai-and-you-and-me/ Not to do the click-baitey thing, but some of the details my clarify some of the points. Please read through the whole thing carefully to better understand the situation and why what was done was done.

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  @carl@chaos.social We have our own bar 🍻 with our own rules for who we let in. We often have parties.

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  The new KDE Goals for the 2026-2028 cycle have been announced at Akademy. • KDE for Enterprise and Deployments - championed by: David Edmundson, Neal Gompa, and Kai Uwe Broulik • Better documentation - championed by: Nate Graham, Thiago Masato Costa Sueto, and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss • Next Generation Styling for KDE - Arjen Hiemstra, Akseli Lahtinen, and Andy Betts More info: https://invent.kde.org/teams/goals/goal-setting/2026/-/boards#/ @kde@lemmy.kde.social

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  KDE's goodies 🧸 shop opens its doors! https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/wNSDG2dYZFALMoX79dVpU4 Check out what will soon be your one-stop location for all KDE-themed merch. https://merch.kde.org Our first item, the adorable Konqi soft toy is already available for pre-ordering (if you solved the riddle, congrats! You already know this, but for everybody else...): https://merch.kde.org/products/konqi-plushie #merch #toys #plushies #konqi #FreeSoftware

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  Are you the Systems Administrator we need? Apply for the post of Software Infrastructure and Continuous Delivery Engineer at KDE: https://ev.kde.org/2026/09/14/2026-09-14-jobad-sysadmin/ Check out the requirements here: https://ev.kde.org/resources/jobad-sysadmin2026/ -- Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/?mtm_campaign=SupportingMemberDriveM&mtm_kwd=m#become-a-member-and-build-a-better-world #job #sysadmin #parttime #Open...

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  Design us a 3D #Konqi You have the #Blender skills, we have the reference! https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/#design-a-3d-konqi Send us designs we can use in graphics, #animations, #3Dprinted figurines, action figures and trophies for Akademy Awards and forever be revered by the KDE Community! Want to collaborate with other 3D artists? Share your work on this active thread: https://discuss.kde.org/t/design-us-a-3d-konqi/49862 --- Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at o...

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  KDE, @kubuntufocus and Techpaladin introduce "Bullet Proof KDE", a KDE suite with three years of support. Bullet Proof KDE is designed for companies, organizations and users who need maintained and regularly patched software, but also require the stability and reliability of a tried and tested suite of desktop and apps. Read the full press release here: https://www.einpresswire.com/article/930823977/kubuntu-focus-techpaladin-software-and-kde-e-v-announce-the-bullet-proof-kde...

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  A veritable smörgåsbord of new features lands in your favourite apps with KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08! Dolphin improves its integration with KDE Connect, Konsole revamps its drag'n'drop features, Kdenlive's titler gets more functionalities, and Okular's annotations more power. And much more where that came from: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.08.0/ --- Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/?mtm_campai...

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  Your QtWidgets apps, such as Dolphin, KMail, Kate etc. can now use the Union CSS files as the source of their styling — first look. https://akselmo.dev/posts/union-qtwidgets/ Disclaimer: Note that there are still visual bugs and oddities that @aks is already working on!

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  Learn how KDE is becoming an essential piece in the #sovereign stack for companies, NGOs, public institutions and individuals by improving compatibility with other fundamental software solutions such as #Nextcloud , #Matrix and #LibreOffice. https://kde.org/for/digital-sovereignty/ #sovereignty

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  This Month in KDE Linux brings the news that... there's a new feature that allows you to download software for files that need it—currently works for Java and DOS apps; we integrated a next-gen QA system and it's already making users' lives better; we reduced CPU usage and improved boot times; and much more. https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/03/this-month-in-kde-linux-july-2026/ --- Keep KDE funded💲! Become a Supporter! Adopt an App! All at once!: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/...

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  Come and adopt an app and support KDE for the long run! https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/#become-a-member-and-build-a-better-world Today's 3 new apps are: Kid3 - tag all the things! Or at least all your music. Kid 3 provides you with the easiest and fastest way to grab song titles, album data, covers, and so on off of the Internet. [Continued >] #donate #FreeSoftware #apps #OpenSource

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  Three more astounding KDE apps are going up for adoption! 🐘 Tokodon is your portal into Mastodon. Keep track of multiple accounts, it works both on your desktop and your phone, lets you view conversations, post and schedule toots, and much more. 🎶 Amarok, KDE's klassic music player is back! And it is better than ever, supporting local and online music, podcasts, Internet radio, and much more. https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/#become-a-member-and-build-a-better-world [Continued >] #Ad...

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  Three more apps added to the list of "Adoptable Apps": Konsole, NeoChat, and Kate * Konsole is KDE's powerful terminal emulator. Konsole supports tabs, splitting windows, plugins, themes, and inline file previews, among many other useful features. Support KDE! Adopt an App! https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/#become-a-member-and-build-a-better-world #AdoptAnApp #KDEat30 #apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #funding

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  You can now adopt three more apps: Okular, Elisa and KDE Connect are now up on KDE's 30th Anniversary web page! 1. Okular is KDE's flexible document viewer that let's you not only read PDF, MD and comics, but also has inbuilt annotating, signing, and certifying capabilities. https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/#become-a-member-and-build-a-better-world #KDEat30 #apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #funding [Continued >]

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  Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.6.6. Plasma 6.6 was released in February 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds two months’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. View the full changelog here: https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.6.5-6.6.6 --- Become a Supporting Member: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/ #Plasma6 #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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  "Adopt an App" is back! Become a KDE Supporting Member and choose the app you would like to adopt. Your name will be included in the list of supporters for the duration of your membership. https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/#become-a-member-and-build-a-better-world #KDEat30 #apps #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #funding #donate

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  As Pride Month🏳️‍🌈 draws to its conclusion, KDE and @gnome@floss.social would like to pay tribute to the LGBTQA+ people that have contributed and continue to contribute to making our lives better through their work in the field of digital technology. We start with one of the graetest computer scientists of all time... #QueersInFoss

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  The fifth cycle of the KDE Goals program is open for submissions. Got a vision of what KDE should focus on for the next two years? Submit your proposals. https://blogs.kde.org/2026/06/20/kde-goals-call-for-submissions #goals #community #proposals #FreeSoftware #OpenSource --- Become a Supporting Member: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/

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  KDE's 2025 yearly report is out. Discover what we do to keep the project running, the highlights of the year gone by, what goes on behind the scenes, who's who in the community, where we get the funding from (and how we spend it), and much more in the 2025 annual report: https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2025/ --- You can help keep KDE running too: Become a Supporting Member and contribute to KDE: https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/ #WeekendReading #FreeSOftware #OpenSource #report

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  Union is Plasma's new theming engine that unifies and formalises a bunch of KDE technologies, streamlining the design of themes and improving the experience for the people who use them. But how can you build new, more resistant and consistent themes using Union? We wrote you a 2 minute FAQ to get you started: https://discuss.kde.org/t/get-started-with-plasmas-new-theming-engine-in-2-minutes-or-less-a-faq/47883 #Plasma6 #theme --- Become a Supporting Member: https://kde.org/anniversar...

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  For those asking about Plasma Big Screen for Smart TVS, yes, it also gets an update... https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/6/6.6.5-6.7.0/#Plasma%20Bigscreen so you can better enjoy... well... your big screen. #SmartTV #TV #BigScreen #Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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  Plasma 6.7 is out and landing soon on your distro of choice! You can look forward to easier menu customization, better control over your mics, and, as for virtual desktops... Well, well, well! You get keyboard navigation and the much anticipated feature of having separate virtual desktops on different monitors. Find out about all the new stuff packed into Plasma 6.7 here: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/ #Plasma6 #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

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  digiKam, the app that helps you organize and tag your thousands of photos, releases version 9.1.0. This version adds support for Pixel Motion photos, i.e. those photos with short videos at the beginning from Pixel phones; boasts better audio output selection; and, behind the scenes, updates its backend to KDE Frameworks 6.26.0 and adds support for RAW formats from many more cameras thanks to LibRaw 20260523. https://www.digikam.org/news/2026-06-07-9.1.0_release_announcement/ #photography #Fre...

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  Welcome Kori to the World! Kori is KDE's non-binary⚧️ pet dragon and they'll be presiding over KDE's 30th anniversary celebrations throughout 🏳️‍🌈Pride Month🏳️‍⚧️. https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/ #kdeAt30 #egg #Pride

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  ... They grow within their eggs, absorbing wisdom from the community... https://kde.org/anniversaries/30/ #kdeAt30 #egg

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  This Week in Plasma brings the news that Plasma 6.6 lets you set the priority of processes using a friendly graphical window, in 6.7 the "Brightness and Color" widget comes with a toggle to quickly switch between light and dark modes, and Frameworks 6.23 improves the touch-friendliness of open/save dialogs. https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/17/this-week-in-plasma-dark-mode-switch-and-global-push-to-talk/ #FreeSoftware #desktop #OpenSource #Plasma @kde@lemmy.kde.social