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2025 Fundraiser news: We have added 5 more items to our list of adoptable #apps: • Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for power users. • Amarok is a full-featured music/radio/podcast player that has made a spectacular comeback • Yakuake is a terminal emulator that is always on hand and that you can quickly unfold from the top of your screen • Kid3 helps you easily tag your music files • KDiskFree is an efficient no-frills app that shows you how much space you have left in your storage media. https://lnkd.in/ehwcfwKa #fundraising #AdoptAnApp

Timothée Giet and Aiswarya Giet, maintainers and contributors of KDE's educational suite #GCompris, visit #Kerala (#India) on holiday, but then end up helping local #educational officials improve their #FreeSoftware setup, adding two new local languages to GCompris and getting featured in national and local press. A productive vacation. https://lnkd.in/eCM6EC9C

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.5.2.: https://lnkd.in/epHdj6nR This update fixes blurs and screencasts, solves a crash on #FreeBSD, improves usability and accessibility, and more.

KDE's Google Summer of Code report is out! Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more. https://lnkd.in/eM5AXu2G #GSoC #Krita #KDELinux #Karton #Kdenlive #Cantor

The first 5 apps up for adoption are: Tokodon: KDE's native Fediverse client that works on your desktop and phone Knavalbattle: the classic game of battleship you can play against the computer or over the network digiKam: a powerful image/photo management software, ideal for people with massive collections NeoChat: talk over the free and federated Matrix chat platform with this app that works on your desktop and phone Kolf: another KDE classic—play minigolf on your desktop https://lnkd.in/ehwcfwKa #AdoptAnApp #fundraising #KDE #Kolf #NeoChat #digiKam #Knavalbattle #Tokodon

"Adopt an App" is back! You can now make your love for your favorite apps known through our fundraiser. Pick an app, donate €50 or more, and tell us about your choice in the comments: https://lnkd.in/ehwcfwKa You will appear as a supporter on the app's apps.kde.org page. #AdoptAnApp #fundraising #KDE

Enjoy being creeped out? Check out our two Halloween special fundraiser horror stories 🦇 "Night of the Living Bed" and "The Colour out of Waste": https://lnkd.in/e2bDuvZ5 #fundraising #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #donations #halloween

... And thus we have reached the season of witches, d[a]emons and ghosts 👻! Check out KDE's fundraiser as it enters its spookiest phase yet, and help us ward off tech hobgoblins and proprietary waifs that threaten your rights and freedoms. https://lnkd.in/e2bDuvZ5 #fundraising #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #donations

Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised! Thanks to your generous support, we have reached our initial goal, and then surpassed it in a little over two weeks! We have set our next stretch goal and are now looking to raise €75,000 for the KDE Community. https://lnkd.in/e2bDuvZ5 #fundraiser #ThankYouForYourSupport

Plasma 6.5.1 has been released. A week on from the release of Plasma 6.5, this brings many corrections and improvements. https://lnkd.in/eJW3PzjJ