I had a nice evening yesterday at the offline at the KDE Plasma 6 release party. Guess the most important thing is, that the cube and wobbly windows are back 🥰
Not that I really used it in the past, but I remember having it active during some Linux presentations and it was always an eye-catcher to have to show off the capabilities of this other OS that is for free and runs on old hardware.
Things are going forward on the route towards the big @kde MegaRelease upgrade for TUXEDO OS. We added Plasma 6.0.2 and built a way to give users both X11 and Wayland right from the start.
After being kneecapped by a #patents troll years ago, #Mozilla Location Services, the only somewhat trusted (non-Google/Apple) "Wi-Fi positioning system" (geolocation based on triangulating collected #WiFi SSIDs), is now shutting down: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065
MLS was how #GeoClue could get a meters-accurate location without a #GPS receiver / sky line-of-sight.
It was used by many #GNOME / #KDE apps to get instantaneous neighborhood-level location (for maps, local weather…) on #Linux laptops.
While testing #Plasma6 (thanks to T.C. Berner and his ports overlay), I couldn't help taking a screenshot of the new #KDE running on #FreeBSD 14.0-STABLE. #unixp0rn
Although I don't use Plasma, I use XFCE with TROMjaro, I congratulate KDE for this release and the work they've done over the years. XFCE, KDE, and the like, are not competitors, but diversity in choices. That's how we should operate as a society, do not compete, but collaborate and create diversity. So I like to use XFCE, but others prefer KDE, and some others Gnome, and so forth. Nice! We are all happy! #opensource#foss#kde#plasma#linux ♲ floss.social/@kde/112008634681…
@tio 100% agree, brother! I personally like #Plasma the most out of all DE's, but as you said, it is just a matter of choice, but I actually embrace that all the projects may provide something unique and pleasing to everyone and that should not be a matter for the competition at all.
I also admire #KDE as a community of Humans with a pure drive to deliver not only completely free desktop environment, but a huge pack of outstanding #free-software (which is a #KDEGear and a part of that #MegaRelease6), including #Krita, #kdenlive, #Gwenview and many many others.. And all of that is completely free to use, awesomeness ☺️
If, whoever is reading this, you are already using #kde-software or just share the cause, you may consider helping the community by becoming a member with a donation or, if you like, just join and contribute to the software, report bugs, translate documentation and many more!
I guess the distributions would not include KDE 6 in their repository immediately, but because I use KDE neon, I might have chance to use KDE 6 in the next several months.
Both are C++/Qt based. Akregator is part of the #KDE collection. It can handle a large number of feeds (>100). It has search but no filtering / tagging capability which is essential if you want to get on top of the information firehose. I have not yet tried rssguard.
(*) A third C++/Qt project was #quiterss. It is currently abandonware with dubious privacy/security status