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KDE vs. GNOME – everything you need to know
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 25th of February 2021 06:37:08 AM Filed under

The fight for dominance in the Linux desktop environments has mostly been a tug of war between GNOME and KDE. It is difficult to portray a winner in this tug of war. The user community influence and its user preference determine which Linux desktop environment to choose as an adaptive platform. This presumed stalemate in the Linux desktop arena portrays KDE and GNOME as the main major players.
It is common for a Linux user to side with either GNOME or KDE desktop environment based on the Linux community influence, other users’ influence, or usage popularity. This article is here to make an analytical comparison between these two Linux desktop environments. We will explore both the strengths and weaknesses of these two Linux desktop environments. At the end of the article, your decision to go with or remain with either of these two Linux desktop environments will be based on their marketable feature strengths and their evident weaknesses that your Linux lifestyle can accommodate.
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Hands-on with KaOS Linux - An Independent KDE Plasma Desktop Distribution
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 24th of February 2021 01:26:46 PM Filed under


I have spent some time looking at independent Linux distributions – that means those that are built from scratch and not derived from one of the larger, generally better-known distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, etc.), such as Solus, which I wrote about earlier. This time I am going to look at KaOS Linux.
The screen shot above shows the initial display of a freshly installed KaOS system. If you are not familiar with the side-panel orientation used here, it is basically the same as the traditional bottom or top panel desktop, but with everything "standing on end". The complete desktop menu is at the top of the panel, just click on the "K" symbol (the desktop menu is open in this screen shot); the common application launchers are just below that, and the controls for things like the network, volume, bluetooth, network and such are at the bottom.
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KDE’s NeoChat Matrix Client Gets New Login Page, Multimodal Mode, and Message Editing
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Wednesday 24th of February 2021 01:19:25 PM Filed under
Introduced two months ago as part of KDE’s first Apps update in 2021, NeoChat is a Matrix chat client supported on both desktop and mobile and that comes with a neat set of features, including a built-in image editor, support for sending and accepting invitations, the ability to remember the last room you’ve joined, support for showing the last read message, as well as read markers.
The first major update is out now, as developer Carl Schwan reports on his blog, enhancing NeoChat with more super powers, including a new multimodal mode that lets you view and interact with multiple chat rooms simultaneously by opening them in new windows, and the ability to edit messages and also display in the chat if a message has been edited.
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openSUSE Breeze Dark Plasma Style
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 24th of February 2021 12:19:02 PM Filed under

I am happy to say that I now have published my openSUSE Breeze Dark Plasma Style for the world to use. If the color scheme I have previously release is any indicator of interest, there will be a few dozen that download it and that is good enough for me. I will be quite content if at least two others check this out. I am just happy I have finally navigated my way through using the Plasma-SDK, Git and the Plink.com site to make this happen.
If you are interested in making your own Plasma Style, the easiest way to get started with it is going to be using the SDK. It essentially restores some of that Plasma4 functionality to Plasma5 in customizing your desktop. I do wish this little thing would have been better publicized but at least it has been made and I did happen to find it.
Also: Okular: Should continuous view be an okular setting or a document setting?
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First Beta Release for Krita 4.4.3
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 24th of February 2021 09:39:38 AM Filed under
The Krita team is releasing the first beta of Krita 4.4.3. This is purely a bugfix release.
The Linux appimage and the source .tar.gz and .tar.xz tarballs are signed. You can retrieve the public key with gpg: “gpg –recv-key 7468332F”. The signatures are here (filenames ending in .sig).
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KDE Plasma 5.21’s First Point Release Improves Support for Nvidia Optimus Laptops
Submitted by Marius Nestor on Tuesday 23rd of February 2021 08:53:43 PM Filed under
KDE Plasma 5.21.1 is here just a week after the launch of KDE Plasma 5.21, which introduced a brand-new Kickoff application launchers, a new System Monitor app, a new dark theme, better Wayland support, and numerous other improvements.
This first point release is a maintenance update that fixes bugs to improve the Plasma Wayland session on Nvidia Optimus laptops so it will no longer crash on login, improve the new System Monitor app to no longer crash on launch when not using the optional systemd startup feature, and make the Task Manager let you run third-party executable programs pinned to it.
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NeoChat 1.1
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 23rd of February 2021 07:22:32 PM Filed under
Exactly 2 months after NeoChat 1.0, the NeoChat team is happy to announce a new release of NeoChat. NeoChat is a native client for the decentralized communication network Matrix.
Aside from the many bug fixes, performance improvements, and subtle appearance improvements, NeoChat 1.1 brings many new features that will make your experience with it more convenient.
Thanks to the work of Hannah, Nicolas, and Tobias, this release also brings NeoChat to many more platforms. Nightly builds of NeoChat are now available on Android, Flatpak, AppImage, macOS and Windows. Not all of them are considered production ready, but we hope to improve the support for them in future release.
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What is the KDE Editor in Linux?
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 23rd of February 2021 07:04:53 PM Filed under

Using a Linux distribution that uses a KDE desktop, you will see a couple of options concerning text editors. The KDE project will officially support a couple of editors, such as Kate and KWrite. Both are graphical text editors containing several advanced features and some extra niceties found in some common standard editors. This section will describe each editor and also the features that you may use in shell scripting.
This is the basic editor for the KDE environment. It offers word-style text editing with support for code syntax editing and highlighting and is used for different programming languages. It uses color-coding to distinguish comments, constants, and functions. You should notice that the for loop carries an icon that connects the opening and closing braces. The editing window provides cut-and-paste capabilities.
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Sok 2021 Update 2
Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 23rd of February 2021 02:41:38 PM Filed under
I have completed a lot of the server side work now . I have figured out the endpoints on which the API will work . I have decided that /post/{platform} is going to be the endpoint where platforms are hard-coded as Twitter , Mastodon and Reddit.
To complete the post you will have to call the API like this
/post/{platform}?image=
One big advantage with FastAPI is that you can just do localhost:8000/redoc to get the redocs api documentaion fo the same and no additional work needs to be on the server side.
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The Application Of New Things
Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 22nd of February 2021 02:27:28 PM Filed under
KDE has, for a very long time, had this thing called Get Hot New Stuff, which is the name for a whole pile of tech which all exists just so you can just click a button in your wallpapers dialog that will pop up a dialog where you can, well, get hot new wallpapers for your system. Or mouse cursors. Or Plasma themes. Or books in Peruse. Or templates in a bunch of apps, or any variety of other things.
For a while now, it's been possible to add something called an adoption command, which is what will make a button show up in that dialog, and in Discover, labelled "Use". It's been used in a few places, but i recently sat down and got a bunch of little tools done that lets you set various things from the command line, and that in turn allowed me to also add those tools as adoption commands for the Get Hot New Stuff dialogues which download the stuff that those tools can apply.
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