Notices by kde@mastodon.technology, page 10

Swapnil has been busy implementing Android integration for Kasts, KDE's convergent podcast software, as well as adding chapter markers.

https://swaptr.github.io/my-site/blog-gsoc/gsoc/2021/08/22/second-phase.html

Valentin is working on Deep Sky Object catalogs for KStars and increased the stability and documentation of KDE's astronomy software.

https://protagon.space/2021/08/kde-gsoc-thanks-and-work-product/

Suraj has improved KDE's personal financial management software, KMyMoney, as well as Alkimia, the backend most of KDE's finance software uses.

https://suraj-sloth.github.io/2021/08/22/gsoc21-end.html

Lucas has worked on one of the more glaring absences in KDE's end user software: the lack of support for KDE Connect on iOS.

https://lucaswangzx.xyz/kde_list/kde_3_gsoc_reflections

Google Summer of Code (or #GSoC, for short) provides free software communities and students a great opportunity to work together on enhancing and improving projects and learning about coding and working on a project in the process.

What follows are some of the tasks carried out by KDE students during GSoC 2021 with links to their progress reports:

This Week in KDE: Plasma gets a new windows overview look, you can choose the status of your Bluetooth adapter on login, and the loading spinner now looks like a rotating gear ⚙️!

https://pointieststick.com/2021/08/20/this-week-in-kde-some-cool-new-stuff/

@TheRealPomax @PINE64 @Blort

There is a reason why e-ink devices are expensive: A 10'' screen alone costs $200 dollars.

https://www.waveshare.com/10.3inch-e-paper-d.htm

Many e-readers are sold at a loss because the money is made on the books.

Anyone fancy a KDE-based, classic-style, PDA? PinePhone + PinePhone Keyboard + #PlasmaMobile.

https://www.pine64.org/2021/08/15/introducing-the-pinenote/

@PINE64's #PineNote will come with #Plasma or #PlasmaMobile (TBD).

This Week in KDE: "Your favorite songs, ranked (on Elisa)", "The seven hottest Plasma UI enhancements (number 3 will shock you)", and "Systray icons react to tablet mode".

https://pointieststick.com/2021/08/13/this-week-in-kde-bugfixes-and-ui-improvements-galore/

@tennoseremel You can go back to the menu bar, if you want. KDE imposes nothing on its users.

In case you missed them, enjoy the ads we created for the KDE Gear ⚙️ 21.08:

Konsole: https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5qF1kLp71wZJ4sLqhYEAkd

Dolphin: https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/c4ZkdAVv82Z45CDsG9jz4J

Elisa: https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/c6nzTCjcm9S9jvpbAJhMcD

Corrected Dolphin link. Thanks @nilsding

KDE GEAR ⚙️ 21.08 is out! Check out the new features and improvements for your favorite video editors, file browsers, terminal emulators, document and image viewers, music players and more, arriving soon to your distro and app store!

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.0/

KDE Gear ⚙️ 21.08 comes out Tomorrow! KG⚙️21.08 brings updates and new features to your favorite apps. We made ads for some of them, using different styles and perspectives. Here is an ad for Elisa, KDE's simple, but fancy music player.

Today: Elisa (https://elisa.kde.org/)Yesterday: Dolphin (https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/c4ZkdAVv82Z45CDsG9jz4J) Monday: Konsole (https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/5qF1kLp71wZJ4sLqhYEAkd)

Get More Apps: https://apps.kde.org/

Attributions

Music is Emotional (https://soundcloud.com/barradeen/emotional) by Barradeen, CC By-SA license.

What's in the box? LabPlot, KDE's app for data analysts, researchers and statisticians, presents Box Plots, a tool that provides a quick visual summary of the important aspects of a distribution of values contained in a data set.

https://labplot.kde.org/2021/08/11/box-plot/

KDE Gear ⚙️ 21.08, an update for many of KDE's applications, comes out on Thursday, and we decided to try and make advertisements in different styles for some of the apps.

Today: Dolphin Tomorrow: ElisaYesterday: Konsole

Want more apps?: https://apps.kde.org/

**NOTE:** Developers have informed us that the availability of the SSH plugin has been temporarily rolled back and may not be available in the first release due to some stability issues. However, you can expect it shortly after.

Background music is THINGAMAJIG (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_Shaw/Audionautix_Acoustic/THINGAMAJIG_______________________3-53) by Jason Shaw, distributed under a CC By-SA 3.0.

Photo is of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24512134), and was taken by Peter Hame. Uploaded by Magnus Manske and distributed under a CC BY-SA 2.0.

What would advertisements for different KDE apps look like? KDE Gear ⚙️ 21.08, an update to many of KDE's applications, comes out on Thursday, and we decided to give it a go.

Today: [Konsole](https://konsole.kde.org/)Tomorrow: [Dolphin](https://apps.kde.org/dolphin/)Wednesday: [Elisa](https://elisa.kde.org/)

[Want more apps?](https://apps.kde.org/)

This Week in KDE: Kate's embedded terminal gets tabbed, contributions to Get New Things get grabbed, and widget handles get dragged.

https://pointieststick.com/2021/08/06/this-week-in-kde-stability/

Me after switching from Pop OS to Kubuntu: "Damn, I really miss auto-tiling and Pop Shell."

Me after switching back to Pop OS: "Damn, I really miss KDE." ---(We need a KDE Plasma version of Pop OS that retains Pop's window auto-tiling!)