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This Week in KDE: Improvements to scaling on high density screens correct icon sizing, System Settings streamlines confusing options, Plasma's weather widget gets a better search, and much more!

https://pointieststick.com/2021/07/30/this-week-in-kde-better-hidpi-on-x11/

KDE España kicks off "KDE Express", a Spanish-language podcast that delivers all the KDE news in 30 minutes or less.

https://mastodon.technology/@kde_espana/106642006712469496

This week in KDE: The #SteamDeck has landed! + the System Monitor now displays sensor loads and massive stability and usability improvements across the board.

https://pointieststick.com/2021/07/16/this-week-in-kde-kde-powered-steamdeck-revealed/

@flamingkeys Not entirely sure, but we think it is "Crusader Kings":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_Kings_(video_game)

KDE Plasma powers the desktop of the Valve #SteamDeck.

https://www.steamdeck.com/

Congrats Valve for releasing #SteamDeck! Thank you for choosing Plasma!

Just discovered and fixed a (potentially serious) bug in Dolphin, KDE's file manager and generic file model:

Sorting by size would cause an unstable sort order under certain circumstances.

This sounds innocent at first, until you realize this also causes it to expand a folder's content into the wrong view parent: you expand folder A, but all its files show up below folder B.

You may think you're deleting an empty folder, but it's not actually empty ????

Fix here: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/232

A new version of digiKam, KDE's powerful image-managing software for photographers, has been released. digiKam 7.3.0 includes improved slideshows, support for more formats, and a backend ExifTool for image metadata.

https://www.digikam.org/news/2021-07-12-7.3.0_release_announcement/

#PlasmaMobile is getting brand new sounds! The participants in the LMMS + KDE Plasma Mobile Audio Competition have created some amazing ringtones, alarms and system sounds; and you can check them out right now:

https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2021/07/08/winners-of-kde-lmms-sound-contest/

Missed #Akademy2021? We got you covered:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsHpGlwPdtMq6pJ4mqBeYNWOanjdIIPTJ

Also on PeerTube!:

https://conf.tube/accounts/kde/videos

Look out for LabPlot's upcoming version 2.9: We will be adding support for the #MATLAB numeric computation tool, as well as for #SAS, #Stata and #SPSS files, and thus covering a comprehensive range of widely used numeric and statistical tools. #statistics

https://labplot.kde.org/2021/07/01/matlab-sas-stata-and-spss-files-in-labplot/

Now KDE Connect can hook up your Windows machine as well! The Windows version of KDE Connect gets official support and you can get the beta version right now from the Microsoft Store.

Exclusive link-only access: https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9N93MRMSXBF0

Become a KDE legend: Design the winning wallpaper for Plasma's 25th Anniversary Edition and forever enter KDE's hall of fame (+ win a subscription to Blender Cloud).

https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=333&t=171604

... And it's over! Another constructive and fun-filled Akademy has reached its end ????.

BUT check out all the great people who attended and made it possible ????.

https://devel-home.kde.org/~duffus/akademy/2021/groupphoto/

See you next year!

This evening is full of the final talks at #Akademy2021. For more information visit https://akademy.kde.org/2021/program

Join us through https://akademy.kde.org/2021/how-join

How to make more realistic shadows for your plasma theme!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBMpcJHyttM

More shortcut cheatsheets! Today: Use Dolphin like a pro:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/o3srn3/akademy_2021_day_2_dolphin_shortcuts_as_promised/

Become a Plasma productivity wiz! Use the Plasma keyboard shortcut cheatsheet to get the most out of KDE's Plasma desktop.

Created by u/wael_ch. Original at https://new.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/o31wlj/akademy_2021_day_1_here_is_a_shortcuts_sheet_i/

Don't miss Jonathan Riddell talking about KDE on TWiT.tv's FLOSS Weekly show. This afternoon at 16:30 UTC.

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly

@LateNightLinux is back with more KDE news, covering:

- the Plasma 5.22 video- the need for Bug Triaging- Akademy- /u/wael_ch/'s cool cheatsheets- and Dart/Flutter support for Kate

+ lots of other really interesting stuff.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-130/

Discover just some of the things KRunner can do for you with this handy graphical cheatsheet.

Original at: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/o4nx15/akademy_2021_day_3_took_too_much_time_but_at_last/