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This week in KDE - Cool new features: including KDE Connect lets you respond text messages from within the notification, Kate gets a new TODO panel for projects, and apps playing sound show which device they are outputting to:

https://pointieststick.com/2021/03/19/this-week-in-kde-some-cool-new-features/

Bugfix release Plasma 5.21.3 is out! 5.21.3 adds two weeks' worth of translations and fixes, including enabling the Bluetooth checkbox in BlueDevil, a fix for the outdated API key for flickr and the Force Font DPI spinbox has been re-added on Wayland.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.3/

The winner of our weekly competition is /u/MyNameIsRichardCS54 with his creative mix of both Plasma and i3, a tiling window manager. You can take a look at the other submissions here: https://redd.it/m098k0

#screenshotSunday

Our Tobias Fella spoke with @linuxnews_de about what's next for NeoChat.

You can read the interview (in German) here: https://linuxnews.de/2021/03/linux-und-open-source-entwicklung-in-deutschland/

This week in KDE: Elisa now has a full mobile interface, making it a first-class citizen on Plasma Mobile and Android (and much more stuff). Read all about it in Nate's blog:

https://pointieststick.com/2021/03/12/this-week-in-kde-elisa-grows-up/

KDE has been accepted into Google Summer of Code (@gsoc)! Once more, we will be mentoring students and helping them contribute features, solutions and new software to KDE with Google's sponsorship.

https://g.co/gsoc

We already have an ideas page up where you can see what kind of projects you can participate with and suggest new ones:

https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2021/Ideas

@RamonMiranda painted a landscape live at KDE's FOSDEM booth. Here is the video of that session in which he demonstrates techniques and the new set of impressionist brushes he designed for @krita .

https://youtu.be/EY6qc_59OI0

Niccoló's Kirigami tutorial (https://develop.kde.org/docs/kirigami/) tour is now live! Learn how to create elegant-looking applications that will work on both desktop and mobile devices with KDE's Kirigami framework.

https://youtu.be/hvmmenRsmAo

The winner of our weekly screenshot competition is /u/Zephir0. The screenshot shows the custom-made Aritim-Light theme and Latte Dock and an app using the Lightly theme. Check it out at: https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/lk75cn/weekly_screenshot_thread/goth8yj/

#screenshotsunday

@SlimbookEs, the company that builds desktop computers, laptops and high-end ultrabooks like the KDE Slimbook I, II and III, becomes a KDE patron:

https://dot.kde.org/2021/02/25/slimbook-becomes-kde-patron

Plasma 5.21.1 is here...

NeoChat, KDE's native Matrix chat client, is out and comes with a new login page that detects the server configuration from your ID, stickers, message editing, and much more. Check out all that's new at https://carlschwan.eu/2021/02/23/neochat-1.1/

@mary It's a bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=433148

Solved in Plasma 5.21.1.

@mary Passing this one on to Plasma devs. Hold tight.

Akademy will be held Online June 18-25. Keep up to date of what goes on at KDE's yearly event by subscribing to our mailing list, following us on Twitter, or visiting our Facebook and LinkedIn event pages.

Check out akademy.kde.org/2021 for more information.

Hello @mary ,

It is explained here:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.0/

@gcompris This means that Italian public institutions looking for educational software for children between the ages of 2 and 10 can find GCompris easier and review it before considering other closed, proprietary alternatives.

... And here is the Plasma 5.21 video:

https://youtu.be/ahEWG4JCA1w

Plasma 5.21 is out and it is the prettiest thing ever. Check out the new wallpaper, the easy-to-use application launcher, the brand new system monitor, and dozens of other improvements that make 5.21 the ideal desktop for you.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.0/

The winner of our weekly screenshot competition is /u/jom4d4. The screenshot shows the Plasma Moe theme and Latte Dock and an app using the Lightly theme. Check it out at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/lf5fxc/weekly_screenshot_thread/gmt30rk/

#screenshotsunday