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Join our second Plasma Beta Review Day on the 28/01/2021 at 9.00 CET. Regardless of whether you are an end user, an experienced bug triager, or a developer, everyone can help find and squash bugs in Plasma 5.21.

More details at:

https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/2021/01/25/betaday.html

This week in KDE: Plasma 5.21 beta is here; Discover, Dolphin and apps get lots of improvements; and Kate gets a drop-down for when you need to search quickly for options.

https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/23/this-week-in-kde-the-plasma-5-20-beta-is-here/

Congratulations to all new @PINE64 #PinePhone @kde edition owners.

Thank you for supporting #PlasmaMobile!

Get a preview of Plasma 5.21: Plasma 5.21 Beta is now available for testing:

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/20.90/

MyGNUHealth is a new KDE application that monitors your health and protects your privacy. Please join Luis Falcon at a #firesidechat about it and more on 12 February 2021 at 17:00 UTC. You can expect to hear all about the new MyGNUHealth app, ask questions, suggest add-ons or pitch your ideas, and enjoy some relaxed conversation. For more information, visit https://community.kde.org/Fireside_chats

This week in KDE: choose where to open tabs in Dolphin, find widgets easier with the new “Get new Plasma Widgets” dialog, and get text flowing in Konsole -- among many more improvements and enhancements.

https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/15/this-week-in-kde-text-reflow-in-konsole/

New Features for Plasma Themes and how to make the best out of them!

https://write.as/niccolove/new-possibilities-for-plasma-theme-creators

Kontact, KDE's set of utilities that helps you manage your email, calendars, contacts and more, has received more than a 1000 improvements just in the last two months. Developers are also working on porting Kontact to Windows.

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2021/01/06/kde-pim-november-december-2020.html

The selection process for Season of KDE is finished and 22 projects were selected. You can read more about all the selected projects on https://carlschwan.eu/2021/01/11/announcing-season-of-kde-selected-projects/

This week in KDE: KDE Plasma improves multi-monitor support, the Dolphin file manager got some cool animations, and Plasma's app launcher makes it easier to reach your favorite programs.

https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/08/this-week-in-kde-new-kwin-compositing-new-kickoff-new-recording-level-visualization/

@dave Yes, @kaidan works both as a desktop and mobile application.

Kaidan, KDE's instant messaging app for Jabber, gets financial support from the NLnet Foundation to implement end-to-end encryption.

https://www.kaidan.im/2021/01/07/end-to-end-encryption/

New releases for KDE software in January include KIO Fuse, an add-on that lets all applications like LibreOffice access remote files safely as if they were local; lots of bugfixes; and exciting new apps MyGNUHealth, KGeoTag and Kongress adopted into KDE.

https://kde.org/announcements/releases/2021-01-apps-update/

@ButterflyOfFire In the same way congratulatory texts float in the air during snow storms.

KDE roadmap for 2021: Production ready Wayland, fingerprint support, brand new start menu, and more

https://pointieststick.com/2021/01/01/kde-roadmap-for-2021/

You can also hit two arrow keys, quickly one after another, to move a window to a quarter of the screen (new in Plasma 5.20).

#KDETip: Push windows to the sides or top and bottom of the desktop by holding the [Meta] (Windows) key and then hitting an arrow key. ????...???? And a Happy New Yeeeeeeaaar\!\!\!????????

Volker Krause looks back at the evolution of KDE Itinerary through 2020 and how KDE's travel assistant is growing to cover, not only public transport, but also accessibility info, opening hours of facilities at train and bus stations, and much more.

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2020/12/26/kde-wrapping-up-2020.html

- Paul Brown - a member of the KDE promotion team - the name is visible in the window title of Firefox- Ivan Čukić book on C++ (cukic.co/to/fp-in-cpp) - Ivan is a KDE developer

- Bonus: Karlo - the KDE kat

The Solution of our Christmas quiz:

- Plasma desktop- KDevelop (KDE's IDE)- Konsole (KDE terminal emulator)- Dolphin (KDE file manager)- Kate (KDE text editor)- Qt Designer - used in the development, The Qt Company is a KDE patron- LabPlot's source code- KDE's sticker on the monitor's foot- Suse's Geeko - SUSE is a KDE patron- Pen with the insignia "Google Summer of Code 2014" - KDE participates in GSoC every year+ Google is a KDE Patron