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Plasma reaches amazing places! Take the Large Hadron Collider's smaller sibling: the ALBA synchrotron.

Sergi Blanch-Torné, Controls Software Engineer, explains how ALBA provides insight into biology, nanotechnology, and more using KDE's software:

https://dot.kde.org/2019/07/19/powered-plasma-alba-synchrotron-barcelona-spain

Si quieres seguir las noticias de KDE en Español: @kde_espana, la cuenta Mastodon oficial de la asociación de KDE España.
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Plasma 5 is five ?! In these five years, hundreds of people have contributed their time and knowledge to make the Plasma desktop what it is today. Happy birthday, Plasma ?!

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/963e4e9f-6754-42b0-8b31-0495fb98f15b

Usability and Productivity 79: Among other changes, screen flickering at boot-up for high DPI scaling has gone, Gwenview problems when loading and displaying remote files are solved, and "Picture of the day" wallpaper plugin now does Unsplash.

https://pointieststick.com/2019/07/13/kde-usability-productivity-week-79/

KDE userbase, the wiki where users can learn about everything KDE, gets a makeover: It is now cleaner, clearer and easier to use.

https://carlschwan.eu/2019/07/12/new-userbase.html

Virtual Reality user interfaces, an AI in you car, and the future of KDE Community's goals are just some of the things we'll be talking about at #Akademy2019. The program for Akademy is available now!

https://dot.kde.org/2019/07/11/akademy-2019-talk-schedule-out

Attendees to the "Plasma Desktop and Usability/Productivity Sprint" squashed bugs, added features and made Plasma ready for the future!

https://dot.kde.org/2019/07/04/plasma-usability-productivity-sprint-valencia-spain

KDE ❤️ @debian : Thanks for Buster!

Come and meet Roman and Kai-Uwe at Tübix!

https://www.tuebix.org/

Kontact, KDE's email, calendar, contact, itinerary and life organizer, keeps getting better and better.

New stuff includes: colored emojis ? , grammar correction and markdown built into Kmail; integrating KCalCore (calendar engine) and KContacts (addressbook engine) into KDE Frameworks 5; and cleaning up code and squashing bugs in general.

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2019/06/30/kde-pim-may-june-2019.html

Usability and Productivity week 77 - Plasma Sprint Special: Improved notifications, new annotation dialogs for Okular, Dolphin enhancements for better file and folder management, and tons of other stuff.

https://pointieststick.com/2019/06/29/kde-usability-productivity-week-77/

#Akademy-es starts tomorrow! Enjoy the vibrant city of Vigo (and its seafood!) and learn about privacy, Kirigami, AppStream, Qt for Python, hardening and security, Plasma and Plasma Mobile, and more.

https://www.kde-espana.org/akademy-es-2019

Photo CC BY-SA 3.0 by farrangallo

The Plasma and Usability sprint at Casa @SlimbookES has finished, we are all set for the next three months working on Plasma 5.17!

The Plasma and Usability sprint at Casa @SlimbookES has finished, we are all set for the next three months working on Plasma 5.17!

The Plasma and Usability sprint at Can @SlimbookES has finished, we are all set for the next three months working on Plasma 5.17!

At Casa @slimbook today, Plasma and Usability teams looked at:
? Improving Plasma widget configurability
? Making Qt scaling work on X11
? How to get changelogs into AppStream for apps
? How Kai fixed a bazillion trillion Notification bugs
? Adding a new "play media on hover" feature to Dolphin
? How to make Task Manager smarter when raising/minimizing all windows of an app or raising the most recently used window in a group
? Making "Do Not Disturb" automatic when screens are mirrored (pic)
Thanks Chicos!

At the Plasma and Usability Sprints today in Valencia:

? Plasma/Usability collaboration and made it much easier to test a custom-compiled Plasma
? Improvements to the Share plugins
? Fixes for Spectacle
? An awesome improvement for Dolphin to make sort order readable

Alongside the Plasma sprint in Valencia this week is the Usability sprint.

Nate reports: "Today in the Usability sprint we discussed changes to the Breeze theme, started modernizing Breeze's user avatars, and worked on polishing Dolphin and Spectacle."