The other day fellow KDE developers and I got together to build a measurement lab to measure energy consumption
Read more in https://nicolasfella.de/posts/eco-sprint/
Qt DevCon (https://www.qtdevcon.com) is a conference for Qt developers coming up soon.
There will be lots of interesting talks, including me talking about KDE's journey to Qt6.
If you are a KDE developer and would like to attend you can get a 50% discount. If you are interested get in touch with me
"First Ever Eco-Certified Computer Program: #KDE's Popular PDF-Reader #Okular"
The multi-platform universal document viewer now officially recognized for #sustainable software design.
#Ecolabel awarded for #transparency in #energy use, extending operating lives of devices, and enabling user #autonomy.
1st and only eco-certfied #software within 30 organizations of Global Ecolabelling Network!
Read more here: https://eco.kde.org/blog/2022-03-16-press-release-okular-blue-angel/
RT @EuropeanPirates@twitter.com
🇺🇦🆘 While Russia continues its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, millions of citizens are suffering from the consequences.
💛The European Pirates compiled of list of NGOs and institutions, to which you can donate to and help Ukraine's civil society.
More: https://european-pirateparty.eu/help-civil-society-ukraine-where-to-donate/
Ukrainian refugees :
Deutsche Bahn lets refugees from the #Ukraine travel to #Germany for free.
If you arrive in #Poland, there are six Eurocity long-distance trains every day.
A Deutsche Bahn spokesperson said “It is supposed to just make it simpler for refugees to proceed their journey from the border.”
You need to present your Ukrainian passport or ID card at the ticket counter
Also Ceske Drahy the Czech railway company operates at no cost.
Finally took some time to sit down and write some documentation: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-mobile/-/wikis/home
Still in early stages, but should provide a good introduction for potential contributors!
Who doesn't love Konqi pictures everywhere??
Some small but nice improvements to Plasma, plus cross-desktop standardization:
Some musig on why .desktop files are important for window management and why we can't have nice things on X11
https://nicolasfella.de/posts/importance-of-desktop-file-mapping
Calling us "an open alternative to Lightroom" gives the impression that we're trying to match Lightroom feature for feature, but we're not some knock off. We do things our own way, we have feature that Lightroom doesn't have and we lack some features that Lightroom does have.
We're a RAW editing application.
An easy way to help improving the Wayland experience:
Find out how to enhance your CMake code using KDE power
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