We are looking for a new set of Community KDE Goals to work on.
What should KDE focus on over the next two years? Are you ready to share your vision, time and stamina to push KDE to the next level?
Let’s evolve KDE together! Find out more here: https://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2024/06/05/what-should-kde-focus-on-for-the-next-2-years-you-can-propose-a-goal/
A gentle hint: If you suggest anything, you must be willing to put in the time to champion the task and carry out to completion.
Also, do your suggesting here by following the instructions laid out in the blog post linked above.
If you don’t do that, nobody is going to take up anything you suggest here.
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I think as others, fix bugs, focus on stability.
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Unifying a few codebases, and make Plasma more modular.
1. A minimal Plasma
I think Plasma is the best desktop and suited for minimal installs on machines with like 2GB of RAM. Reducing the needed dependencies (currently working on that in Fedora) to the bare minimum. Making all the fancy desktop effects, animations, blur, transparency, floating, … optional.
And yes, please also remove the default plasmoids from the needed install. Maybe keep the ones default in the panel. Maybe add a way to find them as “official plasmoids” which would help a lot.
2. Merge parallel works
Gwenview, Spectacle, Kolourpaint, digiKam all have image editing bars. The one of spectacle is pretty good, Gwenview and digiKam could be merged, Kolourpaint could maybe get an additional few things specific to the app.
Merge parallel works
Oh this is such a good idea. I think an approach analogous to
ktexteditor(or the embedded konsole terminal in apps like dolphin and kile, too) would be amazing. Having the same editing expertise across Kate, kwrite, kile and other text editing apps is fantastic.
I hope a previously suggested goal of improving KDE for organizations makes a comeback. It was basically all about all the things a business/organisation would need to roll out a fleet of KDE computers, mainly tools for remote / centralised management by an IT department.
In the wake of Windows’s recent and continued trend, more and more public institutions, universities, government etc should be looking at switching away from Windows. There’s also EUs recent Digital Sovereignty Initiative.
German state Schleswig-Holstein is already swapping 30k computers to Linux
An option in the wallpaper settings to have the wallpaper span both monitors is like a dream for me. And if I knew how to code it, I’d start on it right now, but I’ll need about a year to learn and do it 😂
Not really a project in which you would involve the whole community. Maybe register it as a wishlist item at https://bugs.kde.org ?
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Those are bugs. Not community-wide projects.
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Bugs are solved all the time. It is not a project for the community because the community already works on correcting bugs all the time. If the correction of bugs is not fast enough for you, we cordially and officially invite you to help out:
https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved
Remember: bugs are corrected by volunteers, many of which also have day jobs and other things going on. We are always understaffed. You can help.
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Thanks for your invitation, then I cordially and officially invite you accept the KDE Invent (Gitlab) access which I requested months and months ago.
A developer account, the kind of account that gives contributors full access to GitLab, gives the power to do a lot of damage too. In view of how malware has been injected into FLOSS projects in the past, you will understand why KDE’s Invent instance is not an open, free-for-all affaire.
You have to go through a process, wherein one of the steps entails being sponsored by someone who is already a veteran contributor to KDE. This, in turn, entails contributing to KDE for a while, maybe in a non-development role, or by using the open services of invent. If you have not gone through that process, the sysadmin team will ignore your petition.
That said, properly submitted requests for developer accounts are approved all the time.
See here on how to proceed:
https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Get_a_Developer_Account
Notwithstanding, when it comes to bugs, which seems to be your main concern, there is a lot you can do without a developer account. Triaging, for example, wherein you confirm that a bug exists, check if it happens everywhere (i.e. across platforms and distros), and figure out what triggers it is an invaluable contribution that will save developers many hours of hunting and testing.
Why not start there? All you need is an account on https://bugs.kde.org and you will also revive bugs that may have flown under the radar and contribute to getting them sorted once and for all. Your help could be key to that.
For now all I could contribute is by donating money (check the records, it’s public).
And that is much appreciated too. Thanks
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Improved touchscreen support pretty please. ☺️
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Maybe if you have to ask the community for a goal, you have nothing worth doing left.
Is there already an x11vnc alternative for wayland? That’s the only thing I need.
We don’t want no fancy updates that will send us back to instabilities.
There is. It is still WiP, but you can read about it at:
https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2023-08/remote-desktop-using-rdp-protocol-plasma-wayland
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social #homeassistant integration
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@AngryAnt great idea. Only matter specs definition goes slow. Loads of companies that want to have there say. Sure it will be a solid system but there is no enery monitoring yet for example. @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
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@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social more desktop effects like in Compiz; mobile devices development (especially a PiM and email suite for smartphones, with sync abilities for dav cal, contacts etc; a decent multi language keyboard for Japanese, ARAB, Chinese…); make KDE lighter.
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Make Fedora Kinoite beta and nightly official testing Distros. It makes so much more sense to base off modern but tested packages, and to use an atomic distro for keeping the other issues aside.
But if you also need to support messy package based distros with their broken package managers, that is for sure problematic.
Fedora is not a KDE project.
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