Plasma has gained its first user of the new notification inline reply feature in 5.18: Telegram Desktop!

Big thanks to Kai Uwe Broulik for venturing forth to contribute a patch to Telegram that made this possible.

Next up, we have a winner for the Plasma 5.18 wallpaper competition: the elegant and soothing Volna, by Nikita Babin!

Let’s all give a round of applause to Nikita for his incredible contribution which will be seen for years to come!

And one more thing: thanks to Niccolò Venerandi, the kde.org website now has a page showing where you can buy devices with Plasma and KDE apps pre-installed!

This is a great way for people and institutions to buy a complete product featuring the end-to-end KDE software experience without having to manually install an OS or worry about hardware compatibility.

As if that weren’t enough, here’s the usual assortment of new features, bugfixes, and UI improvements:

New Features

• The names of your wallpapers’ creators are now visible, when that information is available (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.19.0):
  
• In KDE apps that allow you to override the systemwide color scheme, there’s now an option to revert back to using the systemwide color scheme (David Redondo, Frameworks 5.67):
  

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

• Elisa’s feature to enqueue all visible tracks now works for all views and with all modern Qt versions (5.12-5.14) (Matthieu Gallien, Elisa 19.12.2)
• There’s no longer sometimes a stray thumbnail.so process left running after Dolphin is finished generating thumbnail preview images (Elvis Angelaccio, Dolphin 20.04.0)
• Searching for tags with spaces in them in Dolphin now works properly (Ismael Asensio, Dolphin 20.04.0)
• Removing the screen locking keyboard shortcut no longer crashes System Settings when navigating to the Workspace Behavior category (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.18.0)
• KMenuEdit no longer crashes when you create new entries (David Redondo, Plasma 5.18.0)
• KInfoCenter no longer crashes when visiting the PCI Devices page when there are no PCI devices, no longer shows duplicates in the USB Devices category, shows Xorg version information correctly, and now only shows the “Copy to clipboard in English” button when you are actually using a language other than English (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.18.0)
• GTK3 windows with client-side decorations are now resizable on Wayland (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Apps are no longer incorrectly and inconsistently scaled when using Qt 5.14 or newer and a high DPI scale factor (Fabian Vogt, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Discover now always shows large images when clicking on screenshots, and is also much faster to navigate between them (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.18.0)
• KRunner is now more reliable at finding open windows (Méven Car, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Separator lines in the Kickoff Application Launcher now respect the current Plasma theme (Filip Fila, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• The highlight effect for the clickable “audio playing” indicator for Task Manager items is now drawn behind the icon so it looks good with all Plasma themes (Filip Fila, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• The System Settings Users page now lets you remove a user’s email address, warns you before you switch to another user with unsaved data, and no longer has a pointless and unused “Defaults” button (Méven Car, Plasma 5.18 and 5.19)

User Interface Improvements

• Elisa now lets you set custom images for your favorite internet radio stations (Jérôme Guidon, 20.04.0)
• Discover no longer misleadingly shows your OS as the source for locally-downloaded package files (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Turning off animations globally now also turns them off for GTK and GNOME apps too (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Clicking on the button in the network widget that shows the search field now automatically gives focus to the search field too (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Shadows for Plasma pop-ups and dialogs are now a bit softer and more subtle (Niccoló Venerandi, Frameworks 5.67):
  

How You Can Help

Please test the Plasma 5.18 beta release! You can find out how here. If you find bugs, file them–especially if they are regressions from Plasma 5.17. We want to get as much testing, bug filing, and bugfixing as possible during the one-month beta period so that the official release is as smooth as possible.

More generally, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved and find out more ways to help be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.

A ton of features, bugfixes, and and user interfaces have landed for Plasma 18, and a beta release is now available for adventurous types to test out ahead of the release next month.

I think this is the Plasma release that a lot of people have been waiting for. It’s faster, more stable, more beautiful, and more feature-filled than any previous release, and it comes with a Long Term Support guarantee. Nothing is perfect, and we can always do better (and always strive to), but I think Plasma 5.18 is going to hit a sweet spot for a lot of people. Look for it in the next LTS releases of Kubuntu and openSUSE Leap, as well as all the rolling release distros of course.

New Features

• Screen auto-rotation now works on Wayland for computers with accelerometers (Roman Gilg, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• The visual settings for GTK apps are no longer required to be configured manually and separately; instead, they are automatically synced from your settings for KDE apps – except for the theme itself, which can still be set separately because there isn’t a 1:1 mapping between KDE and GTK themes (Mikhail Zolotukhin, Plasma 5.18.0)
• The popular Thumbnail Grid Task Switcher is now shipped as a part of the kdeplasma-addons package (Chris Holland, Plasma 5.18.0)
• The System Settings Background Services page has been rewritten to for better looks and usability (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.19.0):
  

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

• JPEG thumbnails are now subtly sharper and better-looking (William Tradewell, Dolphin 20.04.0)
• System Settings no longer crashes when you click on the “Global Themes” item on the main page (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.18.0)
• KInfoCenter no longer crashes when you navigate between the Energy Info page and other pages (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.18.0)
• The calculator applet no longer displays bizarre results for certain multiplication operations (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Checkboxes drawn on top of images and selectable list items are now always visible (Noah Davis, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• The feature that allows you to optionally set an image as the wallpaper when dragging it to the desktop now works with remote images in web browsers too (Tranter Madi, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Discover should now be more reliable at locating apps no matter what their AppStream ID is; for example Blender will be accessible from both blender.desktop and also org.kde.blender (Aleix Pol Gonzales, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Fixed a few visual glitches in the animations for the Widget Explorer (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.19.0)
• It’s once again possible to set your default email client to be a terminal program and have everything work properly when you click on mailto: links (Méven Car, Frameworks 5.67)

User Interface Improvements

• The System Tray’s settings window has received a major visual overhaul that makes it much more comprehensible and useful (Konrad Materka, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• When you click on a notification, it now brings that app forward if the app doesn’t define a custom click behavior (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Throughout Plasma and System Settings, the “Get new [thing]” dialog has a fancy new look and is much more usable (Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• There are now keyboard shortcuts set by default for switching from one virtual desktop to another: Ctrl+Meta+Arrow keys (Björn Feber, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Scrollbars in the Breeze style for desktop apps are now wider and separated from the content view by a subtle separator line. You can see it in the other screenshots throughout this blog post! Basically after trying the fake overlay scrollbar style for a few years, we decided that it just didn’t work so we went back to the older style. Note that on mobile we now use real overlay style scrollbars with no content layout hacks, but instead of becoming invisible, the scrollbar becomes tiny and hugs the edge so you can still see your place in the scrollable view. (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.18.0)
• It’s now much simpler and more obvious how to create a WiFi hotspot (Jan Grulich, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Discover’s reviews sheet now has the proper width and is wide enough to display the reviews comfortably (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• A notification is now shown when Bluetooth device pairing is successful (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• Bluetooth devices that communicate their battery level now show that level in the Bluetooth applet’s popup as well as in the Battery and Brightness applet popup (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0)
• The Plasma wallpaper slideshow feature now includes the default wallpaper path automatically so you don’t need to go hunting around and add it yourself (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0)

How You Can Help

Please test the Plasma 5.18 beta release! You can find out how here. If you find bugs, file them–especially if they are regressions from Plasma 5.17. We want to get as much testing, bug filing, and bugfixing as possible during the one-month beta period so that the official release is as smooth as possible.

More generally, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved and find out more ways to help be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.

This week should have a little something for everyone. We’ve got bug squashing galore in preparation for Plasma 5.18, substantial speed improvements for wifi connection and Discover launch time, some welcome new features, and the return of an old one–renaming files from the context menu in file dialogs.

New Features

• Okular tabs can now be closed by middle-clicking on them, and closed tabs can now be re-opened by using the new File > Undo Closed Tab menu item or the standard ctrl+Shift+T keyboard shortcut (Bob Bai, Okular 1.10.0)
• There’s a new System Tray applet for controlling the Night color feature that automatically appears when it’s on and allows you to turn it on and off (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• It is once again possible to rename files from the context menu in the open/save dialogs (Méven Car and me: Nate Graham), Frameworks 5.67):
  

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

• Elisa’s header area no longer flickers horribly when the window is resized (Alexander Stippich, Elisa 19.12.1):
  
• Konsole no longer freezes when copying in TMux Copy mode or after setting a really really long tab title (Mariusz Glebocki, Konsole 19.12.2)
• Gwenview no longer crashes while generating thumbnails for images with malformed preview images (Christoph Feck and me: nate Graham, Gwenview 19.12.2)
• Gwenview no longer lets you futilely initiate drag-and-drop operations with right clicks, middle clicks, etc (Tasos Sahanidis, Gwenview 20.04.0)
• Plasma no longer crashes when you drag a file to the virtual desktop switcher (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.17.5)
• Searching for an app in the System Settings Notifications page and then clearing the search no longer duplicates the items in the list (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.17.5)
• Fixed various bugs pertaining to displays on Wayland such that KWin no longer crashes when an external screen is unplugged or turned off, turned on, or re-connected (Roman Gilg, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Fixed two of the most common KWin crashes (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Plasma is now faster to connect to a wifi network on startup by up to 3 seconds (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.18.0)
• System Settings no longer crashes when you try to install an invalid GTK theme (Mikhail Zolotukhin, Plasma 5.18.0)
• It’s now possible to click on entries in the context menu for System Tray items on Wayland (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.18.0
• Discover now launches much faster and no longer shows a graphical glitch in place of its main user interface while it’s launching (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Icons-Only Task Manager apps now always show the “audio playing” indicator when audio is playing no matter the thickness of the Panel or the size of the icons (George Vogiatzis, Plasma 5.18.0)
• It’s no longer possible to use window tiling shortcuts on the System Tray popup (Konrad Materka, Plasma 5.18.0)
• When using a vertical panel, the clock’s “Long Date” format now shows all text instead of eliding most of it (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• Fixed a visual glitch causing the window titlebar to appear separated from the window content when using the Zoom In or Wobbly Windows effect (Vlad Zahorodnii and David Edmundson, Plasma 5.18.0)
• The Audio Volume applet now has the correct size and no longer shows a big empty right margin when used on the desktop outside of the System Tray (George Vogiatzis, Plasma 5.18.0)
• KRunner’s calculator now properly rounds long numbers (Lukas Pichler, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Dragging in the text field while renaming items on the desktop no longer allows you to select other items in the process (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Menubars in Electron-based apps are now more legible (Carson Black, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Hovering the cursor over items in the GTK file dialog now highlights those items using the correct color (Carson Black, Plasma 5.18.0)
• When using Chromium/Chrome with client-side decorations, the maximize button now changes appropriately when the window is maximized (Carson Black, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Fixed a performance and battery life issue that could cause a rogue http.so process to stick around and consume power and CPU time (Kevin Funk, Frameworks 5.67)
• Inline messages generated by the KMessageWidget widget are no longer briefly blurry on first appearance when using a fractional scale factor (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.67)

User Interface Improvements

• When searching for tags in Dolphin, the tag menu stays now open after you select each tag so you don’t need to re-open it if you want to search for files with multiple tags (Ismael Asensio, Dolphin 20.04.0):
  
• Songs in Elisa’s playlist now make better use of available horizontal space (me: Nate Graham, Elisa 20.04.0):
  
• The Battery and Brightness system tray applet no longer flashes irritatingly and consumes extra CPU resources when the battery’s charge level is critically low; between the persistent notification and the red icon, you’re not going to miss this (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0)
• The Plasma Vaults item in the System Tray now automatically hides itself when there aren’t any vaults configured (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Improved the wallpaper chooser UI in various ways: the time chooser spinboxes now show their labels inline, lists now have placeholder messages when empty, and wallpaper folder list items now show the full path in a subtitle (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
  
• Pushbuttons used in Plasma configuration panels now have the same clear and obvious keyboard focus style as pushbuttons used everywhere else (Marco Martin, Frameworks 5.67)
• Microsoft Windows link files now use the symlink file icon (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.67)

How You Can Help

If you’ve got artistic talent, rev up your digital paintbrushes and try your hand at getting your work seen by millions of Plasma LTS users for years to come in our wallpaper competition: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_5.18_Wallpaper_Competition!

More generally, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved and find out more ways to help be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.

Most KDE contributors are still recovering from their holiday vacations, but nevertheless the first of my 2020 predictions has been fulfilled: KIO now makes remote locations available to non-KDE apps using FUSE mounts! This brings us to full feature parity with GNOME’s GVFS system and makes it painless to interact with files in remote locations using apps like LibreOffice, Blender, and VLC. Full support will be shipped to users with the Dolphin 20.04 release.

More New Features

• There are now thumbnail previews for cursor files (Kai Uwe Broulik, Dolphin 20.04.0):
  
• Plasma’s amazing notification system gained support for apps to let you reply to messages inline (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0):
  

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

• The context menu in the System Settings Network Connections page no longer sometimes appears in the wrong place when clicked (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.17.5)
• The Alt-tilde shortcut to switch between the current app’s open windows now works on Wayland when Num Lock mode is active (Roman Gilg, Plasma 5.18.0)
• The System Settings Icons page now correctly highlights the current icon theme when it was installed and activated using Discover, and deleting an icon theme no longer resets the view’s currently-selected icon theme (Benjamin Port, Plasma 5.18.0)
• System Settings no longer shows the dreaded “ambiguous shortcut” dialog when you hit Ctrl+F; the shortcut now works to focus the search field (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0)
• KDE’s GTK theming now respects the GTK2_RC_FILES environment variable (Mikhail Zolotukhin, Plasma 5.18.0)
• File dialogs opened by applications that only supports local files (e.g. Firefox when using the openSUSE patches to show the KDE file dialog) now shows disks and removable media devices in their Places panels (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.66)
• Dolphin no longer crashes when you rename the trash can (Elvis Angelaccio, Frameworks 5.66)

User Interface Improvements

• Elisa’s playlist now shows the full album and artist names in the header area instead of eliding after one line (me: Nate Graham, Elisa 20.04.0):
  
• In Elisa, you can now play different songs in the playlist using the keyboard (me: Nate Graham, Elisa 20.04.0)
• When using plasma-browser-integration, files downloaded using your web browser show up as recent documents in Dolphin, the file dialogs, and the application launcher menu (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0)
• Discover now presents app and addon reviews more elegantly (KDE VDG and me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• Audacity project files and Apple Wallet files now have nice Breeze icons (Kai Uwe Broulik and Carson Black, Frameworks 5.66)

How You Can Help

If you’ve got artistic talent, rev up your digital paintbrushes and try your hand at getting your work seen by millions of Plasma LTS users for years to come in our wallpaper competition: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_5.18_Wallpaper_Competition!

More generally, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved and find out more ways to help be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.

Though KDE contributors are mostly enjoying a well-deserved rest during the holiday season (hence the late post today, sorry about that), the community’s tireless souls have been laboring anyway to bring you new features and bugfixes anyway! Check ’em out:

New Features

• The System Settings Plasma Style page now has a search field and a filtering combobox that can be used to narrow down the main view, just like the one on the Colors page (David Redondo, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• The System Settings Notifications page now has an entry for “Other Applications” so that you can choose the notification behavior of poorly-integrated apps that don’t identify themselves properly (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• The properties dialog for folders now offers you the option to explore the folder in Filelight, if it’s installed (Shubham, Frameworks 5.66):
  

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

• Elisa’s settings window is no longer implemented as a KCM (a System Settings page), so it no longer inappropriately appears in global searches (Matthieu Gallien, Elisa 19.12.1)
• Dolphin’s SVN integration plugin now notices and lets you commit newly-added files (Dolphin 20.04.0, Nikolai Krasheninnikov)
• Cursor themes installed with Discover can now be deleted on the System Settings Cursors page (Benjamin Port, Plasma 5.18.0)
• On Wayland, the Widget Explorer is now usable (David Edmundson, Frameworks 5.66)

User Interface Improvements

• Gwenview now includes a toolbar button in fullscreen mode to let you easily show or hide the sidebar (Madhav Kanbur, Gwenview 20.04.0)
• Spectacle’s configuration window now has a “Defaults” button that lets you reset everything to the default settings (David Redondo, Spectacle 20.04.0):
  
• Elisa’s playlist panel can now be shown and hidden from a button on the main toolbar, and automatically hides itself when the window becomes very narrow. This makes the app quite responsive (me: Nate Graham, Elisa 20.04.0):
  
  
  (Try to ignore the horrible flickering; we’ll get that fixed)
• Added explanatory labels for the single-click/double-click settings that help you learn how to select items (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0):
  

How You Can Help

If you’ve got artistic talent, rev up your digital paintbrushes and try your hand at getting your work seen by millions of Plasma LTS users for years to come in our wallpaper competition: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_5.18_Wallpaper_Competition!

More generally, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved and find out more ways to help be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.

Features and polish are coming in hot and heavy for Plasma and KDE apps! But have you heard about KDE’s wallpaper contest for Plasma 5.18? We held one of these for Plasma 5.16 and it resulted in the fantastic “Ice Cold” wallpaper, by Santiago Cézar. Now’s your chance to enter a wallpaper for Plasma 5.18, which is an LTS release, so it will be seen by millions of people for years! There are fabulous prizes by sponsor Tuxedo Computers. Check out the rules here: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_5.18_Wallpaper_Competition

New Features

• Dolphin now lets you include tags in the search criteria (Ismael Asensio, Dolphin 20.04.0):
  
• When searching in System Settings, the results list now shows the actual matches pages, not just the top-level categories (Marco Martin, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• The Network Monitor widget can now be configured to show transfer speeds in Bytes (George Vogiatzis, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• It’s now possible to enable and disable Do Not Disturb mode with a keyboard shortcut (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0):
  

Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

• Dolphin’s SVN commit dialog now works again (Nikolai Krasheninnikov, Dolphin 19.12.1)
• Using a mouse wheel to scroll in Dolphin and the file dialogs no longer scrolls way too fast when using a view with large icons (me: Nate Graham and Arjen Hiemstra, Dolphin 19.12.1 and Frameworks 5.66)
• Fixed a regression in the size of the weather widget’s temperature text when using a very short panel that I caused a few weeks ago while trying to make the text size identically match that of the clock widget. Now the issue is fixed and the text sizes really are always identical (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.17.5)
• When you clear the clipboard contents, its last item is now really actually cleared (Piotr Dabrowski, Plasma 5.18.0)
• When changing the font size, UI elements that dynamically enlarge or shrink themselves in response to font metrics now do so immediately in QML-based apps (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.66)
• Manually-mounted NFS shares no longer show up twice in the Places Panel in Dolphin, file dialogs, and other apps (Méven Car, Frameworks 5.66)
• Dates throughout KDE software no longer use ambiguous relative terms like “Last Monday” (was it the Monday of this week, or the previous one?); instead they revert to using absolute dates three days in the past or future (me: Nate Graham, Frameworks 5.66)
• In OpenSUSE, using Discover to install an app while there are are available updates no longer silently installs the updates too (Jonathan Kang, latest OpenSUSE PackageKit packaging)

User Interface Improvements

• It’s now obvious which Plasma themes follow your system color scheme (Filip Fila and me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18):
  
• The timeout indicator on notification popups is now circular and surrounds the close button (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• There’s now a draggable proxy icon in the “file was downloaded” notification that you can drag to places and do cool stuff with it (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• Plasma now shows you a notification warning you when a connected Bluetooth device is about to run out of battery power (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• Task Manager tooltips now have a highlight effect when you hover over them (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• Various places throughout Plasma where things can be dragged now display open and closed grabby cursors as appropriate (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• The Plasma Networks widget no longer has two nearly-identical menu items in its context menu; everything’s been consolidated into just one (Jan Grulich, Plasma 5.18.0):
  
• Notifications that you need to log into the Captive Portal page for a public network no longer become duplicated under certain circumstances, and disappear when you log into the network (Jan Grulich, Plasma 5.18.0)
• The little downward-pointing arrows in Dolphin’s back and forward buttons are now smaller and no longer cause the buttons to widen, improving the appearance (Noah Davis, Plasma 5.18.0):
  

How You Can Help

If you’ve got artistic talent, rev up your digital paintbrushes and try your hand at getting your work seen by millions of Plasma LTS users for years to come in our wallpaper competition: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Visual_Design_Group/Plasma_5.18_Wallpaper_Competition!

More generally, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved and find out more ways to help be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.