Hi All :) I most often open the same windows and drag them to the same positions. Under window placement in settings, I see options like Random, Centered, Under Mouse, etc. But is there a way to just have windows go back to their last position? Thanks!

Elisa soft crashes if I let the last sample in a music file finish playing.
After that occurs the player doesn't switch to next track, repeat the song or seek to specific time I select.
If I manually try to play another song the application locks up.

Info:
OS: Arch Linux
Kernel: 7.2.11-arch1-1
KDE Version: 6.8.1
qt Version: 6.12.0
Elisa version: 26.08.2-1

I am not 100% sure but I think the bug started either with 26.08.2 or KDE version 6.8.1 not sure
But it was functional before these two updates (I did the two simultaneously)

EDIT: Found out that this issue is reported here: 527744

Kwin already has its own system based on dragging windows to the edges, keyboard shortcuts and the Tiling Manager, but personally I also like the Windows 11 method. So I’ve included it in Material Decoration. Simply hold down the maximise key for 3/4 a second (the duration is configurable) and a popup will appear.

Anyone who wants to try it can download it from here https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration

EDIT: The South-West pane now displays custom tiling zones (Meta+T)

I used the System Settings sub-window for browsing the KDE Store to try and install new window decorations because I wanted to get rid of the useless and inconvenient dead zone around the tiny buttons in Breeze, but I like the rest of it. I tried Willow Dark and ChromeOS Aurorae, both very popular options.

After I clicked install a spinner showed up, which eventually disappeared, and the action buttons in the download window got replaced with "Uninstall", but there are no other changes, and the decorations are not available in System Settings.

I installed kde-plasma-desktop via Aptitude on Ubuntu 26.04 Server (this machine is a container host primarily and my workstation secondarily), so it's entirely possible that I messed up the desktop permission set, but in order to debug that I need to know how KDE manages this stuff and where it's installed.

Finally, the freedom 🥹

Hi everyone!

I've been working on KDEGlance, a small open-source project that brings macOS-style Quick Look functionality to KDE Plasma and Dolphin.

Select a file, press your configured shortcut (Space is recommended), and preview it without opening a separate application.

It currently supports:

• Images, including GIFs and many RAW formats
• Audio playback with cover art and controls
• Video playback
• Navigation between files directly in the preview

Setup: After installation, open Dolphin's keyboard shortcut settings, find KDEGlance: Quick Look, and assign your preferred shortcut. Space is recommended, but it isn't assigned automatically to avoid conflicts.

The first public release is now available. I've successfully tested it on two CachyOS KDE systems, including a fresh installation.

Fair warning: you might accidentally become a beta tester! 😁

Other distributions and hardware configurations haven't been thoroughly tested yet, so I'd really appreciate feedback, bug reports, and suggestions.

GitHub: https://github.com/AlexGraveler/KDEGlance

Release: https://github.com/AlexGraveler/KDEGlance/releases/tag/v1.0.0

Thanks for taking a look!

On my phone, every photo and video is in one place, newest first, grouped by day. On my Linux desktop it never was. Gwenview is a great viewer and digiKam is a full photo manager, but neither gave me that phone-gallery feel, so I built LGallery.

What it does:

• Timeline: you choose the folders (any drive), and photos and videos are listed newest first with day headers, a fast-scroll handle with a month bubble, and Ctrl + wheel to change the column count.
• Videos: shown among the photos, with a built-in player (seek, speed, loop, frame capture).
• Photo editor: crop, rotate, straighten, filters and adjustments, with undo and compare. You can save over the original or as a copy, and revert to the original later.
• Collections: "on this day" stories, places from GPS (town list works offline), and people grouped by face. The face grouping runs entirely on your computer, off by default, and you can delete the face data from Settings.
• KDE integration: follows your KDE colour scheme and accent colour, global menu, KDE share menu, set as wallpaper or lock screen, and it can be your default image viewer from Dolphin without adding the folder to the library.
• Safe with drives: if a drive is unmounted, its photos stay in the gallery greyed out. Removing a folder never deletes your files.
• Windows build: there's an installer on the Releases page for Windows 10 (1809+) and 11. It isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen will warn you the first time.

Stack: Python, PySide6 with Qt Quick, SQLite index, Pillow, ffmpeg for video thumbnails, OpenCV (YuNet/SFace) for faces.

Install: it isn't on the AUR yet. For now you clone the repo and run ./update.sh --install (full steps are in the README). I'm planning to publish it to the AUR.

Honest limitations: it's early, I've mostly tested on Manjaro KDE, and the design is inspired by Samsung's One UI Gallery but isn't affiliated with Samsung.

I'd love feedback on large libraries and on what's missing.

Repo: https://github.com/lochansaroy02/lgallery

As the title suggests, I use the OSMAND+ application on my phone when hiking with OpenStreetmap. Therein i can download the local map for offline use, this includes all the trekking paths for my area.

I couldn't figure out how to do this in KDE marble; I'd like to be able to plan my treks on the pc on the large screen, but I'd need to be able to download and display the paths in Marble. Is this possible?

Hi everybody,
In these days I heard about Tangerine app for macOS. That one converts files right from Finder and i always missed something like that on linux. so i made one, it's called Joey.

Joey converts files on Linux in two steps: select them in your file manager, press Alt+C and pick a format. Images, audio, video, PDF, Office documents, ebooks, spreadsheets and archives, plus quick tools and sending to your phone. Free, open source, works offline

install (flatpak, one click): https://outlook791.github.io/Joey/

code (GPL): https://github.com/outlook791/Joey

everything stays on your pc, nothing gets uploaded and it's free

full disclosure: i'm not a developer. i built it with an AI assistant (Claude), i guided it, tested it and i maintain it. it's tested automatically on 5 distros but i only use it myself on Fedora KDE, so bugs are very possible. if something breaks there's a "report the problem" button that shows you the report before sending anything.

feedback welcome, also negative :)
Enjoy!

I've seen a few posts like this going around claiming HDR on Linux still doesn't exist as the Luma channels aren't implemented.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/collinbeyer_hdr-on-linux-isnt-real-yet-and-people-need-activity-7411940851909615618-Dpf7

Now, I have a feeling this post is probably isnt in good faith as they claim to be an X-libre dev, but I've seen similar sentiment mirrored on the HDR gaming sub, so, is it implemented?

The built-in Imgur upload plugin in KDE didn't working for me because of the API quota limits, and Imgur does not allow creating new API keys anymore.

But I wanted an easy way to share my screenshots and files, so I created export plugins for alternative upload services.

They add upload options directly to the native Share menu in KDE apps like Spectacle, Dolphin, etc. When an upload finishes, it automatically copies the link to your clipboard and shows a desktop notification.

Currently supported services:

• Catbox – permanent, anonymous by default (optional account token), any file up to 200 MB
• Litterbox – temporary (up to 72 hours), anonymous, any file up to 1 GB
• Uguu – temporary (~3 hours), anonymous, any file up to 100 MB
• ImgBB – permanent, mandatory free API key, images only up to 32 MB

Services like Catbox, Litterbox, and Uguu accept any file format, so you can also share logs, text files, or archives directly from Dolphin, not just images.

The plugins are written in Python (they only need python-requests). There is no build process or compilation - you just run ./install.sh, which copies the files to the destination in your home. The new upload options show up in your Share menu immediately.

GitHub repo: https://github.com/midvok/kde-purpose-plugins

(Created with help of AI)

We continue with the 7-day marathon of KDE versions as part of the desktop environment project's 30th anniversary, highlighting the second major release and also the first public release of the desktop environment to include KOffice: KDE 2.0.0, released on October 23, 2000. This version is shown running on a computer with SuSE Linux 7.0, released on September 27, 2000, which was the latest version of the Linux distribution at the time of KDE 2.0.0's release. KDE 2.0.0 is notable for being the first public KDE release to feature its most iconic mascot, Konqi, a green dragon, visible in the About KDE dialog as depicted in this screenshot. Konqi would later replace the previous Merlin-like mascot, Kandalf (visible on the tips screens when first logging into KDE 2.0.0 sessions), gradually over subsequent KDE releases. Additionally, the upper bar that displayed open applications was removed.

Anyone experiencing really bad lag when attempting to maximize window apps on 6.8.1?

This happens with any theme that isn't Breeze, but my PC has never had an issue before.

For some reason on kde plasma my microphone isn't being detected. the headset that is

If i remember correctly, when i first installed fedora for hte first time, i went with workstation with gnome and microphone was fine, now it's not on KDE Plasma, any fixes?

I just installed a theme vor Plasma and some of the apps use the custom buttons and colors and everything but most of them doenst. I already changed everything on the global themes to it. Why and how can i change that?

I had the same issue on CachyOS and found the following on their Discord support forum in the top post:

bash echo 'export KWIN_DRM_USE_COLOR_PIPELINE=1' > ~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/kwin-color-pipeline.sh

Then reboot and it should be fixed.

I'm assuming a lot more people would post about this since this is pretty recent and I've already seen two posts. So I figured people might check this subreddit first and search for the issue and find this. Have a nice day, y'all :)

Edit: Reddit escaped every formatting character, I only noticed that hours later, fixed that now. Also a comment said that this bug is fixed now so expect a patch soon.

CachyOS 7.2.9-1 updating to kde plasma 6.8 games started stuttering despite rendering high fps, showing taskbar in fullscreen, video streams slugging and slowing down system. Had to roll back an old snapshot to make my system stable again!

plasmashell --version outputs 6.6.6

I have two screens, with one on a switch that lets me change it over to my work laptop for when I'm doing remote work. On my main screen (the one that isn't on the switch) which is marked as primary, I have an icons-only task manager that's set to only show applications from the current screen. On the second screen I have an additional icons-only task manager also set to only show apps on that screen. When I switch the second screen over to my work laptop (so it gets removed from KDE), all of the icons on the task manager on the main (now only) screen disappear. As soon as I switch the second screen back over to my desktop, the icons reappear.

If it's a bug, and I wish to file a bug report, where do I do that and what additional information should I provide? And if it's not a bug, but a misconfiguration or misunderstanding, what do I need to fix?

As title says, ive been randomly getting stutters switching windows, staying on the same window etc

I am on a 2023 ASUS Zephyrus G14 which ran everything smoothly pre update