João Patrício jofazepa@identi.ca

“Starting today, yaxim is switching its protocol foundation from the deprecated exchange of clumsy and inefficient XML streams to the modern and elegant combination of HTTP and JSON/REST, the Matrix protocol. ”

😆

“Evil voices claim that MATRIX stands for Monolithic, Awefully Trendy Re-Implementation of XMPP, and...”

“In parallel, we are working on switching yax.im from prosody to Synapse. The data transition is already completed, and we are only waiting for the data center provider to add 512GB of RAM to the machine before we can switch over. ”

http://yaxim.org/blog/2019/04/01/yaxim-enters-the-matrix/ 🤣

Thursday, 17 January 2019.

Today KDE launches the beta release of Plasma 5.15.

For the first release of 2019, the Plasma team has embraced KDE's Usability & Productivity goal. We have teamed up with the VDG (Visual Design Group) contributors to get feedback on all the papercuts in our software that make your life less smooth, and fixed them to ensure an intuitive and consistent workflow for your daily use.

Plasma 5.15 brings a number of changes to our configuration interfaces, including more options for complex network configurations. Many icons have been added or redesigned. Our integration with third-party technologies like GTK and Firefox has been made even more complete. Discover, our software and add-on installer, has received a metric tonne of improvements to help you stay up-to-date and find the tools you need to get your tasks done.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.14.90.php

https://community.chakralinux.org/t/frameworks-5-53-0-plasma-5-14-4-and-applications-18-12-0-by-kde-and-qt-5-12-0-linux-4-19-12-with-the-ck-patchset-and-systemd-239-303-are-now-available/8181

are you watching old style 3d movies? lol

Tuesday, 9 October 2018. Today KDE launches the first release of Plasma 5.14.

Plasma is KDE's lightweight and full featured Linux desktop. For the last three months we have been adding features and fixing bugs and now invite you to install Plasma 5.14.

A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel. We have also rewritten many effects in our window manager KWin and improved it for slicker animations in your work day. Other improvements we have made include a new Display Configuration widget which is useful when giving presentations.

Browse the full Plasma 5.14 changelog to find out about more tweaks and bug fixes featured in this release: Full Plasma 5.14 changelog

New Features

• There's a new Display Configuration widget for screen management which is useful for presentations.
• The Audio Volume widget now has a built in speaker test feature moved from Phonon settings.
• The Network widget now works for SSH VPN tunnels again.
• Switching primary monitor when plugging in or unplugging monitors is now smoother.
• The lock screen now handles user-switching for better usability and security.
• You can now import existing encrypted files from a Plasma Vault.
• The Task Manager implements better compatibility with LibreOffice.
• The System Monitor now has a 'Tools' menu full of launchers to handy utilities.
• The Kickoff application menu now switches tabs instantly on hover.
• Widget and panels get consistent icons and other user interface improvements.
• Plasma now warns on logout when other users are logged in.
• The Breeze widget theme has improved shadows.
• The Global menu now supports GTK applications. This was a 'tech preview' in 5.13, but it now works out of the box in 5.14.

... and much more: www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.14.0.php

“This release brings all of the updates and development that has gone into Mageia 6 together into fresh installation media, giving users a kernel that supports hardware released after Mageia 6. The new installations will benefit from the countless updates that current fully updated Mageia systems will have, allowing new installations to avoid the need for a large update post install. So if you are currently running an up to date Mageia 6 system, there is no need to reinstall Mageia 6.1 as you will already be running the same packages.

This release is available with only Live media, i.e. Live Plasma, Live GNOME and Live Xfce in 64bits, and Live Xfce in 32 bits. A network installation is also available, for users wanting more granular control over the installation.”

Blog post: blog.mageia.org/en/2018/10/05/it-is-with-great-pleasure-that-we-announce-the-release-of-mageia-6-1/

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“Thursday, 13 September 2018. Today KDE launches the beta release of Plasma 5.14.

Plasma is KDE's lightweight and full featured Linux desktop. For the last three months we have been adding features and fixing bugs and now invite you to test the beta pre-release of Plasma 5.14.

A lot of work has gone into improving Discover, Plasma's software manager, and, among other things, we have added a Firmware Update feature and many subtle user interface improvements to give it a smoother feel. We have also rewritten many effects in our window manager KWin and improved it for slicker animations in your work day. Other improvements we have made include a new Display Configuration widget which is useful when giving presentations.

Please test and send us bug reports and feedback. The final release is scheduled for three weeks' time. ”

Full announcement: dot.kde.org/2018/09/13/plasma-514-beta-updates-discover-kwin-and-adds-new-widgets

Plasma rox! 🤘

Adobe itself is a vulnerability xD

It comes with a bunch of new features! A hint of what's to come is also included in the announcement, do check it out.

https://forum.kontalk.org/t/kontalk-4-2-0-archive-chats-and-a-lot-more/574

Together with the latest bug fix releases for Plasma and Frameworks.

https://community.chakralinux.org/t/plasma-5-13-4-applications-18-08-0-and-frameworks-5-49-by-kde-now-available-to-all-chakra-users/7828

The original announcement from Ian Murdock can be found here: https://deb.li/ikd3y #DebianDay #Debian25years

Today is #DebianDay! Join the celebrations or make your own party! https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay/2018 #Debian25years

Thursday, 17 May 2018. Today KDE unveils a beta release of Plasma 5.13.

Members of the Plasma team have been working hard to continue making Plasma a lightweight and responsive desktop which loads and runs quickly, but remains full-featured with a polished look and feel. We have spent the last four months optimising startup and minimising memory usage, yielding faster time-to-desktop, better runtime performance and less memory consumption. Basic features like panel popups were optimised to make sure they run smoothly even on the lowest-end hardware. Our design teams have not rested either, producing beautiful new integrated lock and login screen graphics.

New in Plasma 5.13

• Plasma Browser Integration.
• System Settings Redesigns.
• New Look for Lock and Login Screens.
• A tech preview of GTK global menu integration.
• Redesigned Media Player Widget.
• The Mouse System Settings page has been rewritten for libinput support on X and Wayland.
• A new dialog pops up when you first plug in an external monitor so you can easily configure how it should be positioned.
• ...

kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.12.90.php

As usual, great stuff! =)

All the latest goodies by KDE now available for you to enjoy!

https://community.chakralinux.org/t/plasma-5-12-5-applications-18-04-1-and-frameworks-5-46-0-by-kde-now-available-in-chakra/7554

We’re excited to announce that Swift 4.0 has reached full release status. The packages can be downloaded from the releases page and a full list of new features can be found in the 4.0 changelog.

We encourage everyone to get the new build and try it out, and give us feedback on our latest release.

→ swift.im/blog/swift-4.0

A great Jabber client for novices (but not just for them!).

The screenshot I've added here (from one of the posts about the betas, though) shows the "trellis mode".

Some of the changes:

• New chat theme including a new font
• Support for message carbons (XEP-0280)
• Enabled trellis mode as a default feature, allowing several tiled chats windows to be shown at once
• Redesigned keyword highlighting
• Improve date formatting
• Fix Last Message Correction in multi client scenarios

Also, the new music player babe is now available, together with several other package updates.

https://community.chakralinux.org/t/plasma-5-12-3-applications-17-12-3-and-frameworks-5-44-0-by-kde-now-available-in-chakra/7368

Kontalk 4.1.4 brings support for typing status in group chats and fixes a dozen bugs.

https://forum.kontalk.org/t/kontalk-4-1-4-typing-status-in-groups/484

Initial Plasma Mobile enablement on Librem 5 i.MX 6 test boards

“Working closely with the KDE community, we were able to install, run, and even see mobile network provider service on Plasma Mobile! The purpose of this article is to show the progress that has been made with Plasma Mobile on the current Librem 5 development board. Here, the setup steps and overcome challenges are highlighted. ”

puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-9

Not bad =)

New blogpost: “Wordpress for Android and short blog posts” https://larjona.wordpress.com/2018/03/14/wordpress-for-android-and-short-blog-posts/