Thoughts, stories and ideas.
Yesterday KDE announced the release of Plasma 6.4 Beta.
The Fedora KDE SIG is happy to announce that we built it in our @kdesig/kde-beta COPR repository.
If you are using Fedora 42 and want to contribute to Fedora and KDE by testing the beta… give it a try!
Let us know what you think on our matrix room #kde:fedoraproject.org!
Enjoy!
The Fedora KDE SIG is pleased to announce that KDE Gear 24.12 RC (24.11.90) is available on Fedora 41 via our @kdesig/kde-beta COPR repository
Enjoy!
Did you know about a small but very useful feature from KDE?
Open krunner via Alt+Space and type qw:KDE to search Qwant for KDE:
Pressing Enter will open up your browser with the specified KDE search on Qwant!
There are a lot of other Web Search Keywords like:
Translate from English to German on dict.cc
You can find all of them by opening Web Search Keywords on krunner:
Extra: Create your own!
I use often a Fedora tool called COPR, so let’s use it as an example to create our own web search keyword.
Do your search in the webpage:
And now the important part you need:
Now back to the Web Search Keyword settings:
Fill in the data needed taking care of the placeholder for our input!:
Now we have our own Web Search Keyword:
NOTE: for some reason I had to click on Apply and OK until all the different setting windows were closed before the new custom Web Search Keyword worked
And the result:
I hope it’s useful to somebody!
As you may know, Fedora KDE 41 was released a couple of weeks ago.
I wanted to talk about a special feature that our colleague @farchord (with support from upstream developer @Nate Graham) has brought to our Fedora KDE distribution:
Enabling Third Party Repositories With A Single Click!
Thanks to the flexibility of plasma-welcome we can offer this feature 🙂
Right after installing Fedora and on first login you will be presented with the Plasma Welcome window:
Before you click on Skip , you can go through the different slides to read about KDE and Fedora and also to decide whether you want to contribute with anonymous metrics or not (note: I personally do not):
Here is where the interesting part comes in, on the next slide:
With a simple click of a button you will enable the most commonly requested by our users Third Party Repositories like rpmfusion! (note: you will be asked for your administrator password)
Once the request is processed, the message will change to:
That’s it! You have successfully enabled Third Party Repositories without needing to modify any file or running any command whatsoever 🙂
Before you do anything with your system and your new configuration, I will strongly recommend to update your system via Plasma Discover :
Proceed with all the update and reboot to get the latest and shiniest from our repositories.
Finally, to verify that the Third Party software is available, you can check:
And that is it!
Enjoy!
This is all thanks to farchord, siosm , aleasto and ngraham‘s work!
After a few days of work the Fedora KDE SIG is proud to announce the availability of KDE 6th Megarelease Release Candidate 1 on Fedora Rawhide!
For those who like bleeding edge, feel free to try it!
We are very excited and looking forward to Fedora 40 + KDE 6 + Wayland only
Note: right now the update is sitting on testing. If you don’t want to wait a few hours until it reaches stable…
You can access it via a dnf repository like:
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=1
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
reposdir=/dev/null
retries=20
obsoletes=1
gpgcheck=0
assumeyes=1
keepcache=1
install_weak_deps=0
strict=1
# repos
[build]
name=build
baseurl=https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/repos/f40-build-side-81132/5738561/x86_64