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!
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 the announcement upstream, Fedora’s @kde-sig follows up by making KDE Gear 22.12.2 available on Fedora 37.
As per Fedora’s policy, the software will first land on updates-testing and after receiving feedback and karma it will land on the updates repository.
If you want to help, make sure to follow the instructions on the update. You only need to run:
sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2023-17c31eabf7Feel free to join us at our Matrix room!.
Today I would like to talk about one of my favorite extensions for Firefox: Tridactyl.
The official website is here and the source code can be found on Github here.
Extracted from their Github repository:
Replace Firefox's default control mechanism with one modelled on the one true editor, Vim.
The main point being: it allows you to browse the internet with vim keybindings and workflows. For instance: j/k will move you through a web page or H/L will move you back and forward through the history.
We can also browse through our opened tabs as if they were buffers by pressing b:
The hint mode is the feature! Press f and you will see:
This will label all the hyperlinks (and other elements) and you will be able to follow the hyperlinks by typing the label.
I have a few custom settings for the extension though.
For instance, the default key-bindings to move through the tabs is a bit counter-intuitive (at least to me) so I have those re-mapped:
:bind J tabnext
:bind K tabprev
I like the way Vimperator used to do the hint mode so I have that enabled as well:
:set hintchars 543167890:set hintfiltermode vimperator-reflow
With the above settings you will be able to type the text that you see in the hyperlinks and the extension will reduce the number of options that you have to follow links. For instance, on https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl, enter into hint mode via f and then type update:
See? Now you only have two hyperlinks to follow (the ones that contain what you typed)
I also like using a different theme so I have
:colors shydactyl
Tridactyl is very powerful, make sure to go through the readme and :help to find all the options that it offers