Notices by KDE (kde@mastodon.technology)

Germany approves Gpg4KDE and Gpg4win for the transmission and processing of National Classified Information: KMail and Kleopatra are officially deemed secure for the transmission of confidential state messages.

https://dot.kde.org/2020/02/18/gpg4kde-gpg4win-approved-transmission-processing-national-classified-information

Plasma 5.17 - The Movie:

https://peertube.mastodon.host/videos/watch/5a315252-2790-42b4-8177-94680a1c78fc

KDE's Plasma 5.17 just landed! Check out the new smart notification system, improved and expanded System Settings, increased usability and gestures and much more!

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.17.0.php

Couldn't make it to #Akademy2019? No worries: the talks were recorded, so now you can watch them all. Get up to speed with the improvements to Plasma (desktop and mobile), KDE's community goals and all the exciting apps for drones, VR and more.

https://dot.kde.org/2019/10/14/akademy-2019-talks-videos

Congratulation @gnome for 3.34!

https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/09/gnome-3-34-released/

Happy Birthday @gnome 🎂!

WARNING to **Windows** users of KDE Applications: the uninstall.exe delivered with the Windows Application package from before the 10th of July 2019 contains a bug that can delete random files under certain circumstances. Details here:

https://kde.org/info/security/advisory-20190721-1.txt

Plasma reaches amazing places! Take the Large Hadron Collider's smaller sibling: the ALBA synchrotron.

Sergi Blanch-Torné, Controls Software Engineer, explains how ALBA provides insight into biology, nanotechnology, and more using KDE's software:

https://dot.kde.org/2019/07/19/powered-plasma-alba-synchrotron-barcelona-spain

KDE ❤️ @debian : Thanks for Buster!

Kontact, KDE's email, calendar, contact, itinerary and life organizer, keeps getting better and better.

New stuff includes: colored emojis 😎 , grammar correction and markdown built into Kmail; integrating KCalCore (calendar engine) and KContacts (addressbook engine) into KDE Frameworks 5; and cleaning up code and squashing bugs in general.

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2019/06/30/kde-pim-may-june-2019.html

@postmarketOS running #PlasmaMobile with hardware acceleration on @PINE64's PinePhone devkit.

https://redd.it/bmlbn4

The @gnome and KDE communities are looking for locations for the Linux App Summit (LAS) 2019, an event that wants to help the Linux application ecosystem flourish.

https://dot.kde.org/2019/05/07/bring-linux-app-summit-2019-home

Check out @gnome 3.32. Congratulations to the @gnome community for an awesome job well done!

https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/03/gnome-3-32-released/

Go full historic with the most ambitious of free and open RPGs out there. Go and play 0 A. D. #ilovefs

Donate to 0 A.D.: https://play0ad.com/community/donate/

The most important Free Software project you never heard about: NTP keeps our computers and the rest of our devices up to date to the second:

https://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Main/DonatingToTheProject

Put your money where your ❤️ is: celebrate "I Love Free Software" day by donating to projects, developers and organisations in need. Every little bit helps. Share #ilovefs.

Some ideas of donation-worthy projects, people and organisations (more coming over the next hours):

Say hello to Plasma 5.15, the newest version of KDE's acclaimed desktop environment.

https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.15.0.php

Plasma Mobile working on @Purism's Librem 5 devkit. #PlaMoSprint

A comprehensive video-review of 5.15 Beta, a window into what you can expect in a couple of weeks time.
https://youtu.be/_hTiwDeXNRA

Plasma is the most popular desktop amongst MuyLinux readers according to their 2018 poll. Of the 6,000 votes cast, Plasma received 1,637, that is 27% of the total. This is the third year running Plasma has been chosen best desktop by MuyLinux readers.

https://www.muylinux.com/2019/01/09/escritorios-2018/