KDE: Control Centre Widget, Kate's Developer on Keyboards, and Translations for KDE Unstable Packages
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Control Centre Is a New KDE Widget Inspired by macOS
The Control Centre widget for the KDE desktop lets you quickly toggle among settings such as Network, Bluetooth, Media Playback, and more.
KDE Plasma is a desktop environment that stands out for its nearly limitless customization options. Combined with its sleek and modern user interface, these characteristics have made it a popular choice among Linux users.
Plasma widgets are UI elements, little pieces of software, that provide a variety of features and boost user productivity.
Control Centre, the new kid on the block among KDE widgets, is something Plasma desktop users have been waiting for for some time. Well, now it’s a fact. So, let’s see what it has to offer.
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Planck and QMK - Ignorance is bliss...
Over the past two years I tried out a few different keyboards for fun.
I started with common form factors like TKL boards, went over 75% boards like the Q1 and then to a 60% HHKB.
For typing feel, the HHKB is really amazing, but unfortunately the programmable features of a stock HHKB board are very limited.
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Translations available for KDE unstable packages | dennogumi.org
As many readers of this blog are aware, openSUSE has been offering packages of git snapshots from KDE since quite a while. They are quite useful for those wiling to test, report bugs, and / or hack on the code, but also for those who want to see what’s brewing in KDE land (without touching their existing systems). However, a major drawback for non English speakers was the lack of translations.
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KDE translations are not hosted on the community’s git repositories, but are instead stored in KDE’s SVN server. The main reason they were not moved to git was to preserve the existing workflows of the translation teams (who might not be as technical as the actual hackers). Translations are then placed in tarballs at the times of betas / RCs / releases.
This unfortunately means that having a git checkout, like what the OBS does when building the unstable packages, will not carry any translations whatsoever. Worse, existing -lang packages for stable versions will raise dependency problems if present (because they require the exact same version of their corresponding binary paclage).