KDE: Plasma secrets, emergency and weather alerts
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Dedoimedo ☛ Plasma secrets: Spectacle rectangular area screenshot options
Let us finish the week on a high note. Behold, a short, happy article showcasing the numerous useful options and features of the Spectacle screenshot tool recntangular area capture mode, including drawing, text, colors, highlighter, eraser, arrows, unlimited undo, export settings, and so much more. Have fun.
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The Plasma desktop environment is amazing. Hands down, the best Linux offering by a parsec. Not only is it the prettiest, it's also the most consistent, the most professional-looking, has the most options and customization, it also comes with a pretty solid bundle of KDE programs, many of which are mature, elegant and powerful. One such program is Spectacle, the screenshot tool.
My relationship with this simple yet important utility goes back a long, long time. Over the years, I used it extensively, liked it a lot, and yet, resented the lack of a simple toggle to turn the shadows and borders off, so I wouldn't have to manually crop them. This was an option in the past, it went away, and is now back again in the latest version of Spectacle available for the Plasma 6 edition, the most recent (and still WIP) iteration of this desktop. But the reason for this article is something else. I want to talk to you about a superb feature recently added to Spectacle (or rather enhanced). It's the editing capabilities in the rectangular area mode. A secret hidden in plain sight, but you get so much. Let me show you.
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Volker Krause ☛ Emergency and weather alerts
I had previously mentioned efforts on bringing public emergency and weather alerts to free software and free infrastructure, which was also my initial motivation to work on push notifications. With that moving forward it’s time to explain a bit more what’s happening there.