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How does systemd relate to Plasma?
In some of the comments about the latest Plasma release sometimes someone brings up the topic of systemd. This is normally met with the rebuttal "Why should a desktop environment care about what init...
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Help fix up all of System Settings
System Settings is a strange part of Plasma; it composes of umpteen modules gradually written over the last 15 years by a lot of different people.As each configuration module is generally small and...
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High DPI Progress
High DPI RevisitedA few weeks ago I talked about high DPI in KDE applicationsAbridged RecapBy settings QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO=2 Qt will scale all painting to draw things twice the sizeBy default this...
View ArticlePlasmoid Tutorial 2 - Getting Data
Almost all applets need to interact with external data sources and actions. This could be showing the current battery state, editing a file or in the case of our example monitoring and fetching an RSS...
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Plasmoid Tutorial 3 - Blending In
Till now we have dealt with basic QtQuick Text items. Whilst they work, they will look out of place on a Plasma desktop. More importantly it's quite likely that you can get a situation where you can...
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High DPI in Plasma 5.4
As retrofitting high DPI support into such a large range of both KDE and third party applications is risky to do without breakage, progress is deliberately slow and gradual in order to do this...
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Just another manic monday
I love project stats, and I completely obsess over bug reports. Whilst collecting data for another post, a mystery libreoffice autocomplete popup me to plot something I hadn't thought of plotting.What...
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Legacy system tray icons back in Plasma 5
Didn't we drop support?Legacy system tray icons are problematic; they don't scale, they don't fit in with the theme, they can't multiplex (be in two trays) and they're just generally very dated.We came...
View ArticleNeon and Plasma Relationship
As we saw neon, a new and fresh Linux distribution was launched last week. This project is incubated by the KDE Community, sharing KDE's hosting and community. Hopefully we'll see neon flourish into an...
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PlasmaShell Sans GL
Since Plasma 5, the main shell is powered by QtQuick, which till now brings a requirement on a working OpenGL setup. This causes problems for Plasma in situations where we can't run OpenGL; either...
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