KDE – Quick Fixes

A screenshot showing Kdenlive's Whisper model manager. The progress bar shows 0% and will likely stay like that for the remainder of the life of the Universe unless you take action.

First, credit where credit is due: the following solution was cobbled together combining both advice from Kdenlive developers and a

A street kitchen maybe in China, where a man and a womadn are making delicious looking bread and pizza-like pies.

Free Culture Linux Inside Opinion Writing

10/04/2024 Paul

The Sour Taste of Entitlement

So this person, let’s call them Jo, was hungry and had no money. Walking the streets, they come across a square where a group of people are working in a communal open kitchen, serving delicious hot meals free of charge.

It's night time in Hong Kong. The run-down street looks cool in a urban-decayish kind of way. A blue double-decker tram sticks out in the foreground with a its splash of bright colour. On the front of it, it says "Explore New Possibilities" in white capital letters. Ain't that true.

Open Data Software

16/03/2024 Paul

This weekend I am contributing to Transitous. You should too.

Transitous is a new community-driven routing service. Add your own city and help make it great.

Commonality (left) and Commonality Sol (right) Elisa (left) and Konsole (right) running

Linux Inside pling.it Reviews Software Tutorials

07/12/2023 Julius Enriquez

Off-Theme Presents: Commonality

For the fourth installment of Off-Theme we have a global theme based on the granddaddy of all the classic Unix desktops, a desktop that ruled the roost of the workstations from a bygone era. It is time to pay tribute to the DE that once dominated the Unix world.

A view of the Plasma desktop with the lustrous Shades of Purple them applied.

Linux Inside pling.it Reviews Software Tutorials

28/11/2023 Julius Enriquez

Off-Theme Presents: Shades of Purple

In the third installment of Off-Theme, we cover Shades of Purple, a global theme with a rather striking set of shades that sets it apart from many other flat themes.

Animated WebP image showing off the different variants of the Graphite global theme series Graphite Light, Graphite Dark, Graphite Nord Light, and Graphite Nord Dark are shown side-by-side and in order

Linux Inside pling.it Reviews Software Tutorials

14/11/2023 Julius Enriquez

Off-Theme Presents: Graphite

Graphite is a global theme that boldly goes for a starkly monochromatic aesthetic and sharp window borders.

Linux Inside pling.it Software Tutorials

07/11/2023 Julius Enriquez

Off-Theme Presents: Nostrum

Let’s take a look at a global theme that plays both with the old and new to create a rather striking aesthetic.

Screenshot of a highly customised Plasma desktop in violet and orange. It looks better than it sounds, I swear.

pling.it Tutorials

26/10/2023 Julius Enriquez

Going Off-Theme: The Prologue

KDE has a long and storied history of customisation, allowing people to express themselves freely through the desktop and truly

Software

08/09/2023 Paul

“Bring Back [obscure feature]!”

Did a feature you love disappear from your Free Software project of choice? Before kicking up a fuss on Reddit, read this.

General view of the KDE booth at Akademy-es/OpenSOurthCode 2023. On the left, there is table loaded with screens, tablets, phones and consoles, on the right we have merch, such as t-shirts, mugs, caps, etc.

Events

16/06/2023 Paul

The Booth at Akademy-es/OpenSouthCode

There’s no better measure of success than having a diminutive eight-year-old girl demand to know the name of the painting program she has been using for the last 20 minutes.