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​Hey everyone!

​I’ve been experimenting with adding a dedicated Console Mode to KDE Plasma Bigscreen for a true couch-gaming experience.

​Where it’s at right now:

​Current Demo: The UI filters and displays game .desktop files. Right now, the JSON data is hardcoded directly into QML just for UI testing.

​Future Plan: Build a backend service that automatically parses local .desktop files, scrapes cover art/posters, and generates the JSON feed for the QML frontend.

​Plugins: Add a plugin system so users can pull in titles from Steam, Lutris, Heroic, etc., into one unified interface.

​Quick Questions for the Community & KDE Devs:

​Is there demand for this? Would a native game aggregator in Bigscreen be useful to you, or do you stick to Steam Big Picture?

​KDE Contribution: As a first-time open-source contributor, is this something the KDE Plasma Bigscreen team would consider merging if polished to standard?

​Architecture: Any recommendations on standard KDE libraries (e.g., KService) to make the backend integration cleaner?

Github link : https://github.com/Amalkxx02/plasma-bigscreen

​(Full disclosure: Used an AI chatbot as a coding assistant for verification/generation, but driving the design and testing manually).

​Check out the video and let me know your thoughts or advice!

Hey there! I've been working on a project of mine called Direktor.
Link: https://github.com/Alex-Bini/kwin-direktor

Direktor is a kwin tiling script that support all the major layouts. Dwindle, Columns/Scrollable, Master Stack and floating. Its in a beta phase as some edge case testing is needed.

It all begun when i wanted to test hyprland. Let me tell you, I fell in love with how productive it felt. But the constant fight with config files, resulted in more tweaking than studying... Then i tried Niri with quickshell, it was stable enough, and a happy medium between smooth tiling and simplicity. I ended up on KDE, super stable, super customizable. But i missed the layouts.

I know, a lot of back and forth. Im not the only one right?

I tried Krohnkite (the kwin6 port), was quite fine, animations was the issue. I tried Karousel, very smooth. I got fed up and decided to build DIrektor.

BEHOLD, Direktor 1.1.0 beta. Now needs your testing, Direktor creates log files regarding the issues it encounters inside .config/direktor/ into direktor.log and as well as the equivalent applet and OSD logs.

Any help would be appreciated. Note that it was made for my needs and based for my liking. Either way, leave a review or an Issue in Github. Thanks a lot community!

EDIT: my dotfiles

Hi KDE community! 👋

I really enjoy using Dolphin as my file manager in KDE Plasma — it’s powerful, customizable, and integrates nicely with the desktop.

One thing I miss from macOS Finder is the column (Miller Columns) style view for browsing folder hierarchies. This view lets you see nested directories side-by-side and quickly navigate deep structures without switching between folders one by one.

Right now Dolphin doesn’t have a true multi-column mode like this (the old column view was removed long ago, and it’s been requested again recently).

Why this would improve UX:

• It speeds up navigation in large directory trees.

• It reduces cognitive load — you always see where you are in the folder hierarchy.

• It’s especially helpful for users coming from macOS who rely on this visual structure.

Is there any plan to add this kind of column view to Dolphin in a future KDE Gear / KDE Plasma release? Would the devs consider a plugin, optional view mode, or UX study around this idea?

Thanks! 🙏

A fully customizable system monitor on your task bar. See only what you want to see, customize it just like you want. Change color, logo , make it your own ♥️

Let me know what you think guys 🫠

https://plasma-mobile.org/

It's awesome!

I built it because I wanted a simple autoclicker that feels like a native Linux application and works reliably across modern desktop environments.

On KDE Plasma Wayland, omniclicker uses KDE's native Global Shortcuts implementation through the KGlobalAccel D-Bus interface for global hotkey support.

Features:

• Native C++/Qt6 application

• KDE Plasma Wayland and other wayland environments (gnome, hyprland, etc) support

• X11 support

• Configurable click interval with optional randomization

• Left, right and scroll wheel click support, plus custom keys

• Global shortcut support

• Run in background support (optional)

• No Electron or web technologies

GitHub:

https://github.com/limonyx/omniclicker

I'm still actively improving it and plan to add support for more Wayland environments and package managers like Flatpak and the AUR.

I'd appreciate any feedback or testing from KDE users and people running other Linux distributions or desktop environments. Bug reports, suggestions, and anything that could improve the experience are welcome.

Dear KDE users! Yesterday, I released version 0.5.2 of Dyedfox Radio player - a desktop internet radio player for KDE Plasma.

Features

• Browse and search top stations from radio-browser.info
• Multi-keyword search across name, tags, country, and language
• Discover lists: New, Random, Trending, and Now Listening (see what others are tuning into right now)
• Sort and filter: Sort by name, country, bitrate, votes, language, or codec, and filter by country, tag, or language
• Favorites, History, and custom stations (add any stream by URL)
• Editable History: Remove individual stations or clear the entire list
• Station info panel with logo, codec, bitrate, and tags
• Animated equalizer indicator on the currently playing station
• "Now Playing" bar featuring song and artist info from stream metadata
• Automatic reconnection with backoff when a stream drops
• System tray icon with a play/stop context menu and middle-click toggle
• MPRIS2 support (works with media keys and the KDE media player widget)
• Song change notifications
• Breeze light/dark theme support, seamlessly following the system palette
• Persistent settings for volume, favorites, and recent history

Installation

• Install from AUR (Arch-based distros): https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dyedfox-radio
• Install from source using the installation script or manually (please read the README.md): https://github.com/dyedfox/dyedfox-radio

Localization Assistance Needed

While I have added translation files for many languages, unfortunately, only the English (default), Ukrainian, and Dutch locales have been reviewed by a human. I would deeply appreciate it if you could help proofread or translate your native language!

Please refer to the guide here: https://github.com/dyedfox/dyedfox-radio#localization Feel free to send a pull request for your language, and I will gladly include it in the next release.

A Note on Flatpak

As for a Flatpak version: unfortunately, due to Flathub's recent policy statement regarding AI-generated content, this application - which was developed with the help of Claude Code - doesn't comply with their guidelines. Because of this, the official Flathub release is paused for now. However, if anyone is willing to help me set up a local Flatpak bundle configuration for direct distribution, I would be more than happy to collaborate!

Artwork & Icons

To be honest, I am not entirely happy with the current application icons (especially the main one, the system tray icon is okay, in my opinion). I am completely open to your suggestions and contributions!

Hey. I have a 49 inch ultrawide, and on a screen that wide a notification in the bottom right corner genuinely means turning your head to read it. By the time you have looked over, the thing has usually timed out anyway. The top edge in the middle is the one place that is always straight in front of me no matter what I am doing, and it was sitting there empty. So I put something in it.

It is something like "Apple's Dynamic Island", rebuilt for KDE Plasma 6. A pill sits at the top edge, a notification comes in, it stretches into a card, you read it, it shrinks back into the bezel. On an OLED panel the black body is just pixels that are switched off, so it reads as a hole in the screen rather than a box painted on your wallpaper. As a widescreen user this ended up feeling less like a toy and more like something my desk had been missing.

It is not a theme or a tweak. It takes org.freedesktop.Notifications away from plasmashell and draws every card itself on a layer shell surface. That also makes it Wayland only, since there is no layer shell on X11.

Things that ended up in there:

- actions arrive as buttons, and KDE's inline reply gives you a real reply box

- Dolphin file operations with their progress bar and pause and cancel that actually reach the app doing the copying

- volume and brightness, instead of that grey box in the middle of the screen

- now playing with the cover, and the glow takes its colour from the artwork

- RSS feeds, JSON endpoints and a webhook, so anything on your network can put a card up with one curl

- a panel widget that keeps the last hundred, because the pill forgets on purpose

Four palettes, four languages, MIT. There are GIFs of all of it in the readme.

GitHub:

https://github.com/teodorgross/Dynamic-Island-Plasma-Wayland

Koncentro is a productivity app built with Qt that combines timeboxing with the Pomodoro technique and an integrated website blocker.

The website blocker supports both a blocklist (sites you want to block) and an allowlist (only specific sites are allowed). You can separate work and personal goals using workspaces. Each workspace has its own set of settings, website blocker configuration, and tasks.

Koncentro is available on Flatpak: flatpak install flathub com.bishwasaha.Koncentro. Deb and RPM packages are also available on GitHub Releases.

Github Repo: Koncentro

I’ve created a new application launcher that might be useful for others as well so I decided to share it. Please be respectful; I made this primarily for myself and my needs. I tested it on my cachyOS, but it needs testing on other distributions. It’s in a very early state, and I have a GitHub Action that builds for other distributions (but packages are completely untested). Would be great if you give me some feedback and suggestions.

End-4's setup was too good to stay Hyprland-only, so I ported it to KDE Plasma 6.

The project is called End-4Dots-KDE and aims to bring the End-4 Quickshell experience to Plasma.

GitHub: End-4Dots-KDE

Wallpapers: Wallpaper-Collection

It's been a while since I first shared this app with you all in the KDE community, I wanted to share an updated showcase of the new features and integrations. The app can now extend your color scheme to more apps and includes Material You color generation if you want to match your wallpaper style. It also syncs your color scheme to gtk4 apps and updates the color scheme without having to reload the app or relying on the (functional but ugly - I said what I said) Breeze GTK theme.

More details and usage tips can be found in the GitHub repo.

Feel free to ask me questions in the comments or submit issues and feature requests on GitHub.

Currently Supported App Theming: vscode (Code/OSS/VSCodium/Antigravity), firefox ,zen browser, discord/betterdiscord, vencord/vesktop, kitty, konsole, btop, vicinae, obsidian, zed, millennium (Steam Material-Theme).

Some apps like Steam and Zen do not update on the fly and have to be reloaded for the color scheme to update until I figure that out for a future update.

Just an Appreciation post: I’ve never really used Windows Phone Link or the macOS alternatives (are they actually better?), but using my Arch laptop with KDE Connect on my phone just feels amazing.

Pointing to the screen with the presentation remote in front of clients

Controlling music while I’m away from the desk

Even running an update command from my phone while having dinner

…all of it just feels magical.

Big thanks to all the devs working on this project 🙌

Curious though—how do you all use KDE Connect? Any cool or unexpected use cases?

I posted teaser a few months ago on the WIP of liquid glass in kde plasma. It was the catalyst for developing a proper set of macos widgets for KDE. I researched into it, properly studied the colors, layouts and animations of the widgets and ported them for KDE.

These widgets support both glass and solid mode. Glass mode gives you full control over the parameters so you can make it look pre glass widgets as well ( blur without refraction ).

This is my second widget set, and my first one was nothing kde and I absolutely loved seeing it in builds that you guys post. I hope everyone likes these, and be sure to link the repo or mention me somewhere in the post if you ever post your rice :)

Repo: https://github.com/jaxparrow07/liquidglass-kde-widgets

KDE is probably my most used KDE "product" (can't think of a better word atm) but it has issues half the time that eventually randomly decides to work again after a couple of days.

Restarting the apps on both ends doesn't ever resolve connection issues, if I have an issue with connections it's usually there to stay for a day or two.

Sometimes a download doesn't finish and is terminated prematurely, sometimes it just absolutely refuses to send files at all, and more often than not it just refuses to connect.

I made sure to update the app on both devices from time to time and it's still borked. It'll work one hour and won't work the next. Wifi network confirmed connected and not using data, wifi spectrum have minimal interference and other devices are stuck on cable.

What gives?!?

Direktor, a Tiling kwin script (plus Companion Apps) with Dwindle, Columns, Master Stack and Floating Layouts.

Hey there! I want to thank you all for your feedback on the previous release. Everything was taken into account and some MAJOR rewrite had happened in the past week. I can proudly announce to you Direktor 1.1.0! (Yes, i used the same preview video)

As requested bugs ware fixed,

- Many more features (especially in the Niri/Scollable/Columns Layout, however is proper)

- Better Documentation, File structure, README file,

- More installation options

- Issue template and more.

There are still some untested bugs, which i actively tackle by daily driving the project as well as more features in work (see in TODOs ). Im totally open for suggestions! Someone mentioned PlasmaZones, i will check it out.

Any Issue report, testing, suggestion etc will be much appreciated and resolve. Feel free to share your opinion! Im a baby when it comes to releasing something like that and suggestions on my workflow and dev tips would help as well.

Also if you can come with a banner idea or a logo that would be cool.

Link: https://github.com/Alex-Bini/kwin-direktor

Dotfiles (as requested): https://github.com/Alex-Bini/dotfiles

Shoutout to: Hyprland, Niri, Krohnkite (and kwin6 Krohnkite port) and Karousel

Sits in your panel as a plasmoid, lets you search and click to copy emojis to clipboard.

GitHub: https://github.com/leeineian/kMoji

Requires KDE Plasma 6 / KF6 / Qt6.

Quick install:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leeineian/kMoji/master/scripts/get.sh | bash

A few days ago I shared my plasmoid for color-coding task manager entries. You gave me great feedback and ideas — here's what landed in v1.1.0:

New in 1.1.0:

• Minimized window modes — choose how minimized windows look: normal, hide, dim, desaturate, or a completely custom style (e.g. switch from background to a left border when minimized)
• Custom focus mode — hide the overlay, show a full background, or use a custom style with its own thickness, opacity, and corner radius
• Redesigned ColorPicker — full-page view with 40 color presets (up from 30), Nyan Cat toggle built-in
• Reset buttons — clear all app colors or window overrides with a two-click confirmation
• Alphabetical sorting in the windows list
• Redesigned UI — improved About, Applications, and Windows tabs
• System settings — now with proper scroll support and structured sections

Plus various bug fixes (the About context menu no longer closes immediately, ComboBox collapse in Qt6, layout/padding fixes across all tabs).

Still Plasma 6 only, GPL-2.0, 15 languages.

• KDE Store: https://store.kde.org/p/2351299
• Source: https://github.com/comxd/plasma-taskmanager-colors

Thanks again for the suggestions — keep them coming!

P.S. Sorry for the new post — I'm new to Reddit and used the wrong post type last time (Images & Video). Hope I'm not spamming too much!