Yes. If the cursor is sluggish, there is something wrong. Get yourself to https://discuss.kde.org/ and ask there.

Why not lend a hand in solving these bugs yourself instead?

In many cases the default is chosen because the people placing the order don’t know any better. An educated staff can help them make better choices.

In the banner? It is the symbol for Plasma, KDE’s desktop environment.

Wrong thread?

There are KDE dragons of many colours.

Folks! Let’s all stop trying! This random person on the Internet says it’s not worth it.

What are you talking about. We spend zero effort on AI.

There is not a naming scheme. Projects can call their apps whatever they want.

To further expand on this, KDE made Accessibility a community-wide goal in 2022, and, although the goal is officially over, the ethos has permeated KDE’s culture and devs always have accessibility at the forefront of their minds now.

But accessibility is hard, especially if, as @gamey@chaos.social points out, the underlying platform is not prepared for it, and breaks all your prior efforts — which we now have to rebuild from scratch.

That said, as we have problems with such in-demand features such as an on-screen keyboard, and the maliit project (not a KDE project) does not have the same priorities as KDE (they don’t seem too interested in supporting Wayland, for example, and we have difficulty with upstream contributions), we are working on taking things into our own hands and are working on our own solutions, again built from scratch.

In this case, building a brand new on-screen keyboard based on QVK — aka the “Qt Virtual Keyboard”. Again, this is a project built from the ground (well, from the foundations of Qt) up, and will consumer a lot of resources. We do think it will be worthwhile, but if anybody feels like contributing and helping out, it would be much appreciated.

We’re on it. We have to remove some stuff (namely x/Twitter) and a add a bunch of new stuff. Thanks for the reminder though.

Edit: W e would like to apologise and thank you for your patience in stuff like this. We are understaffed in the promotion and communication department (besides, modifying public websites can only be carried out by people with the proper permissions for logical reasons), and we often have to put off stuff that is not a top priority. We are currently working on making sure the fundraiser stays on track and the announcement for KDE Gear coming out next week.

Again, thank you for your patience.

If you donate €50 or more to our fundraiser, you get to put your name down as “adopting” (i.e. supporting) an app you can choose from the list on the fundraiser landing page. Your name (or nickname, or social media handle, or whatever you choose) will stay on the app’s apps.kde.org until KDE Gear 25.04 is released in April next year.

kde is not in a great place financially

To be fair, KDE will probably never be in a great place financially, as it is a truly “by the people, for the people” kind of project. Not having big backers that may want to influence its directions is by design. That comes at a cost.

Yes. Send me a DM with the name you used to donate so we can locate the donation, and the name you would like us to use to credit you and we will get it done.

This thread rocks. You folks are getting into recycling hardware deep. This is so encouraging. Keep you advice and experiences coming.

Lovely.

Sorry! I can’t find your DM. Would you send it again and I will sort it out for you?

Go for it!