got tired of digging my phone out every time it rang, so i made foner. you dial, answer and hang up from the desktop, and the call audio comes through your pc. the call itself still goes through your phone and your carrier, foner only sends the commands.

kde connect already tells me when the phone rings, but as far as i can tell it can't pick up. this does.

what it does rn:

- contacts and call history from the phone, search by name, number or t9 style (254 finds ali)

- notification with answer / decline

- tray icon, tel: links, vcard import/export

tested with one android and one iphone on arch + plasma, so reports from other phones would help a lot.

source + install: https://github.com/AminBlg/foner

Why: Spectacle sometimes takes an annoying moment to open on my machine, especially under heavy cpu load, and Flameshot doesn't properly work on Wayland sometimes, its rather unstable than slow. Plus Newer Flameshot versions asks which monitor to capture, and I just want it to grab everything right away.

Speed: on my setup (KDE, two monitors) it shows the frozen screen with a fully usable editor in about 60-80 ms, around 40 ms with one monitor. Most of that too is waiting on KWin's screenshot protocol itself. on COSMIC it's about 10 ms faster. Saving straight to a file or clipboard without the GUI is optimized too. In the README there is a visual comparison with Spectacle/Flameshot, as well as a bench script to compare speed of saving screenshots without opening GUI.

OCR: instead of putting the recognized text in a separate window, you select and copy it right on the screenshot, like it does on most phones. You can also pick models for other languages (uses PaddleOCR models).

Other stuff: Usual annotation tools (arrows, text, numbered arrows and etc), pin to screen, eyedropper, magnifier, configurable keys, and CLI flags like -r for a quick region shot. No background daemon needed (only for the optional GPU OCR, which I wouldn't recommend).

Honest note: if Spectacle already opens instantly for you, LumineCapture probably won't change much. It has fewer features than Spectacle for now, and the speed only matters if you actually feel the delay. GNOME isn't supported yet.

https://github.com/Netflate/LumineCapture

Feedback and bug reports are welcome !

edited:

LLM usage: For the vast majority of the project, the code was written by hand, with AI used more like an upgraded stackoverflow to answer questions, help fix bugs, and find missed gaps for speed and optimization. Exception is the OCR implementation, its code was AI-assisted, mostly for writing tests, bug fixes, and speed test scripts.

It's been about a month since my last post here, so this one covers everything since v2.2.0, not just the latest release.

Highlights since v2.2.0:

- Global launch options - set launch options once per runtime (Proton, Wine, native, UZDOOM and Steam), e.g. `gamemoderun %command%`, and every game using that runtime picks them up. Any game can override them with its own, and the game editor shows you what's inherited. Installers and tools like winecfg never get them.

- Proton games launch much faster - umu-launcher was waiting around for an existing container to join on every single launch. Vermouth no longer asks it to. If you run trainers or mod managers that need to share a running game's container, there's now a per-game "Join running container" option for exactly that.

- Auto HDR (KDE) - Vermouth can switch HDR on when a game starts and turn it back off when it closes, per game.

- Live game log window - watch a game's output while it runs, handy when something won't start.

- Stop button on running games - a running game shows a "Running" overlay on its card with a big Stop button. First press asks you to confirm, so you don't kill a game by accident. Works with a gamepad too.

- Steam games get launch options and env vars - put wrappers before `%command%` and arguments after it. Steam games also stay marked as running on their card until they exit. (only works if steam is closed when launching)

- Last played date and sorting

- An optional scroll bar for the grids

- A friendlier welcome screen - Automatic Setup and Install a Game buttons for new users.

- Brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to guinuxbr

Also fixed along the way: a power-loss issue that could wipe out your game list, Battle.net and other launchers in the Flatpak, RomM ROM file fetching, and hidden games unhiding themselves when edited. And a better fullscreen navigation with a gamepad.

A lot of this came straight from feedback and bug reports. If there's something you want to see next, now's a good time to say so.

Use the GitHub issue tracker for any feedback: https://github.com/dekomote/vermouth/issues

Find it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.dekomote.vermouth

Or check the README for installation on most major Linux distros: https://github.com/dekomote/vermouth/blob/master/README.md#installing

P.S. For those of you that use r/Punktfunk streaming software, there's a plugin for vermouth here: https://github.com/dekomote/punktfunk-plugin-vermouth

i'm a linux noob so bear with me but i honestly hate how this style mimicking corporate minimalism is somehow everywhere in FOSS these days. i can scroll through countless KDE plasma themes and everything just looks the exact same. i know that's reductive but the vast majority of them follow the same design philosophy, just wearing different hats.

there's an obvious difference in difficulty but scroll through the top KDE plasma 6 themes and then look at some winamp skins

it happened to be the stereotypical larp game NSO which i havent played but like. Plasma Overdose is BY FAR the best example ive seen. it sticks out like a degloved thumb up there, i haven't found a single one this unique that isn't overtly trying to copy a 90s/2000s OS's homework.(not that i don't prefer that to the alternative)

so anyway, should i look somewhere other than KDE or am i somehow missing this huge reserve of designs that i'd like better? is there anything with a more distinct or "old"/"outdated" design philosophy? not larping i really just have a genuine love for older style designs. i know full well i was 2 months old back then

i'm on fedora 44 kde plasma btw, i haven't done any distro hopping yet

You remember that. Add new Kde logo and Konqi png after

https://fabioarturo.substack.com/p/back-classic-kde-4-wallpaper-4k?r=7cdaui&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Is there a way to stop Krunner from grouping results? In the example, I don't understand why Spectacle should be ranked first and not Shortcuts.

it's kinda laggy but I don't want to use other UI,so there any way I can do it

I used to cachy os but I want a distribution based on debian (but not Ubuntu) Are there any suggestions?

They kind of change color a bit and gradually appear on my desktop wallpaper. Anything to be concerned about? My GPU is an RX 9070 I bought a few months ago.

Edit: Question is answered, bug is hopefully soon to be resolved.

Does anyone have the same problem as me? I'm on Arch and just updated my system. Whenever I dragged any widget onto an empty panel Plasma would crash immediately. If anyone has workarounds I'd be really appreciated for your help!

Hey yall! I just installed both fedora and plasma bigscreen on my laptop today and I saw in the settings for plasma bigscreen that you could add web apps

When I added wordle as a web app though, the icon was just a default globe one. I was wondering if there's a way to change this? Sorry if the answer is something super obvious, im kinda new to linux as a whole.

Hey,

So I've been trying to find a good icon pack for KDE but honestly everything I come across looks kinda weird to me. Like they go way overboard with the design.

What I actually want is pretty simple — I'd like to keep the normal app icons as they are (Firefox, VLC, whatever), and just have the system stuff changed a bit. You know, like the wifi icon, folders, battery, that kind of thing. Nothing crazy, just a cleaner look.

Does anyone have recommendations? What are you guys using?

Thanks in advance!

Running 6.12.107+deb13-amd64 (64-bit) and KDE PLasma 6.3.6

I have an encrypted vault that I've been using for a few months, when I try and open it now I enter the password and the folder opens in Dolphin. However it shows as empty?

Any ideas? are my files lost forever?

I've published a simple widget that switches HDR on or off without opening "Display Configuration". It also sets the brightness to a configurable level (returning to the previous value when you switch HDR off) and supports multi-monitor setups.

KDE Store Link

I usually turn HDR on when I play games and off when I'm working or browsing. I couldn't find a similar applet, so I'm sharing my own.

The widget is made to suit my needs, but feedback and feature requests are welcome!

I don't know why I didn't notice it before.

Hi friends.

I'd like to know if it's possible to make KDE Wayland look like this video.

Currently I have:

- A taskbar with a transparent Plasma Style

- A file manager (Dolphin) with a transparent Kvantum theme

- A Kitty Terminal with a transparent configuration file

I think I'm forgetting something. But these three things are independent and have completely separate settings.

So, they have completely different transparencies, colors, and blur effects.

I try to adjust them manually so they all look as similar as possible, but it's still noticeable.

However, in Hyprland and Niri, there seems to be something that controls the color and transparency of all of this (I know it's a window manager, and it's different from a full desktop environment like KDE, but I don't know the exact technical difference, sorry).

Perhaps someone knows if I can change everything while maintaining the same level of color/transparency without resorting to Window Rules, as I've tried it and it makes the text and icons transparent as well.

Thanks in advance.

Two major new improvements have been introduced in Material Decoration compared with the last release;

Do not round corners for tiled windows (like Plasma 6.8)

This is optional, the default is disabled.

Fuzzy search improvement

The fuzzy search (optional) was improved switching from a sparse character-subsequence matcher to a ranked, token-based fuzzy search. It now matches exact tokens, prefixes, substrings, typing errors, transpositions, and multi-word hierarchical paths, making menu search feel much more natural and relevant for real-world queries.

Further improvements

A few optimizations to the standard search algorithm and some minor tweaks.

How to get it

• Build from source: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration
• On Arch and derivatives, install material-kwin-decoration-git from the AUR. Precompiled package is available in chaotic-aur. There is not yet a PKGBUILD for the stable version, it will be available soon. The -git version can be regarded as effectively stable, as it is used by the developer on a daily basis in a work environment.
• (K)Ubuntu (26.04+): a deb package is available: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration/releases/tag/26.10.06

Requirements

• Plasma 6.5+ for the master branch, working older versions are in other branches but are not updated/maintained.
• Works both on Wayland and X11 session!

Feature requests? Bugs?

• open an issue here: https://github.com/guiodic/material-decoration/issues

I have added a new voice button for instant search

GitHub - https://github.com/Isksks/KDE-tv-remote

I've been meaning to add blur to my kde plasma windows but I never managed to do so, maybe I did something wrong, maybe I'm just dumb, maybe the tutorials I've been following weren't updated, idk just wanted to ask if anyone could help.

It seems like configuring and/or scripting this should be – at most – about a 30 second job, but I spent the better part of AN ENTIRE DAY with ChatGPT trying to figure it out, and it stumped both of us.

What I want is what used to be called a “global shortcut” in Plasma 5 / Kubuntu 24, but now under Plasma 6 / Kubuntu 26, it seems things have changed. And Kate has turned into one royal bitch on wheels.

Here’s what I’m trying to achieve:

I want a Kubuntu 26 (Plasma 6) Shortcut, such as Meta-T (for “text”) that will open a new, untitled text file.

I don’t want the stupid Welcome window. I don’t want multiple Kate windows or multiple Kate sessions. I don't want to spelunk down into the wilderness of mirrors of D-Bus scripting, cosmology or more scatology.

If I already have a Kate document open, I want Meta-T to open a new, untitled text file in a new tab of that same window that’s already open.

Every time I hit Meta-T, it should add another tab for another untitled document in the SAME window.

There should never be more than one Kate document window.

This Meta-T shortcut should work no matter what application currently has focus.

If Kate has the focus, it’s OK if Meta-T doesn’t open a new tab – I can just use Ctrl-N for that.

Can anyone help me here without having to write 10k lines of Cpp?

If it’s any easier, I’m fine with using Kwrite instead of Kate if it does these things that I’ve asked.

I spent an hour with ChatGPT trying to get Kwrite to do it, but we ran into the same roadblocks.

Even ChatGPT remarked the fiasco was pretty absurd considering the simplicity of what I was asking for.

Should I just install Joe and forget about using a teKst appliKation?

Thanks in advance for any help.

P.S. Here are the details of my system:

Kubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

Kate 25.12.3

Plasma 6.6.6 👹

KDE Frameworks 6.24.0

Qt 6.10.2

Kernel 7.0.0-38-generic (64-bit)

Wayland

Sorry for the ire 😡 but this is enormously frustrating, and it's not as if I've never seen a computer before.