A big thank you goes to my parents this week for contributing to my survival fund. With that I was able to make a big push on fixing some outstanding issues on some of our snaps.

• Marble! Now shows all maps and finds its plugins properly.

• Neochat: A significant fix regarding libsecret in which left users with endless loading screen because it could not authenticate. Bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473003 This actually affected any app in KDE that uses libsecret KDE desktops do not ship with gnome-keyring, so this is why sometimes installing it would fix the issue ( if the portals were installed and working correctly AND XDG variables were set correctly). In most cases it works out of the box. In some cases, you must install gnome-keychain via apt and reinstall neochat to setup a new account and it will then prompt to save to keyring. If you are a KDE desktop user and wish to use Kwallet you can sudo snap connect neochat:password-manager-service :password-manager-service , my next order of business is to set up kwallet as a service inside the snaps. Should funding allow.

• Kdevelop: New release . MR to fix wayland no start issues. https://invent.kde.org/kdevelop/kdevelop/-/merge_requests/510
• Kid3: Fixed qml scripts issue https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473556
• Kate: New release. MR to fix wayland no start issues https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1333
• Krita! 5.2.1 coming as soon as MR https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/1987 is approved and merged. I have successfully built and installed locally, great stuff!
• Store icons have been fixed.
• Another pile of 23.08.2 releases almost at 100% now.

KDE neon: No major blowups this week. Worked out issues with kmail-account-wizard thanks to David R! This is now in the hands of upstream ( porting not complete ) Worked on more orange -> green packaging fixes. Debian: Fixed bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1054713 in squashfuse Thanks for stopping by. Please help fund my efforts! <noscript><a href="https://liberapay.com/sgmoore/donate"><img alt="Donate using Liberapay" src="https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg" /></a></noscript> Donate https://gofund.me/b8b69e54

Yang the cat bird

While Yang our cat tries to lure in unsuspecting birds on the bird feeder, I have been busy working on many things. First things first though, a big thank you to all that donated to my Internet bill. I was able to continue my work without interruption. KDE neon: A busy week in KDE neon as https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.9/ was released! We have it ready to update in User edition or if you would like to download the new ISO you can find it here: https://neon.kde.org/download I highly advise the User Edition as Unstable is volatile right now with Qt6 transition and ABI breakage. Which leads me to the next busy work for the week. Plasma 6 exploded breaking unstable desktops all over, including mine! A library changed and it was not backward compatible, so we had to rebuild the Qt6 $world to get Plasma and PIM functional again. I am happy to report it is all fixed now, but I cannot stress enough, if you don t want to chance broken things, please use the User Edition! I also continued the orange -> green build effort in making sure all our runtime dependencies are up to date. This fixes odd UI bugs and developers have all the build dependencies needed to build their applications. KDE Snaps: Several more 23.08.2 snaps have arrived in the snap store including the new to snaps Kamoso!

KDE snap Kamoso

I have an auto-connect request to the snap-store policy folks, but until it is approved please snap connect kamoso:camera :camera I have a pile of new MR s in for non release service applications and some fixes for issues found while testing. While this new workflow does take a bit longer waiting for approvals I like it much better as I am developing closer relationships with the application developers. I have made significant progress on the Kf6 ( Qt6 based ) content snap. I am about 90% complete. While this doesn t mean much for users yet, it will when KDE applications release their qt6 ports starting the next major release cycle. I will be ready! The last bit for snap work is I have almost completed my akonadi service snap. This will connect to all KDE PIM snaps so they share data. Akonadi is the background database that ties all the PIM applications together. Debian: This week I have worked on updates for several golang packages including charmbracelet/lipgloss charmbracelet/bubbles, and muesli-termenv. unfortunately I am stuck golang-github-aymanbagabas-go-osc52. The work is done in salsa but the maintainer has not uploaded. I have shot an email to the maintainer. I have also begun mentoring my first potential future DD! I reviewed his python-scienceplots and python-art which should land in Debian soon. Thanks for stopping by! As usual, if you can please spare some change, consider a donation. All proceeds go to surviving another day to work on cool things to land on your desktop! https://gofund.me/b8b69e54 <noscript><a href="https://liberapay.com/sgmoore/donate"><img alt="Donate using Liberapay" src="https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg" /></a></noscript> Donate

I have completed the the Big move ! There are still a few lingering MR s, but I am sure they will be approved so I can merge soon. With the move I was also able to release 23.08.2 for most release service applications. Enjoy! You can find them all here: https://snapcraft.io/search?q=KDE I still need to raise a bit more to pay the Internet bill. If you can spare some change please consider a donation. Thank you! <script src= https://liberapay.com/sgmoore/widgets/button.js ></script> <noscript><a href= https://liberapay.com/sgmoore/donate ><img alt= Donate using Liberapay src= https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg ></a></noscript> Donate https://gofund.me/b8b69e54

KDE Skrooge snap

It has been a very busy couple of weeks in the KDE snap world! Here is a rundown of what has been done:

• Solved issues with an updated mesa in Jammy causing some apps to seg fault by rebuilding our content pack. Please do a snap refresh if this happens to you.
• Resolved our scanner apps not finding any scanners. Skanlite and Skanpage now work as expected and find your scanners, even network scanners!
• Fixed an issue with neochat/ruqola that relaunching the application just hangs https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/neochat-autoconnect-requests/36331 and https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=473003 by allowing access to system password manager. Still working out online accounts ( specifically ubuntu-sso )
• Fixed issues with QML and styles not being found or set in many snaps.
• Helped FreeCAD update their snap to core22 ( while not KDE, they do use the kde-neon ext ) https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-snap/pull/92
• New applications completed Skrooge Qrca massif-visualizer
• Updating applications to 23.04.3 half way through unfortunately our priority for launchpad builders is last so it is a bottleneck until I sort out how to get them to bump that up.
• Updated our content pack to latest in snapcraft upstream for the kde-neon extension.
• Various fixes to ease updating our snapcraft files with new releases ( to ease CI automated releases )

An update to the Very exciting news coming soon : While everything went well, it is not (yet!) happening. I do not have the management experience the stakeholders are looking for to run the project. I understand completely! I have the passion and project experience, just not management in this type of project. So with that said, are you a KDE/C++ developer with a management background and have a history of bringing projects to the finishline? Are you interested in an exciting new project with new technologies? Talk to me! I can be reached via sgmoore on the various chat channels, sgmoore at kde dot org, or connect via linkedin and message: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scarlettgatelymoore If you know anyone that might be interested, please point them here! As this project gets further delayed, it leaves me without an income still. If you or someone you know has any short term contract work let me know. Pesky bills and life expenses don t pay themselves If you can spare some change ( anything helps ) please consider a donation. https://gofund.me/5d0691bc A big thank you to the community for making my work possible thus far!

I have been quite busy! I have been working on several projects so my cover image is a lovely sunset where I live. Debian: I have updated and uploaded several packages and working on more.

• Umbrello
• Squashfuse with the help of Scott Moser ( Thanks! )
• libappimage
• plasma-bigscreen WIP

KDE Snaps: I have reworked the CI to now do Core22 snaps! They will publish to the beta channel until we get them tested. First snap completed is the ever important KDE Frameworks / QT content snap + SDK! Applications will start after I tackle the kde-neon extention in snapcraft. GUI-Testing: I have begun learning/writing some GUI tests using python and https://invent.kde.org/sdk/selenium-webdriver-at-spi/, inspired by one of my favorite people, Harald. See https://apachelog.wordpress.com/2022/12/14/selenium-at-spi-gui-testing/ for more info and I hope to get these in repos near you soon! In closing, I am still seeking employment/sponsor amidst this terrible layoff season. If anyone knows of anyone with my diverse skill set please let me know. In the meantime if you can spare anything to keep the lights on I would be ever so grateful. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore Cash App: $ScarlettMoore0903 Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/28o16y3PHcISfaE8ww Thank you, I want to wish everyone a very merry < insert your holiday here > !!!

Another continuation of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-round-3 ! This week I solved a few more problems.

• Lokalize: Dictionaries are now available via the hunspell content snap! To enable:

sudo snap install hunspell-dictionaries sudo snap connect lokalize:hunspell-dictionaries-plug hunspell-dictionaries:hunspell-dictionaries

• Ktorrent: First time release on both amd64 and arm64! Closes bug 412734
• Kdenlive: Glaximate animations are now available! Closes bug 459338

Kdenlive with Glaximate animations!

• Okular
• Kgeography
• Kpatience
• Palapeli: Now launches! Closes bug 426177
• Krdc: Now on arm64!
• Kdiamond: Now with sound!

More coming tomorrow! Please consider donating! Helps keep the lights on so I can get more Kool software out to you. https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore Cash App $ScarlettMoore0903 Stripe: https://buy.stripe.com/28o16y3PHcISfaE8ww

While trying to stay warm in our first snow of the year, I got several apps tested and released in round 3 of https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-gear-snaps-round-2/ ! All of these are being ( re ) tested on both arm64 and amd64. Hence, the release is going slower than it will in the future. Thank you for your patience.

• Kalzium ( again ) Molecule editor works. Known bug downloading molecules. Just go to Home/Documents and rename the file hotsuff-access.xml to themolecule.cml and load molecule as a temporary work around until a permanent fix comes about. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461027
• Ktuberling
• Kbounce
• Kmplot
• Kbreakout
• Knavalbattle
• Kubrick ( Not on chromebook unfortunately, opengl errors need looking into. )
• Kbruch
• Knetwalk
• Kwordquiz
• Knights ( Sound is fixed! )
• Kollision
• Lokalize
• Kfourinline

More rounds of bug gardening has been done, if you find bugs, or know one of your bugs is related to it being a snap, please assign to me. https://bugs.kde.org Please consider a donation so I may bring many more apps your way. https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore I am working on one time donations.

KDE Extras 22.08.2 was released! https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.08.2/ So I am working on new snaps! This release also includes a new content snap I made with frameworks 5.98 and Qt 5.15.6. With all the new goodness, I am (Re) testing all snaps to make sure they are working as expected. You can find a link to all of my snap releases from the KDE Snap Store Releases on the menu above. Some notable releases that have new fixes and improvements are:

• Kalzium: Molecular editor now works!
• Artikulate: Now works on arm64 ( eg. Rasberry Pi )
• Dragon: Now works on arm64
• Minuet: Now works on arm64

New 22.08.2 releases re-tested on arm64 and amd64:

• Picmi
• Kturtle
• Ksudoku
• Konquest

More coming soon! Please consider donating! I am seeking employment, but until then, I need assistance with gas to power my generator to power my laptop. Solar doesn t work great in these coming winter months Thank you for your consideration! https://www.patreon.com/sgmoore

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months:

• Jeroen Ploemen (jcfp)
• Mark Hindley (leepen)
• Scarlett Moore (sgmoore)
• Baptiste Beauplat (lyknode)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months:

• Gunnar Ingemar Hjalmarsson
• Stephan Lachnit

Congratulations!