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Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

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  • We are about to break 75,000€ and enable our final stretch goal. To push things along, we are putting 5 more apps up for adoption:

    • Elisa — KDE’s sleek and flexible music player that works both on your desktop and mobile
    • KDE Connect — your one stop solution for synching everything on your phone with your desktop and vice versa
    • KDiff3 — a tool for comparing up to 3 files, merge them, create a patch, etc
    • KRename — a powerful tool for batch-renaming multiple files
    • Photos — Previously known as Koko, this is an image viewer that works on your desktop and mobile, and comes with basic editing functions.




































  • Most KDE projects are acts of (dare I say it) love 💘 . People start projects, contribute to them, and maintain them, because they love them. The original spark may be need, an itch that needs scratching, but what keeps a project going is the thought that “wouldn’t it be fun if…”.

    So that’s your first reason.

    The second reason is that the status quo doesn’t stay the same forever. You are right: support for Linux on streaming for Linux users sucks and is often deliberately fked. But the status quo of, say games on Linux… oh, what? Five years ago? Also sucked and was deliberately fked, and look now.

    KDE is not a company. It’s contributors do not have to adhere to schedules or the current status quo. They can wait and improve as they wait. Very often the work they put into pays off in the future for the benefit of everybody.

    And that is reason number 2.