KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls

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  • phoronix
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    • Jan 2007
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    KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls

    Phoronix: KDE Starts 2025 With Accessibility Improvements & Better Graphics Tablet Controls

    After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his "This Week in Plasma" series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week...

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  • Danny3
    Senior Member
    • Apr 2012
    • 2378

    #2
    Very strange that they talk about accessibility while the most important thing in this area, people being able to understand the texts displayed, is completely ignored for anyone who doesn't understand English!
    They continue to refuse to implement an online translation system, even though Transifex and other services would do it without asking any money from them because they develop open source software.
    Because they refuse to do that, the translations are severely incomplete and have lots of errors and misinformation.
    Even MATE, which probably has 1% of the funding that KDE has has a much better translation system where is very easy to contribute.

    Imagine having the following questions in the file manager:
    • Are you sure you want to permanently delete these files?
    • Are you sure you want to rename this folder to a name that starts with a dot?
    And these are not translated at all or are incorrectly translated to the non-English language of the user.
    How accessible KDE software is then to the user that doesn't just speak English?

    Strange that they keep asking people for donations and even nagging them once a year directly in the DE and yet they don't care about anyone who doesn't understand English and use their software in English, which I bet there are a lot of people.
    They even mentioned in that blog post improving stuff for " institutional or enterprise environment" use.
    Well guess what, there are lots of people, at least in Europe that work in institutions and other enterprise environments that don't understand English at all or they understand just a bit and even less when it comes to hardware / software specific terms.

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    • anda_skoa
      Senior Member
      • Nov 2013
      • 1192

      #3
      Originally posted by Danny3 View Post
      Very strange that they talk about accessibility while the most important thing in this area, people being able to understand the texts displayed, is completely ignored for anyone who doesn't understand English!
      If you are referring to the blog: the author is an English native speaker so he posts in English.
      Your browser might be able to help you translate it into a language you can understand better.

      KDE's software itself is translated into many languages as translations are on of the easiest way to contribute.
      Some language teams were started by a single person!

      Currently there appear to be 119 teams but perhaps not all equally active.

      Larger teams like German, French or Spanish usually have the most complete translations, smaller teams might only have the translations of texts in libraries, Plasma and the core applications.

      Similar situation for documentation and online resources such as wikis, although there are sometimes fewer languages available than for the software itself.

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      • ehansin
        Senior Member
        • Oct 2016
        • 697

        #4
        I gave KDE another chance recently and have to admit there are things to like. I do jump around between window managers and desktop environments, mostly to get a feel of things (at this point sticking to Wayland native environments). I have recently stepped away from Windows except for work stuff but didn't mind the UI experience of Windows 10. KDE provides a nice "traditional desktop" experience. I know there are a lot of settings (can be a good or bad depending of preferences), but this time around it didn't take much time or changes for me to get something that was a good fit. I still take issue with all the configuration files dumped into the root of ~/.config -- I wish KDE would create some appropriate subfolders under the same and group more related config files together. But that is kind of just an "it is what it is" issue I guess.

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        • Nth_man
          Senior Member
          • Nov 2012
          • 1029

          #5
          Several clarifying screenshots can be seen in the original article: https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/04/thi...accessibility/

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          • rmfx
            Senior Member
            • Jan 2019
            • 756

            #6
            I wish KDE, GNOME and COSMIC to be such great DEs, that closed source systems' users will feel like they got scammed when they see a Linux distro.
            Not there yet, but it's coming.

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            • Anon'ym'
              Phoronix Member
              • Jul 2021
              • 55

              #7
              I am interested when they will make calculator usable and fix major bugs in it...

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              • Calinou
                Senior Member
                • Nov 2012
                • 926

                #8
                Originally posted by Anon'ym' View Post
                I am interested when they will make calculator usable and fix major bugs in it...
                I recommend using Speedcrunch. Its line-based UI makes way more sense on a PC than clicking buttons (which really dates back to the "skeuromorphism" era of UI).

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                • shmerl
                  Senior Member
                  • Dec 2009
                  • 3510

                  #9
                  Can Krita finally work with Wayland now?

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                  • pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx
                    Senior Member
                    • Jul 2020
                    • 1575

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Calinou View Post

                    I recommend using Speedcrunch. Its line-based UI makes way more sense on a PC than clicking buttons (which really dates back to the "skeuromorphism" era of UI).
                    Thanks. Reminds me a bit of handycalc for Android.

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