fooyin has now replaced Strawberry for me.
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It seems KDE/Dolphin has started exposing more of its features. Even more customisation options. Truly the best file manager known to man. 
This option (Background > Double-click triggers) is new. The default is selecting all files, but now you can change it. Again, best file manager known to man.
More…
This option was always available, but from the preview panel itself, not in the main settings.
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digiKam — A Comprehensive Media Manager
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at digiKam. Maybe like 8 years? Maybe more.
It is so much better than I remember.
In fact, it seems like it may be just as good as XnViewMP in terms of feature set.
That is something. Not even the paid Adobe Bridge is that good, not since I last checked like 6 years ago, at least.
Anyway, I will be testing it out on some duplicated folders with hundreds of images and videos to see if it really is as good as it seems.
And yes, I know about and have tried RawTherapee and darktable. These aren’t so good for my particular workflow and are better for actual photographers, retouchers, etc.
digiKam is better for my workflow, where I don’t necessarily need to do more than cropping and adding text when it comes to editing. The main things I need are organisation, file and location history, quick search filters (not a full recursive search — just something that filters what you type), merging images, finding duplicates, and so on.
These are all things XnViewMP excels at, and even Dolphin can perform some of these actions with service menus or scripts. Of course, Dolphin can’t do some things natively or intuitively, like cropping or adding text.
Between Dolphin and XnViewMP, I have everything I need, but it would be nice to switch to something that does it all while also being open source.
I just started using floorp as my daily driver. so far it looks like a good solid product
I fully agree with you @ddnn ,I am a street photographer and since years I use digiKam to organize my 1.5 Tera library of RAW files of photographs collection.
At the same time, I use RawTherapee to edit those files.
I find that both softwares are working very well together.
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I’ve used Czkawka for ages as a duplicates finder, especially for NAS archives. Fantastic app!
Czkawka (tch•kav•ka (IPA: [ˈʧ̑kafka]), “hiccup” in Polish) is a simple, fast and free app to remove unnecessary files from your computer.
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So… Scratch that. digiKam is S L O W 
Also, it doesn’t have file and location history (or copy and move history), nor is it able to merge images natively. It can run external scripts, which is good, but so can Dolphin, which doesn’t suffer from whatever causes digiKam to be so slow.
Also, whenever new files/folders are added to the main collection, it doesn’t populate the viewing area nor the collection panel with them until it is finished scanning them, which takes extremely long for a couple hundred files.
Apart from these things that are specific to my needs, it is great once it’s fully loaded.
I won’t be switching, but I will monitor developer updates for the missing features.
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ptyxis
Ptyxis is a terminal for GNOME with first-class support for containers.
While playing around with Fedora 41 in a VM I found out that ptyxis is the new standard terminal for Fedora. I just started to use it.
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i like Hidamari once and while for an animated wallpaper. right now i got a wolf with glowing golden yellow eyes starring right at me.
the 
is animated, the eyes actually glowing, the 
is animated, & so is the 
the possiblieties of live wallpapers is endless
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Excellent !!!
It looks I still can’t put anime waifu on the background
I knew I had imagemagick in Linux, and I know its been around forever, (1987), but I just discovered I could convert images to virtually any format I would ever want with it. I dont work with images enough I guess, so when I needed to convert something I just used an online converter. After testing “magick” by converting to 14 different formats, (.ai, .bmp, .eps, .gif, .heif, .indd, .jpg, .pdf, .png, .psd, .svg, .tiff, .webp, .xcf), and seeing how fast and easy it is to use, I dont think I will ever use an online converter again.
Its as simple as:
magick a.jpg a.png
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I had a feeling that it was yet another (nice) GUI for libMagick even before I clicked that link.
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I use rclone to sync my cloud drives, and mount them locally:
Using it for 3 years +, works great so far.
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As I’ve switched to an ultrawide monitor recently, KZones (AUR) is a KWin Script for KDE Plasma which allows it to define different screen zones into which the applications can be dragged into. More details are available on the github repo.
There might be better solutions towards this, my ears are all open !
And if someone has a clue why the shortcut (at least on my install) alt + t opens an layout overlay, which could load three different tiling layouts … when I search within the shortcuts within the system settings, there isn’t an entry listed for that shortcut.
I’m not saying this is better, but since some time Plasma has its own tiling feature[1]:
Speaking of features, check out the new tiling system: it will allow you to set up custom tile layouts and resize adjacent tiled windows simultaneously. Activate it in System Settings > Workspace Behavior > Desktop Effects and then you can tile a window dragging it while holding down the Shift key. To create custom tile layouts, hold down the Meta (“Windows”) key, and then press T.
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