 What if I told you that this project that you're seeing right now is powered by KDE technologies and when I first learned about this I was like what but then it was actually true and knowing it all after that actually makes sense so let's dive into this now this is a product of the tail company and the motto is like bring life to your cosplay or persona and being named the tail company it actually makes what you would expect out of it that is you know tails that are actually animated and let me allow the tail company to introduce itself yeah it's this and recently as I've shown you they actually make ears as well and for those ears and tails they use KDE technologies so I'm going to first of all explain why they use them and then also how in what aspects of it they use them as far as the why goes there is this nice talk at academy 2020 made by and I'm going to get the names so wrongly pronounced Dan Lanier and Andrew and the the important part for us is the second part made by Dan Lanier and they explain that they discovered this project early on and they were like interested in it and then they discovered that they were making an application to actually control the tail and they were going to make it in electron and Lanier was like don't which I fully agree but by the way I do think that electron is a pretty bad idea and there's even reasons for that as an example tails should be controlled by the app even if the app is in background and electron apps in the background apparently don't work so well that's at least what is said in the talk so they actually approached the company and they were already a developer for KDE mostly working through blue systems to knewstaff pros and koregami and koregami is the important part because koregami is a toolkit to make applications it's the KDE toolkit to make applications so they were like hey why don't we just use koregami for this so this is how the relationship between KDE and the tail company started through Dan Lanier and Andrew who created the project so I'm going to show you the first prototype of this company which is rather interesting you can find the video on youtube and this is actually if I understood it correctly Andrew using the first version of the tail just going around and even like I would actually be so embarrassed to do this so like going to the supermarket with this tail that looks actually rather impressive and then there is this video which I found very represents very well the tail yeah so how do it this thing use KDE technologies so right now three things as I've mentioned the application is then through koregami which is KDE toolkit to make applications so that was an easy start but then there is this thing that KDE as a very big resource that we probably give as users for granted and it's not and that is icons so to do applications you need icons and KDE has a lot of them so when I see people asking why don't we just redesign KDE icons and like you know there's thousands and thousands of them right and they are actually a lot and Breeze icons are actually used by third party companies just because they need icons and KDE has a lot of them so the company also uses KDE technologies as in icons and that's already a good start also finally third thing is the Android build system because KDE also manages applications that are done for Android as an example we do have like K Algebra that works nicely on Android and other applications as well and the Android system to actually build apps for Android is quite complex and apparently you don't quite want to deal with it unless you have to so KDE has built its own thing that the company uses to deliver their applications in Android but it doesn't stop there they also have plans for the future to actually have more to actually sorry rely more on KDE technologies one thing about the movement of detail is that it should be customizable and they are apparently working on some sort of mercup language to actually express how the tail or ears I guess should behave and those files could be distributed as plugins to Knew stuff now Knew stuff if you don't know what that one is is the thing that appears whenever you try to download something from the KDE store this thing here listing all of the plugins of KDE Plasma is getting Knew stuff and it is implemented for like outlets but also color schemes or plasma themes or whatever and you could also use it just as is for other things such as tail moving I guess and since you know it uses so much KDE technologies there's also talks about making sure that the applications works nicely on Plasma mobile so if you use Plasma mobile daily and you want an application to control your tail I it seems very weird to me that there is an intersection between people who want an animated tail and people using Plasma mobile but if there is then the tail company is working on it so right now if you go to the play store or even iOS store and you search for crumpet which is the name of the application to manage the tail company you do actually get this UI which is made in koregami and since it is made for in koregami in theory it should be very easy to put this to be convergent so also using it on tablets or even computers and also Plasma mobile as I was saying you can see the sidebar is koregami it just feels like KDE so to sum it all up a couple of things I'm just I'm just impressed by this project like in all of the projects that rely on KDE technologies I totally did not expect this one and when I first learned about this I was super impressed and they even have like tails by like famous pictorial characters like the red panda tail and this tail from Genshin Impact and you can like customize the male tail to look like those apparently so to be honest when I saw this I was super tempted to try to buy one which brings me by the way to the second point which is that talking about this project you might you might think that this video is sponsored in any way by them and no they didn't ask to make this video they're not paying me obviously I did not receive any free tail of course if I were to receive a tail I would totally wear it but currently the only people sponsoring my videos are my patreons and it's the only reason why I'm able to do this kind of videos so if you want to help me out then there's a pattern there are some people there's a liberapy there's a youtube subscription method something so just feel free to help me out because I'm a student I don't have a job and you know how it is if you've been a student so thanks everybody I hope that you learned about the new cool project that uses KDE today and I really wanted to talk about it because I mean it's a project it uses KDE I love KDE and I think that more projects should use KDE so see you in the next video tomorrow