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This Week in KDE Apps

Sunday, 13 October 2024  |  Carl Schwan
Categories: This Week in KDE Apps
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Read More

At the Akademy (2024)

Thursday, 10 October 2024  |  Neal Gompa
Categories: Akademy
While I've been part of the KDE community for quite some time (almost a decade now!), Akademy is still a relatively new experience for me. This is only the second Akademy I've been to in person, with the last one was Akademy 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Read More

Cursor Size Problems In Wayland, Explained

Wednesday, 9 October 2024  |  Jin Liu
Categories: KWin, Plasma
I've been fixing cursor problems on and off in the last few months. Here's a recap of what I've done, explanation of some cursor size problems you might encounter, and how new developments like Wayland cursor shape protocol and SVG cursors might improve the situation. Read More

This Week in KDE Apps

Sunday, 6 October 2024  |  Carl Schwan, Jin Liu, Nate Graham, and Paul Brown
Categories: This Week in KDE Apps
Welcome to a new issue of “This Week in KDE Apps”! In case you missed it, we announced this series a few weeks ago, and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps and supplement Nate's This Week in Plasma published yesterday. Read More

Use `ripgrep-all` / `ripgrep` to improve search in Dolphin

Wednesday, 2 October 2024  |  Jin Liu
Categories: Dolphin
In the next release of Dolphin, the search backend (when Baloo indexing is disabled) will be faster and support more file types, by using external projects ripgrep-all and ripgrep to do the search. Merge Request Read More

Tales from the Akademy

Tuesday, 1 October 2024  |  Ismael Asensio
Categories: Akademy
This being my first post on the KDE sphere (or any other sphere), it was supposed to be just a touch of contact with the world of blogging. But since time pass by in a blast, let's just summarize how I lived my third one in-person Akademy 2024. Read More

This Week in KDE Apps

Sunday, 29 September 2024  |  Nate Graham, and Carl Schwan
Categories: This Week in KDE Apps
Welcome to the third post in our “This Week in KDE Apps” series! If you missed it, we just announced this new series two weeks ago, and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the KDE world and complete Nate's This Week in Plasma. Read More

Amarok 3.1.1 released

Sunday, 29 September 2024  |  The Amarok Development Squad
Categories: Release
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.1.1, the first bugfix release for Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light"! 3.1.1 features a number of small improvements and bug fixes, including miscellaneous fixes for toolbars and the return of tag dialog autocompletions, a functionality that initially got lost during the Qt5/KF5 port. However, most of the work has again happened under the hood to improve the codebase's Qt6/KF6 compatibility. For the 3.2 version coming up later this year, the KDE frameworks dependency will be raised to 5.108. This should allow replacing the remaining deprecated KF5 functionalities; one of the final barriers preventing Qt6/KF6 based builds from succeeding. Read More

This Week in KDE Apps

Sunday, 22 September 2024  |  Carl Schwan, and Nate Graham
Categories: This Week in KDE Apps
Welcome to the second post in our "This Week in KDE Apps" series! If you missed it we just announced this new series last week and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the KDE world and complete Nate's This Week in Plasma. Read More

Ruqola 2.3.0

Thursday, 19 September 2024  |  Release-Team
Ruqola 2.3.0 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat app. New features: Implement Rocket.Chat Marketplace. Allow to clean room history. Allow to check new version. Implement moderation (administrator mode). Add welcome page. Implement pending users info (administrator mode). Use cmark-rc (https://github.com/dfaure/cmark-rc) for markdown support. Delete oldest files from some cache directories (file-upload and media) so it doesn't grow forever. Fixed bugs: Read More