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Wednesday, 29 July 2026
GSoC Alumni Camp Delhi 2026
GSoC Alumni Camp Delhi 2026 – My Experience I attended the GSoC Alumni Camp in Delhi, it was an amazing opportunity to make people who are already familiar with open source aware of KDE Community and I was actually able to do that. The event itself was from 8:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. at night. The event started off with a formal opening session. Soon after was the scavenger hunt (we were hunting people!) it was a 5x5 grid where you needed to get signatures of people who fit the question in the box. A few of them were :
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Tuesday, 28 July 2026
Making KIO copy many files fast
There is a bug in KDE's bug tracker that is almost as old as some of our contributors: bug 342056, "Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files)", reported by Alexander Nestorov back in 2014. The report is blunt: copying a 15 GB folder of roughly 3 million small files took 5 to 10 hours in KDE, versus about 20 minutes with rsync. One commenter summed up the mood:
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Saturday, 25 July 2026
This Week in Plasma: Auto-Lock and Unlock for Remote Desktop Sessions
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
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Saturday, 18 July 2026
This Week in Plasma: Shadows for Steam and Discord
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
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Monday, 13 July 2026
openQA Testing in KDE Linux
The openQA-based testing system has recently been integrated into KDE Linux (hooray!), and I thought it was about time I did a little write-up.
The nature of KDE Linux, in which the whole system ships as a single signed image rather than a pile of packages, is (in theory) wonderful for reliability. However, this raises an uncomfortable question: how do we make sure that image actually works before we ship it to people? OpenQA is the answer!
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Monday, 13 July 2026
Redesigning Lokalize's Translation Memory Tab - Mid-GSoC
The past three weeks were a mix of cleanup, debugging, completing the work concerning UI and understanding TMView( since I did not look into it during proposal period) and TMTab again to review my design choices and see if I'm going in the right direction.
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Saturday, 11 July 2026
This Week in Plasma: Audio Recording in Spectacle
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
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Saturday, 4 July 2026
This Week in Plasma: Better Animations
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
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Saturday, 27 June 2026
This Week in Plasma: Post-6.7 Bug-fixing
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
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Sunday, 21 June 2026
Vi Mo(tiva)tions
It's been quite a while since I last wrote an entry in this blog. It's also been some time in which my invent gitlab graph has been feeling a bit emptier and I've also been more absent from the KDE work and community in general.
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