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Saturday, 15 November 2025

This Week in Plasma: OCR in Spectacle and many UI improvements

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text! Read More
Monday, 10 November 2025

This Week in KDE Apps: Quality of live improvements in Kate, basic HDR support in Krita on Wayland and touch improvements in Photos

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so), we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. As part of our yearly fundraiser, you can adopt one of KDE's apps and we can share with the whole world how awesome you are and how much you're doing to support us. Read More
Saturday, 8 November 2025

This Week in Plasma: Virtual desktops only on the primary screen

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something that I know a lot of people have been wanting for a long time was implemented: the ability to limit virtual desktops to only the primary screen! Thanks very much to Kristen McWilliam for this long-awaited feature, which arrives in Plasma 6.6. Read More
Saturday, 1 November 2025

This Week in Plasma: control of frame intensity and image sharpening

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Read More
Sunday, 26 October 2025

This Week in KDE Apps: New features in Krita, Calligra Plan ported to Qt6 and a simplified Itinerary UI

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Getting back to all that's new in the KDE App scene, let's dig in! Read More
Saturday, 25 October 2025

This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.5 is here!

And by all accounts, it’s pretty good! So far Plasma 6.5 has been a rather smooth release, with the only significant regression I’ve seen so far being a compatibility issue with older AMD GPUs that turned the cursor into Swiss cheese. It’s already fixed, to be released with Plasma 6.5.1. We’re also following up on an intentional change to the blur effect that unintentionally made it uglier in some cases. Read More
Saturday, 18 October 2025

This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.5 is nigh and KDE is 29 years old; help us celebrate!

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.5, and I think it’s gonna be a pretty darn good release when it comes out in 3 days! So eyes started turning towards features and UI improvements again, and you’ll notice a few of them this week. Read More
Sunday, 12 October 2025

This Week in KDE Apps: Matrix Widgets in NeoChat, systemd user units in KJournald and a lot of fixes all other the place

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Getting back to all that's new in the KDE App scene, let's dig in! Read More
Saturday, 11 October 2025

This Week in Plasma: a massive amount of stability work for Plasma 6.5

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week more work was poured into making Plasma 6.5 the best and most stable release ever. I know I write that a lot, but I feel like we get better at it every time, and this time it feels like that’s the case here too as well. Read More
Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Akademy 2025

Tracey Clark  | Categories: Akademy
In September, I spent over 12 hours in airplanes and trains getting to Berlin to attend my second Akademy conference. The experience once again made the long trip worthwhile. It was lovely to see some familiar faces, and to meet other folks for the first time. This was my second trip to Berlin, and it was nice to see different areas of the city than last year. Like last year, people were so approachable, friendly and easy to talk to. The welcome event was at the lovely Schleusenkrug Beer Garden, just a short walk from the venue, nestled in one of the many areas of greenery. Read More