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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
Sunday, 5 October 2025

This Week in KDE Apps: We are back!

"This Week in KDE Apps" is back! It's been a long time since the last issue, but every week, we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Read More
Saturday, 4 October 2025

This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta 2

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released the second beta of Plasma 6.5, and there are a lot of fixes in it! This week also sees some great bug fixes, as well as a number of UI improvements related to language and time. Read More
Friday, 3 October 2025

GSoC'25 KWin Project Blog Post: Week 5-6

KWin GameController Plugin: Weeks 5-6 It's been another few weeks of progress on the KWin GameController Plugin and I've got a lot to share! After spending the previous weeks setting up the foundation, I've progressed things forward by improving the logic a bit more, creating a few integration tests, integrating it into System Settings, and making sure it runs well on real hardware like the steamdeck. Read More
Saturday, 27 September 2025

This Week in Plasma: lots and lots of bug-fixing for Plasma 6.5!

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team really really really focused on bug fixing and UI polishing, in preparation for the Plasma 6.5 release next month. Read More
Saturday, 20 September 2025

This Week in Plasma: 6.5 beta and start of the bug-fix-a-palooza

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we finalized the set of features and major changes in Plasma 6.5, and released the first beta. I’d encourage everyone to test it out! One of the best ways these days is via KDE Linux. Many other distros also offer “unstable” KDE repos and the like. Please do test. For the next month, the Plasma team will be focusing on bug-fixing, so let us know what the bugs are! Read More
Monday, 15 September 2025

GSoC'25 KWin Project Blog Post: Week 3-4

KWin Gamepad Plugin: Weeks 3-4 Picking up from weeks 1+2 ( research + prototypes with libevdev/uinput ), these two past weeks were about moving from “research-only mode” to turning ideas into programming logic that lives inside KWin to: detect gaming controllers and their input events, keeps Plasma awake on controller activity, handles hot-plug and pre-existing connections on startup, and lays down the first mappings from controller input to keyboard/mouse actions without stepping on other apps utilizing the controllers. Read More
Monday, 15 September 2025

Project Recap: Porting ISO Image Writer to QML

tldr: ISO Image Writer ported to QML, allows automatic fetching of the latest ISOs, allows users to download directly from a URL and some more glitter ISO Image Writer is a tool that allows users to flash image files onto their USB sticks. Previously, this tool was written with Qt Widgets, but as we shift away from this approach, a port was needed to convert the app to use QML instead. Read More