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Sunday, 8 June 2025

This Week in KDE Apps: Pride Month, better MobiPocket performance and progress in Chessament

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. This week issue is a bit special as it is also covering the past week as last Sunday some other contributors and me were busy at the KDE booth at the Umweltfestival in Berlin. Read More
Saturday, 7 June 2025

This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.4 is nigh

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more. Read More
Friday, 6 June 2025

GSoC 2025: Krita Selection Action Bar

Intro Hi all! My name is Ross Rosales. I am a self-taught Software Engineer and former Registered Nurse with a background in the Emergency Deparment. Through the great community of KDE and Open Source I gained so much valuable experience that I apply in my everyday career and life. As I continue learning everyday, I want to share what I'll be working on over the next 12 weeks. Read More
Monday, 2 June 2025

GSoC 2025 Project Intro: Porting ISO Image Writer GUI to Kirigami and adding some glitter

Hi All ! Sun is finally out here in Vancouver 🌞 and GSOC 2025 has started. I will be working on porting ISO Image writer to Kirigami and adding some nice-to-have features. Read More
Monday, 2 June 2025

Revisiting X11 vs Wayland With Multiple Displays

Tracey Clark  | Categories: Plasma, Wayland
The things I do for QA... A few years ago, I was among those who found Wayland too painful to use every day. Over time, I gave Wayland a try now and then. It finally got usable enough for me to switch to as my default a couple of years ago. Read More
Saturday, 31 May 2025

This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.4 stabilizes

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more. Read More
Sunday, 25 May 2025

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. This week we look at the usability improvements landing in NeoChat, and KClock; important bug fixes in Akonadi; performance improvements in KTorrent and new features in Kate and KRDC. Read More
Saturday, 24 May 2025

This Week in Plasma: time-of-day wallpapers

Welcome to a new issue of “This Week in Plasma”! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more. Read More
Sunday, 18 May 2025

GSoC 2025 Project Intro: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager!

Hi everyone! I'm Derek Lin, also known as kenoi. I'm a second-year student at the University of Waterloo and really excited to be working on developing Karton, a virtual machine manager, this summer. This project will be a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 program and mentored by Harald Sitter, Tobias Fella, and Nicolas Fella. Over the past few months, I've been contributing to the project through some merge requests and I hope to get it to a somewhat polished state towards the end of the program! Read More
Saturday, 17 May 2025

This Week in Plasma: HDR calibration wizard

Welcome to a new issue of “This Week in Plasma”! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more. Read More