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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: Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Read More

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! Read More

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. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Read More

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. Read More

A new Craft cache has been published about a week ago. The update has already been rolled out to KDE's CD and Windows CI with the update to Qt 6.11 beeing the most important change. Read More