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Monday, 12 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. Creative Applications Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom Wolthera van Hövell continued to work on text rendering this week. She made the text rendering mode editable, so now it's possible to switch between text rendering optimizing speed, legibility, or geometric precision, and an automatic mode (link). She also fixed a bug where the resource system was slow because font metadata was not erased when removing the font (link). Read More
Monday, 12 May 2025

GSoC 2025 Project Blog Intro - Improving Game Controller Support in KWin

Hello KDE Community! My name is Yelsin 'yorisoft' Sepulveda. I'm an engineer with experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, and Cloud Computing. I joined KDE as part of the GSoC application process early last month and have been contributing to a few projects ever since. Miraculously, my GSoC proposal has been selected! Hallelujah! Which means over this summer I'll be working on implementing game controller input recognition into KWin. Read More
Saturday, 10 May 2025

This Week in Plasma: inhibit sleep while transferring files

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
Monday, 5 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. Creative Applications Kdenlive Video editor Balooii fixed the high memory consumption of the SAM2 based background removal (link). Read More
Saturday, 3 May 2025

This Week in Plasma: move by default when dragging-and-dropping

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, 27 April 2025

This Month in KDE Apps

After a long pause, welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (more or less) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Due to my vacation, this issue covers the past 4 weeks. Read More
Sunday, 27 April 2025

Ruqola 2.5.0

Laurent Montel  | Categories: Release
Ruqola 2.5.0 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat messenger app. Ruqola 2.5.0 Add support for tools plugins Implement invite RC url support Implement verify if a new Ruqola version exist Show images from attachment dialog box Implement Rocket.Chat application support Implement command preview Implement plugin UI support Fix download languages apps Bug: Search in encrypted room is not possible Bug: A command start with '/' and not /* or // URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/ Source: ruqola-2.5.0.tar.xz Read More
Friday, 25 April 2025

This Week in Plasma: multiple major Wayland and UI features

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
Saturday, 19 April 2025

This Week in Plasma: many many things

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, 13 April 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. As Carl is still in vacation, this issue is only partially complete. Read More