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This Week in KDE Apps: Usability, accessibility, and supercharging the Fediverse
Sunday, 19 January 2025
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 also published a new web page in our "KDE For You" series, this time about "KDE For Digital Sovereignty". These pages give you tons of recommendations about KDE and other FOSS apps you can use in different situations, be it for education, creativity, travel and more.
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This Week in KDE Apps: Usability improvements, new features, and updated apps
Sunday, 12 January 2025
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 Alligator, Dolphin, and Itinerary; new features for KMyMoney, Tokodon and NeoChat; and updated versions of Amarok and Skrooge.
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This Week in KDE Apps: Mobile context menus
Sunday, 5 January 2025
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 cover the two latest weeks as, due to the holidays, there wasn't a post last week.
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This Week in KDE Apps: #38c3
Sunday, 29 December 2024
Unfortunately, there won't be any "This Week in KDE Apps" blog post this week as
I (Carl) and others are at the #38C3 (Chaos Communication Congress) in Hamburg.
But if you are also there, don't hesitate to come by and say hi.
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This Week in KDE Apps: Search in Merkuro Mail, Tokodon For Android, LabPlot new documentation and more
Sunday, 22 December 2024
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.
<h2 id="audiotube"><a href="https://apps.kde.org/audiotube">AudioTube</a> <small class="h5 text-muted">YouTube Music app</small></h2> AudioTube now shows synchronized lyrics provided by LRCLIB. This automatically falls back to normal lyrics if synced lyrics are not available. (Kavinu Nethsara, 25.04.0. Link)
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This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 is Out
Sunday, 15 December 2024
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 aside of releasing KDE Gear 24.12.0 and Kaidan 0.10.0, we added an overview of all your data in Itinerary and polished many other apps. Some of us also meet in Berlin and organized a small KDE sprint where aside of eating some Crêpes Bretonnes, we had discussion around Itinerary, Kirigami, Powerplant and more.
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This Week in KDE Apps: Gear 24.12.0 incoming
Sunday, 8 December 2024
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 are adding the final touches to our applications for the KDE Gear 24.12.0 release coming next Thursday. We are also releasing KPhotoAlbum and KGeoTag, now based on Qt6; improving Itinerary's ticket extractor support coverage in central Europe; and continuing our work on Karp, KDE's new PDF editor.
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This Week in KDE Apps: OptiImage first release, Itinerary redesign and more
Sunday, 1 December 2024
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 are continuing to polish our applications for the KDE Gear 24.12.0 release, but already starting the work for the 25.04 release happening next year. We also made the first release of OptiImage, an image size optimizer.
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This Week in KDE Apps: Bugfixing Week
Monday, 25 November 2024
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 are continuing to prepare for the KDE Gear 24.12.0 release, with a focus on bugfixing now that we've entered the feature freeze period.
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This Week in KDE Apps: Python bindings
Monday, 18 November 2024
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 release the first beta of what will become KDE Gear 24.12.0. If your distro provides testing package, please help with testing. Meanwhile, and as part of the 2024 end-of-year fundraiser, you can "Adopt an App" in a symbolic effort to support your favorite KDE app.
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This Week in KDE Apps: Adopt an App
Sunday, 10 November 2024
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 released KDE Gear 24.08.3 and we are preparing the 24.12.0 release with the beta planned for next week. The final release will happen on December 12th, but, meanwhile, and as part of the 2024 end-of-year fundraiser, you can "Adopt an App" in a symbolic effort to support your favorite KDE app.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Sunday, 3 November 2024
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.
In this issue we discover what developers have been doing to make Dolphin, KDE's most popular (but not only!) file explorer, more accessible. We also take a look at all the new services now integrated into Itinerary that will help you on your travels, the new features for Kate that programmers will enjoy, improvements to Kleopatra to help you manage your certificates and the encryption of your messages, and the flurry of new applications that will soon be available in KDE's software catalog.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Sunday, 27 October 2024
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's changes and improvements cover a wide range of applications, from audio apps (including the classic Amarok, which is making a comeback) to Kate getting improvements to its integrated Git features.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Sunday, 20 October 2024
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 migrated more apps to Qt6, made Dolphin more optimized for mobile and added many new features to Tokodon.
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KUnifiedPush 1.0.0 is out!
Saturday, 19 October 2024
KUnifiedPush provides push notifications for KDE applications. Push notifications are a mechanism to support applications that occasionally need to receive some kind of information from their server-side part, and where receiving in a timely manner matters. Chat applications or weather and emergency alerts would be examples for that. More technical details about KUnifiedPush are available on Volker's introduction post about KUnifiedPush.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Sunday, 13 October 2024
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 enhanced the accessibility of a bunch of our most popular apps; released new versions of KleverNotes, KPhotoAlbum; and improved the performance and usability of KDE Connect, Kate, Konqueror, and more.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Sunday, 6 October 2024
Welcome to a new issue of “This Week in KDE Apps”! In case you missed it, we announced this series a few weeks ago, and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps and supplement Nate's This Week in Plasma published yesterday.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Sunday, 29 September 2024
Welcome to the third post in our “This Week in KDE Apps” series! If you missed it, we just announced this new series two weeks ago, and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the KDE world and complete Nate's This Week in Plasma.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Sunday, 22 September 2024
Welcome to the second post in our "This Week in KDE Apps" series! If you missed it we just announced this new series last week and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the KDE world and complete Nate's This Week in Plasma.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Monday, 16 September 2024
Welcome to the first post in our "This Week in KDE Apps" series! You may have noticed that Nate's "This Week in KDE" blog posts no longer cover updates about KDE applications. KDE has grown significantly over the years, making it increasingly difficult for just one person to keep track of all the changes that happen each week in Plasma, and to cover the rest of KDE as well.
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New blogs.kde.org
Sunday, 3 March 2024
I'm happy to announce the launch of our revamped Blogs.KDE.org website, now powered by Hugo instead of Drupal 7!
This switch was motivated by the fact that Drupal 7 is now reaching end of life and since Blogs.kde.org is the home of many individual blog for KDE hackers so it was important to keep it up to date and secure.
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