Méven Car 

I am going to tell the story of fixing a very high priority bug that was 15 years old. Arguably the worst KIO bug. In September 2011, against KDE 4.7, someone opened bug 281270: "When copying files to a removable disk, speed and progress reflect copying to the local cache not to the disk itself". The report notes the copy notification showed about 50 MB/s to a USB 1.1 device, which cannot go faster than 12 Mbit/s. The reporter had asked a kernel developer, Alan Stern, what was going on, and summed up his answer: Read More

This is the second half of what changed in Dolphin 26.08. The first half is what you can see: the features, the behaviour changes, the bugs. This one is what you can measure. Read More

Dolphin 26.08 has been released. Here is more of what changed in it, and in the KIO framework underneath it. Read More

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

I want to highlight a few changes that came to Dolphin 26.04 and add some nuance to the release announcement. The the KDE Gear 26.04 release announcement mentions: In version 26.04, Dolphin lets you add keyboard shortcuts to nearly any option in any menu, plugin or extension. Read More