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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

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

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

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

Since Akademy 2024, input handling improvements have been one of three KDE Goals with myself as a co-instigator. You may be wondering why you didn't see a series of dedicated blog posts on this topic, which I had hoped to write. Instead of taking accountability for a longer absence from Planet KDE, here's a quick recap of what's noteworthy and exciting right now. Read More

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

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

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

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

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