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Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something very special landed for Plasma 6.7: the ability to type characters not on your physical keyboard by pressing-and-holding the keys that it does have: Read More

Hi everyone, Aviral here :) I have been a past contributor to the KDE ecosystem for a few projects like Okular and Spectacle. KDE was the first organisation I ever worked with in my open source journey and now I am very excited to share the update of my Season of KDE 2026 project. Read More

It’s been a busy few months for the development team! We’ve been focusing heavily on turning Marknote into a much more robust knowledge base while keeping the interface as clean and distraction-free as possible. Today, we're releasing version 1.5, and it’s packed with major additions and quality-of-life improvements. Read More

The first release of KIO S3 is out! KIO S3 is a KIO worker that allows you to browse and manage files stored in Amazon S3 and S3-compatible storage services (such as Cloudflare R2, DigitalOcean Spaces, MinIO, and others) directly from Dolphin and other KDE applications. Read More

Hey everyone! I'm Onat, and I'm a bit past the halfway mark of my Season of KDE 2026 journey. Here's what I've been working on! For reference, here are some relevant links: Read More

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Office Applications Marknote Write down your thoughts It's been a busy week in Marknote again. Valentyn Bondarenko extensively reworked tables to fix rendering issues (office/marknote MR #143 and office/marknote MR #169). Read More

Hey there! I'm Vishesh Srivastava, and we're at the halfway mark of my SoK 2026 project — writing Appium-based UI tests for Lokalize. I was a bit late for the halfway mark, but we're still on track. Read More

Greetings to the KDE community! My name is Jaimukund Bhan and I have been working on Lokalize, the l10n tool used to translate KDE software, for Season of KDE 2026. Specifically, I have been fixing the Glossary - which is a collection of frequently used words linked to keyboard shortcuts for quick access while translating. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This was another week of focusing on bug-fixing and UI polishing. Not massively flashy stuff, but critical for the long-term stability of the platform. Check out the work: Read More

I'm half-way through the Season of KDE 2026 and wanted to share the journey so far. I had subscribed to the kde-soc mailing list after I returned from IndiaFOSS'25, where I met KDE contributors who really encouraged me to join the community and told me that one can always learn while building. The first step, always, is to start. Then I got carried away with life until I saw "call to action" in my mailbox in January. It was about SoK'26. I had then recently set up Kubuntu and was in awe about what people can build out of passion and by collaborating with others. I felt mentorship was the way to get started. I explored the projects and found Task-3 under Lokalize as something that I can contribute to while learning new skills- programming in CPP, debugging, and exploring an old repo. Read More