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After my initial status blog, I was really surprised to see so much support and excitement about Karton, and I'm grateful for it! A few weeks have gone by since the official coding period for Google Summer of Code began. I wanted to share what I've been working on with the project! Read More

Intro Tools are meant to be used as needed. The Selection Action Bar is no exception. So this week I added in a toggle so that users are able to show or hide the Selection Action Bar. Read More

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.3 "Far Above the Clouds"! Amarok 3.3.0 is the first version based on Qt6/KF6, corresponding to a decade-sized update of the technological foundations. Additionally, audio engine has been reworked to use GStreamer for playback. Previously, the availability of various features, e.g. ReplayGain and visualiser, was dependent on the Phonon backend in use, an issue that became even more evident with Qt6 Phonon backends. This has now been remedied: The reworked audio engine provides unified feature set for all users and should provide a solid and future-proof sonic experience for years to come. Notable improvements have also landed to the database system: improved character set support helps with e.g. emojis in podcast descriptions and other very exotic symbols, date handling has been improved ('year 2038 problem'), and various other potential and actual database-related issues have been fixed. Read More

Intro Merge requests (MR) are a useful feature in version control systems to propose changes to large codebases. This helps keep track of major changes and organize individual contributions. This week I created a draft MR to keep track of my progress and to gain constructive feedback. 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

Intro Hi everyone, My name is Anish Tak, I am an undergrad Engineer from India, majoring in Biosciences. My journey with KDE began last year December, with a small contribution to LabPlot. Soon, I discovered about Season of KDE, which was my first time collaborating remotely, and it was great. Read More

Intro This week I learned how to tweak the UI using Qt modules, specifically Qt GUI classes. As someone new to C++ and Qt, I’ve found that official documentation for any new technology is always helpful in understanding the basic concepts and framework. Reading official documentation is like using an encyclopedia—you may not read it cover to cover, but you can search for key concepts to help navigate what you’re trying to do. 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. As you might have noticed, the frequency of "This Week in KDE Apps" has not been very consistent lately. Particularly during the summer season, I (Carl) have a lot of social obligations and can't ensure regular updates with the small amount of time I have available. If you are a KDE developer, you can help by contributing your updates to the GitLab merge request on invent. In that respect, a huge thanks to Felix Ernst for doing that already for Dolphin. 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

Dear fans of music & open source music players, in preparation of the upcoming Amarok 3.3 release, a second beta release (3.2.82) has been prepared. This time, the most important change is the new GStreamer-based audio backend. This enables a number of features that weren't available on Qt6 Phonon backends, and likely also provides a more reliable audio experience in general. In addition to audio system work, e.g. more safeguards have been set up around collection scanning code to prevent some potential database issues. More details on changes are listed in the ChangeLog. Read More