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Wednesday, 18 September 2024

My First Akademy Adventure

Traceyc  | Categories: Akademy
This year was my first Akademy, and I was thrilled to be able to attend in person. Even better, some veterans said it was the best Akademy so far. It was great to see some people I had met in April and to meet new people. I arrived on Friday, 6th Sept and left the following Friday. I very much enjoyed staying in the lovely town of Würzburg and doing a day tour of Rothenberg. Now that I've caught up on sleep (the jet lag, it is real), it's time to write about it. Read More
Wednesday, 18 September 2024

Power, input & people at Akademy 2024

Contrary to popular belief, Akademy 2024 was not my first Akademy. KDE seems to keep tagged faces from Akademy group photos around, so I stumbled over some vintage pictures of me in 2006 (Glasgow) and 2007 (Dublin). At the time, I was an utter greenhorn with big dreams, vague plans, and a fair bit of social anxiety. Read More
Monday, 16 September 2024

This Week in KDE Apps

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. Read More
Thursday, 12 September 2024

Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14.0

Release-Team  | Categories: Release
Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14.0 is now available for packaging. This adds features needed for the Plasma 6.2 beta. URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-wayland-protocols/ SHA256: 1a4385ecfc79f7589f07381cab11c3ff51f6e2fa4b73b78600d6ad096394bf81 Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Riddell jr@jriddell.org Read More
Saturday, 7 September 2024

KDE Goals - A New Cycle Begins

Farid Abdelnour  | Categories: KDE Goals
The KDE community has charted its course for the coming years, focusing on three interconnected paths that converge on a single point: community. These paths aim to improve user experience, support developers, and foster community growth. Read More
Wednesday, 4 September 2024

Brightness controls for all your displays

Whoops, it's already been months since I last blogged. I've been actively involved with Plasma and especially its power management service PowerDevil for over a year now. I'm still learning about how everything fits together. Read More
Monday, 26 August 2024

KDE Goals - Our Cumulative Culture

Every two years, the KDE community selects three goals that serve as focal points for the entire community's efforts in the coming years. This cyclical process of goal-setting and community-wide focus is a great example of KDE's Cumulative Culture in action. Read More
Sunday, 18 August 2024

New Craft cache 24.08 published

Julius Künzel  | Categories: Craft, CI/CD, Release
A new Craft cache has just been published. The update is already available for KDE's CD, CI will follow in the next hours or days. Please note that this only applies to the Qt6 cache. The Qt5 cache is in LTS mode since April 2024 and does not recieve major updates anymore. Read More
Friday, 2 August 2024

Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light" released!

The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.1 "Tricks of the Light"! Coming three months after 3.0.0 and two months after the first bugfix release 3.0.1, the main development focus in 3.1 has been getting Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6 based version closer. We are not quite there yet, but not that far away anymore. And there are some quite nice new features too! Amarok 3.1.0 brings in a refreshed Last.fm integration, which uses more up-to-date account connection mechanisms, and is better at informing users of any Last.fm errors. Similar Artists context applet does a comeback, and there's naturally also a nice bunch of smaller features and bug fixes; this time the oldest fulfilled feature request was filed just under 15 years ago. Read More
Tuesday, 23 July 2024

Beta for Amarok 3.1 available

Dear fans of music & open source music players, in preparation of the upcoming Amarok 3.1 release, a beta release (3.0.81) has been prepared. As is observable from the ChangeLog, in addition to various bugfixes, there will be some, but not that many, new features included in the upcoming version. However, there has been a lot of Qt6 compatibility preparation work done under the hood, so version number 3.1 reflects the amount of changed code better than 3.0.2 would. 3.1.0 is likely to be released in early August, and all help catching any regressions during this period is highly appreciated. (n.b. one won't be able to compile a Qt6 Amarok with 3.1 yet, but perhaps with the eventual 3.2) Read More