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Welcome to the new home of "This Week in Plasma"! No longer is it a private personal thing on my (Nate Graham's) blog, but now it's a weekly series hosted here on KDE's infrastructure, open to anyone's participation and contribution! I'll remain the editor-in-chief for now, and welcome contributions via direct push to the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org. And after a post is published, if you find a typo or broken link, feel free to just fix it. Read More

Getting There! Wow! What a trip! 20 hours across 2 flights, 2 hours on the train with travel buddies Nate Graham and Bhushan Shah, and several bus "adventures" with Nate Graham to our hotel. The hotel... Let's not go into too much detail, suffice to say it was an absolute mess. Read More

Ruqola 2.3.1 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat app. New features: Use "view-conversation-balloon-symbolic" icon when we have private conversation with multi users Add version in market application information Fix reset password Fix mouse position when QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS != 1 Add missing icons Fix create topic when creating teams Fix discussion count information Remove @ or # when we search user/channel Fix edit message logic URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/ Source: ruqola-2.3.1.tar.xz SHA256: 99356ec689473cd5bfaca7f8db79ed5978efa8b3427577ba7b35c1b3714d5fcb Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Riddell jr@jriddell.org https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp 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. This week's changes and improvements cover a wide range of applications, from audio apps (including the classic Amarok, which is making a comeback) to Kate getting improvements to its integrated Git features. Read More

Oxygen Icons 6.1.0 is a feature release of the Oxygen Icon set. It features new SVG symbolic icons for use in Plasma Applets. It also features improved icon theme compliance, fixed visability and added mimetype links. 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. This week we migrated more apps to Qt6, made Dolphin more optimized for mobile and added many new features to Tokodon. Read More

KUnifiedPush provides push notifications for KDE applications. Push notifications are a mechanism to support applications that occasionally need to receive some kind of information from their server-side part, and where receiving in a timely manner matters. Chat applications or weather and emergency alerts would be examples for that. More technical details about KUnifiedPush are available on Volker's introduction post about KUnifiedPush. Read More

I saw this question on KDE forum about how to limit memory usage of a specific application in KDE, using systemd specifically. I did some research on that. Resource control in systemd man systemd.resource-control lists plenty of options that we can set to a cgroup. E.g., to limit the memory usage of a service, we can add: Read More

A new Craft cache has just been published. The update is already available for KDE's CD, CI (Windows/Android) will follow in the next 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

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 enhanced the accessibility of a bunch of our most popular apps; released new versions of KleverNotes, KPhotoAlbum; and improved the performance and usability of KDE Connect, Kate, Konqueror, and more. Read More