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"This Week in KDE Apps" is back! It's been a long time since the last issue, but every week, we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released the second beta of Plasma 6.5, and there are a lot of fixes in it! This week also sees some great bug fixes, as well as a number of UI improvements related to language and time. Read More

KWin GameController Plugin: Weeks 5-6 It's been another few weeks of progress on the KWin GameController Plugin and I've got a lot to share! After spending the previous weeks setting up the foundation, I've progressed things forward by improving the logic a bit more, creating a few integration tests, integrating it into System Settings, and making sure it runs well on real hardware like the steamdeck. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team really really really focused on bug fixing and UI polishing, in preparation for the Plasma 6.5 release next month. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we finalized the set of features and major changes in Plasma 6.5, and released the first beta. I’d encourage everyone to test it out! One of the best ways these days is via KDE Linux. Many other distros also offer “unstable” KDE repos and the like. Please do test. For the next month, the Plasma team will be focusing on bug-fixing, so let us know what the bugs are! Read More

KWin Gamepad Plugin: Weeks 3-4 Picking up from weeks 1+2 ( research + prototypes with libevdev/uinput ), these two past weeks were about moving from “research-only mode” to turning ideas into programming logic that lives inside KWin to: detect gaming controllers and their input events, keeps Plasma awake on controller activity, handles hot-plug and pre-existing connections on startup, and lays down the first mappings from controller input to keyboard/mouse actions without stepping on other apps utilizing the controllers. Read More

tldr: ISO Image Writer ported to QML, allows automatic fetching of the latest ISOs, allows users to download directly from a URL and some more glitter ISO Image Writer is a tool that allows users to flash image files onto their USB sticks. Previously, this tool was written with Qt Widgets, but as we shift away from this approach, a port was needed to convert the app to use QML instead. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, KDE contributors from around the world are traveling to Akademy, KDE’s annual conference. I myself am on a train right now as I write these words (though hopefully not still there when you read them), on my way to meet with fellow KDE people for a week of working, planning, and social bond strengthening! Expect a light report next Saturday, or none at all. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw huge improvements to the Plasma clipboard, KRunner, and drawing tablet support — not to mention a bunch of UI improvements in Discover, and plenty more, too! So without further ado… Read More

Hello again everyone! I'm Derek Lin also known as kenoi, a second-year Math student at the University of Waterloo. Through Google Summer of Code 2025 (GSoC), mentored by Harald Sitter, Tobias Fella, and Nicolas Fella, I have been developing Karton, a virtual machine manager for KDE. Read More