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This Week in Plasma: KDE Initial System Setup

Saturday, 23 August 2025
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

Week 11 recap GSoC 2025 - Documentation and Refactoring

Sunday, 17 August 2025
Intro After getting the Selection Action Bar into a working state over the past few weeks, this week I focused on creating documentation and refactoring code to improve clarity, maintainability and make sure other contributors can build off of this work without confusion. Read More

This Week in Plasma: a lot of polishing!

Saturday, 16 August 2025
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

Week 10 recap GSoC 2025 - Reposition Toolbar on Initial Selection

Monday, 11 August 2025
Intro Last week, I added canvas limitations to keep the Selection Action Bar within a user's view. This week, I focused on positioning the toolbar so it renders directly underneath the initial selection instead of a hard coded value on the canvas. This change improves the user experience by reducing mouse travel and making the toolbar feel more intentional and intuitive to use. Read More

Amarok 3.3.1 released

Saturday, 9 August 2025
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.3.1, the first bugfix release for Amarok 3.3 "Far Above the Clouds"! 3.3.1 features a number of minor bugfixes and code and build system cleanups. Some occasional crashes related to the new audio backend have also been fixed, and the remaining non-theme icons in user interface have been replaced. The new release also features improvements to the scripting support. Although current scripting functionality is not yet on a par with that of 2.x series in the '10's, especially the script console improvements should help anyone willing to explore the current capabilities. Read More

This Week in Plasma: quick toggles in System Settings

Saturday, 9 August 2025
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

Week 9 recap GSoC 2025 - Add Toolbar Boundaries

Monday, 4 August 2025
Intro After adding the ability to drag and reposition the Selection Action Bar on the canvas last week, I spent this week improving that interaction. I tackled the issue where users could drag the toolbar completely off-screen, making it inaccessible. This week was all about keeping the toolbar within the canvas boundaries. Read More

This Week in Plasma: day/night theme switching

Saturday, 2 August 2025
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

Week 2 recap GSoC 2025 - searching c++ and creating floating toolbar

Tuesday, 29 July 2025
Intro Apart from setting up a new open source project, it is important to understand how the application works in order to make the changes you need. In this blog I will go over how I find code, understand the application, and my progress so far with the Selection Action Bar. Read More

Week 8 recap GSoC 2025 - Adding Dragging Interaction

Monday, 28 July 2025
Intro This week I focused on making the Selection Action Bar draggable directly on the canvas. This would let the user reposition the toolbar that is best for their workflow. Read More