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This Week in Plasma: UI Improvements Galore

Saturday, 8 August 2026
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KDE Goals - Last Call For Submissions

Friday, 7 August 2026
Last chance to submit your KDE Goals proposal The call for submissions for the next KDE Goals cycle closes tomorrow, August 8. As of the time of writing we've received nineteen proposals, covering a variety of topics like enterprise, gaming, personal well-being, documentation, accessibility, semantic desktops, color management, design, user experience, mobile and more. Read More

This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026

Thursday, 6 August 2026
Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty! This blog series will cover the work done throughout KDE’s software stack that’s funded by the investment KDE received earlier this year from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency. Read More

This Month in KDE Linux: July 2026

Monday, 3 August 2026
Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Month in KDE Linux hosted on blogs.kde.org! Read More

This Week in Plasma: Emoji Resizing

Saturday, 1 August 2026
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GSoC Alumni Camp Delhi 2026

Wednesday, 29 July 2026
GSoC Alumni Camp Delhi 2026 – My Experience I attended the GSoC Alumni Camp in Delhi, it was an amazing opportunity to make people who are already familiar with open source aware of KDE Community and I was actually able to do that. The event itself was from 8:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. at night. The event started off with a formal opening session. Soon after was the scavenger hunt (we were hunting people!) it was a 5x5 grid where you needed to get signatures of people who fit the question in the box. A few of them were : Read More

Making KIO copy many files fast

Tuesday, 28 July 2026  | Tags:  KIO  performance  Dolphin
There is a bug in KDE's bug tracker that is almost as old as some of our contributors: bug 342056, "Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files)", reported by Alexander Nestorov back in 2014. The report is blunt: copying a 15 GB folder of roughly 3 million small files took 5 to 10 hours in KDE, versus about 20 minutes with rsync. One commenter summed up the mood: Read More

This Week in Plasma: Auto-Lock and Unlock for Remote Desktop Sessions

Saturday, 25 July 2026
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This Week in Plasma: Shadows for Steam and Discord

Saturday, 18 July 2026
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openQA Testing in KDE Linux

Monday, 13 July 2026
The openQA-based testing system has recently been integrated into KDE Linux (hooray!), and I thought it was about time I did a little write-up. The nature of KDE Linux, in which the whole system ships as a single signed image rather than a pile of packages, is (in theory) wonderful for reliability. However, this raises an uncomfortable question: how do we make sure that image actually works before we ship it to people? OpenQA is the answer! Read More