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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

While I've been part of the KDE community for quite some time (almost a decade now!), Akademy is still a relatively new experience for me. This is only the second Akademy I've been to in person, with the last one was Akademy 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Read More

I've been fixing cursor problems on and off in the last few months. Here's a recap of what I've done, explanation of some cursor size problems you might encounter, and how new developments like Wayland cursor shape protocol and SVG cursors might improve the situation. Read More

Welcome to a new issue of “This Week in KDE Apps”! In case you missed it, we announced this series a few weeks ago, and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps and supplement Nate's This Week in Plasma published yesterday. Read More