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This Week in Plasma: chugging along

Saturday, 5 July 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

GSoC 2025: Expanding the KDE Mentorship and Recruitment Website

Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Intro Hi everyone, My name is Anish Tak, I am an undergrad Engineer from India, majoring in Biosciences. My journey with KDE began last year December, with a small contribution to LabPlot. Soon, I discovered about Season of KDE, which was my first time collaborating remotely, and it was great. Read More

Week 3 recap GSoC 2025 - fix floating bar UI and research

Tuesday, 1 July 2025
Intro This week I learned how to tweak the UI using Qt modules, specifically Qt GUI classes. As someone new to C++ and Qt, I’ve found that official documentation for any new technology is always helpful in understanding the basic concepts and framework. Reading official documentation is like using an encyclopedia—you may not read it cover to cover, but you can search for key concepts to help navigate what you’re trying to do. Read More

This Week in KDE Apps: Improvements in Photos, KRetro and better keyboard navigation

Sunday, 29 June 2025
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. As you might have noticed, the frequency of "This Week in KDE Apps" has not been very consistent lately. Particularly during the summer season, I (Carl) have a lot of social obligations and can't ensure regular updates with the small amount of time I have available. If you are a KDE developer, you can help by contributing your updates to the GitLab merge request on invent. In that respect, a huge thanks to Felix Ernst for doing that already for Dolphin. Read More

This Week in Plasma: inertial scrolling, RDP clipboard syncing, and more session restore

Saturday, 28 June 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

Second beta for Amarok 3.3 available

Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Dear fans of music & open source music players, in preparation of the upcoming Amarok 3.3 release, a second beta release (3.2.82) has been prepared. This time, the most important change is the new GStreamer-based audio backend. This enables a number of features that weren't available on Qt6 Phonon backends, and likely also provides a more reliable audio experience in general. In addition to audio system work, e.g. more safeguards have been set up around collection scanning code to prevent some potential database issues. More details on changes are listed in the ChangeLog. Read More

GSoC'25 Kwin Project Blog Post: Week 1-2

Tuesday, 24 June 2025
These past few week’s my focus was on exploring input device detection and event handling mechanisms in Linux, with a particular emphasis on game controllers and their potential integration into KWin. I also spent time reading through KWin’s input-related source code to understand how it currently manages devices, and began reviewing documentation for various Linux input subsystems—including evdev, HID, and /dev/input/jsX in order to evaluate which layer would provide the most reliable and straight forward support for integrating controller recognition. The time was mostly spent learning how to use different libraries, tools and creating virtual controller prototype. Read More

This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.4 has arrived!

Saturday, 21 June 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

This Week in Plasma: Wayland PiP and accessibility!

Saturday, 14 June 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 1 recap GSoC 2025 - setup

Friday, 13 June 2025
Intro One of the largest hurdles in any job or activity is getting your resources set up. Luckily for you, Krita has one of the most detailed and straightforward documentation for setup. In this blog I will go over my experience setting up Krita and provide quick links to answer all the questions you may have during set up. Read More