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This Week in KDE Apps: A week full of fixes

Sunday, 7 December 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. Our End of the Year fundraiser is still going on and we’ve raised more than €140,000 so far this month. Thanks to everyone who donated! Read More

This Week in Plasma: Better hardware support

Saturday, 6 December 2025
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw a bunch of user interface improvements and bug fixing, especially for the drawing tablets, printers, and monitors. Hardware is quirky! Read More

Last Two Weeks in KDE Apps: Performance improvement in Krita, Trust and Safety in NeoChat and files actions in Photos

Tuesday, 2 December 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. We are still doing our fundraisers and in the past 48 hours, thanks to the crazy support from our users we managed to raise more than €90,000. Keep it going and if you can afford it, donate at kde.org/donate! Any amount helps. Read More

This Week in Plasma: lots of cool stuff

Saturday, 29 November 2025
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw quite a lot of feature work and user interface polish for Plasma 6.6! Have a look: Read More

Going all-in on a Wayland future

Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Well folks, it’s the beginning of a new era: after nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release will be Wayland-exclusive! Support for X11 applications will be fully entrusted to Xwayland, and the Plasma X11 session will no longer be included. Read More

This Week in Plasma: UI and performance improvements

Saturday, 22 November 2025
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week there were many user interface and performance improvements — some quite consequential. So let’s get right into it! Read More

This Week in KDE Apps: Crop tool in Photos, Sudoku in Kirigami and sprinting

Monday, 17 November 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. Last Saturday a bunch of KDE devs (and a guest) met in my kitchen for a "Kitchen sprint". As always, we discussed and worked on quite some exciting stuff, mostly around Itinerary and public transport infrastructure in KDE, but not only. Here is a short overview of what some of us worked on: Jonah experimented with integrating maplibre in our apps, Nico demoed his new online account integration for applications, and, outside of cooking some Käsespätzle for the whole group, I spent some time packaging Merkuro as a flatpak! Read More

This Week in Plasma: OCR in Spectacle and many UI improvements

Saturday, 15 November 2025
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text! Read More

This Week in KDE Apps: Quality of live improvements in Kate, basic HDR support in Krita on Wayland and touch improvements in Photos

Monday, 10 November 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 part of our yearly fundraiser, you can adopt one of KDE's apps and we can share with the whole world how awesome you are and how much you're doing to support us. Read More

This Week in Plasma: Virtual desktops only on the primary screen

Saturday, 8 November 2025
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week something that I know a lot of people have been wanting for a long time was implemented: the ability to limit virtual desktops to only the primary screen! Thanks very much to Kristen McWilliam for this long-awaited feature, which arrives in Plasma 6.6. Read More