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This Month in KDE Apps: A lot of progress in Marknote and Drawy, a new homepage for Audiotube, and a rich text editor in NeoChat

Monday, 2 March 2026
Welcome to a new issue of "This WeekMonth in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. It's been a while since the last issue, so I'll try my best to summarize all the big things that happened recently. Read More

This Week in Plasma: Vietnamese lunar calendar and rounder highlights

Saturday, 28 February 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, in addition to the typical post-Plasma-release bug-fix spree, folks started working on UI improvements and features. Two notable examples are highlighted in the title, and found below: Read More

This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here!

Saturday, 21 February 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released Plasma 6.6! So far it’s getting great reviews, even on Phoronix. 😁 Read More

[SoK 2026] Midterm update for 'Automating promo data collection' task

Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Hey all! I'm CJ and I'm checking in with a midterm update on the Season of KDE task of automating data collection for the KDE promotional team. The first term of the two for this Season of KDE task has mostly been a learning experience of what does and doesn't work when it comes to scraping data from the web, laying down our toolset and approach to data collection. Read More

This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6

Saturday, 14 February 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.6! It’s due to be released in just a few days and it’s a great release with tons of impactful features, UI improvements, and bug fixes. I hope everyone loves it! Read More

Season of KDE 2026: My journey with Marknote

Saturday, 14 February 2026
Hey everyone! I am Siddharth Chopra, a second year engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. I'm really excited to be working on Marknote as a part of the Season of KDE program this year, under the mentorship of Carl Schawn. Read More

This Week in Plasma: beefed-up Window List widget

Saturday, 7 February 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team continued polishing up Plasma 6.6 for release in a week and a half. With that being taken care of, a lot of fantastic contributions rolled in on other diverse subjects, adding cool features and improving user interfaces. Check ’em out here: Read More

Season of KDE 2026: Week 1 Progress for Automating Promo Data Collection

Sunday, 1 February 2026
Hi all! I'm CJ, and I'm participating in Season of KDE 2026 by automating portions of the data collection for the KDE promo team. This post is an update on the work I've done in the first week of SoK. Read More

This Week in Plasma: getting 6.6 ready for release

Saturday, 31 January 2026
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we reached that part of every Plasma release cycle where the bug fixes and polish for the upcoming release are still coming in hot and heavy, but people have also started to land their changes for the next release. So there’s a bit of both here! Read More

GSoC: differences of expectations between students and organizations

Wednesday, 28 January 2026
I've been administering KDE's participation in the Google Summer of Code program for the last few years (and mentoring on some). This post is just some personal thoughts on the differences between what the KDE organization expects and what usually the applicants want (I'm not in everybody heads, it's assumptions from my experience). I don't provide any solution (because I don't have any) and there is no judgment (both point of views are valid), just a personal point of view. Read More