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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Gesture customization mini-sprint
Thursday, 12 June 2025
To briefly recap, Natalie Clarius and I applied for an NLnet grant to improve gesture support in Plasma, and they accepted our project proposal. We thought it would be a good idea to meet in person and workshop this topic from morning to evening for three days in a row. Props to Natalie taking the trip from far away in Germany to my parents' place, where we were kindly hosted and deliciously fed.
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This Week in KDE Apps: Pride Month, better MobiPocket performance and progress in Chessament
Sunday, 8 June 2025
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 issue is a bit special as it is also covering the past week as last Sunday some other contributors and me were busy at the KDE booth at the Umweltfestival in Berlin.
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This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.4 is nigh
Saturday, 7 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.
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