GSoC 2025 Project Intro: Developing Karton, the KDE Virtual Machine Manager!
Sunday, 18 May 2025
Hi everyone!
I'm Derek Lin, also known as kenoi. I'm a second-year student at the University of Waterloo and really excited to be working on developing Karton, a virtual machine manager, this summer. This project will be a part of the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025 program and mentored by Harald Sitter, Tobias Fella, and Nicolas Fella. Over the past few months, I've been contributing to the project through some merge requests and I hope to get it to a somewhat polished state towards the end of the program!
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This Week in Plasma: HDR calibration wizard
Saturday, 17 May 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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Input handling in spring 2025
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
Since Akademy 2024, input handling improvements have been one of three KDE Goals with myself as a co-instigator. You may be wondering why you didn't see a series of dedicated blog posts on this topic, which I had hoped to write. Instead of taking accountability for a longer absence from Planet KDE, here's a quick recap of what's noteworthy and exciting right now.
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This Week in KDE Apps
Monday, 12 May 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.
Creative Applications Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom Wolthera van Hövell continued to work on text rendering this week. She made the text rendering mode editable, so now it's possible to switch between text rendering optimizing speed, legibility, or geometric precision, and an automatic mode (link). She also fixed a bug where the resource system was slow because font metadata was not erased when removing the font (link).
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GSoC 2025 Project Blog Intro - Improving Game Controller Support in KWin
Monday, 12 May 2025
Hello KDE Community!
My name is Yelsin 'yorisoft' Sepulveda. I'm an engineer with experience in DevOps, Site Reliability, and Cloud Computing. I joined KDE as part of the GSoC application process early last month and have been contributing to a few projects ever since. Miraculously, my GSoC proposal has been selected! Hallelujah! Which means over this summer I'll be working on implementing game controller input recognition into KWin.
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This Week in Plasma: inhibit sleep while transferring files
Saturday, 10 May 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 KDE Apps
Monday, 5 May 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.
Creative Applications Kdenlive Video editor Balooii fixed the high memory consumption of the SAM2 based background removal (link).
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This Week in Plasma: move by default when dragging-and-dropping
Saturday, 3 May 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 Month in KDE Apps
Sunday, 27 April 2025
After a long pause, welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (more or less) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. Due to my vacation, this issue covers the past 4 weeks.
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Ruqola 2.5.0
Sunday, 27 April 2025
Ruqola 2.5.0 is a feature and bugfix release of the Rocket.chat messenger app.
Ruqola 2.5.0 Add support for tools plugins Implement invite RC url support Implement verify if a new Ruqola version exist Show images from attachment dialog box Implement Rocket.Chat application support Implement command preview Implement plugin UI support Fix download languages apps Bug: Search in encrypted room is not possible Bug: A command start with '/' and not /* or // URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/ruqola/
Source: ruqola-2.5.0.tar.xz