Adventures in Linux and KDE
Below is a brief look at recent changes in the KDE projects I work on and follow!
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Interview in SteamOS Gamer magazine
Recently I had the pleasure of talking with Jonah Naylor of the SteamOS Gamer magazine for an interview about KDE’s 30th birthday! The interview appears in issue 2, which you can buy in digital or print form (or as an ongoing subscription). Here’s a preview: We had a nice…
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Help shape the future of desktop icons
KDE Plasma has robust support for desktop icons, just like Windows and macOS do. And it’s not going anywhere, either! But over the years, the codebase has gotten a bit crusty. You know how these things happen: conventions change but the old code isn’t updated; features are added…
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Interview with Michael Tunnell about KDE’s 30th birthday
Recently Michael Tunnell interviewed Aleix and I on the subject of KDE’s 30th birthday, Wayland, LTS software, the new Union theming engine, and more! If you’re interested, you can check it out here. Note: if you work at Microsoft, please don’t watch and get any big ideas! 😆
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KDE and AI, and you, and me
So I accidentally triggered an online shitstorm in the process of trying to craft a set of more restrictive LLM usage guidelines for KDE. Sorry about that. I’m going to leave the comments on this post open, but I will request that everyone who wants to comment read and…
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How I write documentation
I’ve been writing a lot of documentation recently — including almost all of KDE Linux’s docs, as well as the KDE human interface guidelines. And I’m at Akademy 2026 right now where the cat is out of the bag — one of KDE’s three latest goals is about documentation! Thiago,…
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Photos: a proposed replacement for Gwenview
Gwenview has been KDE’s flagship image viewer for over 25 years. It works, it’s feature-packed, and it’s been modernized repeatedly. Gwenview has served generations of KDE users faithfully and well. So… why build a replacement? Well, over the years Gwenview has fallen behind in…
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Bug triaging help needed
For many years now, I and others have been working on getting plasmashell’s open bug reports as accurate and actionable as possible. We’ve made tremendous progress, driving down the number of unconfirmed bug reports to its lowest levels in over a decade, and mostly keeping it…
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What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04
Last year, Plasma developers canceled the long-term support (LTS) version of Plasma. Why? We had a few reasons: Almost nobody was using it; really only Kubuntu. Other discrete-release operating systems like Debian and openSUSE Leap generally ignored it. It wasn’t a real LTS; we…
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Keep your community afloat with the right defense tokens
My favorite tabletop game of all time is Star Wars: Armada, a Star Wars themed ship combat wargame. Armada has many deep and tactically interesting features, but one of my favorites is the unique suite of defense tokens available to each spaceship to protect itself against…