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October 2026 in KDE Linux
Welcome to a new edition of This Month in KDE Linux , dedicated to KDE’s next-generation operating system . October was another infrastructure-heavy month for the project. A major initiative involved migrating the OS image storage and updating system to work with KDE’s new…
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Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator
I've started work on a new KDE application. It's called Kwi (pronounced kwee ). Kwi is designed to provide users of KDE Plasma and other free desktops with a modern and fast terminal, built on a robust tech stack and following the latest KDE HIG and UI conventions. Here's a…
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Activities BoF report & call for action
This is a long one, because 1) there was a lot that we discussed at Akademy, and 2) since many people are not aware of Activities, I wanted to provide some more context, so people can understand better. Overwhelming interest ¶ That I think Activities are cool should come as no…
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A few days of very small things…
So... the last few days have been mostly about Oxygen's symbolic action icons. And there are A LOT of them. Search, mail, drawing tools, dialogs, graphs, distribution, alignment... and then another icon whose name sends me off trying to figure out what the thing actually does…
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This Week in Plasma: An Avalanche of Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team continued to polish up Plasma 6.8, fixing many bugs. Most of the regressions reported in Plasma 6.8 have been resolved now, so the team moved onto older bugs and squashed a very large number of them! In…
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Haruna 1.9
Haruna version 1.9.0 is released. If you like Haruna then support its development GitHub Sponsors Liberapay PayPal Download Windows version: haruna-1.9.0-windows-mingw-x86_64.exe haruna-1.9.0-windows-mingw-x86_64.7z Availability of other package formats depends on your distro…
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OSM Hack Weekend October 2026
Last weekend I joined the OSM Hack Weekend at Wikimedia Deutschland’s office in Berlin, mainly to work on a few Transitous-related topics. OSM Hack Weekend at Wikimedia Deutschland ( source ) Schedule data augmentation One topic we wanted to move forward was how Transitous can…
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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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Kirigami Addons 1.16.0. The material updates
Kirigami Addons 1.16.0 is out! Kirigami Addons is a growing collection of nice components you can use in your Kirigami and QML applications. Platform Integration A huge chunk of the development for this release was dedicated to better platform integration. Material The highlight…
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Harmonicon: Dropping the 3D View
I honestly love the 3d view of harmonicon, but it’s just eye candy. The amount of lines of code is exceeding 75.000 so I took the difficult decision to remove it, so I can focus on more important tasks. I believe that harmonicon currently is the best harmonica song editor that…
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Qt Creator 21 RC released
We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 21 RC.
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Meet Clate: the First Design Tool for Real-World Experiences
Clate Beta is out today, free for everyone. It's a no-code, AI-native UX design tool built for embedded and HMI applications , with QML under the hood, so designers can stay in control of the full user experience.
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The story behind the language of AI openness
Explore the AI Openness Timeline by Tagoross, tracing how the language of AI openness evolved from Free Software to open source AI, open weights, transparency and digital sovereignty.
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Fixing KIO copy to USB stick and network filesystems
I am going to tell the story of fixing a very high priority bug that was 15 years old. Arguably the worst KIO bug. In September 2011, against KDE 4.7, someone opened bug 281270 : "When copying files to a removable disk, speed and progress reflect copying to the local cache not…
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KDE Plasma 6.8.2, Bugfix Release for October
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.8.2. Plasma 6.8 was released in October 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a week’s worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors.…
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My KDE workflow with jujutsu
Intro 🔗 I’ve been learning Jujutsu ( jj ), a a version control system that serves as a frontend for git, but changes the workflow itself instead of just being a GUI or a set of aliases. The thing is cool for many reasons, but the most important one is that workflows like rebase,…
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Options are expensive. Not having them has a cost too.
So... I'm working on something new for Oxygen. The idea is fairly simple: giving users the option to choose between symbolic and colourful icons for actions, the little things you see in toolbars and menus. One option for people who prefer the clean, monochrome look, another for…
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This Week in Plasma: Fixing All the Bugs, PiP, and Performance
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma. And it’s going to be a big one, folks! This week, a familiar pattern played out: people upgraded to Plasma 6.8 and found all the bugs that nobody reported during the beta period, and the Plasma team worked incredibly hard to fix…
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Akademy 2026 Desktop Icon BoF
I am very late to write this but anyways. But please do the survey . KDE Plasma desktop icons (the actual system that holds the icons, not the .desktop files) is a bit crusty, due to many years of people fixing bugs there. This now causes new bugs in return. So, at Akademy this…
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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…