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Activities' future is a bit unclear at the moment. It overlaps with functionality provided by other services and the user story for how it fits into the desktop is unclear at best. However we also have to acknowledge that some people use activities to create a workflow that works for them. Rather than taking a sledgehammer to the concept, we're performing a more surgical approach of working out what use-cases people are trying to fix at finding the best solution to deliver that.| blog.davidedmundson.co.uk
Activities' future is a bit unclear at the moment. It overlaps with functionality provided by other services and the user story for how it fits into the desktop is unclear at best. However we also have to acknowledge that some people use activities to create a workflow that works for them. Rather than taking a … Continue reading Upcoming changes to Activities in Plasma 6.5| David Edmundson's Web Log
About Home Automation is mostly, as the name implies, about automation. The machine you're in front of all work-day has an awful lot of useful information that can be useful in your home management. I have a script lower my blinds if I turn on the camera during the afternoon as otherwise there's an annoying … Continue reading Adding Home Automation to KDE| David Edmundson's Web Log
Whilst commit numbers aren't a perfect measure of anything whatsoever, they do still provide a good indication of whether a project is healthy or faltering. It's useful to keep an eye on them, and the start of the year is a good time to do that. I like graphs, everyone likes graphs, they need no … Continue reading I measured KDE’s commit stats and the results surprised me!| David Edmundson's Web Log
Since Plasma 5.18, nearly five years ago, Plasma has shipped with a "telemetry" system. It’s opt-in, allowing users to send a small amount of data back to us. Was it useful or worth it? It's a question that comes up occasionally, and the answer is mixed. I believe it showed real potential, though the reality … Continue reading Metrics in KDE – Are they useful?| David Edmundson's Web Log
Recent events A global theme on the kde third party store had an issue where it executed a script that removed user's data. It wasn't intended as malicious, but a mistake in some shell parsing. It was promptly identified and removed, but not before doing some damage to that user. This has started a lot … Continue reading Trusting content on the KDE Store| David Edmundson's Web Log
There are release parties around the world, the UK has a party in Cambridge. Action plan is to go to The Haymakers, High Street, Cambridge and get pizza, drinks and more pizza. at 19:00 Thursday the 29th Feb. Look for the guy in the blue KDE T-shirt. Sign up at https://community.kde.org/Promo/Events/Parties/KDE_6th_Megarelease#Cambridge| David Edmundson's Web Log
What the Alpha means The alpha release primarily focuses on preparing our software for a future release. It involves handling unreleased dependencies, version numbers, co-installation conflicts, and all the relevant bookkeeping work. This release has been somewhat manic, with issues surfacing up to the last minute. However, that's precisely what this early release is for: … Continue reading Plasma 6.0 Alpha – What this means| David Edmundson's Web Log
Every release has a killer feature. Qt 6.6 features the opposite - staying alive. This blog post describes work to make Qt clients more robust and seemlessly migrate between compositors, providing resistance against compositor crashes and more. Prologue Right now if you restart pulseaudio your sound might cut out, restart NetworkManager and you lose your … Continue reading QtWayland 6.6 Brings Robustness Through Compositor Handoffs| David Edmundson's Web Log
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Plasma's login experience is an area that we know requires some improvement — it works OK in the basic case, but it's very barebones and doesn't handle anything beyond that.| blog.davidedmundson.co.uk