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Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.5, and I think it’s gonna be a pretty darn good release when it comes out in 3 days! So eyes started turning towards features and UI improvements again, and you’ll notice a few of them this week. Let me also draw your attention to another topic: KDE’s birthday! KDE is 29 this week and celebrating by kicking off our annual fundraiser. It’s a great time to donate if you’ve been on the fen...| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week more work was poured into making Plasma 6.5 the best and most stable release ever. I know I write that a lot, but I feel like we get better at it every time, and this time it feels like that’s the case here too as well. Our bug triaging team has basically finished getting through Plasma’s bug report backlog, allowing them and developers to focus on the known and fixable issues. And fix they did! This week there were just tons and to...| KDE Blogs
In September, I spent over 12 hours in airplanes and trains getting to Berlin to attend my second Akademy conference. The experience once again made the long trip worthwhile. It was lovely to see some familiar faces, and to meet other folks for the first time. This was my second trip to Berlin, and it was nice to see different areas of the city than last year. Like last year, people were so approachable, friendly and easy to talk to. The welcome event was at the lovely Schleusenkrug Beer Gard...| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released the second beta of Plasma 6.5, and there are a lot of fixes in it! This week also sees some great bug fixes, as well as a number of UI improvements related to language and time. Notable UI Improvements Plasma 6.5.0 When you’re using your system in a language that’s not English, you can now find Emojis in the Emoji Selector window by searching for their English names, in addition to the names in your primary language. (Ka...| KDE Blogs
KWin GameController Plugin: Weeks 5-6 It's been another few weeks of progress on the KWin GameController Plugin and I've got a lot to share! After spending the previous weeks setting up the foundation, I've progressed things forward by improving the logic a bit more, creating a few integration tests, integrating it into System Settings, and making sure it runs well on real hardware like the steamdeck. The primary change was splitting up GameController into two classes. The new one being Gener...| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team really really really focused on bug fixing and UI polishing, in preparation for the Plasma 6.5 release next month. So far relatively few regressions have been reported, so either we’ve done a really good job of fixing them or keeping Plasma generally stable, or people aren’t reporting enough bugs! While I’d love to believe it’s the former, let me take the opportunity to request more bug reports! KDE Linux is a gr...| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we finalized the set of features and major changes in Plasma 6.5, and released the first beta. I’d encourage everyone to test it out! One of the best ways these days is via KDE Linux. Many other distros also offer “unstable” KDE repos and the like. Please do test. For the next month, the Plasma team will be focusing on bug-fixing, so let us know what the bugs are!| KDE Blogs
KWin Gamepad Plugin: Weeks 3-4 Picking up from weeks 1+2 ( research + prototypes with libevdev/uinput ), these two past weeks were about moving from “research-only mode” to turning ideas into programming logic that lives inside KWin to: detect gaming controllers and their input events, keeps Plasma awake on controller activity, handles hot-plug and pre-existing connections on startup, and lays down the first mappings from controller input to keyboard/mouse actions without stepping on othe...| KDE Blogs
tldr: ISO Image Writer ported to QML, allows automatic fetching of the latest ISOs, allows users to download directly from a URL and some more glitter ISO Image Writer is a tool that allows users to flash image files onto their USB sticks. Previously, this tool was written with Qt Widgets, but as we shift away from this approach, a port was needed to convert the app to use QML instead.| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, KDE contributors from around the world are traveling to Akademy, KDE’s annual conference. I myself am on a train right now as I write these words (though hopefully not still there when you read them), on my way to meet with fellow KDE people for a week of working, planning, and social bond strengthening! Expect a light report next Saturday, or none at all.| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw huge improvements to the Plasma clipboard, KRunner, and drawing tablet support — not to mention a bunch of UI improvements in Discover, and plenty more, too! So without further ado… Notable New Features Plasma’s clipboard now lets you mark entries as favorites, and they’ll be permanently saved so you can always access them easily! This is very useful when you find yourself pasting the same common text snippets all the time. ...| KDE Blogs
Hello again everyone! I'm Derek Lin also known as kenoi, a second-year Math student at the University of Waterloo. Through Google Summer of Code 2025 (GSoC), mentored by Harald Sitter, Tobias Fella, and Nicolas Fella, I have been developing Karton, a virtual machine manager for KDE.| KDE Blogs
Intro In my final week of GSoC with KDE's Krita this summer, I am excited to share this week's progress and reflect on my journey so far. From the initial setup to building the Selection Action Bar, this project has been a meaningful learning experience and a stepping stone toward connecting with Krita's community and open source development.| KDE Blogs
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.| KDE Blogs
Intro After getting the Selection Action Bar into a working state over the past few weeks, this week I focused on creating documentation and refactoring code to improve clarity, maintainability and make sure other contributors can build off of this work without confusion. Progress Documentation One of the most important parts of contributing to open source is writing about what you have built. Krita's documentation is maintained in a dedicated repository. This week I began drafting a merge re...| KDE Blogs
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. --- This week we didn’t focus on features, and instead fixed bugs, improved performance, and improved the UI. There were several concerted pushes on various initiatives that bore a lot of fruit! Relatedly, if you notice that the number of high-priority bugs has risen, this is the result of recent b...| KDE Blogs
Intro Last week, I added canvas limitations to keep the Selection Action Bar within a user's view. This week, I focused on positioning the toolbar so it renders directly underneath the initial selection instead of a hard coded value on the canvas. This change improves the user experience by reducing mouse travel and making the toolbar feel more intentional and intuitive to use. Side note: This week I also added 2 buttons: 'Fill with Color' and 'Crop to Selection'. Obstacles to Implementation ...| KDE Blogs
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.3.1, the first bugfix release for Amarok 3.3 "Far Above the Clouds"! 3.3.1 features a number of minor bugfixes and code and build system cleanups. Some occasional crashes related to the new audio backend have also been fixed, and the remaining non-theme icons in user interface have been replaced. The new release also features improvements to the scripting support. Although current scripting functionality ...| KDE Blogs
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.| KDE Blogs
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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 en...| KDE Blogs
Dear fans of music & open source music players, in preparation of the upcoming Amarok 3.3 release, a beta release (3.2.81) has been prepared. As shown in the ChangeLog, the changes are mostly technical: Qt5 support is removed, and Amarok 3.3 beta is compatible with Qt6/KF6 only. Additionally, a database scheme update (first such since 2012) fixes encoding and date related bugs.| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in Plasma"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in Plasma"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in Plasma"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more.| KDE Blogs
I've been fixing cursor problems on and off in the last few months. Here's a recap of what I've done, explanation of some cursor size problems you might encounter, and how new developments like Wayland cursor shape protocol and SVG cursors might improve the situation.| KDE Blogs
