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KDE and AI, and you, and me

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/23/kde-and-ai-and-you-and-me/

Published: September 23, 2026 19:54

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…

Qt Creator 20.0.2 released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-20.0.2-released

Published: September 23, 2026 13:32

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 20.0.2! The release fixes issues with the recent releases of the Android command line tools, and updates Qt Creator for changes in Xcode 27, the iOS Simulator, and Qt 6.12.0.

Canvas2D: WatchUI Demo

https://www.qt.io/blog/canvas2d-watchui-demo

Published: September 23, 2026 10:31

In the previous blog post I introduced Canvas2D, the new QML item in Qt 6.12 that lets you paint with JavaScript using the GPU through Qt Canvas Painter. That post was about the API: what it is, how it compares to Qt Quick Canvas and to the QCanvasPainter…

Qt Bridge for Rust 0.3 Beta: CXX-Qt Compatibility and Soundness

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-bridge-for-rust-0.3-cxx-qt-compatibility-and-soundness

Published: September 23, 2026 10:22

As part of the on-going development of Qt Bridges, we are out with a new beta version of Qt Bridge for Rust, with a focus on CXX-Qt compatibility and soundness. The API surface has changed in only a handful of places compared to 0.2. Where it did change,…

Release GCompris 26.2

https://www.gcompris.net/newsall-en.html#2026-09-23

Published: September 22, 2026 22:00

Today we are releasing GCompris version 26.2. It contains bug fixes and improvements on many activities. It is fully translated in the following languages: Arabic Bulgarian Breton Catalan Catalan (Valencian) Czech Greek Spanish Basque French Hebrew…

Akademy 2026

https://dvratil.cz/2026/09/akademy-2026/

Published: September 21, 2026 16:00

This year’s Akademy is over - at least for me. I’m already on a train on my way back home, but there’s still plenty of people staying in Graz for more days of hacking and fun. Even though I haven’t contributed to KDE much in the past few years, I am really…

Help testing future Okular (if you use PDF files with embedded Audio or Video)

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/09/help-testing-future-okular-if-you-use.html

Published: September 21, 2026 15:59

We just merged a code change in Okular master to use QtMultimedia instead of Phonon to play multimedia files. This will be released in December.  We did as much testing as we could but given the complexity of this feature it would be nice if users could…

How I write documentation

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/21/how-i-write-documentation/

Published: September 21, 2026 07:36

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…

KDE at 30: What Are the Colored Blobs Telling Us?

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/09/19/kde-at-30-what-are-the-colored-blobs-telling-us/

Published: September 19, 2026 07:12

OK, it’s been a while since I blogged about community data analytics… I thought I’d do more posts on the matter but somehow never managed to get back to it. Now it’s a bit more than 6 years since my last post on the topic! Worry not though I didn’t loose…

This Week in Plasma: Let the Polishing Begin

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/09/19/this-week-in-plasma-let-the-polishing-begin/

Published: September 19, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week, Plasma folks shifted to bug-fixing and polishing work for Plasma 6.8. As of the time of writing, there are only four open regression reports for Plasma 6.8, which means either the release is already…

Web Review, Week 2026-38 — The Graz Edition

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/09/18/web-review-week-2026-38/

Published: September 18, 2026 12:50

Made it to Graz for Akademy 2026. Looking forward to meeting my fellow gearheads. In the meantime, let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-38. 25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough Tags: tech, surveillance, politics, democracy This essay is fairly…

Canvas2D: New QML canvas element using Qt Canvas Painter

https://www.qt.io/blog/canvas2d-new-qml-canvas-element-using-qt-canvas-painter

Published: September 18, 2026 08:12

In the earlier blog posts about Qt Canvas Painter we have looked at what it is, the new rendering features it brings, how fast it is compared to QPainter, and how path caching makes even a million line segments render smoothly. All of those earlier blog…

Meet Marknote's New Block Editor

https://prayag2.github.io/posts/marknote-block-editor/

Published: September 17, 2026 18:30

About Block Editors A block editor is an easy to use rich text editor which treats every component of your text as a block. You may be familiar with apps like Notion and the editor you see there is exactly that. A block editor allows you to easily re-order…

Imprint 1.0 and Kirigami Addons 1.14.0

https://carlschwan.eu/2026/09/17/imprint-1.0-and-kirigami-addons-1.14.0/

Published: September 17, 2026 15:00

Happy to announce a new version of Kirigami Addons, as well as the first version of my new app: Imprint. Kirigami Addons is a collection of many useful modules for your QML and Kirigami applications, and Imprint is a new PDF editor. Let’s start with the…

QML and C# without C++: Qt Bridge for C# 0.4.0 Beta Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-bridge-for-csharp-0.4.0-beta-released

Published: September 17, 2026 14:32

As part of the on-going development of Qt Bridges, and beyond the two Beta versions already released, we've continued to add new features to the C# bridge, and we're now announcing the release of a new Beta version 0.4.0. The highlight of this release is…

Oxygen 6.8 – more polish for KDE’s classic theme

https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/oxygen-6-8-more-polish-for-kdes-classic-theme/

Published: September 17, 2026 09:47

The big KDE Plasma 6.7 release ushered in the summer. Now, as summer draws to a close, a new 6.8 release is cooking, due to arrive in about a month's time. Most of the development is done at this point, and we have a few changes to report for our classic…

KDED refactoring Progress Update!

https://tushar2005.bearblog.dev/kded-refactoring-progress-update/

Published: September 16, 2026 13:18

The past couple of weeks moved on to the other half of the editor work- the kded dialogs that pops up on NetworkManager's behalf - the secret prompt, the SIM PIN dialog, the mobile broadband wizard. Why this needs doing The Connection Editor isn't the only…

I'm Going to Akademy!

https://dvratil.cz/2026/09/im-going-to-akademy/

Published: September 15, 2026 21:00

It’s been 7 years since I last posted such a banner, and just today I remembered how I was always excited about this kind of posts, so here we go. I’ve also been to Akademy in W√ºrzburg 2 years ago, but didn’t post the banner for some reason (silly me!). I…

KDE e.V. is looking for a Software Infrastructure and Continuous Delivery Engineer

https://ev.kde.org/2026/09/14/2026-09-14-jobad-sysadmin/

Published: September 14, 2026 00:00

KDE e.V., the non-profit organisation supporting the KDE community, is looking to hire a Software Infrastructure and Continuous Delivery Engineer to help improve our infrastructure that the KDE community relies on. Please see the call for proposals for…

This Week in Plasma: 6.8 Beta Release!

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/09/12/this-week-in-plasma-6.8-beta-release/

Published: September 12, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released a beta of Plasma 6.8, and it’s ready for testing. Before branching, the team landed a lot of great improvements to make sure it’s an awesome release. Check it out: Notable new features …

Web Review, Week 2026-37

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/09/11/web-review-week-2026-37/

Published: September 11, 2026 15:47

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-37. Making Social Media Social Tags: tech, fediverse, social-media, community Interesting approach. When friction to subscription is a good way to really build community.…

I just want us to feel something…

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/09/11/i-just-want-us-to-feel-something/

Published: September 11, 2026 14:57

So... Koko needed a new icon. Koko is KDE's image viewer, sharing its name with the rather famous gorilla, and yes, putting a gorilla in the icon would have made perfect sense... but we all love cats, and so did KOKO, so here we are And while making…

Kdenlive 26.08.1 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.1/

Published: September 11, 2026 13:45

The first maintenance release of the 26.08 series is out with the usual batch of stability fixes and workflow improvements. Highlights include a big batch of fixes for crashes when changing Timeline Preview settings, deleting sequences, stopping audio…