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Introducing pkgcli: A nicer command-line interface for PackageKit

https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/06/introducing-pkgcli-a-nicer-command-line-interface-for-packagekit.html

Published: June 14, 2026 06:22

For almost two decades, the PackageKit package management abstraction layer has shipped with pkcon as its command-line client. pkcon does its job, but it was always kind of a “testing” front-end for the PackageKit daemon rather than a tool designed for…

KDE Android News (June 2026)

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/06/13/kde-android-news-june-2026.html

Published: June 13, 2026 06:45

Quite a few things have happened around the Android platform support for KDE applications in recent months, so high time for another update on that. Qt 6.11 As already mentioned previously, we have updated the Qt version to 6.11. That has the unfortunate…

This Week in Plasma: 6.8 is Very Close!

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/06/13/this-week-in-plasma-6.8-is-very-close/

Published: June 13, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.7 with another big push on bug fixing. It’s looking really good for release next Tuesday! As a result, some feature work and UI polishing started…

Web Review, Week 2026-24

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/06/12/web-review-week-2026-24/

Published: June 12, 2026 12:30

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-24. Total Reciprocity Public License Tags: tech, foss, licensing, copyright More an experiment than something I’d recommend for real. Still it shows there’s a gap we need to close in the licenses available.…

Code and logic for tournaments in the Mankala Engine

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/code-and-logic-for-tournaments-in-the-mankala-engine/

Published: June 11, 2026 17:02

Structure of code and logic for tournaments in the Mankala Engine.So, we want the tournaments to be able to: Create custom game rooms (with different variants, number of players, and time limit) Join the rooms with room codes. Create elimination brackets…

Introducing Qt's Figma Design System Extraction Skills for Developers

https://www.qt.io/blog/introducing-the-agentic-figma-design-extraction-skills

Published: June 11, 2026 04:59

Recreating a design system manually in QML is a laborious task for a Qt developer. A typical Figma design system can include hundreds of design tokens for colors, typography, spacing, radii, shadows, and motion durations - plus dozens of UI components,…

Week 2 : Refactor and Review

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-2-refactor-and-review/

Published: June 10, 2026 19:55

This is a weekly update from my Google Summer of Code 2026 project with KDE, improving effect widgets in Kdenlive. Week 2 was about getting feedback and doing it right. After opening the draft MR for the Curves Widget, my mentor Jean-Baptiste reviewed the…

RIT Unny open source font

https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/rit-unny-open-source-font/

Published: June 8, 2026 11:14

E.P. Unny is a notable Indian political cartoonist, who worked/works with famed Shankar’s Weekly and new papers such as The Hindu and Indian Express. Since 2020, all his cartoons (also 2025, 2026 so far) are published — every week — open-access by Sayahna…

Size Maters

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/06/06/size-maters/

Published: June 6, 2026 21:40

So… more Oxygen icons This weekend I been filling some of the more obvious holes in the icon set and recently these 2 landed. The first one is for KeepSecret, the application that is replacing the old KWallet. Security icons are funny. There are only…

Kdenlive 26.04.2 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.04.2/

Published: June 6, 2026 12:45

The second maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out with the usual batch of bug fixes and improvements for workflow and stability. This update comes with fixes to rendering, timeline editing, project file handling, and Windows, MacOS, AppImage and…

This Week in Plasma: Fixing all the things

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/06/06/this-week-in-plasma-fixing-all-the-things/

Published: June 6, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the team continued polishing Plasma 6.7 for its release next month. As such, this week was mostly bug fixing. Notable UI improvements Plasma 6.7 Hovering over a partially-visible item in the Kickoff…