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KDE Gear 26.04 branches created

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/03/kde-gear-2604-branches-created.html

Published: March 6, 2026 21:45

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.04 releases to themNext Dates:    March 12 2026: 26.04 Freeze and Beta (26.03.80) tarball creation  March 13 2026: 26.04 Beta (26.03.80) release  March 26 2026: 26.04 RC (26.03.90) tarball…

Web Review, Week 2026-10

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/03/06/web-review-week-2026-10/

Published: March 6, 2026 11:10

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-10. A new California law says operating systems need to have age verification Tags: tech, law, surveillance The stupid idea of age verification keeps spreading with ridiculous laws……

What's new in QML Tooling in 6.11, part 1: QML Language Server (qmlls)

https://www.qt.io/blog/whats-new-in-qml-language-server-in-6.11

Published: March 5, 2026 08:57

The latest Qt release, Qt 6.11, is just around the corner. This short blog post series presents the new features that QML tooling brings in Qt 6.11, starting with qmlls in this part 1. Parts 2 and 3 will present newly added qmllint warnings since the last…

KDE Gear 25.12.3

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.3/

Published: March 5, 2026 00:00

Over 180 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear. Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations, including: kdeconnect: Fix clicking on plugin's…

Sound-reactive Sideboard

https://vizZzion.org/blog/2026/03/sound-reactive-sideboard/

Published: March 4, 2026 10:50

Sound-reactive sideboard A project that I had planned for quite some time came to fruition last year, now I finally found time to document the result. My livingroom sideboard looked messy and kind of boring while not blending in anymore with the updated…

Glaxnimate 0.6.0

https://glaxnimate.org/news/releases/0.6.0/

Published: March 3, 2026 13:20

Glaxnimate 0.6.0 is out! This is the first stable release with Glaxnimate as part of KDE. The biggest benefit of joining KDE is that now Glaxnimate can use KDE's infrastructure to build and deploy packages, greatly improving cross-platform support. This…

Rocky Linux becomes KDE's newest Patron

https://ev.kde.org/2026/03/03/rockylinux-becomes-kde-patron/

Published: March 3, 2026 00:00

Rocky Linux throws its support behind KDE, becoming our latest patron. Rocky Linux is a stable, community-driven, and production-ready Linux distribution designed to be fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Rocky Linux powers clouds,…

KDE Plasma 6.6.2, Bugfix Release for March

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.2/

Published: March 3, 2026 00:00

Tuesday, 3 March 2026. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.6.2. Plasma 6.6 was released in February 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a week’s worth of new…

SOK2026: Porting energy measurement scripts of KEcoLab to Wayland

https://hrishikeshgohain.netlify.app/posts/004.sok-midterm-update/

Published: March 2, 2026 16:30

About me # Hi Everyone ,I am Hrishikesh Gohain a third year undergraduate student in Computer Science & Engineering from India. For the past few weeks I have been working as a Season of KDE mentee with my mentors Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss ,Aakarsh MJ and…

This Month in KDE Apps

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/02/this-month-in-kde-apps/

Published: March 2, 2026 12:01

A lot of progress in Marknote and Drawy, a new homepage for Audiotube, and a rich text editor in NeoChatWelcome to a new issue of "This WeekMonth in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.…

What even are Breeze, QtQuick, QtWidget, Union..?

https://akselmo.dev/posts/what-are-breeze-widgets-quick-union/

Published: March 1, 2026 17:19

I was asked a good question: What are these things? What are the differences? I will try to explain what they are in this post, in bit less technical manner. I will keep some of the parts bit short here, since I am not 100% knowledgeable about everything,…

Breeze QtWidgets style changes to help us prepare for Union

https://akselmo.dev/posts/breeze-and-union-preparing/

Published: February 28, 2026 15:40

We have worked on some spring cleaning for Breeze, which helps us to prepare for Union and the changes it brings. This post is a bit more technical. Help us test things! If you are running Plasma git master branch, you may have noticed that Breeze has…

Web Review, Week 2026-09

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/02/27/web-review-week-2026-09/

Published: February 27, 2026 12:41

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-09. Easily Replaceable USB-C Port Spawned By EU Laws Tags: tech, usb, repair Since these ports are becoming more and more pervasive, it’s nice to see a replaceable and repairable option on the market.…

Building a Secure XMPP Bot: A Deep Dive into OMEMO Implementation with QXmpp

https://shibe-bit.github.io/Omemo/OmemoImplementation

Published: February 27, 2026 00:00

If you are building an XMPP client or bot today, plain text is no longer acceptable. Users expect modern, multi-device, end-to-end encryption.

Qt Extension 1.12.0 for VS Code Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-extension-1.12.0-for-vs-code-released

Published: February 26, 2026 15:40

We're happy to announce the release of version 1.12.0 of the Qt Extension for Visual Studio Code! This is our biggest release yet, featuring PySide6 support, full CMake Presets integration, Qt translation file support, and many other improvements across…

Creating a wooden board with Perlin Noise in Mankala

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/creating-a-wooden-board-with-perlin-noise-in-mankala/

Published: February 26, 2026 04:58

During this Season of KDE, we made a lot of design changes to the Mankala Engine. We successfully redesigned most of the components including the entire home page, boards and game variants. Now I was in the middle of creating a new cover image to select…