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Implementation Plan for Tournaments in Mankala Engine

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/implementation-plan-for-tournaments-in-mankala-engine/

Published: May 25, 2026 14:51

We are almost at the end of our community bonding period. It’s been nearly 1 month since GSOC 2026 results, and the time to formulate a proper plan for the future plan of action regarding our project💡 Here is the breakdown of a rough plan of what I want to…

Week 1 : Coding Begins

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-1-coding-begins/

Published: May 25, 2026 03:57

It's May 25. Community bonding is over. Coding starts today. The last few days of bonding were about wrapping loose ends, got two MRs merged: warn before deleting tracks and snap playhead to snap points. A few others are still open and in review, but the…

“Long-Term Support” doesn’t mean what you think

https://pointieststick.com/2026/05/23/long-term-support-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/

Published: May 23, 2026 19:05

My last post about good beginner-friendly KDE-focused operating systems sparked some discussions about the concept of “Long-Term Support” (LTS) releases. But what does this term mean? It’s a bit generic-sounding, making it easy to interpret as meaning…

This Week in Plasma: Xe Driver Support and Polishing Discover

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/23/this-week-in-plasma-xe-driver-support-and-polishing-discover/

Published: May 23, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the focus was squarely on polishing up Plasma 6.7 in preparation for release on June 16th. Bugs were squashed, user interfaces were improved, and amidst it all, a lovely community contribution added…

Web Review, Week 2026-21

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/05/22/web-review-week-2026-21/

Published: May 22, 2026 13:51

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-21. Make your website or blog fediverse-ready Tags: tech, fediverse, blog It’s not complicated, and a good thing to do. https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/make-your-website-or-blog-fediverse-ready/ Dumb Ways for…

Qt Extension 1.14.0 for VS Code Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-extension-1.14.0-for-vs-code-released

Published: May 22, 2026 13:27

We're excited to announce the release of version 1.14.0 of the Qt Extension for Visual Studio Code! This release introduces QML Live Preview with hot-reload capability, bringing real-time feedback directly into your editor.

Ocean Design for Plasma – May Updates

https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2026/05/22/ocean-design-for-plasma-may-updates/

Published: May 22, 2026 13:09

Fixing Color Visuals, Exporting and Importing We received multiple reports of problems when importing the Penpot library file. Users would see a Penpot instance crash upon loading our library. One of our contributors noticed that there was a problematic…

Qt Creator 20 Beta2 released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-20-beta2-released

Published: May 21, 2026 10:27

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 20 Beta2.

The KDE Qt5 Patch Collection has been rebased on top of Qt 5.15.19

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-kde-qt5-patch-collection-has-been.html

Published: May 20, 2026 21:06

Commit: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qt5/-/commit/aa749695075684f0c8585ede19e361f9accb4287Commercial release announcement: https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.19-released OpenSource release announcement:…

kirigami-app-components

https://notmart.org/blog/2026/05/kirigami-app-components/

Published: May 20, 2026 15:03

We just had a release of a new library, and future framework: kirigami-app-componets, which is a new repository where a certain kind of Kirigami extensions will go. This repository will contain modules that are intended to be building blocks for…

Qt Creator 20: faster clangd

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-20-faster-clangd

Published: May 20, 2026 13:07

In this article, I am going to talk about having a PGO (Profile-Guided Optimization) build of Clang.

A Cross-Platform C# UI Framework via Qt’s Bridging Technology

https://www.qt.io/blog/csharp-ui-framework-via-bridging-technology

Published: May 20, 2026 11:20

Every C# UI framework comes with a familiar pattern: Windows-first, Linux absent, roadmap uncertain. WPF stalled, MAUI skipped Linux, WinUI 3 stays Windows-native. At the same time, demand for embedded Linux grows and C# teams feel the lack of good UI…

Qt Bridges: Public Beta for the C# Bridge Is Out!

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-bridges-public-beta-for-csharp

Published: May 20, 2026 11:19

Qt Bridges is a project we have been developing since 2025 to bring Qt’s UI framework capabilities to other programming languages, without going through the full set of bindings. The focus is on the interaction with backend data objects, seamlessly…

Kirigami Adddons 1.12.1

https://carlschwan.eu/2026/05/20/kirigami-adddons-1.12.1/

Published: May 20, 2026 07:30

A new release of Kirigami Addons is out. This is a minor release containing mostly bug fixes and small refactoring. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release. Packager section You can find the package on download.kde.org (kirigami addons) and it…

Smoke tests for fun and profit

https://nicolasfella.de/posts/smoke-tests-for-fun-and-profit/?utm_source=atom_feed

Published: May 19, 2026 22:00

Smoking is bad for you. Testing software is good for you though. A while ago I wrote about detecting memory leaks in KDE CI. That works beautifully, and has already lead to real-world improvements, but it assumes that CI actually runs some code, usually a…

Haruna 1.8

https://haruna.kde.org/blog/2026-05-18-haruna-1.8/

Published: May 19, 2026 21:00

Haruna version 1.8.1 is released. If you like Haruna then support its development GitHub Sponsors Liberapay PayPal Windows version: haruna-1.8.1-windows-gcc-x86_64.exe haruna-1.8.1-windows-gcc-x86_64.7z Availability of other package formats depends…

Introducing Qt's GUI Design Skill: Design for Developers in Agentic Workflows

https://www.qt.io/blog/introducing-qts-gui-design-skill-design-for-developers-in-agentic-workflows

Published: May 19, 2026 10:25

Why UI Developers Need Sometimes Design Support - and How the Skill Provides It Not every UI developer has a UX designer at their disposal. Some R&D teams, especially in small and medium-sized businesses, need to build a user interface without the help of…

About the importance of FUN

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/05/18/about-the-importance-of-fun/

Published: May 18, 2026 13:59

One of the things I think modern software quietly forgot is fun. Maybe we became to distracterd on the day to day life of affordance and usability,.... we forgot to have a bit of FUN!! So while revamping the old Oxygen icon set into today, and maybe more…

Join KDE's Amharic translation effort!

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/05/join-kdes-amharic-translation-effort.html

Published: May 17, 2026 23:00

A contributor has recently started translating KDE to Amharic.They are looking for people to help since translating KDE is a lot of work.Please join the kde-l10n-am mailing list and introduce yourself if you are interested in helping!

55,041,902 Lines of Code

https://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2026/05/55041902-lines-of-code.html

Published: May 17, 2026 10:02

I did some exploration on KDE's code base. It's amazing what you can find when you have almost 30 years of public history in git.In doing so I ran some statistics on KDE's core software. That core is relatively well-defined, even over the years. It's the…

Start with Fedora KDE or Kubuntu

https://pointieststick.com/2026/05/16/start-with-fedora-kde-or-kubuntu/

Published: May 16, 2026 22:15

I regularly read questions from new users on Reddit and KDE’s discussion forum asking what Linux-based operating system they should start out with, or asking for help after choosing an unsuitable one. Inspired by a recent example on Reddit, I decided to…