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Rolisteam v1.10 is out!

http://renaudguezennec.eu/index.php/2026/07/05/rolisteam-v1-10-is-out/

Published: July 5, 2026 14:22

After a long development cycle, we are thrilled to announce the official release of Rolisteam v1.10. This version brings a wave of brand-new tools for Game Masters, a major technical overhaul of the whole project, and a much healthier codebase for the…

This Week in Plasma: Better Animations

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/04/this-week-in-plasma-better-animations/

Published: July 4, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week Plasma 6.7 received a few more stabilization bug-fixes while attention turned towards the upcoming 6.8 release. Some exciting changes are in progress, and a few have already merged, including highly…

Tellico 4.2.1 Released

https://tellico-project.org/tellico-4-2-1-released/

Published: July 3, 2026 16:55

Tellico 4.2.1 is available, with some improvements and bug fixes. Improvements: Added user-defined data fetch argument (Bug 516055). Updated Google Scholar and Colnect data sources. Updated Google Books data source (Bug 522095). Updated external data…

Web Review, Week 2026-27

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/07/03/web-review-week-2026-27/

Published: July 3, 2026 10:36

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-27. What happened to the fight for the Internet? Tags: tech, politics, surveillance Excellent piece, where are the netizens who should be fighting back those bills? Looks like we became very complacent and…

Attention to Detail

https://blog.broulik.de/2026/07/attention-to-detail/

Published: July 3, 2026 10:23

A couple of months ago I improved some of our dialogs and this time I worked on some more. Did you know that you can just paste the clipboard’s content into the Dolphin file manager or on the desktop to create a new file from it? Just paste your…

Week 5: KWallet XML Import & Password Generator

https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/week-5-kwallet-xml-import-password-generator/

Published: July 2, 2026 12:48

This week I shipped two new features for KeepSecret. KWallet XML Import (!34) The Import menu on the wallet page is now a submenu with two options: -KeepSecret… -KWallet XML… Both import formats are converted into the same internal format, allowing them to…

KDE Gear 26.04.3

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.3/

Published: July 2, 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: elisa: Change output device when…

This month in KDE Linux: June 2026

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/01/this-month-in-kde-linux-june-2026/

Published: July 1, 2026 18:52

Welcome to another edition of “This month in KDE Linux” — KDE’s in-progress operating system. This month was pretty smooth; we had no build delivery drama, and all OS images we shipped were of satisfactory quality. The project is maturing, and we’re 78% of…

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

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

Published: July 1, 2026 14:15

Rust has achieved something extraordinary: it genuinely excites people to write software. But when it comes to building a real user interface, the ecosystem is still finding its footing. There are numerous options to pick your Rust UI framework from,…

Qt Bridges: Public Beta for the Rust Bridge Is Out!

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

Published: July 1, 2026 14:15

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…

Steam Deck and Wayland

https://notmart.org/blog/2026/07/steamdeck-and-wayland/

Published: July 1, 2026 12:23

A while ago, Steam OS 3.8 was released. Among its many improvements, it includes a particularly important one for the Desktop Mode: it finally uses a Wayland session by default. There are many reasons why this is important for both us and our users. It is…

The Steam Machine is here!

https://pointieststick.com/2026/06/30/the-steam-machine-is-here/

Published: June 30, 2026 18:48

For a while now, my colleagues and I over in Techpaladin Software have been working on software support for the Steam Machine, so it’s so awesome to see the product released! Like everyone else, I was surprised by the pricing… until I went out and…

C++ Library Headers & CMake Config Files: Are We Serviceable?

https://frinring.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/c-library-headers-cmake-config-files-are-we-serviceable/

Published: June 30, 2026 17:33

When working on a software library which is targeting 3rd-party consumers, it is rather of self-interest to make the library uncomplicated to use. Unless perhaps there is opportunity seen in having to help out in the process And to know if it is…

GSoC - Working on Marknote

https://prayag2.github.io/posts/gsoc-june-update/

Published: June 30, 2026 17:00

Overview I’m working on Marknote to introduce a block-editor inspired by popular note taking apps such as Notion. A block editor is a modern text editor that allows you to insert elements such as paragraphs, lists, tables, code, block quotes, etc. into…

Ocean Updates – June 2026

https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2026/06/30/ocean-updates-june-2026-2/

Published: June 30, 2026 13:27

Ocean Icons in Penpot I began the process of moving icons from Figma to Penpot. The icons are locate in the Icons page inside Penpot. This page contains some placeholder icon components created by our contributors. This was done so that we could use…

KDE Plasma 6.7.2, Bugfix Release for June

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.2/

Published: June 30, 2026 00:00

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.7.2. Plasma 6.7 was released in June 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a week’s worth of new translations and fixes from…

Week 5: Curves Merged, Gradient Widget Begins

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-5-curves-merged-gradient-widget-begins/

Published: June 29, 2026 19:55

This is a weekly update from my Google Summer of Code 2026 project with KDE, improving effect widgets in Kdenlive, a free and open source video editor. MR !887 mergedThe Curves widget MR got merged to master this week and will ship in the Kdenlive 26.08…

Teaching digiKam to Understand You: Natural Language Search with Local LLMs

http://srirupa19.github.io/gsoc/2026/06/28/gsoc1.html

Published: June 28, 2026 04:33

GSoC 2026 • digiKam • Post 1: Design and Progress I’ve been hanging around KDE apps since I was a teenager :), so getting to spend another summer inside one feels a bit like coming home. This time it’s digiKam! Here’s what I want digiKam to do: Let me type…

XDG Desktop Portal Location API for KDE applications

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/06/27/kde-xdg-portal-location-api.html

Published: June 27, 2026 06:00

In my last post on Android platform integration I had suggested increasing the focus on Linux on mobile phones, due to Google’s ongoing attempts to close down Android for us. I have to follow that myself then of course, starting with looking at the…

This Week in Plasma: Post-6.7 Bug-fixing

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/06/27/this-week-in-plasma-post-6.7-bug-fixing/

Published: June 27, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week members of the core Plasma team spent almost all of their time in bug-fixing mode! As usual, people unleashed their real-world setups on the new Plasma release and found some issues we missed during…

Techpaladin is hiring again

https://pointieststick.com/2026/06/26/techpaladin-is-hiring-again/

Published: June 26, 2026 14:30

Time to put on my Techpaladin Software had again: we’re hiring! David Edmundson has already posted it, so I’m here to boost the signal: we need you! Especially if you’ve got experience with Qt/KDE development. We’re looking for someone with that plus an…

Submit a KDE goal!

https://pointieststick.com/2026/06/26/submit-a-kde-goal/

Published: June 26, 2026 14:13

KDE has now started its fifth round of “goal-setting” — a process that began in 2017. These goals are big, high-level goals. Think “focus on large strategic topic X” more so than “fix my pet bugs A, B, and C”. And it’s up to the KDE community to choose the…

Techpaladin are hiring!

http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/techpaladin-are-hiring/

Published: June 26, 2026 11:33

If you've been around KDE, you've probably heard of Techpaladin Software We're a consultancy that works almost exclusively on KDE, improving KDE upstream while delivering the features and functionality our clients need. We're growing and looking for more…

Web Review, Week 2026-26

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/06/26/web-review-week-2026-26/

Published: June 26, 2026 09:18

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-26. Look, just fucking use Mastodon already Tags: tech, social-media, fediverse, bluesky, decentralized Aren’t the signs clear enough yet? Don’t get misled by Bluesky.…

Just fixing a bug!

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/06/24/just-fixing-a-bug/

Published: June 24, 2026 18:31

Or at least that was the plan... The original intent was simply to fix an issue in the Oxygen cursor theme. Some cursor sizes were missing and i thought this would be one of those quick fixes. You know... the kind that takes 10 minutes. Several days later…

Display Next Hackfest 2026

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland,/graphics/drivers/2026/06/24/display-next-hackfest.html

Published: June 24, 2026 13:00

This year, there was another display next hackfest, this time in Nice, France. This was a very productive hackfest, so I’ll focus just on my personal highlights here. KMS backlight property As mentioned in the blog post about the last hackfest, the current…