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What a real LTS looks like: Kubuntu 26.04

https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/13/what-a-real-lts-looks-like-kubuntu-26-04/

Published: August 13, 2026 18:10

Last year, Plasma developers canceled the long-term support (LTS) version of Plasma. Why? We had a few reasons: Almost nobody was using it; really only Kubuntu. Other discrete-release operating systems like Debian and openSUSE Leap generally ignored it.…

Weeks 9 & 10: Multi-Select and Mobile Selection Mode

https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/weeks-9-10-multi-select-and-mobile-selection-mode/

Published: August 12, 2026 11:46

Over the last two weeks, I worked on adding multi-select support for deleting multiple entries at once. It sounded like a straightforward feature at first, but it ended up leading me down an interesting debugging involving an asynchronous race condition.…

Keep your community afloat with the right defense tokens

https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/11/keep-your-community-afloat-with-the-right-defense-tokens/

Published: August 11, 2026 21:46

My favorite tabletop game of all time is Star Wars: Armada, a Star Wars themed ship combat wargame. Armada has many deep and tactically interesting features, but one of my favorites is the unique suite of defense tokens available to each spaceship to…

KEcoLab Sprint 26

https://chucklesdroid.xyz/posts/kecolabsprint26/kecolabsprint26/

Published: August 11, 2026 18:20

I participated in the KEcoLab sprint held from May 27th to May 28th at the KDAB office in Berlin. It was my first time being at a KEcoLab sprint, I have mostly been an online participant before this so it was nice to meetup with both Karan and Joseph and…

Adding voice chat for Mankala

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/adding-voice-chat-for-mankala/

Published: August 11, 2026 15:13

Hi everyone! This week we added voice chat for Mankala.For Mankala, our goal was to elevate the player experience by adding real-time voice chat. We have already added text chat using XMPP, and to make this experience better, voice chat is a much better…

Skrooge 26.8.0 released

https://skrooge.org/news/2026-08-10-skrooge_26.8.0_released/

Published: August 10, 2026 00:00

The Skrooge Team announces the release 26.8.0 version of its popular Personal Finances Manager based on KDE Frameworks. Changelog Correction bug 518796: skrooge-boursorama.py stop to work for some values Correction bug 520749: Skrooge can't load skg file…

KStars 3.8.4 Released

http://knro.blogspot.com/2026/08/kstars-384-released.html

Published: August 9, 2026 12:44

KStars v3.8.4 is released on 2026.08.09 for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. For Linux users, it's highly recommended to use the official KStars Flatpak hosted at Flathub. This release brings major improvements including the World's First AI powered Guider!…

About time…

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/08/08/about-time/

Published: August 8, 2026 18:34

Another missing Oxygen icon, this time KTimer. The idea was simple enough… its a timer, lets make a digital watch. And having grown up in the 80's my brain obviously went directly to those old Casio watches we all had, wanted, lost, or somehow managed to…

Reworking KSSHAskPass

https://blog.broulik.de/2026/08/reworking-ksshaskpass/

Published: August 8, 2026 06:53

KDE has a little utility called ksshaskpass that is invoked by SSH to prompt the user for credentials. It can then store them in KDE Wallet so you don’t have to type them again next time. The other day I had to set up an elaborate SSH configuration with…

Week 9 & 10: Speed Ramp Implementation, MR Opened

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-9-10-speed-ramp-implementation-mr-opened/

Published: August 8, 2026 00:57

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. Combining two weeks here since the last post covered a lot of ground already. From research to…

This Week in Plasma: UI Improvements Galore

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/08/this-week-in-plasma-ui-improvements-galore/

Published: August 8, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we merged a number of features and UI changes that focus on user-friendliness — in addition to a nice crop of bug-fixes and performance improvements: Notable new features Plasma 6.8 If you try to…

KDE Goals - Last Call For Submissions

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/07/kde-goals-last-call-for-submissions/

Published: August 7, 2026 13:17

Last chance to submit your KDE Goals proposal The call for submissions for the next KDE Goals cycle closes tomorrow, August 8. As of the time of writing we've received nineteen proposals, covering a variety of topics like enterprise, gaming, personal…

Web Review, Week 2026-32

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/08/07/web-review-week-2026-32/

Published: August 7, 2026 12:22

Alright, this will be the last review of the Summer. I’ll take a break until September as I really need to unplug for a bit. The next edition will be at the end of the first week of September. See you then! But first… let’s go for my web review for the…

This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/06/this-quarter-in-kde-digital-sovereignty-q2-2026/

Published: August 6, 2026 16:00

Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty! This blog series will cover the work done throughout KDE’s software stack that’s funded by the investment KDE received earlier this year from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency.…