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This Week in Plasma: Finalizing 6.6

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/14/this-week-in-plasma-finalizing-6.6/

Published: February 14, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we put the finishing touches on Plasma 6.6! It’s due to be released in just a few days and it’s a great release with tons of impactful features, UI improvements, and bug fixes. I hope everyone loves…

Web Review, Week 2026-07

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/02/13/web-review-week-2026-07/

Published: February 13, 2026 11:44

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-07. The Media Can’t Stop Propping Up Elon Musk’s Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology Tags: tech, politics, journalism, business There’s really a problem with journalism at this point. How come when covering…

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.23.0

https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.23.0/

Published: February 13, 2026 00:00

Friday, 13 February 2026 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.23.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this version Baloo…

While you support others, who supports you?

https://pointieststick.com/2026/02/12/while-you-support-others-who-supports-you/

Published: February 12, 2026 22:58

The world of free and open-source software (FOSS) is full of big-hearted, altruistic people who love serving society by giving away their labor for free. It’s incredible. These folks are supporting so many people by providing the world with high quality…

Qt Creator 19 Beta2 released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-19-beta2-released

Published: February 12, 2026 12:36

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 19 Beta2.

Nifty Dialogs

https://blog.broulik.de/2026/02/nifty-dialogs/

Published: February 12, 2026 08:00

As explained in one of my previous blog posts where I revamped the unresponsive window dialog, KWin isn’t really designed to show regular desktop windows of its own. It instead relies on helper programs to display messages. In case of the “no border” hint,…

Monthly Report - February 2026

https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/monthly-report-2602/

Published: February 10, 2026 00:00

The final final 5.2.x release has been made, and the first beta for 5.3.0/6.0.0 is out! Read on for a look at development news and the Krita-Artists forum's featured artwork from last month. Development Report 5.2.15 Released 5.2.15, another bugfix…

Kapsule: it shipped and nobody died

https://blog.lasath.org/2026/02/kapsule-it-shipped-and-nobody-died.html

Published: February 9, 2026 22:53

In my last post, I laid out the vision for Kapsule—a container-based extensibility layer for KDE Linux built on top of Incus. The pitch was simple: give users real, persistent development environments without compromising the immutable base system. At the…

QFuture ❤️ C++ coroutines

https://www.arnorehn.de/blog/2026/02/09/qfuture-c-coroutines/

Published: February 9, 2026 21:38

Ever since C++20 introduced coroutine support, I was wondering how this could integrate with Qt. Apparently I wasn’t the only one: before long, QCoro popped up. A really cool library! But it doesn’t use the existing future and promise types in Qt; instead…

Kdenlive 25.12.2 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.12.2/

Published: February 9, 2026 12:28

The second maintenance release of the 25.12 series is with the usual batch of stability fixes and workflow improvements. Highlights of this release include fixes to various monitor issues and refactoring of the monitor dragging mechanism. See the changelog…

Beating an old, but not dead horse: what to do with the Oxygen and Air themes?

https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/beating-an-old-but-not-dead-horse-what-to-do-with-the-oxygen-and-air-themes/

Published: February 8, 2026 07:43

Minimalism came in like a wrecking ball somewhere around 2013. It delivered a terminal diagnosis to all but a few prevailing designs at the time. One of them, called Oxygen, had reigned supreme in KDE Plasma. As with many others, its demise was inevitable.…

Generating GTFS Feeds

https://jbb.ghsq.de/kde/2026/02/07/Generating-GTFS-Feeds.html

Published: February 7, 2026 22:47

Transitous is a project that runs a public transport routing service that aspires to work wold-wide. The biggest leaps forward in coverage happened in the beginning, when it was just a matter of finding the right urls to download the schedules from. Most…

(SOK) Weekly recap (1) - KDE Docs PDF generation

https://libremelon.com/blog/kde/2026/02/08/01-sok-kde-docs/

Published: February 7, 2026 18:30

This is a sequel to my first blog where I’m working on fixing a part of docs.kde.org: PDF generation. The documentation website generation pipeline currently depends on docs-kde-org, and this week I was focused on decoupling it. Moving away from…

FOSDEM 2026

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/02/07/fosdem-2026.html

Published: February 7, 2026 10:45

Last weekend I attended this years edition of FOSDEM in Brussels again, mostly focusing on KDE and Open Transport topics. KDE As usual, KDE had a stand, this time back in the K building and right next to our friends from GNOME. Besides various stickers,…

Busy months in KDE Linux

https://pointieststick.com/2026/02/06/busy-months-in-kde-linux/

Published: February 7, 2026 06:42

It’s been few months since I last blogged about KDE Linux, KDE’s operating system of the future. So I thought it was time to fill people in on recent goings-on! It hasn’t been quiet, that’s for sure: Project health is looking good KDE Linux hit its alpha…

This Week in Plasma: beefed-up Window List widget

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/07/this-week-in-plasma-beefed-up-window-list-widget/

Published: February 7, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team continued polishing up Plasma 6.6 for release in a week and a half. With that being taken care of, a lot of fantastic contributions rolled in on other diverse subjects, adding cool…

Web Review, Week 2026-06

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/02/06/web-review-week-2026-06/

Published: February 6, 2026 11:43

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-06. The Retro Web Tags: tech, hardware, history This is a nice resource trying to document the history of computer hardware. Really cool stuff. https://theretroweb.com/ IndieWebify.Me? Yes please! Tags: tech,…

Parametrized Keyframes - Status Report, February 2026

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/dopesheet-status-1-26/

Published: February 6, 2026 06:00

In the last month, I have mostly been working on refactoring the Kdenlive keyframes system to make it more powerful. This is part of a NGI Zero Commons grant via NLnet. Improving existing parameters handling A first step in preparation for this work was to…

Kapsule: Completing the KDE Linux Extensibility Story

https://blog.lasath.org/2026/02/kapsule-completing-kde-linux.html

Published: February 6, 2026 04:15

After taking a 13 year hiatus from KDE development, Harald Sitter's talk on KDE Linux at Akademy 2024 was the perfect storm of nostalgia and inspiration to suck me back in. I've been contributing on and off since then. This blog post outlines some gaping…

First beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0

https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-6.0.0-beta1-released/

Published: February 5, 2026 00:00

We have started the release process for the next feature release of Krita today! This release is the culmination of years of hard work. From the same codebase, we're building both Krita 5.3, based on Qt5, and Krita 6.0.0. based on Qt6. Krita 6 is not yet…

KDE Gear 25.12.2

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.12.2/

Published: February 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: kalk: Map Delete key to clear input…

FOSDEM 2026

https://anditosan.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/fosdem-2026/

Published: February 4, 2026 19:20

This year was my first year attending FOSDEM. I was encouraged to submit a talk and it got accepted. My talk was on Design Systems applied to Open Source projects. In our case, I related the story and learnings from using a design system for the Plasma…

2026 Krita Roadmap

https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/roadmap-2026/

Published: February 4, 2026 00:00

In two sessions, the Krita developer discussed what they want to work on in 2026, after Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 are released. That is, actually, one release, but one version is built with Qt5 and one with Qt6. The release is planned for next month. Krita…

Release GCompris 26.0

https://www.gcompris.net/newsall-en.html#2026-02-04

Published: February 3, 2026 23:00

Today we are releasing GCompris version 26.0. We are also releasing the first official version of our companion tool for teachers: GCompris-teachers! You can find more information about it on the schools page. This new version contains 197 activities,…

GPG Update 2026

https://euroquis.nl/blabla/2026/02/03/gpg.html

Published: February 2, 2026 23:00

A recent toot of mine got the response “friends don’t let friends use GPG” which, I suppose, is true enough. It certainly isn’t the attestation-friendly thing to use, and the opsec failures that are so easy with GPG-encrypted mail make it a hazard there.…

Week 1 of Season of KDE 2026

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/sokweek1/

Published: February 2, 2026 17:36

Hello everyone!🎉 Welcome to my first blog! I am Sayandeep Dutta, an undergraduate at SRM University. I learned about the awesome mentorship program, Season of KDE. Getting StartedI started contributing to Mankala in December 2025. Got to know more about…

Poor Man's Volumetric Light

https://www.qt.io/blog/poor-mans-volumetric-light-real-time-light-shafts-with-ies-profiles

Published: February 2, 2026 10:42

Building Volumetric Light Shafts with Real IES Profiles You know that feeling when the street lamps on a hazy evening cast these particular patterns of light? I've always been fascinated by those effects, so I decided to build a real-time volumetric…

Season of KDE 2026: Week 1 Progress for Automating Promo Data Collection

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/01/season-of-kde-2026-week-1-progress-for-automating-promo-data-collection/

Published: February 1, 2026 00:00

Hi all! I'm CJ, and I'm participating in Season of KDE 2026 by automating portions of the data collection for the KDE promo team. This post is an update on the work I've done in the first week of SoK. My mentor gave me a light task to help me get set up…

This Week in Plasma: getting 6.6 ready for release

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/31/this-week-in-plasma-getting-6.6-ready-for-release/

Published: January 31, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we reached that part of every Plasma release cycle where the bug fixes and polish for the upcoming release are still coming in hot and heavy, but people have also started to land their changes for…

KWallet, SecretService, oo7: the story so far

https://notmart.org/blog/2026/01/kwallet-secretservice-oo7-the-story-so-far/

Published: January 30, 2026 16:15

Continuing previous efforts to update the “secure passwords” story of the Plasma desktop, I’ve done some integration work between Plasma and oo7. Oo7 is a relatively recent SecretService provider written in Rust; it’s very nice, lightweight and…

Web Review, Week 2026-05

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/01/30/web-review-week-2026-05/

Published: January 30, 2026 13:14

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-05. Neocities Is Blocked by Bing Tags: tech, web, search, microsoft, vendor-lockin Huh? What’s going on there? I don’t see why they would exclude this domain completely, it makes no sense.…

Call for Presentations – Qt World Summit 2026 in Berlin

https://www.qt.io/blog/call-for-presentations-qt-world-summit-2026-in-berlin

Published: January 30, 2026 11:59

It's that time of year again; another Qt World Summit is approaching! We are looking for speakers, collaborators, and industry thought leaders to share their expertise and insights at the upcoming Qt World Summit 2026 on October 27-28, in Berlin, Germany. …

December/January in KDE Itinerary

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/01/30/kde-itinerary-december-january-2026.html

Published: January 30, 2026 08:45

In the past two months since the previous report KDE Itinerary got new vector-based map views and manual control over reservation cancellations, and there has been more work on reverse engineering proprietary train tickets, among many other things. New…

This week in Bouncy Ball – new features land

https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/this-week-in-bouncy-ball-new-features-land/

Published: January 30, 2026 08:08

After some more nights spent with our beloved Bouncy Ball, I'm happy to announce that a new version is out on the KDE Store. Last week in Bouncy Ball | KDE Store page Prior to getting down and dirty with it, I again had at a look at how the ball was…

Qt Creator 19 Beta released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-19-beta-released

Published: January 29, 2026 10:29

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 19 Beta! You find a selection of improvements and fixes below. Please have a look at our change log for more detailed information.

Ooo, what does this disk do?

https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2026/01/29/disk.html

Published: January 28, 2026 23:00

I have a pile of hard drives. 3.5” Spinning rust. There’s like a dozen of them, some labeled cryptically (EBN D2), some infuriatingly (1) and some not-at-all. Probably most of them work. But how to effectively figure out what is on them? FreeBSD to the…

GSoC: differences of expectations between students and organizations

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/28/gsoc-differences-of-expectations-between-students-and-organizations/

Published: January 28, 2026 00:00

I've been administering KDE's participation in the Google Summer of Code program for the last few years (and mentoring on some). This post is just some personal thoughts on the differences between what the KDE organization expects and what usually the…

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Release

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.91/

Published: January 27, 2026 00:00

This is second beta of Plasma 6.6, which includes several bugfixes before final release on 17th February 2026. Here are the new modules available in the Plasma 6.6 beta: plasma-login-manager plasma-keyboard plasma-setup Some important features and…

Qt Creator 18.0.2 released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18.0.2-released

Published: January 26, 2026 11:01

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 18.0.2! This release fixes a range of smaller issues like the persistence of the "Always save files before build" option and an issue that occurred when using some custom toolchains with vcpkg. It also…

Bouncy Ball will always bounce back

https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/bouncy-ball-will-always-bounce-back/

Published: January 25, 2026 09:32

Bouncy Ball. A proper KDE 4 classic. Many hymns of praise have been sung about this lovable desktop extension. Do You Remember the KDE Bouncy Ball Widget? Fear not, OMG! Ubuntu! You will bounce again! The KDE Ball Widget Bounces Back to Life It's a widget…

This Week in Plasma: fixing all the things

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/24/this-week-in-plasma-fixing-all-the-things/

Published: January 24, 2026 00:03

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team focused almost entirely on bug fixing. And let’s let the results speak for themselves: we fixed 18 high and very high priority Plasma bugs, or 28% of all open ones! Lots of polishing…

Detecting Memory Leaks in KDE CI

https://nicolasfella.de/posts/detecting-leaks-in-kde-ci/?utm_source=atom_feed

Published: January 23, 2026 21:00

Leaking memory is impolite. It’s messy, it can suggest logic bugs, and thanks to AI grifters RAM is expensive. Unfortunately C++ makes it rather easy to leak memory. Fortunately we have tools to find such leaks. One such tool is Leak Sanitizer (LSAN) from…

Web Review, Week 2026-04

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/01/23/web-review-week-2026-04/

Published: January 23, 2026 10:38

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-04. FOSS for digital sovereignty in the EU Tags: tech, europe, politics, foss Need inspiration for your answer to the European Commission call for evidence on open source? This is a good one.…