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Week 1 Status Report

https://tushar2005.bearblog.dev/week-1-status-report/

Published: May 10, 2026 13:48

Hey everyone! This is my first post and Week 1 status report. I started this week by setting up: The project and configuring jj, a local version control system that has been a lifesaver for testing, simulating, and keeping my commits organized. The first…

FOSSGIS Community Meeting May 2026

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/05/09/fossgis-community-meeting-may-2026.html

Published: May 9, 2026 07:30

Last weekend I joined parts of the FOSSGIS Community Meeting at Linuxhotel in Essen, Germany, focusing on topics related to organizing this year’s edition of the Open Transport Community Conference. FOSSGIS Community Meeting Twice a year FOSSGIS e.V.…

Kdenlive 26.04.1 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.04.1/

Published: May 9, 2026 04:00

The first maintenance release of the 26.04 series is now available, with the usual batch of stability fixes and workflow improvements. This release also contains an important security fix, so we strongly advise all users to upgrade to the latest 26.04.1…

This Week in Plasma: ICC profiles ❤️ HDR

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/09/this-week-in-plasma-icc-profiles-%EF%B8%8F-hdr/

Published: May 9, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week saw a lot of lower-level technical improvements made throughout Plasma’s software stack. Not super flashy, but super important. Nevertheless, two color-related features did manage to sneak in! And as…

Web Review, Week 2026-19

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/05/08/web-review-week-2026-19/

Published: May 8, 2026 20:46

Back from vacations, the reading offline was good… I managed to read some articles too, so let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-19. Building a cyberdeck is the most punk thing you can do right now Tags: tech, hacking, culture It’s indeed a nice…

Send your talks for Akademy NOW!

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/05/send-your-talks-for-akademy-now.html

Published: May 7, 2026 22:47

Akademy 2026 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Graz. Austria, Saturday 19th – Thursday 24th September. First of all, if you're reading this and thinking, "Should i go to Akademy?" The answer is [most probably] YES! Akademy has something for…

Singleton Controllers in Times of Declarative QML

https://www.kdab.com/singleton-controllers-in-times-of-declarative-qml/

Published: May 7, 2026 08:30

Singleton Controllers in Times of Declarative QMLController objects have been the main way to glue your QML UI to your application's actual implementation of the I/O and business logic. However, over the years, the way to actually expose that controller…

Installing Qt metatypes files

https://nicolasfella.de/posts/installing-qt-metatypes/?utm_source=atom_feed

Published: May 6, 2026 21:00

If you have been on invent.kde.org lately you might have seen some merge requests about “Install Qt metatypes” and wondered what that’s all about. When defining QML types in C++ the buildsytem tries to capture as much information about the type as…

Making wl_shm fast

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/05/06/making-wl-shm-fast.html

Published: May 6, 2026 13:25

While most new applications use the GPU for rendering to achieve better performance and battery life, there are some new applications and a lot of older applications that still use CPU rendering. More specifically relevant for KDE, while QtQuick is GPU…

Introductory Post

https://ojasmaheshwari.bearblog.dev/introductory-post/

Published: May 5, 2026 17:00

Hello, I am Ojas Maheshwari. I got selected for contributing to the project "Implement Font Subsetting when saving PDF files" for GSoC 2026 at KDE community. This site will have all the official documentation and progress updates on what I did through the…

KeepSecret 1.1

https://notmart.org/blog/2026/05/keepsecret-1-1/

Published: May 5, 2026 11:37

KeepSecret is our new password management application, based on SecretService, which works both with our old KWallet infrastructure as well as more modern services such as oo7, KeepassXC and many others. Version 1.1 has now been released. This release Has…

Introducing the QML Profiler Skill for Agentic Development

https://www.qt.io/blog/introducing-the-qml-profiler-skill-for-agentic-development

Published: May 5, 2026 07:02

Instead of a painstaking row-by-row or slow flame graph reviews, the QML profiler skill for agentic development allows developers to delegate code performance profiling to AI agents.The skill guides the developer through the workflow, triggers the QML…

Union: Spring 2026 Update

https://quantumproductions.info/articles/2026-05/union-spring-2026-update

Published: May 4, 2026 20:10

Union: Spring 2026 Update It has been a long time since I wrote anything about Union, the new style engine being developed for KDE. However, that does not mean nothing has happened in that time. Quite the opposite, in fact (spoiler alert); we plan to do a…

Introducing the Qt Code Review Skills for Agentic Development

https://www.qt.io/blog/introducing-the-qt-code-review-skills-for-agentic-development

Published: May 4, 2026 15:12

The Qt Code Review skills allow developers to augment code quality analysis with AI agents - both for Qt C++ and QML code. Instead of a laborious manual walkthrough of every file, the AI agent runs a deterministic linter followed by six parallel…

Using the WebView module with C++ and Qt Widgets

https://www.qt.io/blog/using-the-webview-module-with-c-and-qt-widgets

Published: May 4, 2026 10:46

For a long time, developers of Qt-based C++ applications have only had one option for embedding web content: Qt WebEngine. And while it offers a large API with many useful features, the module has its downsides, since it can consume a lot of system…

Meet Drawy

https://prayag2.github.io/posts/meet-drawy/

Published: May 3, 2026 21:30

Screenshot This is Drawy, KDE’s first infinite whiteboard app written entirely in C++ and Qt. It is inspired by the popular web-based Excalidraw. Its main focus is simplicity, ease of use, and performance. You get all the usual essential features, such…

Invest in your identity

https://blog.cornelius-schumacher.de/2026/05/invest-in-your-identity.html

Published: May 3, 2026 20:11

I have 30 years of documented history on the web and in my personal recordings. That defines very well who I am, what I do, how I see the world, and how people see me. I worked on that. Sometimes consciously, sometimes as a side effect of my job, my side…

KDE email, part 3: don’t filter your email

https://pointieststick.com/2026/05/03/kde-email-part-3-dont-filter-your-email/

Published: May 3, 2026 17:03

This is part 3 in my series about email management, with the prior one being about using email client apps. This one is about trying to use email filtering to handle email overload. You’re getting too much email It’s a flood — no, a deluge! Hundreds of…

Gestures in Graz, and beyond

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/03/gestures-in-graz-and-beyond/

Published: May 3, 2026 09:55

KDE's Mega Sprint 2026 in Graz brought a group of about 20 KDE contributors together in early April, to discuss technical challenges, make decisions, and get stuff done. With travel support from KDE e.V. (thanks to your donations), I was able to join the…