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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…

Dolphin 26.04 release

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/03/dolphin-26.04-release/

Published: May 3, 2026 00:00

I want to highlight a few changes that came to Dolphin 26.04 and add some nuance to the release announcement. The the KDE Gear 26.04 release announcement mentions: In version 26.04, Dolphin lets you add keyboard shortcuts to nearly any option in any menu,…

Goals for GSOC 2026 and Mankala Engine

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/goals-for-gsoc-2026-and-mankala-engine/

Published: May 2, 2026 16:01

Firstly, thank you to the entire community and mentors for selecting my proposal for GSOC. Congratulations to all others 🎉 Goals for GSOCStarting with the goals for ManakalaNextGen, the GUI of Mankala Engine, the main goal is to implement a tournament…

This month in KDE Linux: April 2026

https://pointieststick.com/2026/05/02/this-month-in-kde-linux-april-2026/

Published: May 2, 2026 13:27

Welcome to another edition of “This month in KDE Linux”! Infrastructure remained a major focus this month, with multiple outages and bugs in Arch’s package archive leading to Harald Sitter creating a local mirror for KDE Linux. This substantially increased…

This Week in Plasma: Background Apps and Zoom Up-Scaling

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/02/this-week-in-plasma-background-apps-and-zoom-up-scaling/

Published: May 2, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week Plasma 6.7 entered its “soft feature freeze” where we stop merging newly-written features and focus on finishing up and merging the ones that were already in flight. As such, some nice new features…

Kirigami forms and configurations

https://notmart.org/blog/2026/04/kirigami-forms-and-configurations/

Published: April 30, 2026 15:54

Recently a new submodule has landed in Kirigami: “Forms”. Until this point, Kirigami had only offered the classic “FormLayout” component. which is used for configuration pages throughoug systemsettings, Plasma, and some apps. It’s the classical form used…

Introducing Qt Agentic Development Skills

https://www.qt.io/blog/introducing-qt-agentic-development-skills

Published: April 28, 2026 06:04

Today, we are releasing the first set of skills for agentic Qt development, designed to multiply your productivity when writing, documenting, and reviewing Qt code. If you want to know more about Qt's vision for agentic development and what agentic…