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June/July in KDE Itinerary

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/08/01/kde-itinerary-june-july-2026.html

Published: August 1, 2026 06:15

Time for another bi-monthly update on what happened around Itinerary! Since the previous report there’s a new combined journey view, support for ride sharing services and new Apple Wallet pass formats, among many other things. New Features New combined…

This Week in Plasma: Emoji Resizing

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/01/this-week-in-plasma-emoji-resizing/

Published: August 1, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! …but before we start, here’s a quick reminder that we’ve entered the last week to submit your proposal for the next KDE Goals cycle! If you’re not ready to champion a goal, you can still get involved by…

Web Review, Week 2026-31

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/07/31/web-review-week-2026-31/

Published: July 31, 2026 16:17

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-31. Sovereignty is a substrate Tags: tech, hardware, supply-chain, complexity Interesting piece which shows very well the complexity of the hardware supply chain. The parts which matter the most are largely…

Fixing Multi-GPU performance, part 1

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/07/31/fixing-multi-gpu.html

Published: July 31, 2026 14:50

Performance on “secondary” GPUs has historically been suboptimal on Linux, especially with external GPUs. Let’s take a look at why it’s slow, and how we’re finally fixing it. How Multi-GPU even works To know how things work with multiple GPUs, we first…

Qt Creator 20.0.1 released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-20.0.1-released

Published: July 30, 2026 09:31

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 20.0.1! The release improves tool detection and the default session directory for chats in the AI Agent Client Protocol integration, fixes various issues with CMake Presets as well as some crashes, and…

Krita 5.3.3 Released!

https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.3-released/

Published: July 29, 2026 00:00

Today we're releasing Krita 5.3.3 and 6.0.3, containing many bugfixes and improvements across the board. Android Donations and Supporter benefits On Android, version 5.3.3 lets you support Krita's development directly through the application. This goes…

Making KIO copy many files fast

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/28/making-kio-copy-many-files-fast/

Published: July 28, 2026 00:00

There is a bug in KDE's bug tracker that is almost as old as some of our contributors: bug 342056, "Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files)", reported by Alexander Nestorov back in 2014. The report is blunt: copying a 15 GB folder of roughly 3…

Plasma Vault Advisory: You should probably switch to gocryptfs

https://cukic.co/2026/07/28/switch-to-gocryptfs

Published: July 28, 2026 00:00

Months ago, some distributions accidentally removed cryfs and encfs from Vaults dependencies (temporarily). And some distributions are removing them intentionally from their package repositories (at least, for the time being). It might be a good idea to…

Week 8: Gradient Widget Merged, Speed Ramp Begins

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-8-gradient-widget-merged-speed-ramp-begins/

Published: July 26, 2026 21:57

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. Gradient widget mergedMR !911 went through one more round of review, Jean-Baptiste caught a small…

Weeks 7 & 8: User Guide, Find Action, and Bug Fixes

https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/weeks-7-8-user-guide-find-action-and-bug-fixes/

Published: July 26, 2026 15:04

With the main proposal items completed, I spent the last 2-3 weeks working on open issues in the KeepSecret tracker, fixing bugs and improving the overall experience. User Guide (!37)Added a minimal user handbook for KeepSecret in DocBook format — the…

My GSoC Journey: Hacking on KDE's Network Manager

https://tushar2005.bearblog.dev/my-gsoc-journey-hacking-on-kdes-network-manager/

Published: July 25, 2026 15:46

If anybody had told me I'd end up working on the very Linux desktop environment I've been daily-driving for the past three years, I probably wouldn't have believed them. This summer, I got to learn and work on the main Network Manager component used by…