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I (heart) details.

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/07/11/i-heart-details/

Published: July 11, 2026 14:24

Take this new Kamoso icon for example. Most people will see a "webcam" with a overly large lense. Some people might notice the reflections. Almost nobody will notice the tiny details inside the lens itself, the subtle changes in materials, the little bits…

This Week in Plasma: Audio Recording in Spectacle

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/11/this-week-in-plasma-audio-recording-in-spectacle/

Published: July 11, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week was busy! We’ve got some great new features to share, improved theming compatibility, UI improvements, bug fixes… and lots more! This is one of those weeks with a bit of something for everyone ­—…

Web Review, Week 2026-28

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/07/10/web-review-week-2026-28/

Published: July 10, 2026 12:09

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-28. Chat Control 1.0: EU Council forces messenger scans via fast-track Tags: tech, europe, surveillance This is a shady move once more… They really want to extend this security apparatus. We could hope there…

Improving Koko (Part 1 of 2)

https://nolib.dev/posts/improving-koko-1/

Published: July 9, 2026 13:51

Myself and others have been contributing to Koko under the banner of Techpaladin Software. Here’s what we’ve been up to over the past year.

Qt for MCUs 2.12.2 LTS Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-mcus-2.12.2-lts-released

Published: July 9, 2026 03:00

Qt for MCUs 2.12.2 LTS has been released and is available for download. This patch release provides several bug fixes and other improvements while maintaining source compatibility with Qt for MCUs 2.12 (see Qt for MCUs 2.12 LTS released). This release does…

GSOC progress, Midterm and Upcoming goals

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/gsoc-progress-midterm-and-upcoming-goals/

Published: July 8, 2026 13:51

Hi everyone!! So we are halfway through our journey of GSOC 2026. It's time for the midterm and new status updates we have accomplished over the past 6 weeks. During my first and second weeks, I familiarized myself more with the XMPP protocols and clients…

Week 6: Clipboard Auto-Clear with Klipper Protection

https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/week-6-clipboard-auto-clear-with-klipper-protection/

Published: July 7, 2026 08:14

This week I implemented clipboard auto-clear for KeepSecret (!36). When a user copies a password, it shouldn't stay in the clipboard indefinitely — that's a real security risk if the clipboard gets inspected, synced, or accessed by another application.…

KDE Mega Sprint 2026

https://nolib.dev/posts/mega-sprint-2026/

Published: July 7, 2026 07:40

I attended my first KDE sprint in Graz, Austria, travelling abroad for the first time. In this late blog post, I discuss the things I did and my thoughts on travel.

Week 4 + Week 5 GSoC update | Almost had a heart attack

https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-4-week-5-gsoc-update-almost-had-a-heart-attack

Published: July 6, 2026 18:46

Ok, the title is slightly click-baity but hear me out. So nearly 2 weeks ago, after writing a lot of code for making the font subsetting work for annotations, I found a flaw in my approach. I was never deleting the old original font after embedding it's…

Kdenlive 26.04.3 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.04.3/

Published: July 6, 2026 13:15

The last maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out, bringing the usual batch of bug fixes and workflow and stability improvements. Highlights include fixes for crashes when undoing sequence creation and recording audio without an audio device, as well…

Week 6: Gradient Widget Wired to Qt-Color-Widgets

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-6-gradient-widget-wired-to-qt-color-widgets/

Published: July 6, 2026 10:20

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: switched to Qt-Color-WidgetsJulius Künzel suggested last week that the Gradient widget…

KDE Gear 26.08 branches created

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/07/kde-gear-2608-branches-created.html

Published: July 5, 2026 22:22

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to themNext Dates:    July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 Freeze and Beta (26.07.80) tarball creation  July 17 2026: 26.08 Beta (26.07.80) release  July 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08…

Rolisteam v1.10 is out!

http://renaudguezennec.eu/index.php/2026/07/05/rolisteam-v1-10-is-out/

Published: July 5, 2026 14:22

After a long development cycle, we are thrilled to announce the official release of Rolisteam v1.10. This version brings a wave of brand-new tools for Game Masters, a major technical overhaul of the whole project, and a much healthier codebase for the…

This Week in Plasma: Better Animations

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/04/this-week-in-plasma-better-animations/

Published: July 4, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week Plasma 6.7 received a few more stabilization bug-fixes while attention turned towards the upcoming 6.8 release. Some exciting changes are in progress, and a few have already merged, including highly…

Tellico 4.2.1 Released

https://tellico-project.org/tellico-4-2-1-released/

Published: July 3, 2026 16:55

Tellico 4.2.1 is available, with some improvements and bug fixes. Improvements: Added user-defined data fetch argument (Bug 516055). Updated Google Scholar and Colnect data sources. Updated Google Books data source (Bug 522095). Updated external data…

Web Review, Week 2026-27

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/07/03/web-review-week-2026-27/

Published: July 3, 2026 10:36

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-27. What happened to the fight for the Internet? Tags: tech, politics, surveillance Excellent piece, where are the netizens who should be fighting back those bills? Looks like we became very complacent and…

Attention to Detail

https://blog.broulik.de/2026/07/attention-to-detail/

Published: July 3, 2026 10:23

A couple of months ago I improved some of our dialogs and this time I worked on some more. Did you know that you can just paste the clipboard’s content into the Dolphin file manager or on the desktop to create a new file from it? Just paste your…

Week 5: KWallet XML Import & Password Generator

https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/week-5-kwallet-xml-import-password-generator/

Published: July 2, 2026 12:48

This week I shipped two new features for KeepSecret. KWallet XML Import (!34) The Import menu on the wallet page is now a submenu with two options: -KeepSecret… -KWallet XML… Both import formats are converted into the same internal format, allowing them to…

KDE Gear 26.04.3

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.3/

Published: July 2, 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: elisa: Change output device when…