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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…

Announcing SigrĂşn (Run a command)

https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2026/04/27/announcing-sigrun/

Published: April 27, 2026 12:15

Some time ago I used a feature in KDE called “Run a command” when an event triggered. It triggered for me when a calendar event fired and used Piper TTS to read the event to me out loud. A small popup and a pling don’t work for me. I tried to get the…

Kdenlive 26.04.0 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.04.0/

Published: April 27, 2026 11:30

The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the first major release of 2026. This cycle focuses on stability, interface polish and usability improvements. For the first time in Kdenlive's history, this version includes features implemented by so many different…

Automatic brightness in Plasma

https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland,display/2026/04/24/automatic-brightness.html

Published: April 24, 2026 19:30

As an exception to my usual posts, this time I’ll write about a feature that’s already released. Since Plasma 6.6, you can enable automatic brightness in the display settings… let’s take a look at how it works, and why it took so long to make it happen.…

Qt No Contextless Connect

https://blog.broulik.de/2026/04/qt-no-contextless-connect/

Published: April 24, 2026 13:49

As many long running projects, Qt too over the years has accumulated some APIs that in hindsight are deemed unsafe or sub-optimal. For example, Qt by default implicitly converts const char* to QString. While that usually only incurs a runtime overhead,…

Web Review, Week 2026-17

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/04/24/web-review-week-2026-17/

Published: April 24, 2026 13:16

I’ll be vacationing a bit, so there will be no web review next week. It means the next one might be a double issue though, we’ll see. Anyway, let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-17. Inside GitHub’s Fake Star Economy Tags: tech, social-media,…

Speaking at Chennai FOSS: GUI Design, QT, SOK and a lot more

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/speaking-at-chennai-foss-gui-design-qt-sok-and-a-lot-more/

Published: April 24, 2026 04:03

Chennai FOSS 2026Earlier this month, on 18th April 2026, I had the incredible opportunity to speak at Chennai FOSS 2026, an event organized by FOSS United. If you aren’t familiar with them, FOSS United is a non-profit foundation dedicated to promoting the…

KDE email, part two: use an email client

https://pointieststick.com/2026/04/23/kde-email-part-two-use-an-email-client/

Published: April 23, 2026 21:53

One of the many benefits of going to in-person sprints is you get to see how other people use their computers, and you can learn some workflow tricks from them. Or, you might notice areas of inefficiency and share tips of your own. This post will be about…