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This Week in Plasma: Fixing All the Bugs, PiP, and Performance

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/24/this-week-in-plasma-fixing-all-the-bugs-pip-and-performance/

Published: October 24, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma. And it’s going to be a big one, folks! This week, a familiar pattern played out: people upgraded to Plasma 6.8 and found all the bugs that nobody reported during the beta period, and the Plasma team worked…

Akademy 2026 Desktop Icon BoF

https://akselmo.dev/posts/akademy-2026-desktop-icon-bof/

Published: October 23, 2026 14:46

I am very late to write this but anyways. But please do the survey. KDE Plasma desktop icons (the actual system that holds the icons, not the .desktop files) is a bit crusty, due to many years of people fixing bugs there. This now causes new bugs in…

Help shape the future of desktop icons

https://pointieststick.com/2026/10/23/help-shape-the-future-of-desktop-icons/

Published: October 23, 2026 14:41

KDE Plasma has robust support for desktop icons, just like Windows and macOS do. And it’s not going anywhere, either! But over the years, the codebase has gotten a bit crusty. You know how these things happen: conventions change but the old code isn’t…

New Craft cache 26.10 published

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/23/new-craft-cache-26.10-published/

Published: October 23, 2026 13:00

KDE Craft 26.10 was just released, and yes, we just pick whatever month we currently have. This is one of the biggest releases we ever had, as it prepares the way to proper cross compilation. With a real implementation for target and host: architecture,…

Web Review, Week 2026-43

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/10/23/web-review-week-2026-43/

Published: October 23, 2026 10:49

I’ll take a short break, so no web review next week. Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-43. Enjoy it as it’ll be the last one of October! The Slow Formation of Durable Software Tags: tech, foss, history Interesting account of Zotero history.…

Red Diff is Good Diff

https://blog.broulik.de/2026/10/red-diff-is-good-diff/

Published: October 22, 2026 07:00

A patch-set that removes more code than it adds is always much appreciated. Code that doesn’t exist cannot have bugs after all! KWin, our fantastic Wayland compositor and window manager, like many others, has an Alt+Tab switcher (“tabbox”) for quickly…

Updated Qt Code Review Skills Reduce Token Costs by Up To 75%

https://www.qt.io/blog/updated-qt-code-review-skills-reduce-token-costs-by-up-to-75

Published: October 20, 2026 13:09

Whether you are reviewing Qt Quick or Qt Widget code with Qt’s agentic skills, you can reduce your token consumption significantly by upgrading to the latest versions while getting the same review quality.

KDE Plasma 6.8.1, Bugfix Release for October

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.8.1/

Published: October 20, 2026 00:00

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.8.1. Plasma 6.8 was released in October 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds a week’s worth of new translations and fixes…

Qt Creator 21 - CMake Changes

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-21-cmake-changes

Published: October 19, 2026 21:35

Here are the new CMake changes in Qt Creator 21:

What is this worth?

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/10/19/what-is-this-worth/

Published: October 19, 2026 08:50

So... this is an "icon". It's for, a KDE application made by a great friend of mine, Sebas. You might have seen him in. on a video about some thing turning 30 I spent several days working on this thing. I lost count somewhere after 30 hours. It's a fish…

Harmonicon's bending trainer

https://tcanabrava.github.io/harmonicon-bending-trainer/

Published: October 18, 2026 00:00

Bending is the hardest thing to learn on a harmonica, mostly because you can’t see it. You change the shape of your mouth and throat, and the only feedback is whether the note sounds right, which is exactly what a beginner can’t judge yet. The bending…

New Templates Celebrating Tellico at 25

https://tellico-project.org/new-templates-celebrating-tellico-at-25/

Published: October 17, 2026 17:06

Since Tellico is turning 25 years old, I decided to use the current generative AI tools to create several new entry templates. There may be some quirks I didn’t find, but they cover a variety of layouts and design themes. Install them from within Tellico…

Tellico Turns 25!

https://tellico-project.org/tellico-turns-25/

Published: October 17, 2026 16:50

Depending exactly on when I mark the date, Tellico is turning 25 years old this month. The ChangeLog tells me I released Bookcase 0.1 on November 4, 2001. Bookcase was the original name of the application. I renamed it to Tellico after I was contacted by…

WIP: KDE builder dashboard

https://cukic.co/2026/10/17/kde-builder-dashboard

Published: October 17, 2026 15:35

Just a teaser of a small thing I’m working on. Our amazing meta-meta-builder tool kde-builder (just like its predecessor kdesrc-build) is indispensable if you’re building many KDE things from source. The only problem I have with it is that it is overly…

Open Transport Community Conference 2026

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/10/17/open-transport-community-conference-2026.html

Published: October 17, 2026 07:45

I spent last week in Bern, Switzerland, for the second edition of the Open Transport Community Conference, attending that but also being part of the organizer team. Open Transport Community Conference 2026 group photo Open Transport Community Conference…

This Week in Plasma: New Weather Widget and On-Screen Keyboard

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/17/this-week-in-plasma-new-weather-widget-and-on-screen-keyboard/

Published: October 17, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released Plasma 6.8, but we didn’t stop there: work on Plasma 6.9 has been coming in hot and heavy, and there’s a lot to talk about! So let’s jump right in: Notable new features Plasma 6.9 The…

KDE Gear 26.12 release schedule

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/10/kde-gear-2612-release-schedule.html

Published: October 16, 2026 22:15

This is the release schedule the release team agreed on  https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.12_ScheduleDependency freeze is in less than 3 weeks (November 5) and feature freeze one week after that. Get your stuff ready!

Web Review, Week 2026-42

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/10/16/web-review-week-2026-42/

Published: October 16, 2026 11:09

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-42. The importance of communities around software Tags: tech, foss, licensing, community, ethics, governance Good reminder that licensing is only one signal. The governance is what matters for Free Software…

Help us test Kdenlive

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/october-testing/

Published: October 16, 2026 08:30

Kdenlive development for the 26.12 release is very active, and we would like to request some feedback regarding two of the upcoming features. Title Editor One of the feature is related to the title editor. Our title editor has always been functional but…