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Tellico 4.2.2 Released

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

Published: August 22, 2026 01:29

Tellico 4.2.2 is available, with some improvements and bug fixes. Improvements: Updated to automatically add default file extension (.tc) to save files with no extension. Removed gradient image files for entry templates, in favor of data URLs. Added…

This Week in Plasma: UI and Performance Improvements

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/22/this-week-in-plasma-ui-and-performance-improvements/

Published: August 22, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week was heavy on improvements for both the user interface and also performance, helping Plasma 6.8 to shape up quite nicely: Notable new features Plasma 6.8 When using the system in a language other…

KDE Linux experiences

https://akselmo.dev/posts/kde-linux-experiences/

Published: August 21, 2026 15:49

I daily drove KDE Linux for almost a year and I liked it, but I'm also switching back to Fedora KDE. Here's my ramblings about it all. KDE Linux is the hot new Linux distro from KDE themselves. At the moment it uses Arch Linux as it's base but with heavy…

Final week: Wrapping Up My GSoC Journey

https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/final-week-wrapping-up-my-gsoc-journey/

Published: August 20, 2026 09:52

The last two weeks were spent polishing the mobile-friendly selection mode based on Marco Martin's review feedback, wrapping up the multi-select work that's been the focus since weeks 9 and 10. Selection Mode Refinements (!46)The first version of Selection…

OLE-Dispatch When Doing MFC/Qt Migration

https://www.kdab.com/ole-dispatch-when-doing-mfcqt-migration/

Published: August 20, 2026 08:32

OLE-Dispatch When Doing MFC/Qt MigrationMost people who have ever ported an application from MFC to Qt know that at some point they have to integrate a QWidget into an MFC part of the user interface. Or the other way around, but that's a different story.…

KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.08.0/

Published: August 20, 2026 00:00

A script element has been removed to ensure Planet works properly. Please find it in the original post. Okular Okular is KDE’s flagship document reader most commonly used for reading, signing, and annotating PDFs while also being an excellent eBook…

Linux Samba server and Linux Samba client tutorial

https://nmariusp.blogspot.com/2026/08/linux-samba-server-and-linux-samba.html

Published: August 19, 2026 18:07

I want to share from the server a directory, and use that directory share on the client computer. Using the Microsoft Windows "Server Message Block" (SMB)/CIFS directory sharing protocol. I have created two Kubuntu 26.04 virtual machines: a Samba server…

GSoC 2026 Wrap-up

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/gsoc-2026-wrap-up/

Published: August 19, 2026 17:51

Improving Effect Widgets for KdenliveOrganization: KDE Community Project: Kdenlive Contributor: Yash Bavadiya (@xevrion) Mentor: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle (@mardelle) Reviewers: Julius Künzel (@jlskuz), Bernd Jordan (@bjordan) This is the final post for my…

Linux Magazine Reviews Tellico

https://tellico-project.org/linux-magazine-reviews-tellico/

Published: August 19, 2026 12:54

Linux Magazine discusses Tellico in their September 2026 issue, in an article titled Let’s Collect, which covers Tellico, Recoll, Asunder, and Picard, among others. In this article we’re looking at Linux applications that you may want to try out if you…

Modern, Stable APIs for Your Nextcloud Application

https://carlschwan.eu/2026/08/18/modern-stable-apis-for-your-nextcloud-application/

Published: August 18, 2026 00:00

Nextcloud provides a large public PHP interface to developers to use for building their application. It is commonly called OCP. Some of big components of OCP are the HTTP stack with IRequest, Response and Controllerto handle requests, the…

Bigger Wasn’t Better: Benchmarking Small Models for digiKam’s Natural Language Search

http://srirupa19.github.io/gsoc/2026/08/17/gsoc3.html

Published: August 17, 2026 00:00

GSoC 2026 • digiKam • Post 3: The Benchmark, and the Fine-Tuning Decision At the end of my last post I promised a comparison: Qwen2.5 against TinyLlama on real digiKam queries. This is that post. It grew a third model along the way, and the result…

Vibing fitness tracking

https://www.thelins.se/johan/blog/2026/08/vibing-fitness-tracking/

Published: August 16, 2026 12:28

LLM assisted development, vibing, agentic coding – many names for the same thing. The technology has taken huge strides forward and it is interesting to see what it can do. In my mind, one-offs where a solved problem a while ago, and thin vertical…

Week 11: Review Feedback, a Correction, and What's Deferred

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-11-review-feedback-a-correction-and-whats-deferred/

Published: August 16, 2026 04:44

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. Real usability feedback on MR !928Julius and Bernd both tested the Speed Ramp changes and raised a…

ZipSlip-Stream WriteUp | InCTF 2026 CTF Finals | First and Only Blood

https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/zipslip-stream-writeup-inctf-2026-ctf-finals-first-and-only-blood

Published: August 15, 2026 19:25

Introduction This challenge felt tough. Even though I was the only person who solved this challenge, it's also the case that this is the only challenge I was able to solve in 8 hours. Since there were special protections against the use of AI and LLMs, it…