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This Week in Plasma: 6.8 Beta Release!

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/09/12/this-week-in-plasma-6.8-beta-release/

Published: September 12, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week we released a beta of Plasma 6.8, and it’s ready for testing. Before branching, the team landed a lot of great improvements to make sure it’s an awesome release. Check it out: Notable new features …

Web Review, Week 2026-37

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/09/11/web-review-week-2026-37/

Published: September 11, 2026 15:47

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-37. Making Social Media Social Tags: tech, fediverse, social-media, community Interesting approach. When friction to subscription is a good way to really build community.…

I just want us to feel something…

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/09/11/i-just-want-us-to-feel-something/

Published: September 11, 2026 14:57

So... Koko needed a new icon. Koko is KDE's image viewer, sharing its name with the rather famous gorilla, and yes, putting a gorilla in the icon would have made perfect sense... but we all love cats, and so did KOKO, so here we are And while making…

Kdenlive 26.08.1 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.1/

Published: September 11, 2026 13:45

The first maintenance release of the 26.08 series is out with the usual batch of stability fixes and workflow improvements. Highlights include a big batch of fixes for crashes when changing Timeline Preview settings, deleting sequences, stopping audio…

Akademy-es 2026 ... in a campsite!

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/09/akademy-es-2026-in-campsite.html

Published: September 10, 2026 20:28

Akademy-es 2026 is happening October 23 to 25 in Camping Arco Iris (Villaviciosa de Odón, Madrid) For the 20th anniversary of the first Akademy-es, the organizers have chosen a campsite to do a slightly different event focusing on the community side of…

JPEG-XL, AppStream, and better media processing

https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/09/jpeg-xl-appstream-and-better-media-processing.html

Published: September 10, 2026 17:48

Two weeks ago, I released AppStream 1.2.0. This release contains a lot of great changes, but one of the most important ones concerns how media are being handled, and AppStream’s default image export format. AppStream is a Freedesktop metadata standard to…

Parametrized Keyframes - Status Report, September 2026

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/dopesheet-status-9-26/

Published: September 10, 2026 11:00

Besides maintenance and debugging work, this year, my work on Kdenlive was mostly dedicated to refactoring the Kdenlive keyframes system to make it more powerful. This is part of a NGI Zero Commons grant via NLnet, see my last status report from february…

KDE Gear 26.08.1

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.08.1/

Published: September 10, 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: kdeconnect: Fix orientation of an…

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.30.0

https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.30.0/

Published: September 9, 2026 00:00

Wednesday, 9 September 2026 KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.30.0. This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner. New in this version Baloo…

Harmonicon v0.0.11, or, the harmonica I made up

https://tcanabrava.github.io/harmonicon-v0-0-11/

Published: September 8, 2026 00:00

I tagged v0.0.11 last night. Or this morning. I’ve stopped keeping track of which side of midnight things happen on. Most of what’s in this tag I already went on about on Monday, in the weekly update: the harp swapping, the Guitar Pro files, the pitch…

Replacing startplasma with shell scripts or dinit (Part 1)

https://cukic.co/2026/09/07/startplasma-with-shell-scripts-or-dinit

Published: September 7, 2026 08:10

I’m getting old (though, not as old as the image below), and I miss the good old days when using Linux was more difficult, but when every system in a Linux desktop session was simple. Excalibur (1981) This was before polkit, systemd, … Even before DBus…

Photos: a proposed replacement for Gwenview

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/06/photos-a-proposed-replacement-for-gwenview/

Published: September 7, 2026 04:53

Gwenview has been KDE’s flagship image viewer for over 25 years. It works, it’s feature-packed, and it’s been modernized repeatedly. Gwenview has served generations of KDE users faithfully and well. So… why build a replacement? Well, over the years…

State of the Map 2026

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/09/05/osm-sotm-2026.html

Published: September 5, 2026 06:45

Last week I attended this year’s State of the Map (SotM) in Paris, France, OpenStreetMap’s annual conference. This was actually my first time making it to SotM since I started working with OSM data for KDE Itinerary eight years or so ago. SotM 2026 group…

This Week in Plasma: Auto-Scrolling and Dwell-Clicking

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/09/04/this-week-in-plasma-auto-scrolling-and-dwell-clicking/

Published: September 4, 2026 18:17

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Some of the last Plasma 6.8 features landed this week, and there’s a whole bunch of great stuff! Let’s jump right in: Notable new features Plasma 6.8 We’ve implemented something very much like the…

Web Review, Week 2026-36

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/09/04/web-review-week-2026-36/

Published: September 4, 2026 11:46

Back from vacations and I did some catch up late at night… So expect a larger selection than usual. Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-36. WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone Tags: tech, web, internet, culture, history A very uplifting essay in…

Bug triaging help needed

https://pointieststick.com/2026/09/03/bug-triaging-help-needed/

Published: September 4, 2026 00:30

For many years now, I and others have been working on getting plasmashell’s open bug reports as accurate and actionable as possible. We’ve made tremendous progress, driving down the number of unconfirmed bug reports to its lowest levels in over a decade,…

SPDX Cryptographic Algorithm List: summer 2026 update

https://toscalix.com/2026/09/03/spdx-cryptographic-algorithm-list-summer-2026-update/

Published: September 3, 2026 11:34

This summer the SPDX Cryptography Group agreed on how to describe algorithm parameters, tightened its contribution and release processes, and opened the discussion on post-quantum cryptography. Where this report comes from This is an update of the work we…

Wayland pain points – Dwell Clicker

https://saueseb.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/wayland-pain-points-dwell-clicker/

Published: September 2, 2026 15:31

One known significant issue when going from X11 to Wayland was our KMouseTool being X11 only. KMouseTool implements a Dwell Clicker that that is an assistive technology designed for individuals who find traditional mouse clicking difficult, painful, or…

Qt AI Assistant Retires As We Invest in Agentic Development Tools

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-ai-assistant-retires-as-we-invest-in-agentic-development-tools

Published: September 1, 2026 06:55

The Way Developers Use AI Has Changed When Qt AI Assistant was introduced, the state of the art in AI-powered software development was the single-turn prompt: select a block of code, ask for a test case, an explanation, or some boilerplate QML, and review…

This Month in KDE Linux: August 2026

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/31/this-month-in-kde-linux-august-2026/

Published: August 31, 2026 21:15

Welcome to this edition of This Month in KDE Linux, dedicated to KDE’s next-generation operating system. Here’s how KDE Linux evolved in August: Data safety A major data safety project reached a state of usability! First, Hadi Chokr transformed users’ home…

Kdenlive 26.08.0 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.0/

Published: August 31, 2026 18:05

We are happy to announce the summer release of Kdenlive 26.08. Continuing the efforts from the last version, the core team has been focusing mostly on stability - fixing bugs and crashes while also doing lot's under the hood improvements. This release…

Qt Extension 1.16.0 for VS Code Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-extension-1.16.0-for-vs-code-released

Published: August 31, 2026 14:24

We're excited to announce the release of version 1.16.0 of the Qt Extension for Visual Studio Code! This release brings: QML Profiler and Trace Viewer to profile your QML applications directly from VS Code A new Welcome page with browsers for Qt examples…