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October 2026 in KDE Linux

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/11/01/october-2026-in-kde-linux/

Published: November 1, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new edition of This Month in KDE Linux, dedicated to KDE’s next-generation operating system. October was another infrastructure-heavy month for the project. A major initiative involved migrating the OS image storage and updating system to work…

Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/11/01/introducing-kwi/

Published: November 1, 2026 00:00

Introducing Kwi, a new KDE terminal emulator I've started work on a new KDE application. It's called Kwi (pronounced kwee). Kwi is designed to provide users of KDE Plasma and other free desktops with a modern and fast terminal, built on a robust tech stack…

Activities BoF report & call for action

https://matija.suklje.name/activities-bof-report-call-for-action

Published: October 31, 2026 23:00

This is a long one, because 1) there was a lot that we discussed at Akademy, and 2) since many people are not aware of Activities, I wanted to provide some more context, so people can understand better. Overwhelming interest¶ That I think Activities are…

A few days of very small things…

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/10/31/a-few-days-of-very-small-things/

Published: October 31, 2026 11:56

So... the last few days have been mostly about Oxygen's symbolic action icons. And there are A LOT of them. Search, mail, drawing tools, dialogs, graphs, distribution, alignment... and then another icon whose name sends me off trying to figure out what the…

This Week in Plasma: An Avalanche of Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/31/this-week-in-plasma-an-avalanche-of-performance-improvements-and-bug-fixes/

Published: October 31, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the Plasma team continued to polish up Plasma 6.8, fixing many bugs. Most of the regressions reported in Plasma 6.8 have been resolved now, so the team moved onto older bugs and squashed a very large…

Haruna 1.9

https://haruna.kde.org/blog/haruna-1.9/

Published: October 30, 2026 16:00

Haruna version 1.9.0 is released. If you like Haruna then support its development GitHub Sponsors Liberapay PayPal Download Windows version: haruna-1.9.0-windows-mingw-x86_64.exe haruna-1.9.0-windows-mingw-x86_64.7z Availability of other package…

OSM Hack Weekend October 2026

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/10/30/osm-hack-weekend-berlin-october-2026.html

Published: October 30, 2026 05:45

Last weekend I joined the OSM Hack Weekend at Wikimedia Deutschland’s office in Berlin, mainly to work on a few Transitous-related topics. OSM Hack Weekend at Wikimedia Deutschland (source) Schedule data augmentation One topic we wanted to move forward…

Interview in SteamOS Gamer magazine

https://pointieststick.com/2026/10/29/interview-in-steamos-gamer-magazine/

Published: October 30, 2026 05:00

Recently I had the pleasure of talking with Jonah Naylor of the SteamOS Gamer magazine for an interview about KDE’s 30th birthday! The interview appears in issue 2, which you can buy in digital or print form (or as an ongoing subscription). Here’s a…

Kirigami Addons 1.16.0. The material updates

https://carlschwan.eu/2026/10/29/kirigami-addons-1.16.0.-the-material-updates/

Published: October 29, 2026 15:00

Kirigami Addons 1.16.0 is out! Kirigami Addons is a growing collection of nice components you can use in your Kirigami and QML applications. Platform Integration A huge chunk of the development for this release was dedicated to better platform integration.…

Harmonicon: Dropping the 3D View

https://tcanabrava.github.io/harmonicon-drop-3d-view/

Published: October 29, 2026 00:00

I honestly love the 3d view of harmonicon, but it’s just eye candy. The amount of lines of code is exceeding 75.000 so I took the difficult decision to remove it, so I can focus on more important tasks. I believe that harmonicon currently is the best…

Qt Creator 21 RC released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-21-rc-released

Published: October 27, 2026 13:40

We are happy to announce the release of Qt Creator 21 RC.

Meet Clate: the First Design Tool for Real-World Experiences

https://www.qt.io/blog/meet-clate-the-first-design-tool-for-real-world-experiences

Published: October 27, 2026 08:02

Clate Beta is out today, free for everyone. It's a no-code, AI-native UX design tool built for embedded and HMI applications, with QML under the hood, so designers can stay in control of the full user experience.

The story behind the language of AI openness

https://toscalix.com/2026/10/27/the-story-behind-the-language-of-ai-openness/

Published: October 27, 2026 08:00

Explore the AI Openness Timeline by Tagoross, tracing how the language of AI openness evolved from Free Software to open source AI, open weights, transparency and digital sovereignty.

Fixing KIO copy to USB stick and network filesystems

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/10/27/fixing-kio-copy-to-usb-stick-and-network-filesystems/

Published: October 27, 2026 00:00

I am going to tell the story of fixing a very high priority bug that was 15 years old. Arguably the worst KIO bug. In September 2011, against KDE 4.7, someone opened bug 281270: "When copying files to a removable disk, speed and progress reflect copying to…

My KDE workflow with jujutsu

https://rabbitictranslator.com/kde-workflow-with-jujutsu/

Published: October 27, 2026 00:00

Intro🔗 I’ve been learning Jujutsu (jj), a a version control system that serves as a frontend for git, but changes the workflow itself instead of just being a GUI or a set of aliases. It has facilitated my git workflow immensely, but it also scared me when…

Options are expensive. Not having them has a cost too.

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/10/25/options-are-expensive-not-having-them-has-a-cost-too/

Published: October 25, 2026 18:19

So... I'm working on something new for Oxygen. The idea is fairly simple: giving users the option to choose between symbolic and colourful icons for actions, the little things you see in toolbars and menus. One option for people who prefer the clean,…

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…