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KDE Gear 26.12 branches created
https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/11/kde-gear-2612-branches-created.html
Published: November 7, 2026 08:22
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.12 releases to themNext Dates:   November 12, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.12 Freeze and Beta (26.11.80) tarball creation November 13, 2026: 26.12 Beta (26.11.80) release November 26, 2026,…
This Week in Plasma: Widgets Widgets Widgets
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/11/07/this-week-in-plasma-widgets-widgets-widgets/
Published: November 7, 2026 00:00
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week many widgets shipped with Plasma got quite a bit of polish. Feature work and performance work were also notable this week… really, a bit of everything! Have a look: Notable new features Plasma 6.9…
Desktop icon behavior survey results
https://akselmo.dev/posts/desktop-icon-survey-results/
Published: November 6, 2026 19:52
Here's the data! A script element has been removed to ensure Planet works properly. Please find it in the original post. Thank you all for filling the survey I mentioned in my other post here. We got 1518 full responses total, which is a lot! Without…
Web Review, Week 2026-45 (double issue)
https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/11/06/web-review-week-2026-45/
Published: November 6, 2026 14:06
I didn’t post last week, but I did read a bit. Between this and some catching up this week… Behold the web review double issue for the week 2026-45! Reading in decline? Barnes & Noble is un-Daunt-ed Tags: tech, book Bookshops still have a future and it…
Kirigami Addons 1.16.1
https://carlschwan.eu/2026/11/06/kirigami-addons-1.16.1/
Published: November 6, 2026 13:00
Kirigami Addons 1.16.1 is out! Kirigami Addons is a growing collection of nice components you can use in your Kirigami and QML applications. This release mainly includes small bugfixes and two visual chances. AboutPage The about page provided by Kirigami…
Renovate for KDE
https://carlschwan.eu/2026/11/06/renovate-for-kde/
Published: November 6, 2026 10:00
Renovate is a helpful tool that updates your dependencies automatically. This is cool, because it means you don’t have to track updates to your dependencies manually, which let’s be honest never really work. Renovate will just create a new merge request as…
KDE Gear 26.08.3
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.08.3/
Published: November 5, 2026 00:00
Over 180 individual applications 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: akonadi: Do not crash with a…
Share e-mail tags between KMail and Thunderbird
https://matija.suklje.name/share-e-mail-tags-between-kmail-and-thunderbird
Published: November 4, 2026 23:00
Problem: KMail tags ≠Thunderbird tags¶ Due to technical issues1 at work, I had to temporarily switch to using Thunderbird – or rather, Betterbird – and since there is always way too many e-mail, I mark important and actionable messages as such to better…
A few hundred commits, and a few better names…
https://nuno-icons.com/2026/11/04/a-few-hundred-commits-and-a-few-better-names/
Published: November 4, 2026 20:18
So... another few days working on Oxygen’s symbolic icons. 607 commits between November 1 and 4: drawings, revisions, size variants and cleanup. Not 607 new icons... some of these little things need quite a few visits Calendar views, holidays, upcoming…
KDE Plasma 6.7.6, Bugfix Release for November
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.6/
Published: November 3, 2026 00:00
Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.7.6. Plasma 6.7 was released in June 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds two months’ worth of new translations and fixes…
KDE builder dashboard published on Invent
https://cukic.co/2026/11/02/kde-builder-dashboard
Published: November 2, 2026 21:59
After some cleanup and refactor, I’ve published the code of the KDE builder dashboard that I wrote about some days ago to invent.kde.org/ivan/kde-builder-dashboard. I tweaked the look a bit. Failed projects are now on the top, and missing optional…
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
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…