RSS Parrot

HDR part 2: Tone and Gamut mapping

https://wolthera.info/2026/11/hdr-part-2-tone-and-gamut-mapping/

Published: November 10, 2026 10:56

One of the big things I wanted to achieve during this HDR project is to have a decent tone and gamut map filter, something Krita never had all these years, in spite of us having unbounded floating point editing as well as color management via LCMS that…

How the most relevant terms of the AI Openness conversation relate to each other

https://toscalix.com/2026/11/10/how-the-most-relevant-terms-of-the-ai-openness-conversation-relate-to-each-other/

Published: November 10, 2026 07:00

Tagoross released AI Openness: How The Terms Relate, package 3 of 5. Its document and diagram show how AI openness terms differ, conflict and build on each other. It helps non-experts evaluate vendor lock-in and sovereignty risks of AI models.

Qt Champions 2026

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-champions-2026

Published: November 9, 2026 16:27

Dear Qt community! With only seven weeks left before 2026 gets branched into maintenance mode, we are pleased to open the nomination period for the Qt Champion 2026 award. It has been one of those years! We've launched Qt Bridges, held an inspiring Qt…

Chessament 1.0.0 released

https://alcarazzam.dev/posts/chessament-1.0/

Published: November 8, 2026 15:00

Chessament 1.0.0 has been released. Chessament is a chess tournament manager. It supports individual Swiss-system tournaments. Chessament allows to run a full tournament, from registering the players to calculating the standings. To ease the entering of…

Dolphin gets a Columns view again

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/11/08/dolphin-gets-a-columns-view-again/

Published: November 8, 2026 14:25

I am happy to announce that Dolphin has a new view mode: Columns. Each column shows one folder. Select a folder and its content opens in the next column, so the path from the folder you opened down to your selection stays on screen. This layout is known as…

Building ghostty (for Kwi) with kde-builder

https://cukic.co/2026/11/08/kwi-ghostty-kde-builder

Published: November 8, 2026 13:49

Eike’s lovely new terminal Kwi depends on the latest releases of ghostty-vt library. This means you should probably build it yourself as distros will often be slower than Eike. :) Ghostty is written in Zig, but it supports cmake and is, therefore,…

Kdenlive 26.08.3 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.3/

Published: November 7, 2026 09:10

The last maintenance release of the 26.08 series is out with the usual batch of stability fixes and workflow improvements. Project management is more robust, with improvements to recovering corrupted projects, autosave behavior, and handling of archived…

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…