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OSM Indoor Mapping Workshop 2026

https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/07/18/osm-indoor-workshop-july-2026.html

Published: July 18, 2026 06:30

Last weekend I joined an in-person workshop at HTW Berlin for discussing topics around mapping indoor spaces in OpenStreetMap. Indoor mapping Mapping indoor spaces is a somewhat niche topic in the OSM community still, but something that is quite relevant…

Week 6 + Week 7: Fixing bugs & writing tests

https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-6-week-7-fixing-bugs-writing-tests

Published: July 18, 2026 04:01

I spent the last 2 weeks mostly on fixing the bugs that were breaking font subsetting for annotations. One such bug was about deleting the original font which we talked about in the last blog. And there were some more edge-cases and type bugs. For eg: An…

This Week in Plasma: Shadows for Steam and Discord

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/18/this-week-in-plasma-shadows-for-steam-and-discord/

Published: July 18, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week the bug-fixing spree of the past few weeks wound down as feature work and user interface polishing moved into the foreground. So let’s start out with something pretty darn user-visible: Notable new…

Web Review, Week 2026-29

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/07/17/web-review-week-2026-29/

Published: July 17, 2026 13:28

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-29. A Better World Tags: funny, history, scifi Interesting game. Want to make your own alternate history? Gives pause about what we assume of the past. It stays fun of course. https://abw.blue/index_en.php …

Server-side Drop Shadows

https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2026/07/16/server-side-drop-shadows/

Published: July 16, 2026 18:45

It’s been a long time since I wrote here last time. I would like to share a few details about a feature that I’m really excited about, which landed in KWin recently. Drop shadows are drawn either by the compositor or the application. For example, a good…

Evaluating the EU Open Source Strategy: Strengths and Weaknesses

https://toscalix.com/2026/07/16/evaluating-the-eu-open-source-strategy-strengths-and-weaknesses/

Published: July 16, 2026 09:07

A summary of my three-part analysis of the EU Open Source Strategy on Tagoross. Real strengths, real design flaws. The sovereignty definition does not fit open source. The legislation, CADA and Chips Act 2.0, encourages or stays silent rather than…

The Akademy 2026 Program is now live!

https://akademy.kde.org/news/2026-07_akademy-2026-program-now-live/

Published: July 15, 2026 07:00

The Akademy 2026 Program is now live! This year’s Akademy will take place in Graz, hosted at the Graz University of Technology, both in person and online. Akademy starts with a welcome event on Friday, 18 September, followed by two full days of talks on…

The Model Was Never the Hard Part: Integrating Qwen2.5 into digiKam for Natural Language Search

http://srirupa19.github.io/gsoc/2026/07/14/gsoc2.html

Published: July 14, 2026 20:33

GSoC 2026 • digiKam • Post 2: Inference, Bugs, and the Build In my first post, I introduced the goal: type a plain-English search into digiKam and have a local LLM translate it into structured search criteria. That post built the whole pipeline - prompt…

KDE Plasma 6.7.3, Bugfix Release for July

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.3/

Published: July 14, 2026 00:00

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.7.3. Plasma 6.7 was released in June 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience. This release adds two weeks’ worth of new translations and fixes…

Kommit-ing to a icon

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/07/13/kommit-ing-to-a-icon/

Published: July 13, 2026 21:28

So… another missing icon gets some attention This time it was Kommit. The funny thing about Git related icons is that everybody eventually ends up drawing the same thing. A couple of connected nodes, some branches in a diamond shape.... I started pretty…

Week 7: Gradient Widget Review Fixes

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-7-gradient-widget-review-fixes/

Published: July 13, 2026 07:13

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. MR !911 opened and reviewedOpened the Gradient widget MR this week, closing issue #1064 and referencing…

The graveyard of being paid to use Windows 11, AKA “winning!”

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/12/the-graveyard-of-being-paid-to-use-windows-11-aka-winning/

Published: July 12, 2026 13:47

I just finished reading Thom Holwerda’s hilarious article on OSnews about being paid to use Windows 11 for a month from the perspective of being a “switcher” moving away from Linux. It’s a great read; I encourage everyone to stop right now and go read it!…

I (heart) details.

https://nuno-icons.com/2026/07/11/i-heart-details/

Published: July 11, 2026 14:24

Take this new Kamoso icon for example. Most people will see a "webcam" with a overly large lense. Some people might notice the reflections. Almost nobody will notice the tiny details inside the lens itself, the subtle changes in materials, the little bits…

This Week in Plasma: Audio Recording in Spectacle

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/07/11/this-week-in-plasma-audio-recording-in-spectacle/

Published: July 11, 2026 00:00

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! This week was busy! We’ve got some great new features to share, improved theming compatibility, UI improvements, bug fixes… and lots more! This is one of those weeks with a bit of something for everyone ­—…

Web Review, Week 2026-28

https://ervin.ipsquad.net/blog/2026/07/10/web-review-week-2026-28/

Published: July 10, 2026 12:09

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-28. Chat Control 1.0: EU Council forces messenger scans via fast-track Tags: tech, europe, surveillance This is a shady move once more… They really want to extend this security apparatus. We could hope there…

Improving Koko (Part 1 of 2)

https://nolib.dev/posts/improving-koko-1/

Published: July 9, 2026 13:51

Myself and others have been contributing to Koko under the banner of Techpaladin Software. Here’s what we’ve been up to over the past year.

Qt for MCUs 2.12.2 LTS Released

https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-mcus-2.12.2-lts-released

Published: July 9, 2026 03:00

Qt for MCUs 2.12.2 LTS has been released and is available for download. This patch release provides several bug fixes and other improvements while maintaining source compatibility with Qt for MCUs 2.12 (see Qt for MCUs 2.12 LTS released). This release does…

GSOC progress, Midterm and Upcoming goals

https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/gsoc-progress-midterm-and-upcoming-goals/

Published: July 8, 2026 13:51

Hi everyone!! So we are halfway through our journey of GSOC 2026. It's time for the midterm and new status updates we have accomplished over the past 6 weeks. During my first and second weeks, I familiarized myself more with the XMPP protocols and clients…

Week 6: Clipboard Auto-Clear with Klipper Protection

https://roshani-gsoc.bearblog.dev/week-6-clipboard-auto-clear-with-klipper-protection/

Published: July 7, 2026 08:14

This week I implemented clipboard auto-clear for KeepSecret (!36). When a user copies a password, it shouldn't stay in the clipboard indefinitely — that's a real security risk if the clipboard gets inspected, synced, or accessed by another application.…

KDE Mega Sprint 2026

https://nolib.dev/posts/mega-sprint-2026/

Published: July 7, 2026 07:40

I attended my first KDE sprint in Graz, Austria, travelling abroad for the first time. In this late blog post, I discuss the things I did and my thoughts on travel.

Week 4 + Week 5 GSoC update | Almost had a heart attack

https://ojasmaheshwari.github.io/b/2026/week-4-week-5-gsoc-update-almost-had-a-heart-attack

Published: July 6, 2026 18:46

Ok, the title is slightly click-baity but hear me out. So nearly 2 weeks ago, after writing a lot of code for making the font subsetting work for annotations, I found a flaw in my approach. I was never deleting the old original font after embedding it's…

Kdenlive 26.04.3 released

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.04.3/

Published: July 6, 2026 13:15

The last maintenance release of the 26.04 series is out, bringing the usual batch of bug fixes and workflow and stability improvements. Highlights include fixes for crashes when undoing sequence creation and recording audio without an audio device, as well…

Week 6: Gradient Widget Wired to Qt-Color-Widgets

https://yashbavadiya.bearblog.dev/week-6-gradient-widget-wired-to-qt-color-widgets/

Published: July 6, 2026 10:20

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. Gradient widget: switched to Qt-Color-WidgetsJulius Künzel suggested last week that the Gradient widget…

KDE Gear 26.08 branches created

https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2026/07/kde-gear-2608-branches-created.html

Published: July 5, 2026 22:22

Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to themNext Dates:    July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 Freeze and Beta (26.07.80) tarball creation  July 17 2026: 26.08 Beta (26.07.80) release  July 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08…