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This week in Plasma: Stabilization for 6.2
https://pointieststick.com/2024/09/07/this-week-in-plasma-stabilization-for-6-2/
Published: September 7, 2024 20:49
This week I and many other major Plasma contributors are are at Akademy, planning the future and having many fruitful in-person discussions! As a result, probably next week’s post will be a bit light. This week though, lots of pre-Akademy changes got…
This week in Plasma: inhibiting inhibitions and more!
https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/30/this-week-in-plasma-inhibiting-inhibitions-and-more/
Published: August 30, 2024 23:38
This is a big one, folks. Plasma 6.2’s soft feature freeze is now in effect, which means the last few features have just been merged! Now we’ll have six weeks of heavy bug-fixing before the final release in October. If you’re an industrious sort, the time…
Asking for donations in Plasma
https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/28/asking-for-donations-in-plasma/
Published: August 29, 2024 03:17
Why do we ask for donations so often? Because it’s important! As KDE becomes more successful and an increasing number of people use our software, our costs grow as well: And so on. If we don’t raise more money while our software becomes more popular, we…
This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”
Published: August 24, 2024 02:28
This week was all about the quality of life features! As we close in on Plasma 6.2 (the soft feature freeze is in four days, eek!), some great work that’s been in progress for a long time got merged. Notable New Features Okular now has a “speak text from…
This week in KDE: System Settings modernization and Wayland color management
Published: August 17, 2024 03:23
Many folks are on vacation right now, but KDE’s tireless contributors still worked hard to bring you a number of improvements anyway, among them some nice System Settings modernization work and improvements to Wayland color management. You’ll find them…
This week in KDE: SVG Breeze cursors and more thumbnails
https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/09/this-week-in-kde-svg-breeze-cursors-and-more-thumbnails/
Published: August 10, 2024 04:31
First up is something cool: support for SVG-based cursor themes! This allows compatible themes to always display beautiful sharp cursors at any size, and has already been rolled out for the Breeze Light and Breeze Dark cursor themes. It does not use the…
This week in KDE: Discover and more
https://pointieststick.com/2024/08/02/this-week-in-kde-discover-and-more/
Published: August 3, 2024 05:26
It was a big week for Discover, which received multiple UI improvements, performance enhancements, and bug fixes that you’ll find mentioned throughout the text! There are more features and UI improvements to other components as well, plus a bunch of juicy…
Triaging your own project’s Bugzilla tickets
https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/27/triaging-your-own-projects-bugzilla-tickets/
Published: July 27, 2024 20:47
I’ve been beating the bug triage drum for a number of years, from the perspective of asking for more dedicated bug triagers. And at this point we have some! Which is amazing, and I’d like to thank them. So this time let’s talk about something different:…
This week in KDE: features and UI polish
https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/26/this-week-in-kde-features-and-ui-polish/
Published: July 27, 2024 04:36
After last week’s bug-squash-a-thon, this week there was more focus on features and user interface improvements — some of them HIG-driven, as I wrote about yesterday. But we kept the bugs down too! Everything is proceeding nicely, I think. Notable New…
KDE Human Interface Guidelines update
https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/25/kde-human-interface-guidelines-update/
Published: July 26, 2024 04:57
It’s been about a month and a half since I wrote about KDE’s new Human Interface Guidelines (HIG). It turns out there’s a surprising amount to report since then! First of all, the news got picked up by Linux Magazine which did a story about it, including…
This past two weeks in KDE: fixing sticky keys and the worst crashes
Published: July 20, 2024 05:07
These past two weeks were big for Wayland accessibility support, as Nicolas Fella did a lot of work to improve support for sticky keys to equal the state they were in on X11. This work is not complete, but so far it’s taken a big bite out of the open…
No TWiK this week
https://pointieststick.com/2024/07/12/no-twik-this-week-3/
Published: July 13, 2024 03:25
See you next week what what will probably be an extra large installment!