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Kookbook 0.3.0 released

Sune Vuorela — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:01:53 +0000

I recently released version 0.3.0 of my recipe manager application Kookbook – find it in git in KDE Invent or as released tarballs in https://download.kde.org/stable/kookbook/

Changes since last time is more or less “Minor bugfixes and a Qt6 port” – nothing as such noteworthy unless you aim to get rid of Qt5 on your system.

so what is kookbook?
It is a simple recipe viewer that works with semi-structured markdown. More details can be seen in the quite old 0.1.0 announcement

At some point I should do a 10 recipe example collection, but my personal collection is in danish, so I’m not sure it is going to be useful. Unless someone will donate me some handfuls of pre-formatted recipes, I will happily announce it.

KDE Mega Sprint 2026 Graz

Raresh Rus — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:54:00 +0000

Hello https://planet.kde.org

I am Raresh Rus, https://invent.kde.org/nmariusp , https://www.youtube.com/@nmariusp .

I took part in the KDE Mega Sprint 2026 Graz https://community.kde.org/Sprints/MegaSprint/2026 .

The sprint was from 09:00 - 19:00, Monday 2026.04.06 - Saturday 2026.04.11.
In room HS FSI 1, Inffeldgasse 11, Graz, Austria. In the Inffeldgasse campus of the Technical University Graz (TU Graz).

We were hosted by the "Grazer Linuxtage 2026" organization. Thank you Kevin Krammer.

I travelled by bus and slept almost all of the time.

The city of Graz has a population of 300,000 and is the second largest city in Austria after the capital Vienna.
Graz has a large number of well preserved pre First World War buildings.

More than 20 KDE contributors participated. Including CorneliusS and LaurenzW from the GNOME community.

Before the sprint, I created a youtube video "KDE Mega Sprint 2026 and Grazer Linuxtage 2026 #glt26" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56xIRyyFR3c

During the sprint, I did small gitlab Merge Requests.
Some KDE git repositories had the main readme file say that the KDE project can most easily be built using kdesrc-build. I replaced "kdesrc-build" with "kde-builder".
I saw that https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/building was ready to replace https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/development#Setting_up_the_development_environment . So we did this replacement.

I have edited the flatpak manifest of some KDE GUI apps, such that less files are present in the flatpak package file.

KDE Linux comes with kwrite preinstalled from flathub. I saw that https://github.com/flathub/org.kde.kwrite/blob/master/org.kde.kwrite.json does exist. But this flatpak manifest for kwrite does not exist in the KDE git repository of kwrite and kate.

I have encountered various issues with the licenses displayed in the about dialog of various KDE GUI apps. Scroll issues in license text viewer in Kirigami app. Not correct license being displayed. There are also differences between the license in reuse in the KDE git repository, the license shown in the GUI app's about dialog, the license shown for that app in Discover, apps.kde.org, flathub and snap store.

Also, in reuse, the license of files which come from outside the KDE community for example app icons for VLC and Blender have different licenses in the upstream git repository and in the KDE git repository.
The reuse linter prefers that we use file "REUSE.toml" instead of ".reuse/dep5".

Top issues that I have encountered: I saw Plasma Welcome Center tens of times without reinstalling operating systems or reverting VM snapshots. My hardware laptop took many minutes to start until I have disabled "Intel VMD" from the UEFI firmware screen with advanced settings.

Fedora 44 Workstation and Ubuntu 26.04 use the GNOME desktop, do not have a GNOME desktop X11 session, but I can connect using the Remote Desktop Protocol. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oelT312LqFI , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjfC4GGI7_w

Work is in progress to have these features available also for KDE Linux and the KDE Plasma Wayland session.
The big epics are probably: "KDE Plasma Wayland session - make it possible via command line to change the KDE Plasma Wayland session resolution to arbitrary width and height integer values", "vdagent - make it possible to paste plain text towards KDE Plasma Wayland", "vdagent - make it possible to copy plain text from KDE Plasma Wayland", "RDP server in KDE Plasma Wayland - implement plain text clipboard copy/paste", "RDP server in KDE Plasma Wayland - make it possible to log into KDE Plasma from a RDP client such as xfreerdp".

Toward the end of the sprint, we recorded a youtube video "Conclusions panel KDE Mega Sprint 2026 Graz" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSCXY4nEiWI .

State of Kdenlive - 2026

Kdenlive — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:00:00 +0000

In 2025, the Kdenlive team continued grinding to push the project forward through steady development, collaboration, and community support. Over the past year we’ve found a nice balance between adding new features, bug fixing, polishing the user interface, and improving performance and workflow, with stability taking priority over feature creep.

We relaunched the website with a new content management system, refreshed some content and the design, and restored historic content dating back to 2002. We also strengthened upstream collaboration with the MLT developers and contributed several improvements to OpenTimelineIO.

Here’s a look at what we've been up to and what is ahead.

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

As part of KDE Apps, we follow the KDE Gear release cycle, with three major releases each year—in April, August, and December—each followed by three point maintenance releases.

25.04.0

This release added a powerful automatic masking tool and brought the last batch of features from our last fundraiser.

-> Read full changelog

Background Removal

The new Object Segmentation plugin based on the [SAM2][4] model allows to remove any selected object from the background.

OpenTimelineIO

We rewrote our OpenTimelineIO import and export function using the C++ library. Now you can exchange projects with other editing applications that support this open source file format.

Waveform improvements

Audio waveform generation got a 300% performance boost, along with a refactored sampling method that accurately renders the audio signal and higher-resolution waveforms for greater precision.

25.08.0

This release focused heavily on stabilization, bringing over 300 commits and fixing more than 15 crashes. Instead of major new features, the effort went into polishing and bug fixing.

-> Read full changelog

Audio Mixer

We redesigned the audio mixer bringing levels with clearer visuals and thresholds. We also did some code refactoring and cleanup. This change fixes issues with HiDPI displays with fractional scaling.

Markers and Guides

Guides and Markers got a major overhaul this release to improve the project organization.

Titler improvements

This release the titler received some much needed love like improved SVG and image support with ability to move and resize items, added center resize with Shift + Drag, and renamed the Pattern tab to Templates and moved the templates dropdown to it

25.12.0

The focus of this release cycle was on improving the user experience and polishing the user interface.

-> Read full changelog

Welcome Screen

We added a new first-run launch screen for first time users as well as added a Welcome Screen allowing to easily launch recent projects.

Docking System

We added a new, more flexible docking system that lets you group widgets, show or hide them on demand, and save layouts as separate files that can be shared or stored within projects.

Redesigned monitor

The audio waveform in the Project Monitor got a revamped interface with an added minimap.

THE ROAD AHEAD

26.04

This next release is just around the corner and brings a nice batch of nifty new features like monitor mirroring and animated transition previews, making it much easier to visualize how they will look before applying them. Additionally, dropping a transition onto the timeline can now automatically adjust its duration to match the clips above and below, saving time and reducing manual tweaking.

This feature allows you to mirror any monitor while working in fullscreen mode. It’s especially useful when working with multiple displays or collaborating with others in the editing room.

OTHER NOTEWORTHY FEATURES

Change the playback speed of multiple clips at once
Import a clip directly from the timeline context menu and insert it at the click position
Option to always zoom toward the mouse position instead of the timeline playhead
Generate audio thumbnails for sequences

ROADMAP

Our roadmap is constantly being reviewed and updated, and some of the upcoming highlights include implementing the new features in MLT, the multimedia framework which powers Kdenlive. Some exciting upcoming features include 10/12 bit color support, playback optimizations (decoding), and OpenFX support. (Shoutout to a Kdenlive community member for leading this effort). Also expected is a refactoring of the subtitle system as well as continuing to develop the Advanced Trimming Tools.

DOPESHEET

We are currently working on refactoring the keyframing system and implementing a Dopesheet, basically it is a dedicated timeline for managing and viewing keyframes from multiple effects simultaneously. This work will also introduce per-parameter keyframing (currently, once you add a keyframe to an effect, it is applied to all parameters by default). More info can be found in the last status report. This work is made possible through an NGI Zero Commons grant via NLnet.

MICROSOFT STORE

We have been working on enabling and fixing multiple modules in MLT to compile with MSVC allowing us to ship Kdenlive in the Microsoft Store soon. Another advantage is that it will allow to run unit tests on our CI for Windows.

COMMUNITY

NEW CONTRIBUTORS

Currently, the Kdenlive core team is made up of 8 active members, including 2 developers.

In 2025, 38 people contributed code to Kdenlive (including the core dev team and other KDE devs), a truly impressive number! Even more exciting, about half of them were first-time contributors, which is always great. We hope to see many of them continue contributing in the future. On behalf of the Kdenlive team, we salute you all!

List of contributors and commits

Note that these numbers refer specifically to contributions to the Kdenlive application. Other projects such as the test suite and website are hosted in separate repositories and are not included in these figures.

878 — Jean-Baptiste Mardelle (core team)
126 — balooii balooii
109 — Julius Künzel (core team)
60 — Darby Johnston (fundraiser)
26 — Bernd Jordan (core team)
24 — Ajay Chauhan
11 — Eugen Mohr (core team)
9 — Scarlett Moore (KDE)
8 — Yuri Chornoivan (KDE)
7 — Justin Zobel (KDE)
7 — Ron Lee (core team)
6 — Farid Abdelnour (core team)
5 — Josep M. Ferrer
5 — Étienne André (fundraiser)
4 — Kunda Ki
4 — Swastik Patel
3 — Camille Moulin (core team)
3 — Carlos De Maine
2 — Johnny Jazeix (KDE)
2 — Luigi Toscano (KDE)
2 — Nicolas Fella (KDE)
2 — Richard Ash
2 — Side Projects Lab
2 — Xander Bailey
2 — chocolate image
1 — Adam Fidel
1 — Alex Efimov
1 — Edward McVern
1 — Eli George
1 — Helga K
1 — Jack Bruienne
1 — Jonas Endter
1 — Oliver Kellogg
1 — Rafael Sadowski
1 — Steve Cossette

SPRINTS AND EVENTS

AMSTERDAM SPRINT

In February, part of the Kdenlive core team met in Amsterdam for a short sprint, highlighted by a visit to the Blender Foundation, where we met with Francesco Siddi and he shared valuable insights into Blender’s history and offered advice on product management for Kdenlive. We also attended their weekly open session, where artists and developers present progress on ongoing projects. During the sprint, we discussed and advanced several technical topics, some highlights include:

Refining the audio workflow task
Developing a proof of concept to improve clip timecode handling
Finishing an MLT Framework patch to enable rendering without a display server (needed for Flatpak testing)

BERLIN SPRINT

The Berlin sprint was one of our most productive gatherings to date. Most of the team was there in person, and we also connected online with those who couldn’t make it. We discussed just about every aspect of the project, from roadmap planning to upcoming features and workflow improvements. Some of the highlights include:

Evaluated the current state of the Titler and discussed possible integration with Glaxnimate
Reorganized the Menu structure
Developed a proof of concept for using KDDockWidgets
Redesigned and started development of the audio clip view in the Clip Monitor

Thanks to the nice folks at c-base who kindly hosted us.

AKADEMY 2025

Akademy is always a great opportunity to exchange ideas with the broader KDE and Qt communities. One of the highlights was meeting the maintainer of Glaxnimate, where we discussed common goals and ways to collaborate. This year, Akademy will be in Graz on the 19-24 of September, and we hope to see you there.

SHOWCASE

We’re very happy to see more YouTube channels talking about Kdenlive. Here are some examples of what the community has been creating.

We'd love to see what you've been working on in the past year. Share your videos productions in the comments!

SPREAD THE WORD

Help us grow the community by organizing meetups, talks, or workshops in your local area. Don’t hesitate to contact us if you need guidance, materials, or support to get started.

Below are photos from a workshop with indigenous communities in Paraguay.

STATS

DOWNLOADS

Kdenlive was downloaded 11,500,714 times from our download page in 2025. Do note that many additional installs happen through Linux distribution package managers, the Snap Store, Flathub, and other third-party servers, where statistics are not always available or reliably measurable.
The Flatpak package from Flathub gets 41,499 downloads per month.
25.04.2 got the most number of downloads.
17.08.2 was downloaded 1 time!

Downloads per release cycle

Windows Linux Mac

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CODE COMMITS

Per Release Cycle

25.04 cycle: 403 commits
25.08 cycle: 368 commits
25.12 cycle: 405 commits

Files With Most Code Changes

src/mainwindow.cpp: 102 commits
src/bin/bin.cpp: 70 commits
src/timeline2/view/timelinecontroller.cpp: 67 commits
src/monitor/monitor.cpp: 60 commits
data/org.kde.kdenlive.appdata.xml: 57 commits

Files With Most Bug Fixes

src/mainwindow.cpp: 1021 commits
src/timeline2/model/timelinemodel.cpp: 600 commits
src/bin/bin.cpp: 593 commits
src/timeline2/view/timelinecontroller.cpp: 506 commits
src/renderer.cpp: 501 commits

USERBASE

Continent

🌍 Europe — 949,077
🌎 Americas — 781,131
🌏 Asia — 750,406
🌍 Africa — 127,948
🌏 Oceania — 53,397
🧊 Antarctica — 5

To the 5 of you in Antarctica, let us know what you are editing. ;)

Country

🇺🇸 United States — 392,967
🇮🇳 India — 267,449
🇧🇷 Brazil — 153,319
🇩🇪 Germany — 118,115
🇫🇷 France — 111,071
🇨🇳 China — 104,692
🇷🇺 Russia — 96,051
🇪🇸 Spain — 91,052
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 86,165
🇮🇹 Italy — 61,814

Region

🇺🇸 California, United States — 42,769
🇧🇷 São Paulo, Brazil — 37,452
🇮🇳 Tamil Nādu, India — 27,313
🇫🇷 Île-de-France, France — 26,755
🇮🇳 Mahārāshtra, India — 25,246
🇺🇸 Texas, United States — 22,470
🇨🇦 Ontario, Canada — 20,016
🇳🇱 Noord-Holland, Netherlands — 19,826
🇺🇸 Florida, United States — 18,997
🇨🇳 Shanghai Shi, China — 18,991

FUNDING

Ever since our last, and very successful, fundraiser in 2022, we haven’t actively asked for donations, yet the community has continued to support us. We are very grateful for that.

In 2025, we received a total of €9,344.80 from donations (down from €11,526.61 in 2024). Around 30% of the amount was given by donors who kindly set up a recurring plan. The average donation was about €25, with the lowest amount being €10 and the highest €500.

We allocate 20% of our budget to KDE e.V. to support infrastructure costs (servers and related expenses), as well as administration, legal support, and travel. As in previous years, your contributions enable us to continue supporting Jean-Baptiste (Kdenlive's maintainer), allowing him to dedicate several days each month to Kdenlive in addition to his volunteer work.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT

Kdenlive needs your support to keep growing and improving. If just a quarter of the people who downloaded Kdenlive in 2025 contributed €5, our maintainers would be able to dedicate more time to the project, and it would even allow us to hire more develpers to speed up development and improve stability. Small amounts can make a big difference, please consider making a donation.

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More options to donate

You may also contribute by getting involved and helping in:

Reporting, debugging, and triaging bugs
Translating Kdenlive in your language
Promote Kdenlive in your local community

Hello old new “Projects” directory!

Matthias Klumpp — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:06:00 +0000

If you have recently installed a very up-to-date Linux distribution with a desktop environment, or upgraded your system on a rolling-release distribution, you might have noticed that your home directory has a new folder: “Projects”

Why?

With the recent 0.20 release of xdg-user-dirs we enabled the “Projects” directory by default. Support for this has already existed since 2007, but was never formally enabled. This closes a more than 11 year old bug report that asked for this feature.

The purpose of the Projects directory is to give applications a default location to place project files that do not cleanly belong into one of the existing categories (Documents, Music, Pictures, Videos). Examples of this are software engineering projects, scientific projects, 3D printing projects, CAD design or even things like video editing projects, where project files would end up in the “Projects” directory, with output video being more at home in “Videos”.

By enabling this by default, and subsequently in the coming months adding support to GLib, Flatpak, desktops and applications that want to make use of it, we hope to give applications that do operate in a “project-centric” manner with mixed media a better default storage location. As of now, those tools either default to the home directory, or will clutter the “Documents” folder, both of which is not ideal. It also gives users a default organization structure, hopefully leading to less clutter overall and better storage layouts.

This sucks, I don’t like it!

As usual, you are in control and can modify your system’s behavior. If you do not like the “Projects” folder, simply delete it! The xdg-user-dirs utility will not try to create it again, and instead adjust the default location for this directory to your home directory. If you want more control, you can influence exactly what goes where by editing your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs configuration file.

If you are a system administrator or distribution vendor and want to set default locations for the default XDG directories, you can edit the /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults file to set global defaults that affect all users on the system (users can still adjust the settings however they like though).

What else is new?

Besides this change, the 0.20 release of xdg-user-dirs brings full support for the Meson build system (dropping Automake), translation updates, and some robustness improvements to its code. We also fixed the “arbitrary code execution from unsanitized input” bug that the Arch Linux Wiki mentions here for the xdg-user-dirs utility, by replacing the shell script with a C binary.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

KDE Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage 2026

Volker Krause — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000

I spent the last week in Graz, Austria, attending a KDE sprint as well as Grazer Linuxtage.

KDE Sprint

Just like last year, the Grazer Linuxtage team had made rooms available for KDE people to meet in the week prior to the conference. More than twenty contributors attended, below are a few notes from discussions I have been involved with.

Photo by Kieryn Darkwater

AppStream release notes

We use AppStream application metadata in a number of places currently:

The apps.kde.org website.
Software stores such as Flathub, F-Droid, Google Play or the Microsoft Store.
Software centers such as Discover.

In-app application metadata has so far been maintained separately though, using the KAboutData API. With KDE Frameworks 6.26 it will become possible to populate that from AppStream data as well, reducing duplicated data and duplicated translation efforts.

We also expanded how we use release notes from AppStream data:

Release notes can now also be translated.
There’s new API for accessing AppStream release notes inside an application itself. This is meant to avoid duplicated efforts for in-app release notes.
The KDE Gear release automation will now handle notes for pre-releases correctly. This means you can add release notes for users of CD builds already, those will get translated and merged into the subsequent stable release notes automatically.

There’s a few more things to do here still:

We don’t have a Kirigami-based standard component for in-app release notes yet.
The metadata converters for F-Droid and Google Play don’t handle release notes yet.

LSAN rollout on the CI

After Albert had added infrastructure for LeakSanitizer (LSAN) suppressions in the CI, we were able to enable LSAN in several more repositories which had previously been blocked on “unfixable” or intentional “leaks” outside of our control.

The increased visibility on actual issues then also helped with identifying and fixing a couple more “real” leaks, e.g. in KGuiAddons and LibKGAPI.

Qt 6.11 for Android

There has been some progress on the long overdue Qt update for our Android builds. This had been delayed as it’ll imply some rather drastic changes to the supported Android versions and devices. Lacking alternatives we will go ahead with this.

In particular, after 26.04.0 is out this means only Android 9 and higher will be supported, and 32bit ARM builds will be discontinued.

We prepared Qt 6.11 CI images and applied necessary build fixes to practically all of our apps that have Craft-based Android builds. Initial test looks promising, and some of the annoying input handling glitches seem to have been fixed.

Sentry for Android

Another Android-related topic we looked into was uploading crash information to KDE’s Sentry instance. Our Linux and Windows builds can do this since some time, and it has been a great help with identifying, prioritizing and fixing crashes.

Initial experiments got this to work quickly on Android as well, but it will require more work to do this properly and give users full control over whether they want to upload crash information or not. We explored a few options on how to do that and have a plan now, but that yet has to be implemented.

KMime move to KDE Frameworks

The long-lasting move of KMime to KDE Frameworks will finally happen early May, after the 26.04 KDE Gear release and in time for the 6.27 KDE Frameworks release.

Users of KMime will need a few minor build system adjustments for this. The CMake target name changes from KPim6::Mime to KF6::Mime, and the version number changes from KDE PIM versioning KDE Frameworks versioning. You can either replace this at once, or use the forward-compatibility approach suggested below.

The following CMake snippet replaces the previous find_package call for KPim6Mime and will handle both variants from before and after the move.

find_package(KF6Mime 6.27 CONFIG)
if(NOT TARGET KF6::Mime)
find_package(KPim6Mime 6.7.0 CONFIG REQUIRED)
add_library(KF6::Mime ALIAS KPim6::Mime)
endif()

Target names in target_link_library calls can then be switched to the new KF6::Mime already. Once the transition is complete, the above snippet can be simplified to a single find_package call for the new variant again, without needing to touch anything else anymore.

Akademy preparations

While we were in Graz the dates for this year’s Akademy were announced: September 19-24. Registration as well as the Call for Participation are open as well.

As it was already known that Akademy would be in Graz this year, we could use the opportunity to inspect venues, test food options, as well as to review and improve OSM (indoor) mapping of the conference location.

Itinerary

With a bunch of people traveling to the sprint, Itinerary also got a bit of attention of course:

Performance of opening the “My Data” page the first time was improved, by optimizing computing some of the statistics shown on that page.
A new way of sharing GraphQL query fragments should simplify maintaining support for the various OpenTripPlanner flavors in KPublicTransport. For some of the backends, the information available for rental bikes/scooters/cars became more detailed as a result of this.
Kate’s syntax highlighting got support for IATA SSIM flight schedules. That’s fallout from work on importing such data into Transitous, where it will eventually also benefit Itinerary and KTrip.

And more…

That’s not all of course, other topics included:

Improving the usability of the push services configuration in System Settings.
Enabling System Settings to configure notifications from Flatpak apps using KNotificiation.
Aligning the different ways currently used to share plain text via Purpose.
Fixing some non-obvious issues with the static builds after a recent CI image update.

There’s also reports from e.g. Kieryn, Albert and Kristen on Planet KDE with more details and other perspectives.

Grazer Linuxtage

KDE

At Grazer Linuxtage we had a KDE booth again, showing devices running Plasma, Krita and Plasma Mobile, handing out stickers as well as the famous amigurumi Konqis, collecting donations, and of course with a bunch of KDE contributors around to talk to.

KDE's booth at Grazer Linuxtage (photo by Kieryn Darkwater)

Albert also did a presentation about 30 years of KDE.

Transitous

Also as part of the conference program I spoke about Transitous and what has been built for that and around that in the past two years.

Following the recent discussions about dynamic traffic data, the talk about monitoring vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure messages was particularly interesting. The information shown on opentrafficmap.org is obtained that way, and shows how incredibly detailed this is.

There’s current positions of trams, busses, and regular cars, speed, acceleration vectors, status of all external lights, and which pedal gets pressed. Traffic lights report their current state and change timings as well as provide a full machine-readable model of their signal groups and lane relations. All of that in a standardized and (intentionally) unencrypted form.

Lots of potential in this, I wasn’t aware this went anywhere after things had gotten a bit quieter around the self-driving cars hype.

How you can help!

Bringing people together, for a small meeting or a big conference, is extremely useful and productive. The necessary travel and logistics come with costs though, which is where your donations to organizations like KDE e.V. or Grazer Linuxtage help!

This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore

Nate Graham — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:01 +0000

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!

Last week over 20 KDE contributors converged on the Austrian city of Graz for our annual mega-sprint. It was a busy week, offering a good opportunity for the kinds of face-to-face conversations that can unblock stuck work and reach new consensus. Expect reports to appear on Planet KDE over the next week or two.

We skipped an issue of TWiP due to the sprint but these past two weeks have indeed been busy! Some major features landed, along with a slew of impactful UI improvements. Let’s get right into it:

Notable new features

Plasma 6.7

Each screen can now switch between any of the system’s virtual desktops independently! (Hynek Schlindenbuch, KDE Bugzilla #107302)

You can now choose your default calendar app on System Settings’ Default Applications page. (Denys Madureira, plasma-workspace MR #6468)

…And you can now middle-click on the Digital Clock widget to open the calendar app you’ve configured there. (Denys Madureira, plasma-workspace MR #6462)

You can now configure the Alt+Tab window switcher to always appear on the primary screen, rather than whichever screen has keyboard focus or the pointer on it. (Yuki Tsujii, KDE Bugzilla #329696)

You can now mark app-specific actions that you find in a search as favorites. (Kai Uwe Broulik, plasma-workspace MR #6224)

The Kicker Application Menu widget now highlights newly-installed apps, just like the Kickoff Application Launcher widget does. (Christoph Wolk, plasma-desktop MR #3649)

You can now drag-and-drop apps to the “Favorites” sections of the Kickoff, Kicker, and Dashboard widgets. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #383302 and plasma-desktop MR #3652)

If you find yourself captivated by a picture of the day wallpaper image, you can now right-click on it and access external information about it. (Kai Uwe Broulik, kdeplasma-addons MR #1035)

You can now optionally set Discover to quit after installing updates. (Taras Oleksyn, KDE Bugzilla #508743)

Notable UI improvements

Plasma 6.6.5

While entering the password for a Wi-Fi network using the Networks widget, the password field no longer loses keyboard focus if you happen to move the pointer away from it. (Tobias Fella, plasma-nm MR #556)

Plasma 6.7

There’s now a new standard “Badge” component in Kirigami, and many parts of Plasma have been ported to use it. (Nate Graham, kirigami MR #1847, plasma-desktop MR #3089, plasma-workspace MR #6488, systemsettings MR #399, discover MR #1290, and kinfocenter MR #262)

After

Before

The Input Method System Tray widget no longer disables the active input method if you click it while the input method isn’t currently visible. Now it just shows and hides it. (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, plasma-workspace MR #6485)

Improved the design of Discover’s grid and list items, which also slightly increases the information density of the pages that show them. (Nate Graham, discover MR #1292)

After

Before

The Kicker Application Menu widget now shows tooltips for items whose labels have been elided. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #515608)

System Monitor now differentiates multiple GPUs by their names, rather than by arbitrary numbers. (Bernhard Friedreich, libksysguard MR #464 and ksystemstats MR #129)

System Monitor now exposes top-level actions you can use to launch it and go straight to a specific page. These can be invoked from the app’s context menu, or via a global shortcut you set yourself. (Bernhard Friedreich, plasma-systemmonitor MR #427)

The Margins Separator widget is now added from the panel configuration dialog’s “Add New” menu, rather than the widget explorer sidebar. This matches how the similar spacer widget is added. (Antti Savolainen, plasma-workspace MR #6494 and plasma-desktop MR #3663)

The clipboard popup invoked with Meta+V now closes if it’s open when you press that keyboard shortcut a second time. (Kristem McWilliam, plasma-workspace MR #6450)

Improved how System Settings’ Shortcuts page handles being told to assign a shortcut that’s already assigned to something else. (David Bacskay-Nagy, KDE Bugzilla #484526 and KDE Bugzilla #489544)

KRunner now lets you evaluate fancy mathematical expressions more flexibly; in the past you could ask for sqrt(2) + 2 but not 2 + sqrt(2); now both are accepted. (Alex Cizinsky, KDE Bugzilla #496343)

Frameworks 6.26

The dialog that asks you if you want to launch or edit an executable text file (like a .desktop file) no longer gives you the opportunity to tell it to always do that thing. This behavior was making .desktop files un-launchable for people who selected the option to always open those types of files in a text editor. Anyone who wants to use this feature can still configure it in Dolphin’s settings. (Nate Graham, kio MR #2171)

After

Before

Removed the CFP franc from the list of common currencies, so it no longer shows up automatically for every currency conversion run using KRunner-powered searches. (Pellaeon Lin, kunitconversion MR #84)

Notable bug fixes

Plasma 6.6.4

Fixed a case where Plasma Keyboard could crash after Alt+Tabbing away from a window marked as “keep above others”. (Devin Lin, KDE Bugzilla #517087)

Worked around a bug added in Qt 6.11 that made some of Spectacle’s annotation tools unclickable. (Oliver Beard, KDE Bugzilla #515304)

Fixed a layout issue in the Activity Pager widget that made it look weird at specific non-default panel sizes. (Marco Martin, KDE Bugzilla #518451)

Plasma 6.6.5

Fixed a case where KWin could crash on logout when the session that’s closing had sent any emulated keyboard or mouse events. (Vlad Zahorodnii, kwin MR #9092)

Fixed an issue with the screen locker that could cause the buttons to malfunction and leave you unable to unlock after you pressed the Esc key in combination with various other actions with specific timings. (Akseli Lahtinen, KDE Bugzilla #515299)

Fixed an issue that made color picker functionality throughout the system return random colors on systems with certain graphics hardware. (Xaver Hugl, KDE Bugzilla #518770)

Fixed an issue that made the clock times shown on the lockscreen differ across the screens of a multi-screen setup. (DeepChirp, KDE Bugzilla #516479)

Fixed two issues that made network connections added from the Plasma setup wizard not always work properly. (Adam Williamson, KDE Bugzilla #514841 and plasma-setup MR #100)

Fixed a couple of cases where auto-hide panels might not hide properly when there were any unread notifications. (Patrick Cleary, KDE Bugzilla #519046)

Switching away from the Networks Widget in the System Tray no longer briefly makes a placeholder message appear. (Tobias Fella, KDE Bugzilla #511367)

Improved the reliability of the Weather Widget’s icon fallback behavior, making it less likely to show broken weather icons. (Ismael Asensio, kdeplasma-addons MR #1032)

Plasma 6.7

Fixed an issue that could make the Audio Volume widget not notice that a new audio device was connected and became the default one. (Oliver Beard, plasma-pa MR #393)

Using the clipboard’s non-default “Never save [non-text items] in history” option no longer breaks the ability to paste items that have been moved to the top of the clipboard history. (Christoph Wolk, KDE Bugzilla #514095)

Apps in the Quick Launch widget can once again be re-arranged. (Alex Folland, KDE Bugzilla #481922)

Fixed two quirky issues with Spectacle’s magnifier in Rectangular Region mode. (Noah Davis, KDE Bugzilla #509776 and KDE Bugzilla #509777)

Notable in performance & technical

Plasma 6.7

KWin now supports the Wayland session management protocol! This is an important step for apps to be able to remember their sizes and positions after restarting the system. The next step is for toolkits, libraries, and apps to implement support. We’re getting there! (Vlad Zahorodnii, KDE Bugzilla #436318)

Reduced the size of animated GIF images produced by apps like Spectacle that use KDE’s KPipeWire library. (Bernhard Friedrich, kpipewire MR #247)

How you can help

KDE has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we need your support to keep KDE sustainable.

Would you like to help put together this weekly report? Introduce yourself in the Matrix room and join the team!

Beyond that, you can help KDE by directly getting involved in any other projects. Donating time is actually more impactful than donating money. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer, either; many other opportunities exist.

You can also help out by making a donation! This helps cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors, and in general just keeps KDE bringing Free Software to the world.

To get a new Plasma feature or a bug fix mentioned here

Push a commit to the relevant merge request on invent.kde.org.

Web Review, Week 2026-16

Kevin Ottens — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:17:26 +0000

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-16.

Sovereign Tech Agency funding - Mastodon Blog

Tags: tech, fediverse

This looks like an interesting agreement. E2EE messaging anyone? There is more of course, but I’m especially excited regarding this one.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away

Tags: tech, foss, licensing, law

The FSF is now weighting in on the Euro-Office vs OnlyOffice situation. You have to respect the spirit of the AGPL and can’t take away freedom with extra clauses. Seems to make sense to me.

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/agpl-is-not-a-tool-for-taking-freedom-away

Tags: tech, politics, europe

Looks like someone is actually paying attention to what’s going on.

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

The Utopia of the Family Computer

Tags: tech, internet, culture, time, history

Interesting piece, shows quite well how new technologies get in the home and then slowly expand. In the case of the Internet, it was indeed literally in a corner of the home before slowly being woven in our lives.

https://mudmapmagazine.com/the-utopia-of-the-family-computer/?ref=DenseDiscovery-384

On the acceptance of GenAI

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, ethics

Stop looking at the shiny toy, remember the ethics behind them…

https://smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on-the-acceptance-of-genai/

Is Claude Mythos “Terrifying” or Just Hype?

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, marketing, hype, research

Are we surprised it’s mostly a PR stunt? Not at all. Of course, I agree a lot with the conclusion: we can’t trust any claim from those companies. They try to present themselves as labs but mostly try to disguise marketing as research…

https://calnewport.com/is-claude-mythos-terrifying-or-just-hype/

How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

Tags: tech, simplicity, complexity, performance, minimalism, infrastructure

There’s a whole swat of solutions for very lean services. You can go a long way reducing complexity as much as possible. Less infrastructure bills are definitely welcome.

https://stevehanov.ca/blog/how-i-run-multiple-10k-mrr-companies-on-a-20month-tech-stack

Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip!

Tags: tech, ssh, hardware, security

Comprehensive guide to have SSH keys stored in the TPM chip. Clearly it’s still a very manual process.

https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Put_your_SSH_keys_in_your_TPM_chip.html

Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable

Tags: tech, rust, supply-chain, security

Indeed, the current supply chain model of Rust could be better. While we wait for improvements (with no sign of them coming), there are ways to try to avoid some of the common pitfalls.

https://kerkour.com/rust-supply-chain-nightmare

No one owes you supply-chain security

Tags: tech, rust, supply-chain, security, foss

Can crates.io make things easier to secure? I do think so. But this post is right that we shouldn’t forget the social aspect of the whole supply chain security conversation.

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/no-one-owes-you-supply-chain-security/

Rust is Just a Tool

Tags: tech, rust, tools, hype

This bears repeating of course. I still wish our industry would run less on hype. It’s not specific to Rust of course.

https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260204.html

Flat Error Codes Are Not Enough

Tags: tech, rust, failure

When possible it’s nice to nest your error types, this allows better investigation when something fails.

https://home.expurple.me/posts/flat-error-codes-are-not-enough/

C++26: Structured bindings in conditions

Tags: tech, c++

Looks like a small syntax adjustment, but that indeed open the door to nice improvements.

https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/04/15/cpp26-structured-bindings-condition

The Global API Injection Pattern

Tags: tech, c++, dependencies, metaprogramming

This is indeed a nice pattern for dependency injection in C++ for global functions.

https://www.elbeno.com/blog/?p=1831

Can we finally use C++ Modules in 2026?

Tags: tech, c++

Probably not… This is really taking a long time to be adopted. It’s not an incremental thing at all, this doesn’t help.

https://mropert.github.io/2026/04/13/modules_in_2026/

Bring Back Idiomatic Design

Tags: tech, web, frontend, desktop, ux

Or why I tend to favor desktop applications (made by KDE as much as possible) rather than web applications whenever possible. It’s just more pleasant to have things which look and feel homogeneous.

https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design

The unwritten laws of software engineering

Tags: tech, engineering, failure, reliability

Those have no name… but you’ll encounter them regularly indeed.

https://newsletter.manager.dev/p/the-unwritten-laws-of-software-engineering

Writing design docs

Tags: tech, architecture, design, documentation, processes

A good primer about design documents. What’s nice about this one is the focus on the process rather than the form of the document. Indeed what matters is the shared understanding and making sure the right decision is made.

https://blog.ceejbot.com/posts/design-docs/

No agenda, no meeting

Tags: tech, meetings, documentation, remote-working

Of course I wish more meetings would follow this pattern… or not happen at all, sending me a proper document instead.

https://ben.balter.com/2026/04/06/no-agenda-no-meeting/

Technical Leadership is Leadership

Tags: tech, leadership, team

Short and to the point reminder: our job is never only about the tech. It always encompass some people related concerns, be it inside teams, between teams, or the impact on the users.

https://estherderby.com/technical-leadership-is-leadership/

Even Ohno’s Classic “5 Whys” Example Deserves Another Why

Tags: agile, lean, failure

A bit long for what it’s saying. And yet it’s a good reminder, don’t focus on why… Ask the question as many times as necessary to get to the point where you can find a solution which prevents issues to reappear.

https://www.leanblog.org/2026/04/ohno-5-whys-actually-seven/

Bye for now!

Regresa La Palma Tech Tagoror

Agustín Benito Bethencourt — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000

La Palma Tech Tagoror vuelve. Los meetups en la isla canaria de La Palma se relanzan este 23 de abril, en La Real Sociedad Aridane, Los Llanos de Aridane. La entrada es gratuita previo registro. Únete al evento o apúntate al grupo de Meetup para estar informado de futuras actividades.

KDE Applications snaps are back — stable release

Scarlett Gately Moore — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

100+ KDE Application snaps updated and released to stable, with Qt6, KF6, arm64 support, and KDE CI integration. Coinciding with KDE Gear release day.

KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.04

KDE Community — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Dolphin

Dolphin is KDE's file/folder browser manager, which also lets you connect to remote file systems and manage code repositories.

In version 26.04, Dolphin lets you add keyboard shortcuts to nearly any option in any menu, plugin or extension.

Say you find yourself often switching the order of files between order by name and order by date created. Make a shortcut and re-order with ease.

Personal Information Management

KDE's Personal Information Management software covers everything to do with email, contacts, calendars, etc.

Merkuro Calendar now boasts a re-designed schedule view and event editor. They now look more modern and show more relevant information in a more attractive way.

The venerable KOrganizer calendaring app integrated into Kontact has had a facelift and is both tidier and more informative.

Itinerary helps you plan your trips, manages all your tickets and reservations, and helps you not get lost when travelling. This new version improves its dialogs and has added new information for when travelling around Switzerland.

Kdenlive

Kdenlive is KDE's full-featured video editor.

In 26.04, you will find animated previews in Compositions that show you what a transition does even before you apply it.

Another feature you'll find useful is that you can now mirror the monitor to an external display. This will let you see the clip in the usual interface, but also on a second screen as a larger view.

A few smaller tweaks include

a timeline context menu that directly imports a clip to the project, adding it to the clicked position
an option to always zoom on the mouse position instead of the timeline playhead
automatic generation of audio thumbnails for sequences
dropping a transition to the timeline will automatically adjust its duration to the above/below clips
you can now change the speed of multiple clips at the same time.

Also in Gear ⚙️ 26.04

Audiotube boasts a fancy, brand new welcome page

KClock now shows up as an overlay on a mobile lock screen when a timer is running
NeoChat, KDE's Matrix chat client, gets a rich text editor and now supports threads!

Full changelog here

Where to get KDE Apps

Although we fully support distributions that ship our software, KDE Gear 26.04 apps will also be available on these Linux app stores shortly:

Flathub

Snapcraft

If you’d like to help us get more KDE applications into the app stores, support more app stores and get the apps better integrated into our development process, come say hi in our All About the Apps chat room.

KDE Mega Sprint 2026

Kristen McWilliam — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This April, KDE once again had a sprint in Graz, Austria. This one was deemed a "Mega Sprint" as unlike last year it was not just for Plasma, but for everything KDE-related from Plasma, goals, frameworks, apps, and more. We had a great turnout!

Amazingly I managed to go the whole trip this time without getting sick! 😊

We covered a lot of ground! Briefly, a few of the things off the top of my head:

Testing

Improving reliability, ease of running locally, documentation, and ensuring that test failures are reported by the CI in merge requests. We have some work to do for all of these to improve our testing story, and we collectively came to important decisions on how to move forwards.

Gardening

There is a lot, often not enough hours/energy to deal with it, and a lot of the time people just don't even know about the issue(s). Let's try: being more proactive about closing bad/stale MRs, creating a GitLab bot to help automate things that get people's attention, keep track of things by sending regular notices to the mailing list(s) similar to how the "failing ci" emails help people keep on top of things.

Gestures

A complicated topic! We had a lot of good discussions about the user flow/UI/UX, and I think we came to a really good place that sets us up for some excellent custom gestures/bindings with the fantastic work by Jakob & Natalie.

This sort of work is a really great example of something that would have been very difficult to do online, that we broke through with a lot of back and forth conversation/explanation/design at the sprint — which is exactly why we get together to unblock these things and make quick progress together!

Plasma Keyboard

We covered all of the large topics/issues that have been pending, for example: morekeys/full keyboard emulation, emojis, speech-to-text, Wayland protocols, testing, etc. So much that each could probably be its own blog post! We'll continue to see a whole lot of changes and improvements here; we really want plasma-keyboard to be a first-class experience for all sorts of input stories.

Graz

We were once again in lovely Graz, and the weather was a very welcome change from the brutal winter we've had in Canada — still had ice and snow when I left home! In addition to the mostly sunny weather and chirping birds, the city and its people were just fantastic once again. 💙

I can't say enough just how lovely Graz is, and how glad I was to get to visit again. 🇦🇹 Special shout out to Kevin Krammer, our KDE local who did so much to make this sprint great for us!

The fact that Graz is a lovely place to go is good news, since this year we'll be hosting Akademy there — I am already looking forward to coming back! :D

La Palma Tech Tagoror Is Back

Agustín Benito Bethencourt — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:57:14 +0000

La Palma Tech Tagoror is back. After a year without events, the meetup series relaunches on April 23rd at Real Sociedad (Casino) Aridane, Los Llanos de Aridane, La Palma. Free entry, short talks, good conversations. Join us — or sign up to the Meetup group to stay informed.

A week in Graz: KDE MegaSprint and Grazer Linuxtage

Albert Astals Cid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:12:00 +0000

I spent this week in Graz, the weekdays as part of the KDE Mega Sprint 2026 and Saturday attending Grazer Linuxtage 2026.

Before arriving in Graz I already did some work on the train from Vienna. I published a new version of kio-gopher so KDE Frameworks 6 applications can browse gopher sites and helped finish the review of KDominate, Albert Vaca's latest tactical game.

At the Sprint itself many things were achieved, too many to remember.

There was some discussion about improving release notes so they go into the appstream files and end up in lots of interesting places (apps.kde.org, Discover, etc).

I also talked a bit with David Edmundson on how to streamline our work in the KDE Security team.

Another important thing was that we introduced a way to help us enable the LeakSanitizer in more repositories (by ignoring leaks that are not our fault and that we can't control)

Non-planned group photo of Sprint attendees, a few are missing. Apologies!

While we were at the Sprint it was announced that we will have Akademy 2026 also in Graz. So start preparing to visit Austria in late September!

Grazer Linuxtage was very nice, as far as I've heard also very successful in attendance, with the estimate being around 50% more than the previous year (hard to calculate when you don't require registration).

There were not many talks in English but the ones I attended were interesting. If you have time I would recommend giving them a quick skim to see if they interest you.

Transitous - Free and Open Public transport routing (from KDE's own Volker Krause)

What can we learn from Android for other embedded Linux systems security? (Every app in Android is a different Linux user)

LibreOffice: What we're doing, where we're going, and how you can help (Very fashionable given the latest rifts in the community (sadly))

How we hacked the Bavarian State with an Open Source Open Letter (About how to pressure administrations not to give Microsoft all of our tax money)

I gave a talk about KDE and the 30 years of the Linux desktop, that from the reaction of the attendees I think it was well received, that's always nice :)

The video from my talk is available at https://media.ccc.de/v/glt26-691-kde-30-years-of-the-linux-desktop

Thanks everyone involved in the organization and Kevin Krammer in particular for hosting us!

Analyzing KDE Project Health With git!

Nate Graham — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:24:08 +0000

I was reading the latest edition of Kevin Ottens’ excellent weekly web review and one particular article caught my eye: “The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code“. In a nutshell, you can use the git version control tool to quickly assess a project’s health, what breaks, who’s a key figure, how bad emergencies are, and so on.

So useful!

I immediately wanted to apply this to KDE projects. So I took the commands from the post and made some shell aliases and functions for convenience:

# git repo analysis tools
alias what-changes="echo 'What changes a lot?' && git log --format=format: --name-only --since='1 year ago' | rg -v 'po$|json$|desktop$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20"
alias what-breaks="echo 'What breaks a lot?' && git log -i -E --grep='fix|bug|broke|bad|wrong|incorrect|problem' --name-only --format='' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20"
alias emergencies="echo 'And what were the emergencies?' && git log --oneline --since='1 year ago' | grep -iE 'revert|hotfix|emergency|urgent|rollback'"
alias momentum="echo \"What's the project's momentum over the past 5 years?\" && git log --format='%ad' --date=format:'%Y-%m' | sort | uniq -c | tail -n 60"
alias maintainers-recently="echo \"Who's been driving this project in the past year?\" && git shortlog -sn --no-merges --since='1 year ago' | rg -v 'l10n daemon script' | head -n 30"
alias maintainers-alltime="echo 'And what about for all time?' && git shortlog -sn --no-merges | rg -v 'l10n daemon script' | head -n 30"
function repo-analysis {
 what-changes
 echo
 what-breaks
 echo
 emergencies
 echo
 momentum
 echo
 maintainers-recently
 echo
 maintainers-alltime
}

Now let’s run it on Plasma. Here’s plasma-workspace, the core of Plasma:

$ git clone ssh://git@invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace.git
$ cd plasma-workspace
$ repo-analysis
What changes a lot?
  1519
    38 CMakeLists.txt
    29 shell/shellcorona.cpp
    24 runners/services/servicerunner.cpp
    21 wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/config.qml
    19 libnotificationmanager/notifications.cpp
    18 shell/org.kde.plasmashell.desktop.cmake
    18 devicenotifications/devicenotifications.cpp
    17 kcms/lookandfeel/kcm.cpp
    16 wallpapers/image/plugin/model/packagelistmodel.cpp
    16 kcms/cursortheme/xcursor/xcursor.knsrc
    15 wallpapers/image/plugin/model/imagelistmodel.cpp
    15 applets/notifications/global/Globals.qml
    15 applets/devicenotifier/devicecontrol.cpp
    14 wallpapers/image/plugin/imagebackend.cpp
    14 shell/panelview.cpp
    14 .kde-ci.yml
    14 applets/systemtray/systemtray.cpp
    13 runners/services/autotests/servicerunnertest.cpp
    12 krunner/qml/RunCommand.qml

What breaks a lot?
   225 shell/shellcorona.cpp
   183 shell/panelview.cpp
    83 CMakeLists.txt
    74 applets/systemtray/package/contents/ui/main.qml
    71 applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/DigitalClock.qml
    63 klipper/klipper.cpp
    62 applets/notifications/package/contents/ui/NotificationItem.qml
    58 wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/config.qml
    56 shell/desktopview.cpp
    56 libtaskmanager/tasksmodel.cpp
    54 shell/main.cpp
    54 applets/systemtray/systemtray.cpp
    53 shell/shellcorona.h
    52 krunner/view.cpp
    48 applets/digital-clock/package/contents/ui/CalendarView.qml
    47 runners/services/servicerunner.cpp
    46 wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/main.qml
    45 applets/notifications/package/contents/ui/NotificationPopup.qml
    44 applets/systemtray/package/contents/ui/ExpandedRepresentation.qml
    43 startkde/startplasma.cpp

And what were the emergencies?
4f526a7bd1 Revert “applets/systemtray: Prevent popups from overlapping with the panel”
dca5788fee lookandfeel/components: Revert Plasma::setupPlasmaStyle
2c0fd34541 Revert “ContainmentLayoutManager: send recursive mouse release events too”
b6b230f4ff Revert “Read selenium-webdriver-at-spi-run location from CMake”
b8651b56f6 hotfix: Remove doc translations without actual doc
1f43f576e8 Revert “Add forceImageAnimation property to force animated image play”
f0349b6c81 hotfix: remove stray .po file
3ff7ae4269 Revert “CI: enable parallel testing”
83bebc7896 Revert “Limit evaluateScript execution at 2 seconds”
4f45f672be Revert “kcms/componentchooser: Don’t offer NoDisplay services”
3bf0ff8f56 Revert “Disable linux-qt6-next while the regression in Qt gets fixed”
80996f0633 Revert “kcms/wallpaper: set roleNames for WallpaperConfigModel”

What’s the project’s momentum over the past 5 years?
   148 2021-05
    87 2021-06
    62 2021-07
    85 2021-08
   121 2021-09
   106 2021-10
   146 2021-11
   190 2021-12
   191 2022-01
    84 2022-02
   168 2022-03
   130 2022-04
   146 2022-05
   141 2022-06
   136 2022-07
   107 2022-08
   232 2022-09
   234 2022-10
   181 2022-11
   150 2022-12
   154 2023-01
   161 2023-02
   156 2023-03
   156 2023-04
   163 2023-05
   137 2023-06
   186 2023-07
   190 2023-08
   275 2023-09
   226 2023-10
   283 2023-11
   157 2023-12
   131 2024-01
   147 2024-02
   249 2024-03
   180 2024-04
   188 2024-05
   158 2024-06
   128 2024-07
   146 2024-08
   169 2024-09
   156 2024-10
   116 2024-11
    98 2024-12
   145 2025-01
   126 2025-02
   120 2025-03
   116 2025-04
   131 2025-05
   131 2025-06
   132 2025-07
   115 2025-08
   110 2025-09
    97 2025-10
   147 2025-11
   114 2025-12
   140 2026-01
   131 2026-02
   119 2026-03
    44 2026-04

Who’s been driving this project in the past year?
  116 Vlad Zahorodnii
  113 Nicolas Fella
   87 Christoph Wolk
   82 Fushan Wen
   78 Nate Graham
   66 Kai Uwe Broulik
   48 Bohdan Onofriichuk
   37 Harald Sitter
   34 Tobias Fella
   31 Marco Martin
   30 David Edmundson
   25 Akseli Lahtinen
   21 Ismael Asensio
   17 David Redondo
   16 Niccolò Venerandi
   15 Bhushan Shah
   11 Alexander Lohnau
   11 Kristen McWilliam
    9 Oliver Beard
    9 Shubham Arora
    8 Alexey Rochev
    8 Han Young
    8 Philipp Kiemle
    7 Albert Astals Cid
    6 Aleix Pol
    6 Méven Car
    5 Devin Lin
    5 Joshua Goins
    4 Alexander Wilms
    4 Arjen Hiemstra

And what about for all time?
1543 Fushan Wen
1497 Marco Martin
1374 Kai Uwe Broulik
1030 David Edmundson
  772 Nate Graham
  658 Alexander Lohnau
  551 Aleix Pol
  548 Nicolas Fella
  438 ivan tkachenko
  385 Eike Hein
  264 Sebastian Kügler
  250 Martin Gräßlin
  238 Harald Sitter
  232 Martin Klapetek
  223 Jonathan Riddell
  207 Vlad Zahorodnii
  194 David Redondo
  190 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
  189 Laurent Montel
  144 Bhushan Shah
  134 Christoph Wolk
  134 Ismael Asensio
  126 Lukáš Tinkl
  121 Niccolò Venerandi
  117 Méven Car
  105 Natalie Clarius
   91 Konrad Materka
   80 Vishesh Handa
   80 Volker Krause
   79 Ivan Čukić

ShellCorona both changing and breaking a lot is no great surprise to me; it’s fiddly and complicated. We need to do something about that. The number of emergencies doesn’t look too bad, and momentum feels fine too. The project also appears to have a nice healthy diversity of contributors. Excellent!

It’s been quite illuminating to run these tools on KDE projects that I’m both more and less familiar with. Give it a try!

Web Review, Week 2026-15

Kevin Ottens — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:43:03 +0000

Let’s go for my web review for the week 2026-15.

France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins

Tags: tech, foss, politics, desktop, france, europe

Well, what can I say? This is excellent news and I’m excited to see it happen. Let’s hope more governments do the same. It’ll take a while of course, so we’ll have to be patient.

https://linuxiac.com/france-launches-government-linux-desktop-plan-as-windows-exit-begins/

The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn’t

Tags: tech, infrastructure, economics

A good explanation and illustration of how natural monopolies work. This is why you want to regulate infrastructure properly.

https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/

You can absolutely have an RSS dependent website in 2026

Tags: tech, blog, rss

The stats are clear there. Beside in term of experience, RSS feeds are so superior to newsletters… I wish more bloggers would give up on the newsletter focus. There’s also a good point in this post: as soon as you have a newsletter you will sit on a database of email addresses, it’s definitely a liability.

https://matduggan.com/you-can-absolutely-have-an-rss-dependent-website-in-2026/

The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026

Tags: tech, microsoft, github, apple, linux, business, product-management

Indeed, the giant managed to make itself weak. This means opportunities for other ecosystems to grow faster than before.

https://caio.ca/blog/the-downfall-and-enshittification-of-microsoft.html

Let’s talk about LLMs

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, productivity, craftsmanship

Long but very precise piece about why you can likely ignore LLM for development purpose. Starting from older Fred Brooks work is spot on. Indeed whatever will remain of LLM based tools in the years to come, it’s much smarter to focus on fundamental skills than chase the new tools. At least, I’m trying to do my share in getting myself and others better at the craft.

https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/

Almost Half of US Data Centers That Were Supposed to Open This Year Slated to Be Canceled or Delayed

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, energy, economics, infrastructure

It’s getting clearer that the industrial LLM complex will have a hard time meeting its targets.

https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-construction-supply

“Cognitive surrender” leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, cognition, bias

It feels like it’s supercharging an old bias… We tend to confuse confidence for competence.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/research-finds-ai-users-scarily-willing-to-surrender-their-cognition-to-llms/

The machines are fine. I’m worried about us.

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, gpt, copilot, learning, science, research

Excellent piece, it show quite well the problem of skipping the “grunt work”. Without it you can’t really learn your trade (be it astrophysics or anything else). It also shows how the incentives on scientific careers are wrong. It’s not new, but when LLM agents become available, things are definitely changing for the worst.

https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/

Giving LLMs a Formal Reasoning Engine for Code Analysis

Tags: tech, ai, machine-learning, copilot, prolog, logic

Definitely interesting approach. I think neurosymbolic approaches are what we ultimately need so I’m probably biased. At least it means using LLMs for what they’re good at (language skills) and only that. Then rely on proper code symbolic models which do the reasoning heavy lifting. I’d expect it can give nice output with smaller models.

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-04-08-neurosymbolic-mcp.html

Open source security at Astral

Tags: tech, security, ci, supply-chain

Lots of interesting measures to reduce the risk of supply chain issues. Definitely to be considered on your projects.

https://astral.sh/blog/open-source-security-at-astral

another memory corruption case

Tags: tech, hardware, memory, failure

Failing DRAM chips are real. Here is the case of debugging a single bit flip.

https://trofi.github.io/posts/347-another-memory-corruption-case.html

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code

Tags: tech, git, version-control, team, audit

Nice little commands to use to discover quickly the state of a code base… Or rather of its team.

https://piechowski.io/post/git-commands-before-reading-code/

Zsh: select generated files with (om[1]) glob qualifiers

Tags: tech, zsh, shell

Oh this is super neat and convenient! I didn’t know about those glob patterns modifiers in zsh.

https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/01/27/zsh-om1-glob-qualifiers/

Two little scripts: addup and sumup

Tags: tech, unix, shell, scripting

A friendly reminder that one can go far mainly with awk.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/LittleScriptsIX

All of the String types

Tags: tech, memory, unicode, encodings

So many string types! They all have a purpose of course. It’s a good reminder that something mundane like a string type is not that simple.

https://lambdalemon.gay/posts/string-types

Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version

Tags: tech, version-control, debugging

Examples of how i3 and go stamp versions. This is indeed good habits to ease dealing with errors in production.

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-04-05-stamp-it-all-programs-must-report-their-version/

The MVC Mistake

Tags: tech, architecture, complexity

Shows the problem with layer cakes in applications or how you might want to go toward onion architectures.

https://entropicthoughts.com/mvc-mistake

The Mouse That Roared

Tags: tech, leadership, tests, tdd, agile, organisation

Cryptic title to be honest. But this is a good explanation of why any “agile transformation” better start close to the code and in particular with automated tests. If you can crack that nut (and it takes time), the rest will follow naturally.

https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/the-mouse-that-roared/

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems

Tags: tech, productivity, organisation, leadership, ai, machine-learning, copilot

So much this… There are so many organisational problems that churning code faster is likely not what you need. When did we start to obsess with the number of lines of code?

https://andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-thought-the-speed-of-writing-code-was-your-problem-you-have-bigger-problems

Are We Idiocracy Yet?

Tags: satire, culture

Getting there, one day at a time.

https://idiocracy.wtf/

Bye for now!

KDE in Graz

Bridging the Gap — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:49:40 +0000

I’ve been on the Akademy organizing team and contributing in various cat-herding capacities since 2023, but this is the first time I’ve joined other contributors for a Sprint.

My mission this week has been to scout locations and activities for the Akademy conference later this year. One of the members of our local organizing team let me (temporarily) adopt their stuffed Konqi, so I have been wandering around Graz and the state of Styria with a stuffed dragon taking a bunch of pictures, drinking Aperol Spritz, eating chocolate, and petting animals to make sure that all the places we visit in September will be fun and accessible for everyone who joins.

Konqi at Zotter

Konqi guarding my chocolates at the bus stop

me and Konqi on the train

This year KDE turns 30, so we are planning a big celebration for Akademy. I have been thrilled to discover that Graz is very accessible. The town tourism website has a guide for navigating with a wheelchair or other mobility devices; many restaurants have mocktails or homemade juice/tea options for non-alcoholic drinks; the city is full of plazas you can sit and sip a coffee in for hours when you need a break from walking, and there is an abundance of parks and fountains that children can expel their energy playing in.

I can’t wait to introduce the KDE community to Graz this September!

Akademy 2026 Call for Proposals is Now Open

Akademy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:04:55 +0000

Akademy 2026: Call for Participation

Akademy 2026 will be a hybrid event held simultaneously in Graz, Austria, and online. The Call for Participation is open! Send us your talk ideas and abstracts.

Why talk at #Akademy2026

Akademy attracts artists, designers, developers, translators, users, writers, companies, public institutions and many other KDE friends and contributors. We celebrate the achievements and help determine the direction for the next year. We all meet together to discuss and plan the future of the Community and the technology we build. You will meet people who are receptive to your ideas and can help you with their skills and experience. You will get an opportunity to present your application, share ideas and best practices, or gain new contributors. These sessions offer the opportunity to gain support and make your plans for your project become a reality.

How to get started

Do not worry about details or slides right now. Just think of an idea and submit some basic details about your talk. You can edit your abstract after the initial submission. All topics relevant to the KDE Community are welcome. Here are a few ideas to get you started on your proposal:

How KDE can empower building robust communities in changing political climates
Work towards KDE's goals: Streamlined Application Development Experience, We care about your Input, and KDE Needs You
Giving people more digital freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy with KDE software
Advice on how to participate for new users, intermediates and experts
New developments/plans for KDE Frameworks, Plasma, Applications and other projects
30 years of KDE: achievements, highlights, and what’s next
Anything else that might interest an audience of long-time, new, and potential KDE contributors!

To get an idea of talks that were accepted, check out the program from previous years: 2025 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017.

For more details and information, visit Call for Participation.

Building C/C++ libraries for HarmonyOS with vcpkg

Qt Dev Loop — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:14:41 +0000

We're currently working on porting Qt to HarmonyOS. For our CI and developer machines, we need a number of third-party libraries built for HarmonyOS. Cross-compiling open-source C and C++ libraries for this platform has been a manual, error-prone process. Each library has its own build system, whether CMake, Autotools, or Meson. Each needs individual attention to produce correct binaries for the OHOS target. We have been maintaining a hand-written shell script that builds libraries one by one, with per-library workarounds for cross-compilation quirks.

With our vcpkg fork, that script is now a single command.

Tighter KDE Connect Integration

Kai Uwe Broulik — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:14:00 +0000

In my opinion, KDE Connect is one of the finest pieces of software KDE has ever produced. It lets you easily pair your devices and makes them work together. Copy some text on your computer, paste it on your phone. A call comes in and the video you’re watching in your browser pauses. How cool is that? For the past couple of weeks I’ve been working on even tighter integration between KDE Connect and the Plasma desktop.

Battery Monitor displaying status about devices paired wirelessly using KDE Connect

By adding a corresponding back end to Solid, KDE’s hardware abstraction framework, your phone’s battery status will show up in the “Power & Battery” popup just like a wireless mouse would. The key advantage of reporting a KDE Connect device as storage media is that it can show up in various places just like a USB drive would, including the Places panel in Dolphin and “Disk & Devices” in Plasma’s system tray. Right now, the Places panel entry is actually manually added by kdeconnectd creating a bookmark. This also means that any modifications done to the entry, such as hiding it, will be lost once the device disappears. If instead it is a proper Solid device with a unique identifier, the Places panel will remember that the device was hidden next time it is discovered. Additionally, PowerDevil, Plasma’s power management daemon, already automatically issues a notification when a connected external device runs low on battery.

Now that the fact that you can browse your phone’s storage remotely via KDE Connect is more obvious, I spent some time improving the user experience when doing so. Since KDE Connect is cross-desktop and cross-platform it uses sshfs to provide access to the phone. It doesn’t implement a proper KIO worker like we normally would since that really only works in KDE applications. This unfortunately comes with a couple of downsides: for example, the device is mounted into /run/user/<uid>/<deviceid> which is gibberish that will be shown to the user in the address bar. More importantly, though, it makes the file manager think it’s a local path (which is normally fast to access) and could lead to UI freezes when the connection is slow or unstable.

To improve this, I made use of KIO’s ForwardingWorkerBase. This is a tiny KIO worker that just rewrites a URL and forwards it to a different location. This way, the application sees a “remote” kdeconnect://device/path URL and keeps everything nice and asynchronous but under the hood still uses the sshfs infrastructure we already have. It’s what the magic desktop:/ URL uses that parses the name of .desktop files (so your get nice application names) but other than that merely reads from /home/<user>/Desktop. This also makes the entry in the Places panel match up with the URL being browsed and ultimately makes the device’s name appear on the address bar instead of an ugly UUID.

No more gibberish /run/user/somethingsomething URL on the address bar

While at it, I also added a “KDE Connect Devices” link to the “Network” folder, like we already have for Bluetooth, MTP, and Apple devices. Finally, when there is only a single storage location on the device, such as “Internal Shared Storage”, it redirects into it automatically. This saves one click when opening the device and puts you directly where your stuff is. The back end has just been merged and will be released next month as part of KDE Frameworks 6.26. However, since there’s still a bunch of infrastructure work needed around it, the back end is disabled by default. We will likely need to have at least KDE Gear 26.08 and Plasma 6.7 released that will include some necessary changes before we can flip the switch.

If you run latest KDE git builds, please give it a try and let me know what you think! You need to set the SOLID_ENABLE_KDECONNECT=1 environment variable to use it. To enable all debug output to aid debugging, set QT_LOGGING_RULES=kf.solid.backends.kdeconnect*=true or use KDebugSettings.

KDE Ships Frameworks 6.25.0

KDE Community — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Friday, 10 April 2026

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.25.0.

This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.

New in this version

Baloo

Fix remaining QFile::open nodiscard warnings. Commit.
[FileIndexerConfigUtils] Fix a nodiscard warning in fixture setup. Commit.
[FileIndexerConfigUtils] Remove unneeded QTextStream. Commit.
[FileIndexerConfigTest] Get rid of an almost duplicate helper function. Commit.
[FileIndexerConfigTest] Reduce repetitions/manual expansion. Commit.
[FileIndexerConfigTest] Reduce string puzzles to improve readability. Commit.
[FileIndexerConfigTest] Move single-use strings out of header file. Commit.
[DocumentUrlDBTest] Remove unused helper function. Commit.
[ExtractorProcess] Verify transaction was sucessfully created. Commit.
Tell the compiler QFile::open(fd, ...) can not fail for STDIN. Commit.
[Query] Use explicit percent-encoding for title and json data. Commit.
[QuerySerializationTest] Extend test coverage for disallowed characters. Commit.
[QuerySerializationTest] Cover fromSearchUrl/toSearchUrl methods. Commit.
[QuerySerializationTest] Make JSON roundtrip test data driven. Commit.

Breeze Icons

Duplicate kdesrc-build icon as kde-builder icon. Commit.
Remove duplicate/bogous style sheets. Commit.
Remove unused path in im-invisible-user.svg that breaks webfont on MacOS. Commit. See bug #499597
Add data-question status icon similar to other data-* status icons. Commit.
Add nicer 16x16 variant of dialog-question. Commit.
Add keyframe-warn. Commit.
Resize kmouth, konversation, and kde-im-log-viewer to same height. Commit.
Add icon for conic gradients. Commit.
Add mask action icons. Commit.

Extra CMake Modules

KDECMakeSettings: Disable CMAKE_CXX_SCAN_FOR_MODULES. Commit.

KArchive

Fix int overflow + QList assert on broken files. Commit.
Generate a pkgconfig file. Commit.

KCalendarCore

CI - add pre-commit support. Commit.
Use markdownlint-cli2 to format markdown files. Commit.
Use gersemi to format CMake files. Commit.
Src/filestorage.h - fix a misspelled word. Commit.
Clang-format project. Commit.
Clean whitespace issues. Commit.

KCodecs

We depend against qt 6.8 => we can remove check here. Commit.
Propagate C++20 requirement to consumers. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Remove unused/unreachable Reset() method. Commit.
[KEncodingProber] Use in-class initialization for prober members. Commit.
[Codec] Default constructors/destructors, annotate as constexpr. Commit.
[Codec] Simplify codecForName lookup. Commit.
[Codec] Benchmark codecForName lookup. Commit.
[Codec] Move test class declaration to implementation file. Commit.
[Codec] Remove double quote for invalid codec warning. Commit.
[KCharsets] Simplify instance singleton. Commit.
[KCharsets] Reuse translated strings from encodingsByScript. Commit.
[KCharsets] Fix possible initialization race for encodingsByScript. Commit.
[KCharsets] Remove unused include. Commit.
[KCharsetsTest] Reduce call nesting to improve readability. Commit.

KConfig

Kreadconfig: Add flag to include globals. Commit.
Kdesktopfile: tolerate nameless action for SEPARATOR. Commit. Fixes bug #517770
Remove ifdef now that we depend on Qt >= 6.9.0. Commit.
QDoc fixes. Commit.
Kreadconfig: Add flag to dump all entries. Commit.
Do not try to read registry entries for absolute config file names. Commit.
Avoid creation of not already existing registry keys. Commit.

KCoreAddons

Remove unused cmake variable. Commit.

KDocTools

Dynamically retrieve the list of languages to install. Commit.
Install arabic files. Commit.

KFileMetaData

ExtractionPluginManager -> ExtractorCollection. Commit.
Ffmpeg: use qScopeGuard to release AVFormatContext on failure. Commit.
Extractors/exiv2: remove version check for BMFF_SUPPORT. Commit.
Ffmpegextractor: when color_space_name is "unkwown" don't set ColorSpace. Commit.

KGuiAddons

Waylandclipboard: Wait for up to 1s for the clipboard contents. Commit.
Waylandclipboard: Properly interrupt thread when client extension goes inactive. Commit.
Remove ifdef now that we depend on Qt >= 6.9.0. Commit.
Change include in ksysteminhibitor_dbus.cpp preventing building when using a QT version < 6.9. Commit.
Systemclipboard: waylandApp ptr validation cleanup. Commit.
Systemclipboard/wlrwaylandclipboard: Fix WlrDataControlDevice::setPrimarySelection. Commit.

KHolidays

Update holidays of 2026 for Taiwan. Commit.
CI - add pre-commit support. Commit.
Use markdownlint-cli2 to format markdown files. Commit.
Use gersemi to format CMake files. Commit.
.codespellrc - allow "lightening". Commit.
Clang-format fixes. Commit.
Clean whitespace issues. Commit.
Edit portuguese holidays. Commit.

KIconThemes

Explain why SVG preference was reverted. Commit.
Don't try to create KIconTheme with empty theme name. Commit.
Revert "KIconTheme: Prefer SVG files over PNG files". Commit. Fixes bug #516007. See bug #502273

KImageformats

TIM: PlayStation graphics read only support. Commit.
Remove ifdef now that we depend on Qt >= 6.9.0. Commit.
IFF: fix Integer-overflow in IDATChunk::strideSize. Commit.

KIO

Kfileitem: isExecutable: rely on QFileinfo. Commit.
Revert "KFileItem: use permissions to determine isWritable and isReadable". Commit. Fixes bug #504287. Fixes bug #506472
KFileItem: Check desktop MIME type before isSlow. Commit.
Widgets: Don't show an error when trying do paste while there is nothing to paste. Commit.
Kio_ftp: Enable UTF-8 encoding negotiation after successful login. Commit. See bug #269370. See bug #165044
Autotests/openurljobtest: ensure to have deleteLater launched. Commit.
Filewidgets/kfileplacesview: clear job in destructor. Commit.
Autotests: openurljobtest, prevent memleak in negative tests. Commit.
Kpasswdserver: prevent memleak of retry dialog. Commit.
Core/kcoredirlister: prevent mem-leak upon redirection. Commit.
Filewidgets/knewfilemenu: prevent small leak. Commit.
Autotests/threadtest: prevent memleak in test. Commit.
KfilePlacesView: delete FileSystemFreeSpaceJob once it is finished. Commit.
Krecentdocumenttest: prevent a memleak. Commit.
DropJob: parent DndPopupMenuPlugin to the dropjob. Commit.
Fix protocol in "Destination" header for WebDAV copy/move. Commit. Fixes bug #487503. Fixes bug #443386
Filepreviewjob: Track subjobs using QPointer. Commit. Fixes bug #517867
Filecopyjob: Pass source file size to put() workers via setSourceSize(). Commit.
Tweak ifdef now that we depend on Qt >= 6.9.0. Commit.
Core: listjob: Support selective StatDetails for directory listing. Commit.
Gui/filepreviewjob: return an error in case the sub-job failed. Commit.
Gui/filepreviewjob: avoid a crash when temp is removed. Commit. Fixes bug #516575
File: In LSTAT also stat subvolid and mntid when requested. Commit.
Kurlnavigator: Change fallback behaviour for user input url. Commit. Fixes bug #408315
Fix some cmake warnings. Commit.
Filepreviewjob: allow to log the file being previewed. Commit.
Forwardingworkerbase: Forward stat side and details. Commit.
Fix build on macOS relating to tv_nsec. Commit.
Core/udsentry: don't reduce nanosecond precision to millisecond. Commit.
KFileItemDelegate: Use margins directly from style. Commit.

Kirigami

Disable Alpine CI. Commit.
Disable qmllint for some modules. Commit.
PageRow: don't leak the dialog layer window. Commit.
Fix AboutPage license sheet. Commit.
Remove duplicate FeatureSummary include. Commit.
Don't include quiet packages in feature_summary. Commit.
TitleSubtitle: Add tweakable textFormat property. Commit.
Platform: Prefer filesystem over qrc when determining install root. Commit.
LinkButton: Create template, move items from control to template. Commit.

KItemModels

Remove unused cmake variabls. Commit.

KNewStuff

Use KF6Kirigami, fix cmake variable use KF_DEP_VERSION. Commit.

KRunner

Fix cmake warnings (use correct Qt version). Commit.

KService

Bump sycoca version after changing the hash. Commit.
Extract to variable. Commit.
Fix a typo in the bitmask used in the hash. Commit.

KStatusNotifieritem

Don't include quiet packages in feature_summary. Commit.

KSVG

Add basic test for Svg. Commit.

KTextEditor

Don't do reverse encoding if the target is the null char. Commit.
KTextEditor::DocumentPrivate constructor does the register. Commit.
Katedocument: Use first line of text as document title. Commit.
Katedocument: Add relevant MIME types to Save dialog. Commit.
Remove cmake warning. Commit.
Update MiniMap Area. Commit.

KUnitConversion

Add missing since documentation to Momme. Commit.
Add conversions to/from momme for silk fabric weight. Commit.

KUserFeedback

We depend against qt6. Commit.
Fix some cmake warnings. Commit.

KWallet

Fix find_package calls when not building kwalletd and ksecretd. Commit.
Hardcode one short DH key instead of brute-forcing one. Commit.
Ksecretd: fix intermittent Secret Service session key mismatches with libsecret. Commit. Fixes bug #514194

KWidgetsAddons

KMessageBox: Set very long lines to wrap, even on very wide screens. Commit.
KAccelatorManager: Avoid unnecessary allocations. Commit.
Add test for resizing dialogs with squeezed messages. Commit.
Re-enable logic to allow resizing of some KMessageBox dialogs. Commit.

KWindowSystem

Kxcbevent_p.h: FWD KXcbEvent as class instead of struct. Commit.
Add missing Q_EMIT to signal call. Commit.
Platforms/wayland: Fix a crash in WindowEffects::installBlur(). Commit.

KXMLGUI

KKeySequenceWidget: Add text to clear button. Commit.

Modem Manager Qt

Fix version guards. Commit.

Network Manager Qt

Fix cmake warnings. Commit.

QQC2 Desktop Style

SpinBox: Use displayText for display text. Commit.
Popup: remove default contentItem. Commit.
Popup: don't clip by default. Commit.

Solid

Fstab: Use qCCritical instead of qCritical. Commit.

Sonnet

Remove seemingly useless text position check. Commit.

Syntax Highlighting

Add highlighting for ISO 10303-21 STEP files. Commit.
Cmake.xml: update syntax for CMake 4.3. Commit.
Adapt XSD and code to docs. Commit. Fixes bug #517428
Fix reading of spellchecking element to match XSD. Commit. Fixes bug #517428
Add license. Commit.
Add PIO Assembler syntax highlighting. Commit.
Add autotest reference file. Commit.
Add syntax file and tests for SAS. Commit.
Systemd unit: update to systemd v260. Commit.

Kubuntu 26.04 weekly update

Scarlett Gately Moore — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Final stretch toward the April 23rd release — bug fixes, thanks to contributors, and a call for testers.

Season Of KDE 2026 Conclusion

KDE Mentorship — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Introduction

Another year, another successful Season Of KDE for 20 contributors! This article has been co-written with the input from all contributors.

Lokalize

During Season of KDE 2026, Tanish Kumar worked on cleaning up the UI in Lokalize, KDE’s translation tool. The main task was fixing an annoying bug where the menu bar kept jumping around whenever you switched tabs, which was solved by giving the menus a stable “skeleton” in the KXMLGUI .rc files. Along the way, a bunch of “ghost actions” were discovered - menu entries that existed only in XML - and actually implemented the missing ones like Cut, Copy, Paste, Alternate Translation, Save All, Revert All, and Close All. He also built a Bookmark Manager dialog so translators can see all their bookmarks in one place.

Navya Sai Sadu and Kumud Sagar fixed navigation inconsistencies in the Editor Tab where shortcuts like “Approve and Go Next” failed to respect active filters and custom ordering in the Translation Units view. They ensured consistent behavior across all related shortcuts, including Next Ready, Next Non-Empty, and Next Bookmark. They unified the traversal logic so navigation always follows the filtered and ordered entries and users of Lokalize can now navigate through Translation Units using the keyboard shortcuts or the options in Go menu properly..

Additionally, Kumud identified Lokalize’s on-disk file tracking mechanism and began improving its handling of external file updates.

Jaimukund Bhan fixed foundational issues with the Glossary file, ensuring it could be properly loaded, saved, and autosaved, and cleaned up the codebase by removing an obsolete Restore function that no longer made sense once autosaving was in place. Several UI bugs were resolved, including the editor failing to clear when all terms were deleted and incorrect pre-selection behavior when the app started on the Glossary tab. In the second half, Jaimukund improved the manual term addition workflow by replacing silent blank entry creation with a proper dialog prompt, preventing accidental accumulation of empty entries. He also fixed a broken keyboard shortcut for switching to the previously active tab by replacing an index-based tracking variable with a widget pointer, which remains valid even as tab positions change.

Aditya Sarna made a full Figma redesign for the Glossary tab, which was referenced in several places to implement comprehensive UI and UX improvements. The work involved close collaboration with translators to understand user pain points and iterating on designs based on feedback from the design group. It included replacing button text with icons and adding tooltips to the Add and Delete buttons to clarify their purpose. This was followed by designing a new delete functionality, which introduced a cross button for each entry to make deletion more intuitive. Several additional UI changes were implemented, including shifting elements and improving the overall structure and layout of the Glossary tab. Furthermore, the workflow for adding new terms was refined by moving note text into the dialogue box and enhancing its layout, resulting in a cleaner, more intuitive and user-friendly interface.

Varun Sajith Dass worked on improving the proofing capabilities of Lokalize and implemented a reactive character consistency check that alerts translators in real-time when special characters are mismatched between the source and target strings. This involved debugging Qt UI signals, resolving macOS build issues with KIO workers, and creating a persistent status bar warning system to enhance the overall translation workflow.

Vishesh Srivastava worked on adding Appium-based UI testing to KDE’s Lokalize. Vishesh started with a small bug fix and unit test to familiarize with the codebase and then built a complete Appium test from scratch, including basic tests and a full end-to-end workflow. Another thing done was adding accessibility ids in the UI so Appium could interact with the editor. The tests were integrated into the CMake system, ensured they ran independently of the user, and can run with kde-builder tests with a flag. By the end, Vishesh had developed a functional UI testing framework for Lokalize, along with documentation to help future contributors.

KDE mentorship website

Advaith Sathish Kumar project was transforming mentorship.kde.org into a proper onboarding system for new KDE contributors. On the homepage, the hero section was redesigned, placeholder routing with experience based navigation was replaced, social media links were added, and the news cards to include author, date, and tags were also redesigned. For the /mentees page, I added past mentee details, implemented pagination, and added client-side filtering by year, program, and technology.

Aryan's project was to make mentorship.kde.org better so that new contributors who want to work with the KDE ecosystem have a better onboarding experience. As part of this effort, a new "/programs" page was added. It gives a structured overview of the main KDE mentorship programs and links to help newcomers find their way around the opportunities more easily. He also changed the card template to better organize the repository, making it more structured, easier to maintain. Aryan also filled the /resources page with more useful resources for new contributors.

Documentation website

Mohit Mishra worked on decoupling the bundled dblatex fork from the docs-kde-org repository and fixing PDF generation for Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) languages for KDE documentation. This involved switching the TeX engine to XeTeX from pdfTeX and then re-integrating the KDE styles. The outputs are now nearly identical, with CJK languages rendering correctly as well. There is still work in process to ensure there are no regressions and we can officially switch to this generation.

Scripty

Aviral Singh and Keshav Nanda worked on fixing KDE's translation tools so translators can easily locate where text belongs in the code. Keshav corrected the underlying logic to make sure these paths are always accurate, and Aviral built an automated testing system to validate the fix across KDE projects.

Marknote

Siddharth Chopra worked on Marknote to add source mode for notes. The Source Mode essentially allows users to bypass the rich-text WYSIWYG interface and directly edit the raw markdown. While working on this feature, Siddharth also made a major refactoring of the codebase (on both the QML and C++ sides). Spell checking using Sonnet was also added, among other small fixes and improvements.

KDE Eco

Hrishikesh Gohain worked on setting up KEcoLab's measurement environment with Wayland on Fedora 43 KDE Plasma Desktop. He ported the Okular measurement scripts from the X11-based xdotool to ydotool and kdotool, which work on both X11 and Wayland. His contributions can be found in this merge request. The original project plan had included measuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment itself. However, porting the Okular scripts to Wayland in the new lab setup turned out to be more complex than expected. Moreover, measuring a desktop environment may need some infrastructure changes to the KEcoLab setup. Hrishikesh is currently working towards it and will continue after SoK26 is over.

Chuyen Nguyen wrote automation scripts and created environments for them to perform some of the KDE promotional team's insight data collection tasks. The first script collects KDE's X, Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads accounts' follower and post counts using a mix of API requests and web scraping methods alongside a local Nitter instance. The second script scrapes the KDE subreddit's Reddit Insights page for weekly metrics on page visits, unique visitors and its total member count and includes a Docker image that allows for headless execution. The final script collects articles related to KDE using Google Alerts emails and performs sentiment analysis on them using a locally run large-language model. The figure below shows output from the follower and post count scraper, Reddit Insights page scraper, and Google Alerts evaluator respectively.

Plasma Setup

Onat Ribar worked on bringing Plasma Setup, KDE's first-run setup wizard, to Plasma Mobile. Plasma Setup was built with desktop screens in mind, and running it on a phone showed overall accessibility issues including but not limited to overlapping components, content clipping on short window sizes, session buttons that remained tappable beneath wizard pages, and a timezone selector built around an interactive map that was nearly unusable on a small touchscreen. Onat worked through these systematically across the wizard's QML UI, resulting in an adaptive experience across screen sizes and input methods without affecting the desktop UX. Two MRs have been reviewed, merged, and are now part of the upstream codebase in repositories plasma-setup and plasma-workspace.

Falkon

Sairam developed a XMPP extension that adds a chat client directly into the KDE Falkon browser's sidebar. Written in Python using Slixmpp, the project lets users message each other and run interactive WebXDC apps right inside their chat window. It supports modern XMPP features like Message Carbons (XEP-0280) for device syncing, Message Corrections (XEP-0308) for edits, Emoji Reactions (XEP-0444), and HTTP File Uploads (XEP-0363). This setup turns Falkon into a communication tool without even leaving the browser.

J Shiva Shankar added XMPP bookmark syncing to the Falkon browser. The basic setup is working, so whenever you add or update a bookmark, it successfully syncs across your devices. Deleting bookmarks still has a few bugs right now, but they have been documented. He plans to keep contributing after SoK to squash these bugs and get the feature completely polished.

Mankala Engine

Sayandeep Dutta helped in redesigning the MankalaNextGen GUI with Kirigami and added designs fixing the Main UI and the Game with game boards and shells. He also added music with Qt to Mankala and made translations in Tamil and Hindi. Made assets for the game variants using Krita in their traditional designs and motifs. Started with the review process of MankalaNextGen with the CI build.

Pavan Kumar enhanced MankalaEngine by adding an opening book and investigated performance of multithreaded alpha-beta search using OpenMP, Pthreads and Taskflow. In addition, he enhanced MankalaNextGen by creating visual assets for game boards and seeds and also created logos for MankalaEngine and MankalaNextGen.

Testing org.kde.Platform flatpak built in CI

Akseli Lahtinen (Aks) — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:53:56 +0000

Very technical post, feel free to ignore if you're not working on KDE stuff.

Since I'm on KDE Linux, I use flatpak apps for pretty much everything, such as Kontact suite. I wanted to test out how my Breeze changes would look like in KMail and other apps, but I didn't want to build the whole PIM stack.

Here's how I tested it by building the flatpak-kde-runtime in CI, downloading the built files and using it as a repository for testing any changes to org.kde.Platform locally.

First make changes to the flatpak-kde-runtime, such as this here: https://invent.kde.org/packaging/flatpak-kde-runtime/-/commits/work%2Fakselmo%2Ftest-breeze
Run the CI
Check the pipeline ID for build-runtime-amd64
- Click the green checkmark, its something like #1210828
Download the artifact from here: https://storage.kde.org/ci-artifacts/packaging/flatpak-kde-runtime/p/PIPELINE_ID_HERE/repository-x86_64.tar.gz
Extract the tar into some folder after downloading
Add it as a repository: flatpak remote-add --no-gpg-verify kde-platform-testing ./repo-x86_64
Uninstall the current platform: flatpak uninstall org.kde.Platform --force-remove
- The force-remove makes sure we do not install any apps, just the platform
Run flatpak install org.kde.Platform
Select the kde-platform-testing as the repo to install from
Done!

Now any app that uses the version of platform (6.10 in my example) will utilize your custom built one.

Akademy 2026: Registration Now Open

Akademy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:12:13 +0000

Akademy 2026: Registration

Akademy 2026 will be a hybrid event held simultaneously in Graz, Austria, and Online.

Hundreds of participants from the global KDE community, the wider free and open source software community, local organisations and software companies will gather at this year's Akademy 2026 conference. The event will take place in Graz and Online from Saturday, 19 September to Thursday, 24 September.

KDE developers, artists, designers, translators, users, writers, sponsors and supporters worldwide will meet face-to-face to discuss key technology issues, explore new ideas and strengthen KDE's innovative and dynamic culture.

Register now and join us for engaging talks, workshops, BoFs and coding sessions. Collaborate with your fellow KDE contributors to fix bugs, pioneer new features and immerse yourself in the world of open source.

For more information about the conference, visit the Akademy 2026 website.

Skrooge 26.4.0 released

Stéphane MANKOWSKI — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Skrooge Team announces the release 26.4.0 version of its popular Personal Finances Manager based on KDE Frameworks.

Changelog

Correction bug 515099: Missing secondary currency value in Accounts totals
Correction bug 514649: Fix initial layout when splash screen is not displayed
Correction bug 514649: Double click issue on table when there is no selection
Correction bug 438967: Labels in Skrooge Report axis and Legend tend to illegible
Correction bug 517475: Alarms triggering even when conditions not met
Correction bug 515186: Import should remember the directory used last when restarted
Correction bug 430245: summaries display truncated after searching in Operations grouped by Category
Correction bug 518461: charts missing in responsive monthly report
Correction: Better filtering in categories page
Correction: Fix various error in flatpak mode (import, download sources, ...)

Planet KDE | English

Kookbook 0.3.0 released

KDE Mega Sprint 2026 Graz

State of Kdenlive - 2026

RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS

25.04.0

Background Removal

OpenTimelineIO

Waveform improvements

25.08.0

Audio Mixer

Markers and Guides

Titler improvements

25.12.0

Welcome Screen

Docking System

Redesigned monitor

THE ROAD AHEAD

26.04

OTHER NOTEWORTHY FEATURES

ROADMAP

DOPESHEET

MICROSOFT STORE

COMMUNITY

NEW CONTRIBUTORS

SPRINTS AND EVENTS

AMSTERDAM SPRINT

BERLIN SPRINT

AKADEMY 2025

SHOWCASE

SPREAD THE WORD

STATS

DOWNLOADS

CODE COMMITS

USERBASE

FUNDING

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT

Hello old new “Projects” directory!

Why?

This sucks, I don’t like it!

What else is new?

KDE Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage 2026

KDE Sprint

AppStream release notes

LSAN rollout on the CI

Qt 6.11 for Android

Sentry for Android

KMime move to KDE Frameworks

Akademy preparations

Itinerary

And more…

Grazer Linuxtage

KDE

Transitous

How you can help!

This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore

Notable new features

Plasma 6.7

Notable UI improvements

Plasma 6.6.5

Plasma 6.7

Frameworks 6.26

Notable bug fixes

Plasma 6.6.4

Plasma 6.6.5

Plasma 6.7

Notable in performance & technical

Plasma 6.7

How you can help

To get a new Plasma feature or a bug fix mentioned here

Web Review, Week 2026-16

Sovereign Tech Agency funding - Mastodon Blog

You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away

Europe should regulate Big Tech instead of banning kids from social media, Estonia says

The Utopia of the Family Computer

On the acceptance of GenAI

Is Claude Mythos “Terrifying” or Just Hype?

How I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack

Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip!

Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable

Testing

Gardening

Gestures

Plasma Keyboard

Graz