A blog about random things and sometimes about my work translating and developing KDE and anything
The Qt folks have taken inspiration in our successful KDE Goals and are starting the Qt Project Goals. The idea is to select goals that help focus on activities that we believe to be the most crucial for the near Qt future. Since KDE uses Qt extensively some of you probably have good goals ideas for Qt. Announce email: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/interest/2026-July/040479.html Wiki:…
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.08 releases to them Next Dates: July 16, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 Freeze and Beta (26.07.80) tarball creation July 17 2026: 26.08 Beta (26.07.80) release July 30, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 RC (26.07.90) tarball creation July 31, 2026: 26.08 RC (26.07.90) Release August 13, 2026, 23:59 UTC: 26.08 tarball creation August 14, 2026: 26.08…
This year Qt Contributor Summit will be held in Oslo during late October. If you are a Qt contributor (developer, forum question answerer, promoter, etc) you should think of attending, it's always a great experience :) More info in the announcement at https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-contributors-summit-2026-oslo-in-october If you want to attend do not forget to register (the earlier the better for the…
Commit: https://invent.kde.org/qt/qt/qt5/-/commit/aa749695075684f0c8585ede19e361f9accb4287 Commercial release announcement: https://www.qt.io/blog/commercial-lts-qt-5.15.19-released OpenSource release announcement: https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/announce/2026-May/000626.html This was the last Qt5 release. The KDE Qt5 Patchset Collection remains open in case something very very very very…
A contributor has recently started translating KDE to Amharic . They are looking for people to help since translating KDE is a lot of work. Please join the kde-l10n-am mailing list and introduce yourself if you are interested in helping!
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.08_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 7 weeks (July 2) and feature freeze two weeks after that. Get your stuff ready!
Akademy 2026 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Graz. Austria, Saturday 19th – Thursday 24th September. First of all, if you're reading this and thinking, "Should i go to Akademy?" The answer is [most probably] YES! Akademy has something for everyone, be it coders, translators, promoters, designers, enthusiasts, etc. Now, with this out of the way, go and register at…
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…
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 26.04 releases to them Next Dates: March 12 2026: 26.04 Freeze and Beta (26.03.80) tarball creation March 13 2026: 26.04 Beta (26.03.80) release March 26 2026: 26.04 RC (26.03.90) tarball creation March 27 2026: 26.04 RC (26.03.90) Release April 9 2026: 26.04 tarball creation April 10 2026: 26.04 packages released to packagers April…
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_26.04_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 7 weeks (March 5) and feature freeze one after that. Get your stuff ready!
The folks at GNU/Linux València are organizing a Game Jam focused on Free Software Desktop Games. You can see the details here: https://itch.io/jam/lliurejam Maybe we could take the opportunity to try to revive a bit the very very very dormant KDE Games community? Though we have the basic games covered already so someone would have to come up with an idea of what to do first :D
This weekend, I attended the KDE PIM 2025 Sprint (AKA meeting) in Paris. First, what does PIM mean? Personal information management. Second, what does Personal information management mean? It's the software for managing email, calendar, address book, etc. Third, this is going to be long, so let me thank https://haute-couture.enioka.com/en/ for hosting us (their office is in Rue du Mail which seems…
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.12_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 2 weeks (November 6) and feature freeze one after that. Get your stuff ready!
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 25.08 releases to them Next Dates: July 10 2025: 25.08 Freeze and Beta (25.07.80) tag & release July 24 2025: 25.08 RC (25.07.90) Tagging and Release August 7 2025: 25.08 Tagging August 14 2025: 25.08 Release https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.08_Schedule
If you are a developer and your KDE project is still based on Qt5 you should really really start porting to Qt6 now. https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-devel/2025-June/003742.html
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.08_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 2 weeks (July 3) and feature freeze one after that. Get your stuff ready!
We have moved the deadline for talk submission for Akademy 2025 to the end of the month. Submit your talks now! https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-community/2025q2/008217.html https://akademy.kde.org/2025/cfp/
These past two days I attended the Qt World Summit 2025 It happened in Munich in the SHOWPALAST MÜNCHEN. The venue is HUGE, we had around 800 attendees (unofficial sources, don't trust the number too much) and it felt it could hold more. One slightly unfortunate thing is that it was a bit cold (temperatures in Munich these two days were well below the average for May) and quite some parts of the…
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 25.04 releases to them Next Dates March 13 2025: 25.04 Freeze and Beta (25.03.80) tag & release March 27, 2025: 25.04 RC (25.03.90) Tagging and Release April 10, 2025: 25.04 Tagging April 17, 2025: 25.04 Release https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.04_Schedule
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_25.04_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 3 weeks (March 6) and feature freeze one after that. Get your stuff ready!
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 24.12 releases to them Next Dates: November 14, 2024: 24.12 freeze and beta (24.11.80) tagging and release November 28, 2024: 24.12 RC (24.11.90) tagging and release December 5, 2024: 24.12 tagging December 12, 2024: 24.12 release https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_24.12_Schedule
This is the release schedule the release team agreed on https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_24.12_Schedule Dependency freeze is in around 3 weeks (November 7) and feature freeze one after that. Get your stuff ready!
This weekend "The KDE Alberts"[1] attended Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit 2024 in Sunnyvale, California. The Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit is an annual unconference that every project participating in Google Summer of Code 2024 is invited to attend. This year it was the 20th year celebration of the program! I was too late to take a picture of the full cake! We attended many sessions…
If you're using Plasma/KWin 6 i suggest you disable the Morphing Popups effect, it has been removed for Plasma 6.2 https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/d6360cc4ce4e0d85862a4bb077b8b3dc55cd74a7 and on X11 at least it causes severe redraw issues with tooltips in Okular (and i would guess elsewhere).
Make sure you commit anything you want to end up in the KDE Gear 24.08 releases to them Next Dates July 25, 2024: 24.08 Freeze and Beta (24.07.80) tag & release August 8, 2024: 24.08 RC (24.07.90) Tagging and Release August 15, 2024: 24.08 Tagging August 22, 2024: 24.08 Release https://community.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_Gear_24.08_Schedule