Harald Sitter's KDE Blog

Akademy 2025 is history.

As of a couple days ago Filelight on Windows is performing its search many times faster than before.

This week Plasma developers have descended on the lovely Austrian city of Graz!

A while ago a colleague of mine asked about our crash infrastructure in Plasma and whether I could give some overview on it.

A while ago a colleague of mine asked about our crash infrastructure in Plasma and whether I could give some overview on it.

A while ago a colleague of mine asked about our crash infrastructure in Plasma and whether I could give some overview on it.

A while ago a colleague of mine asked about our crash infrastructure in Plasma and whether I could give some overview on it.

The other day I had to dive into the ksmserver code, the core of session management in KDE Plasma, but found it all a bit difficult to read.

For a while now DrKonqi has a special developer notification system when used in combination with coredumpd.

The other week the question came up how one can debug an application crash when the Windows Store crash tracking system is unable to produce a usable stack trace.

…very hard.

People keep lamenting how lackluster Qt’s SVG renderer is.

At KDE we make software for many different platforms.

Every once in a while I hear developers having trouble staying up to date with KDE Discuss(ions).

Akademy, KDE’s annual conference, recently took place in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Flatpaks are amazing and all that.

At KDE we have multiple levels of quality assurance ranging from various degrees of a humans testing features to fully automated testing.

It’s a Plasma widget that visualizes what’s going on on your system, music-wise that is.

KDE is now evaluating Sentry, a crash tracking system.

I’ve gotten annoyed with the inability to manage system files so I’ve made a KIO worker that enables Dolphin to view and edit files as root.

Get some popcorn and strap in for a long one!

I’ve finally gotten annoyed enough with inotify failing randomly, because of resource exhaustion, that I’ve built a tiny app to deal with it.

For when you are using Feral Interactive’s GameMode and want some UI indication of its use. https://invent.kde.org/sitter/plasma-gamemode

It’s boring but important!

As it recently came up I thought I should perhaps post this more publicly… As many of you will know SMB1, the super ancient protocol for windows shares, shouldn’t be used anymore.