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Smoking is bad for you.

If you have been on invent.kde.org lately you might have seen some merge requests about “Install Qt metatypes” and wondered what that’s all about.

Leaking memory is impolite.

For many years Plasma comes with its own system online accounts system, known as KAccounts.

A few weeks ago Qt 6.8 was released, delivering many fixes and improvements for our software.

This year’s Akademy was a special one for me in many ways.

In a previous post I talked about using the QML Language Server for KDE development.

Last week, like many other people, I was in Berlin for the Mega^WGoals sprint.

For a while Qt has been offering qmlls, a Language Server Protocol implementation for QML.

KNotifications is KDE’s framework for creating popup notifications.

As you probably have seen from other people’s blog posts there was the 2023 Plasma Sprint last week.

A month has passed since my last monthly post about my work as KDE Software Platform Engineer.

It’s been a month since my first post about my work as KDE Software Platform Engineer, so let’s have a look at what I have been doing since then.

As you probably have heard by now the lastest development versions of Plasma and KDE Frameworks require Qt6.

There has been some recent discussions about how KDE applications (or Qt apps in general) should look and feel like outside of the Plasma desktop, particularly in a GNOME environment.

Precisely one month ago I joined KDE e.V., the non-profit organization behind KDE, as Software Platform Engineer.

As you may know KDE consists of many different subprojects, where some projects depend on other projects.

Last weekend, on May 21st, some people (including me) met in Berlin for what I believe is the first in-person KDE sprint since you-know-what happened (there was LAS, but that’s not technically a KDE sprint).

In my last post I talked about why knowing the desktop file for a window is important for the task manager.

In my last post I talked about what application developers can do to fix their applications not showing up correctly in Plasma’s task manager.

A common papercut in a Wayland session is entries in the task manager showing a generic Wayland icon instead of the proper application icon.

Last week I decided to take KDE Itinerary for a test tour.

Last week I took a train to Berlin for the KDE Frameworks 6 kickoff sprint.

As most of you know KDE Connect has recently been removed from Google Play due to a policy violation with regard to our SMS and telephony features.

My last post shows how to create a stub Python/Kirigami app that doesn’t do anything.

KDE is happy to announce that we will be part of Google Summer of Code 2019.

From February 4th until February 9th I attended a Plasma Mobile sprint in Berlin, Germany.

Today we released version 1.10 of the KDE Connect Android app.

Since a few months KDE Connect has a Telegram group to discuss development.

It’s time for another feature update for KDE Connect!

Hi, For once this is not a post about KDE Connect (at least not directly).

The digital world has changed over the last 10 years.

One of KDE’s Community goals for the next years is streamlined onboarding of new contributors.

Definitely one of the best use cases of KDE Connect is this: Watching a movie while laying in bed or on the couch and controlling your unreachable computer from your phone without needing to stand up.

Since my first blog post we got an huge amount of feedback and it’s amazing to see that you are as excited about KDE Connect as we are.

After I shared the link to the KDE Connect Development Telegram group almost 20 people joined within 24 hours.

As I said a couple of days ago we got a lot to announce for KDE Connect.

Last weekend the core KDE Connect development team met for a sprint at the amazing Verse office in Barcelona.

Hey there!