Kai Uwe's Blog

KDE has a little utility called ksshaskpass that is invoked by SSH to prompt the user for credentials.

A couple of months ago I improved some of our dialogs and this time I worked on some more.

As many long running projects, Qt too over the years has accumulated some APIs that in hindsight are deemed unsafe or sub-optimal.

In my opinion, KDE Connect is one of the finest pieces of software KDE has ever produced.

As explained in one of my previous blog posts where I revamped the unresponsive window dialog, KWin isn’t really designed to show regular desktop windows of its own.

Like every year I took a couple of days off at the end of the year to wind down and spent some quality time with the family.

KDE’s 30th birthday is coming up next year.

KWin, our fantastic and flexible window manager and Wayland compositor, can not just drive your session but also run in windowed mode for development purposes: $ dbus-run-session kwin_wayland --exit-with-session kwrite Et voila, a windowed KWin appears, r…

A little side project I just published is a KSplash theme (the loading screen while logging into a Plasma session) that uses BGRT, the ACPI Boot Graphics Record Table.

It has been a little quiet around my pet project Plasma Browser Integration.