Plasma 6 release day is getting closer... and we still have no wallpaper to use! But we're going to change that with your help and this contest! We are calling on all artists to submit their original wallpaper designs and compete for the chance to win a brand-new laptop (see below). The contest will be open for three months, starting now!
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MBition Becomes KDE's Newest Patron
MBition becomes a KDE patron and supports the work of the KDE community with its generous sponsorship.
Read MoreAkademy 2023 - How it Happened
Celebrating 25 years of The KDE Free Qt Foundation
On the 22nd of June 1998, the KDE Free Qt Foundation was founded and has accompanied Qt on its amazing journey to become the success story that it is today.
Read MoreSeason of KDE 2023: Conclusion
By Johnny Jazeix and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
For this year's edition of Season of KDE, 8 participants successfully completed their projects. Several of the projects push forward the work to achieve KDE's three goals, namely:
Read Moreg10 Code Becomes a KDE Patron
g10 Code GmbH joins the ranks of KDE patrons! g10 Code provides custom development, enhancements, and audits of cryptographic software -- in particular for the popular GnuPG encryption and digital signature tools.
Read MoreKubuntu Focus Becomes KDE Patron
Kubuntu Focus is now generously supporting KDE as its newest patron!
Kubuntu Focus offers the best out-of-the-box experience for professional Linux users. All Kubuntu Focus systems come with the beautiful and intuitive Plasma desktop from KDE on top of industry-standard Ubuntu LTS. The hardware is designed to save time and hassle, thanks to its device optimizations, curated apps, Focus Tools, system-specific HOWTOs, and excellent Linux support.
Read MoreAkademy 2022 - The Weekend of KDE Talks, Panels and Presentations
From the notes by Aniqa Khokhar, Jonathan Esk-Riddell, and Paul Brown
Akademy 2022 was held in Barcelona from the 1st to the 7th of October. As usual, the weekend of Saturday 1st of October and Sunday 2nd of October was dedicated to talks, panels and presentations. Community members and guests laid out for attendees what had been going on within KDE's projects (and adjacent projects), the state of the art, and where things were headed.
Read MoreThe Kdenlive Fundraiser is Live
Today we break ground. Today we launch the first of what will be many fundraisers for specific projects. Our goal is to get funds directly into the hands of the people who make the software.
Read MoreNew KDE Slimbook 4 Now Available
Spanish manufacturer (and KDE patron) Slimbook has just released their new KDE-themed Slimbook ultrabook.
Read MoreSeason of KDE Kicks Off
By Johnny Jazeix
Season of KDE, the program that helps people start contributing to KDE easily, kicks off with nine fascinating projects:
Read MoreLinux App Summit 2022 will be held in Italy
The Linux App Summit (LAS) of 2022 will be held in Rovereto, a picturesque city at the foot of the Italian Alps.
Read More2021 KDE Eco Sprint
By Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss
On 11 December 2021, KDE Eco held the first of many planned Sprints. The Sprint was originally intended to be an in-person event to set up a community measurement lab, but Corona had other ideas. Nevertheless, the community deployed its usual resourcefulness, and we met online instead.
Read MoreGCompris Releases Version 2.0
TUXEDO Computers Becomes the Newest KDE Patron
TUXEDO Computers, a company known for selling Linux-powered computers and notebooks, now joins us as a KDE Patron!
Read MoreAnnouncing the Winner of the Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition Wallpaper Contest
We are happy to announce the winner of the Plasma 25th Anniversary Edition Wallpaper Contest!
Thanks to all those who submitted their artwork. The variety and quality of the submissions in this edition was simply astounding. As always, there were multiple great options and it was very hard to choose. It was a very close call! But at the end, we have a winner: Patak by Aron!
Read MoreAkademy 2021 - Talks and Videos
Akademy 2021 - Day 8
After 4 days + 1 morning of BoFs, hacking sessions and meetings, talks at Akademy resumed in room 1 on Friday at 17:00 UTC. Kevin Ottens and Christelle Zouein from enioka Haute Couture kicked things off with the talk Community's Adventures in Analyticsland - Or the State of the Community Through New Analytics. Christelle and Kevin showed us the data analysis tools they have been working on to study information collected from KDE's development repositories and the surprising facts and trends they discovered.
Read MoreAkademy 2021 - Day 3
Akademy 2021 - Day 2
First thing in the morning, Aleix Pol, president of KDE, introduced the event at and explained how Akademy 2021 was still "special" because we could still not meet in person.
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Educational Software GCompris is 20 Years Old Today
Akademy 2020 Day 7 - The Last Day
Akademy 2020 Day 3 - Conference
Akademy 2020 Day 2 - Conference
Written by Blumen Herzenschein, David C. and Paul Brown
The first day of Akademy talks were varied and interesting, covering a wide range of topics, from managing project goals and technical advances in Qt and KDE technologies, to Open Source in dentistry and Linux in automobiles.
Read MoreAkademy 2020 Day 1 - Training Sessions
Akademy kicked off today with training sessions on several KDE-related topics.
In the morning, Nuno Pinheiro from KDAB conducted a class on UI/UX Design in QML for Desktop. This online workshop contained practical exercises on dos, don'ts, and integration; and tips on outside of the box UI design. The session started out with attendees relaying to Nuno the projects they were working on and how they hoped the lesson would help them.
Read MoreGina Häußge and OctoPrint
KDE's 20.08 Apps Updates
The updates to KDE apps released today are many, contain a wide array of changes, and cover an impressive number of applications.
Dolphin, KDE's file explorer, for example, adds previews for more types of files and improvements to the way long names are summarized, allowing you to better see what each file is or does. Dolphin also improves the way you can reach files and directories on remote machines, making working from home a much smoother experience. It also remembers the location you were viewing the last time you closed it, making it easier to pick up from where you left off.
Read MoreLinux App Summit Goes Online in November
Once again, KDE and GNOME are teaming up to bring you THE conference for people interested in establishing Linux as a great end-user platform. At the Linux App Summit we work on making app creation for users easy and worthwhile.
Read MoreKDE Slimbook: Plasma, KDE Apps and the Power of the AMD Ryzen CPU
Today Slimbook and KDE launch the new KDE Slimbook.
Read MorePlasma 5.19 - Sleek and Polished
Plasma 5.19 is out! If we gave alliterative names to Plasma releases, this one could be "Polished Plasma". The effort developers have put into squashing bugs and removing annoying papercuts has been immense.
Read MorePlasma on TV: Presenting Plasma Bigscreen
Gpg4KDE & GPG4win Approved for Transmission & Processing of National Classified Information
Something that may have slipped you by: Back in November, the German Federal Office for Information Security approved Gpg4KDE and Gpg4win for the transmission and processing of national classified information.
Read MorePlasma 5.18 is out: easier system settings, interactive notifications, emojis, wallpapers and more
A brand new version of the Plasma desktop is now available.
In Plasma 5.18 you will find neat new features that make notifications clearer, settings more streamlined and the overall look more attractive. Plasma 5.18 is easier and more fun to use, while at the same time allowing you to be more productive when it is time to work.
Read MoreKDE Receives Generous Donation from the Handshake Foundation
This is the not the first time Handshake has made a substantial donation to the KDE Community. Back in 2018 Handshake donated approximately USD 300,000 to KDE which was used to finance projects and fund activities.
Read MoreSo you want to make a KDE video...
The prizes are two fantastic TUXEDO computers, one per category, which will undoubtedly boost your film rendering capacity. There are also 12 goodie packages for runner-ups, and who doesn't need more Linux shirts, caps and stickers?
Read MorePlasma: A Safe Haven for Windows 7 Refugees
Microsoft will stop providing updates for Windows 7 on January 14 2020.
Read MoreApps Update for December
Creating new applications is the easy part. Maintaining them, making them safer and faster and adding features that make them more useful to users is what marks the difference between one-shot wonders and solid tools you can trust and enjoy for years. That is why KDE developers are constantly renewing and updating their applications, making them more reliable, more useful, and in general, just better.
Read MorePlasma 5.17 is out!
KDE launches the new version of its acclaimed desktop environment, Plasma 5.17.
Read MoreMeet KDE e.V.'s New Board
KDE Decides the Three New Challenges: Wayland, Consistency, and Apps
The KDE Community has spoken! On the first day of Akademy 2019, Lydia Pintscher, President of KDE e.V., announced the three new goals we will prioritize over the next 2 years.
Read MoreLars Knoll, CTO at Qt and Keynote Speaker at Akademy 2019
Lars Knoll has been working on Qt for a long time. It is now 20 years since he joined Trolltech and even longer since he started developing crucial pieces of the KDE ecosystem. In that time, he went from theoretical physicist to software engineer to project leader, and survived the many roughs-and-tumbles Qt went through, including the event that nearly killed the project brought on by a certain company from Redmond.
Read MoreThe Linux Application Summit is coming to Barcelona in November
The KDE and GNOME Communities are pleased to announce Linux App Summit 2019.
LAS 2019 will be held in Barcelona, Spain from November 12th to November 15th. Our Call for Participation opens on July 31st, and will run until August 18th.
Read MoreAkademy 2019: Talk Schedule is out!
The schedule for Akademy 2019 is out and it is full of interesting and intriguing talks, panels and keynotes.
Read MorePlasma 5.16 by KDE is Now Available
Say hello to Plasma 5.16, a the newest iteration of KDE's desktop environment, chock-a-block with new features and improvements.
For starters, check out the new notification system! Not only can you mute notifications altogether with the Do Not Disturb mode, but the system also groups notifications by app. Like this, when you run through the history of past notifications, you can see all the messages from KDE Connect in one category, the download information in another, email alerts in a third, and so on.
Read MoreBring the Linux App Summit 2019 home
The GNOME and KDE communities are looking for locations for the Linux App Summit (LAS) 2019, an event that will be held sometime between September and December 2019.
Read MoreKDE Applications 19.04 Released
The first new applications bundle release of the year adds stability, coherence and new features that help users become more comfortable and more productive using KDE software.
Read MoreVisit our Booth at OpenExpo Europe
On the 20th of June, KDE will be attending OpenExpo Europe 2019.
The event is held in Madrid, Spain, and the organisers have kindly given us a space on the exhibition floor. We will be showcasing the best of what KDE has to offer in the business world. This will include devices that will show off the versatility and potential of Plasma and Plasma Mobile on everything - from mobiles, embedded devices, SBCs and low-powered devices (like the Pinebook), to its capability for adapting to vehicle infotainment systems and high-end ultrabooks, like the KDE Slimbook.
Read MoreGoogle Summer of Code 2019
The KDE Community is happy to announce that we have been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code. This will be our our 14th year of mentoring students.
Read MoreKDE is adding Matrix to its instant messaging infrastructure
KDE is adopting non-proprietary and decentralized instant messaging services and is now running its own community-managed instance of Matrix.
KDE has been looking for a better way of chatting and live-sharing information for several years now. IRC has been a good solution for a long time, but our channels are currently on servers KDE cannot control. It also lacks features users have come to expect from more modern IM services. Other alternatives, such as Telegram, Slack and Discord, although feature-rich, are centralized and built around closed-source technologies and offer even less control than IRC. This flies in the face of KDE's principles that require we use and support technologies based on Free software.
Read MoreKDE releases a new version of the Plasma desktop environment
Say hello to Plasma 5.15, the newest version of KDE's acclaimed desktop environment.
This February release of KDE Plasma comes with a wide range of new features and improvements. The main focus of developers has been stamping out all minor problems and papercuts of the desktop, aiming to make Plasma smoother and easier to use.
Read MoreCome Home to KDE at FOSDEM 2019
Despite the rain and the cold, there is always a place that is warm and welcoming in Brussels in February - the KDE booth at FOSDEM 2019.
Read MoreDo your part! Squash bugs for Kdenlive!
On the 2nd of December, the Kdenlive team will be holding an open bug-squashing day in preparation for the major refactoring release due in April 2019. Everybody is invited!
Read MoreNecuno Mobile: An open phone with Plasma Mobile
Necuno Solutions and KDE are collaborating to offer Plasma Mobile on the Necuno Mobile, a device Necuno describes as "a truly open source hardware platform".
Read MoreAkademy 2018 videos are now online
The State of Akademy Sponsorship
Akademy 2018 is less than a week away. Apart from meeting up again with friends and colleagues, the KDE community has another reason to be joyful: this year we have broken the record for the number of sponsors for the event. Although there have been many sponsors of Akademy over the years, never have there been so many at one time.
Read MoreKdenlive: "Test our beta, test the future"
The KDE e.V. Community Report for 2017 is now available
If there is one document you want to read to discover what KDE has been up to and where we are right now, this is the one.
Read MorePlasma 5.13, a new version of KDE's desktop environment, is here
Optimized and less resource-hungry, Plasma 5.13 can run smoothly on under-powered ARM laptops, high-end gaming PCs, and everything in between.
Read MoreClaudia Garad, Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich: "We want to create a welcoming atmosphere for newcomers"
Claudia Garad is the Executive Director of Wikimedia Österreich, Wikipedia's Austrian chapter. Claudia will deliver Akademy's second keynote on Sunday, 12th of August.
Read MorePromo Sprint Report: What We Did and How You Can Help Us
February was a big month for the Promo team - we held a long-awaited sprint in Barcelona, Spain from the 16th to 18th. The aim of the sprint was to look at information we had collected over the prior years, interpret what it meant, and use it to discuss and plan for the future. The activities we came up with should help us accomplish our ultimate goal: increasing KDE's visibility and user base.
Read MoreEFAIL and KMail
Kdenlive Sprint - The Movie
Kdenlive is KDE's advanced video-editor. This April, members of the Kdenlive project met up for five days - from 25th to the 29th - for their spring sprint. The developers Jean-Baptiste Mardelle and Nicolas Carion, along with professional community videomakers Farid Abdelnour, Rémi Duquenne and Massimo Stella, got together at the Carrefour Numérique in Paris to push the project forward.
Read MoreThe Akademy 2018 program is now available
Akademy 2018 organisers have published the program for the conference part of the event. This year the event will be held in Vienna, and talks will take place on the 11th and 12th of August.
Read MoreKdenlive: Video Editing in France and Spain
The Kdenlive team, creators of KDE's non-linear video editor, will be holding their next sprint at the Carrefour Numérique in the Cité des Sciences in Paris next week.
Read More5 Things to Look Forward to in Krita 4.0
That Krita has become one of the most popular applications for painting among digital artists is an understatement. The great thing is that, with every new version, Krita just gets better and better. The latest release is a perfect example of that. Check out what you can look forward to in the new 4.0 version:
Read MoreDan Bielefeld, Keynote Speaker Akademy 2018: Exposing Injustice Through the Use of Technology
Dan Bielefeld is an activist that works for a South Korean NGO. Dan worked in the Washington, D.C. area training young activists in the areas of politics and journalism before going into researching atrocities committed by the North Korean regime. He is currently the Technical Director of the Transitional Justice Working Group and helps pinpoint the locations of mass burial and execution sites using mapping technologies.
Read MoreMycroft AI on Plasma
Did you know you can install an AI personal assistant on your Plasma desktop?
Mycroft is running through the last 24 hours of the crowdfunding campaign for its Mark II assistant. The machine looks awesome and offers similar functionality to other proprietary alternatives, but with none of the spying and leaking of personal data.
Read MoreKDE receives 200,000 USD-donation from the Pineapple Fund
KDE e.V. is announcing today it has received a donation of 200,000 USD from the Pineapple Fund.
Read MoreThe New KDE Slimbook II: A sleek and powerful Plasma-based Ultrabook
Plasma 5.12 is out, and it is faster, stabler, and has more features than ever
The KDE Community in 2017
Remember to donate to our End of Year fundraiser and support our community and its work.
It's the time of year for recaps. We already talked about the advancements in KDE's software, and it makes sense we talk about that first. To many people and for many years, "KDE" was synonymous with a desktop environment and its applications. That is, KDE was its software.
Read MoreKDE's Goals for 2018 and Beyond
The KDE community has spoken and it has chosen the proposals which will define the general direction of the KDE project over the next three or four years.
Read MoreKDE Powers up the Qt World Summit
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Plasma Mobile and Purism's Librem 5 Free Smartphone
"This was the plan all along", said Todd Weaver during a conference call we held with him last week. He was referring to building a free, open, and privacy-respecting smartphone.
Read MoreRanda Roundup - Part I
Our intrepid developers are getting ready to make their way to Randa, the location for KDE's autumn coding sprint, and we are gradually finding out what they will be doing up there in the Swiss mountains.
Read MoreRanda Meetings 2017: It's All About Accessibility
Randa 2015 was about bringing touch to KDE apps and interfaces. At Randa 2016, developers worked on building frameworks that would allow KDE apps to work on a wider range of operating systems, like Windows, MacOS and Android.
Read MoreAkademy 2017 in Retrospect
The 2017 edition of Akademy was held in Almería, Spain. Starting officially on the 22nd of July and ending on the 27th, the weekend was dedicated to talks, as is customary. The rest of the following week, from Monday to Thursday, was dedicated to workshops and BoFs — Birds of a Feather — sessions in which community members interested in the same things meet and work together.
Read MoreAkademy 2017 -- Day 2
Antonio Larrosa kicked off Sunday with his talk on The KDE Community and its Ecosystem. He expressed concern about what he perceived as an increase in the isolation of certain communities and laid out the advantages of working on intra-community relationships.
Read MoreAkademy 2017 -- Day 1
During the first day at the Akademy, everything went according to plan and nearly everything was on time. Kudos to the organisers.
The weather was balmy at the beginning of the day and, although Aleix Pol said it was not hotter than a hot day in Barcelona, many of the Scandinavian and Scottish attendees were visibly wilting under the sun. Fortunately for them, the venue is equipped with air-conditioning.
Read MoreWhat to Expect from Akademy 2017 on Day 1
There's less than a week until the beginning of Akademy 2017 (if you still haven’t registered, do so now) and this is what you can expect from your first day at the event:
Read MoreAntonio Larrosa -- Dragons, Doom and Digital Music
Antonio Larrosa is the current president of KDE España and he and I have been friends for quite some time now. It may seem logical, since we both live in Málaga, are passionate about Free Software in general, and KDE in particular. But in most other respects we are total opposites: Antonio is quiet, tactful, unassuming and precise. Enough said.
Read MoreRobert Kaye -- Music Buff, Entrepreneur, Akademy Keynote Speaker
Robert Kaye is definitely a brainz-over-brawn kinda guy. As the creator of MusicBrainz, ListenBrainz and AcousticBrainz, all created and maintained under the MetaBrainz Foundation, he has pushed Free Software music cataloguing-tagging-classifying to the point it has more or less obliterated all the proprietary options.
Read MoreKirigami 2.1 is Out
Kirigami UI lets you easily design and create convergent apps that work on desktop and mobile environments. Platforms supported by Kirigami UI include Windows, Android, and Linux. Kirigami is especially indicated for KDE's Plasma Desktop and the upcoming Plasma Mobile platform, KDE's graphical environment for mobile devices. Apps developed with Kirigami will probably also work on MacOS X and iOS with minimal tweaking, although these platforms are not officially supported yet.
Read MoreUser Question: With Some Free Software Phone Projects Ending, What Does Plasma Mobile's Future Look Like?
Q: With some free software phone projects ending, what does Plasma Mobile's future look like?
A: The future is rosy. While it is true that Plasma Mobile used to be built on the Ubuntu Phone codebase, that was superseded some time ago. The recent events at Ubuntu and other mobile communities have not modified the pace of the development (which is pretty fast) or the end goal, which is to build frameworks that will allow convergence for all kinds of front-ends and apps on all kinds of devices.
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