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This is the first blog post of my GSOC journey. I will be sharing my works and experiences here. Stay tuned for more updates. In this blog, I’ll be sharing my experiences of the first two weeks of GSOC, what are the works I did, what are challenges I faced and how did I overcome them ( Did I really overcome them :P ). On my first week I tried to understand the codebase of discover first, via doing small changes.

KDE e.V. held its annual general meeting (German) online and at the KDE e.V. offices in Berlin.

Akademy is KDE's annual event where the community comes together in one place to meet in person, share ideas and hack on common projects. This year's Akademy was held in Thessaloniki, Greece and started on July 15th and ran until July 21st. This year 150 people attended Akademy in person, and 220 tuned in online to attend chats and BoFs over video conference. The first weekend

Last weekend I attended the Linux App Summit (LAS) 2023 in Brno, Czechia, to speak about push notifications and to get a few remaining interoperability issue...

Fedora 38 has been released �� (on time!) and Fedora Kinoite 38 alongside it. Since the last “State of Fedora Kinoite” post was a while ago, here is a summary of the changes in this release and a look at what is coming in the next releases.

Ok, so. This is going to be a long, exciting video. Whenever I hear somebody saying “KDE is a Desktop Environment”, I am ALWAYS that annoying guy that replies “akchually, it’s KDE Plasma”. Because KDE is a community of people doing cool stuff, NOT just desktop environments, and I

Some influential people in the open-source community are pushing for the adoption of a one-stop app store for Linux-based operating systems. The store would be built on...

The first advanced desktop environment for Linux users, KDE, has completed 25 years in existence, a testimony to the fact that free software is very m...

Jack Wallen To support and maintain a stable Qt 5 for KDE Gears and Frameworks, KDE will maintain a patch collection. At the end of 2020, Qt 6 was released to serve as the next-gen Qt application framework. This new iteration has made it possible to deliver more modern software and KDE has every plan to fully adopt this new release for the entire software stack. However, KDE still very much relies on Qt 5 for both desktop and applications. With KDE’s goal of migrating to Qt 6, the...