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Last week, I went to Akademy, the yearly KDE conference, in Thessaloniki. This is now my third in-person Akademy and fifth Akademy in total. As always, this is the occasion to meet old and new friends, learn about what others are hacking on and enjoy good food. Friday I arrived Friday afternoon, taking my flight from Nuremberg with a few others. Getting out of the airport, we could immediately feel the heat.

And it can be done easily, ackshually. But what is that all about? The problem It has been a longstanding complaint that the ~/.config/ directory on Linux systems can get riddled with configuration files. This is the case with KDE software as well. My idea is that we should be putting those into subdirectories inside ~/.config/. The Freedesktop XDG Base Directory specification generally only states that standard configuration files should go under XDG_CONFIG_DIRS.

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Lilbits: Mobian's first stable release (Debian for phones), Pixel Feature Drop, and cheap Intel chips for gaming

We have been busy this past month! We released KDE Gear 23.04, which now contains most of the Plasma Mobile applications. The development of Plasma Shell based on Qt6 is progressing.

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

My second release of the day: Kirigami Addons 0.8.0. This release contains a few new components. AbstractMaximizeComponent This is part of the org.kde.kirigamiaddons.labs.components module and is a popup that covers the entire window to show some items. This is already used in NeoChat and Tokodon to magnify image and videos. Thanks James Graham for developing the initial version and upstreaming it to Kirigami-addons. Maximized image in NeoChat

KDE Connect is the great software that allows for interfacing between the KDE desktop and your various mobile devices running Android, Plasma Mobile, Apple iOS, or even Sailfish OS

We have been busy these past two months! The last version of Plasma 5 was released in February, and so development work has shifted toward Plasma 6. This involves porting from Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6.

If you are in the market for a Linux tablet you might be interested in the new piece of hardware created by Juno Computers. In the form of the aptly name