We just branched for Plasma 6.1 and released the beta, which means the window to add new features has now closed. But before it did, a ton of amazing stuff snuck in! Plasma 6.1 promises to be a large and impressive release. Probably the most impactful thing is triple buffering support on Wayland! This should…
A few weeks ago, some of us discovered that KDE apps just looked terrible when run in GNOME. A lengthy discussion on icon theming ensued, with various improvements made on both sides. The KDE effort was spearheaded by Christoph Cullmann, as already described in his post on the subject. In a nutshell, KDE apps opting…
The floodgates are fully open and developers have started landing juicy features for Plasma 6.1! But not just that. we asked for bug reports and you folks gave us bug reports! Usually we get 30-50 per day, but now we're up to 150-200. It's kind of crazy. Now, this doesn't mean the software is actually…
Believe it or not, the mega-release is coming out in less than a month. So soon! For this reason, all hands are on deck fixing bugs and polishing everything up. Nonetheless, the next releases of Plasma and KDE apps are starting to accumulate some juicy improvements too! Read on to find out. KDE 6 Mega-Release…
Wow, it feels like it's been a while! And while many of KDE's contributors have been enjoying some holiday and vacation time, quite a lot happened too! We're getting pretty close to the projected February 28th release day for the KDE 6 megarelease, so all hands have been on the bug-fixing deck. Overall we're in…