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KDE @kde.org · Jan 2
Thanks for participating in our fundraiser. You made it a great success!

KDE will always be independent, user-funded and committed to the people.

You can still donate by visiting:

kde.org/donate/

Or help out by volunteering! Find out how at:

community.kde.org/Get_Involved
A pile of kollaborative KDE dragons, all different colours and doing different things, with keyboard, paint brushes, books, and pencils.
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"This Week in Plasma": polishing for Plasma 6.6 (due in 10 days) continues, Window List widget gets sorting and section headers, System Setting loses all inapplicable hardware pages, and the window manager remembers tiling padding per screen, and more:

blogs.kde.org/2026/02/07/t...
A screenshot showing before and after captures of the System Settings index and how the list of pages has been reduced to only what is available. The Window List widget now supports sorting and shows section headers in its full view mode.
February 7, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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#KDE Gear 25.12.2 Brings Improvements to Dolphin, NeoChat, Kate, and Other Apps 9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-...

@kde.org #Linux #OpenSource
KDE Gear 25.12.2 Brings Improvements to Dolphin, NeoChat, Kate, and Other Apps - 9to5Linux
KDE Gear 25.12.2 open-source software suite is now available with various bug fixes and small improvements for your favorite KDE applications.
9to5linux.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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JBM has been working on refactoring #Kdenlive keyframing system and, along the way, is developing a dopesheet (an interface that displays all parameters in a single timeline). Below is an initial prototype

kdenlive.org/news/2026/do...

This project is funded by NGIZero NLnet

#kde #videoediting
February 6, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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GCompris, KDE's collection of educational activities, publishes version 26.0.

gcompris.net/news/2026-02...

You get 197 activities, including 2 new ones: "Drawing wheels", for drawing with a gear within a cogwheel; and "Multiple choice questions", enabled through GCompris-teachers (see next post).
February 4, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:

www.openpetition.de/petition/onl...
February 3, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that Plasma 6.6 lands in little over two weeks, choosing mixed skin tones for emojis gets a friendly pop-up, and you can set a global keyboard shortcut to clear the notification history, among many other marvellous things.

blogs.kde.org/2026/01/31/t...
The screenshot shows KDE's emoji selector overlaid with a friendly pop-up that lets you select mixed skins.
January 31, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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KDE is at #FOSDEM!

Visit our booth in building K, try devices and new software, grab some stickers, and get some merch.

fosdem.org/2026/stands/
KDE people at out booth. Aleix Pol speaks in the main room. Attendees visit the KDE booth.
January 31, 2026 at 10:43 AM
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KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 has been Released!

kde.org/announcement...

That means that Plasma 6.6 is only 3 weeks away. If you don't mind playing around with unstable software, please give it whirl and report bugs to

bugs.kde.org
A screenshot of Plasma 6.6, showing the Discover software manager/app store, the System Setting app, and the calendar widget. Along the bottom you can see Plasma's sleek floating panel bar.
January 27, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Come and visit our booth this weekend at @fosdem.org 2026!

We’ll be in Building K, Level 2, showing the newest version of Plasma on a laptop, plus other devices like the OP6, Fairphone 5, Mecha Comet, ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16, PineTab 2, Steam Deck, and Surface running Plasma.
January 26, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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A KDE Klassic Bounces Back!

The Bouncy Ball widget is now available for #Plasma6 thanks to Filip Fila's crazed night of coding.

https://
filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/bouncy-ball-will-always-bounce-back/

#bounces #ball #pointless #cats
January 25, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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This week in KDE Apps presents... Many things!

New releases of Krita, Glaxnimate, GCompris and Kstars; and improvements for Akonadi, Elisa, Dolphin, Falkon, Itinerary, Kasts, Kate, Kdenlive, Krita, KRDC, Marknote, Okular, PlasmaTube, Barcode Scanner,... and Tokodon.

blogs.kde.org/2025/02/10/t...
February 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Weather - a beautiful @kde.org app made with #kirigami.

#kde #qt
January 24, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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"This Week in Plasma" is fixing all the things!!!

The team fixed 28% of all high priority bugs, added a page to System Settings that allows you to configure shared printers on Windows networks, reorganized KRunner’s buttons, and much more!

blogs.kde.org/2026/01/24/t...

#TWiP #Plasma6 #desktop
This screenshot shows the new configuration page in System Settings that llows your machine to access printers on Windows networks. This screenshot shows how the position of the buttons have changed in KRunner.
January 24, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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Season of KDE 2026 kicks off with 25 volunteers working on 21 projects.

KDE's mentorship program that introduces new contributors to Free Software. Our mentees will help improve the state of Plasma, apps, games, translations, websites, and more.

mentorship.kde.org/blog/2026-01...
A bunch of saplings in pots overlaid with the KDE mentorship logo (a gear with a seed over one of its teeth) and the words "KDE Mentorship" below it.
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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go go go #KDE @kde.org

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XggO...
KDE Plasma Is On A Generational High
YouTube video by Brodie Robertson
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January 19, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Hey @wilwheaton.net, it's your buddies from KDE. We were mates back in our 3.x days, remember?

wilwheaton.net/2003/02/tele...

We're still here, still rocking the FLOSS scene and we were wondering if you'd like to give us another go.
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Three geeky things I’m excited about: Using apt-rpm, I sucessfully upgraded KDE to 3.1 without breaking anything. My pal Russ built a nifty website called blinktag. I had a submission accepte…
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January 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Aleix Pol and Harald Sitter are coding live on Twitch right now!:

www.twitch.tv/daft_code
Daft_Code - Twitch
Daft Hardware | Accessibility in Konsole and other tomfoolery
www.twitch.tv
January 18, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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This Week in Plasma: Plasma 6.6 lets you set the priority of processes using a friendly graphical window, in 6.7 the Brightness and Color widget gets a toggle to switch between light and dark modes, and Frameworks 6.23 improves touch-friendliness of open/save dialogs.

blogs.kde.org/2026/01/17/t...
January 17, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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Fedora Games Lab, @fedora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy's spin for gamers, plans to modernize its platform by leveraging KDE Plasma:

fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes...
January 16, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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You don't need to pay Apple or start a new subscription to unleash your creativity. We asked creatives what free software they use to get the job done and here are their picks.

kde.org/for/creators/

A graphical thread 🧵 ▶️

#creativity #design #audio #editing #art
January 15, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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Plasma Testers Assemble!: Plasma 6.6 Beta 1 is out now!

This is a preview of KDE's upcoming Plasma 6.6, to be released on February 17th. We need testers to trial run the new desktop environment and report bugs before we make it available to the general public

Are you in?:

kde.org/announcement...
Konqi, the fearless bughunter, scarpers across the beta version of the Plasma desktop, net aloft, in hot pursuit of a creepy crawly.
January 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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@buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social to use KDE Frameworks in the upcoming versions of their desktop.

It's great to see more people using KDE's technology for their own projects and we look forward to working together on improving support for the whole ecosystem.
January 11, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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KDE goes vroom 🚗! 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA, the first car to run KWin, receives "Car of the Year" award.

media.mercedes-benz.com/article/4cbc...

KDE's Victoria Fischer explains how Mercedes uses Qt in its vehicles:

youtu.be/pqJ-9SUPFwY

Note that Victoria's bling is not official KDE merch... yet!
A view of the futuristic looking Merc's dashboard. A sporty looking red car zooming down a bucolic mountain road, as they are prone to do in ads, instead of being stuck in traffic as they tend to be in reality. Either way, you will always be able to console yourself with the fact that KDE will be there to make your wait at the traffic lights a bit less insufferable.
January 9, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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KDE Gear 25.12.1 is out!

Includes tweaks and bugfixes for Dolphin, Kate, skladnik, and more.

kde.org/announcement...
An overview of the Plasma desktop with Kontact, Kate and Dolphin open.
January 8, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that Itinerary gets vector-based tiles that make maps much more detailed, NeoChat gets improvements across the board, and KDE gets a new whiteboard app called Drawy!

blogs.kde.org/2026/01/04/t...
Itinerary, showing a detailed map, with buildings rendered in 3D. A NeoChat dialogue box showing options that allow you to moderate a user. A screenshot of an electronic black/whiteboard with pictures and writing.
January 5, 2026 at 11:57 AM