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The #Akademy2026 programme is live! 🎉 This year's sessions will take you from enterprise and digital sovereignty to the future of Qt, KDE Linux, desktop UX, beautiful code visualisations, and what's next for the KDE community. Explore the programme: akademy.kde.org/2026/program/
* Kate is a text editor, but that's not all. It integrates with Git, checks your code, provides snippets so you don't have to type over and over all the boring stuff, lets you edit multiple lines at the same time, and much more. Support KDE! Adopt an App! kde.org/anniversarie...
NeoChat let's you message others on the Matrix chat platform. Connect with KDE enthusiasts, talk with contributors, keep up with minute-to-minute decisions with NeoChat. Support KDE! Adopt an App! kde.org/anniversarie...
Three more apps added to the list of "Adoptable Apps": Konsole, NeoChat, and Kate Konsole is KDE's powerful terminal emulator. Konsole supports tabs, splitting windows, plugins, themes, and inline file previews, among many other useful features. Support KDE! Adopt an App! kde.org/anniversarie...
Today KDE releases an update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.6.6. This release adds two months’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. Changelog: kde.org/announcement... --- Become a Supporting Member: kde.org/anniversarie...
"Adopt an App" is back! Become a KDE Supporting Member and choose the app you would like to adopt. Your name will be included in the list of supporters for the duration of your membership. kde.org/anniversarie... #KDEat30 #donations #apps #fundraising
KDE is at Tübix today! Come visit our booth, talk to community members, check out gadgets and software, and grab some stickers. www.tuebix.org #TechEvent #FOSS #Plasma
KDE Linux devs are now are implementing a robust and modern QA system, have created an .iso image to facilitate installation, are working on making using Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese text input easier, and much more: pointieststick.com/2026/07/01/t... KDE Linux Beta is getting near!
Meet Sam Hewitt (they/them (preferred) he/him (acceptable)) 🏳️🌈, 💛🤍💜🖤 They have been contributing to the design of @gnome.org for many years, and have left their mark on the user interface, experience, icons, and such of many GNOME modules and websites.
Meet Federico Mena Quintero (he/him) bi/pan. He is one of GNOME's founders! 😀 So, he has been around since 1996 or so.
Continuing with what we have informally called our "Gayllery", today we move on to actual active KDE and @gnome contributors, starting with... Meet Florian Müllner! (he/him)🏳️🌈 gay @gnome.org contributor
Alan Mathison Turing - 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954, English, Gay Man A thread... 🧵" @gnome.org
Become a KDE Supporting Member and get your name into our 🏆"Supporters Hall of Fame"✨ Sign up today at: kde.org/anniversarie... Your name will also be included in Plasma 6.8 in its welcome slideshow, and in all following versions of Plasma for as long as you are a supporter.
The fifth cycle of the KDE Goals program is open for submissions. Got a vision of what KDE should focus on for the next two years? Submit your proposals. blogs.kde.org/2026/06/20/k... #community #goals #FreeSoftware #OpenSource --- Become a Supporting Member: kde.org/anniversarie...
KDE's 2025 yearly report is out. The ins and outs of our community, who's who, where we get the funding from (and how we spend it), and much more in the 2025 annual report: ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2... --- Become a Supporting Member and contribute to keeping KDE running: kde.org/anniversarie...
For those interested Plasma Big Screen for Smart TVS, yes, it also gets an update... kde.org/announcement... so you can better enjoy... well... your big screen. #SmartTV #TV #BigScreen #Plasma6 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
digiKam, the photo organizer, releases version 9.1.0. This version adds support for Pixel Motion photos, boasts a better audio output selection, and adds support for RAW formats from more cameras thanks to LibRaw 20260523. www.digikam.org/news/2026-06...
Become a KDE Supporting Member! Our Drive kicks off today You are into supporting Free Software for the long run, so why not contribute a few €s and make it official? Join us and give us that push we need to reach 1500 #supporters and become a champion for #FreeSoftware! kde.org/anniversarie...
Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 is out: Get ready to test! There are only two weeks left until the final release of Plasma 6.7 lands on your computer, and developers still need your help to squash the remaining bugs. kde.org/announcement...
Testers Assemble!: Plasma 6.7 Beta 1 has been released! The first version for software testers is now available and should be hitting the "unstable" repos of your distros in the next hours/days. kde.org/announcement... Try out everything and, when you hit a bug, send your report to bugs.kde.org
@sovereign.tech invests over €1 million in KDE software development The investment will be used to strengthen the structural reliability and security of KDE's core infrastructure, including Plasma, KDE Linux, and the frameworks underlying its communication services. kde.org/announcement...
"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that in 6.7 you can use an ICC profile while HDR mode is active, you can remove elements from your favorites by dragging them out, and the performance and power efficiency of apps using CPU rendering has been greatly improved. blogs.kde.org/2026/05/09/t...
Time to get a new wallet? Marco Martin releases KeepSecret 1.1, KDE's new password manager. notmart.org/blog/2026/05... #passwords #security #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop #keyring