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Plasma Sprint 2025 in Graz plus Grazer Linuxtage
The past week I spent in the lovely Austrian City of Graz attending the Plasma Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage 2025.
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Akademy 2024 (in Würzburg!)
This year Akademy was in Würzburg (shock! horror!). I think its not too far fetched to say that we pulled it successfully. -
Goals Sprint 2024
From last Friday to Wednesday I was in Berlin to attend the combined 2024 KDE Goals sprint that was graciously hosted by MBition. Compared to previous goals sprints where there were separate sprints Goal this year was different as all three happened at once in the same area. This allowed attendees to freely switch around the different topics and enables more collaboration opportunities. Lets see how that worked out for me.
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Implementing xdg-dialog-v1 in Qt and KWin
If you have used a moderately complex application there are chances that you have interacted with what is called a “modal” dialog. A modal dialog is a dialog that requires you to close/address it before you can continue interacting with the main application window. This can be implemented by the application in a straightforward manner but compositor didn’t know if a dialog was modal or not.
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Update: xdg-toplevel-drag merged
In the last post I talked about making things like detachable tabs or widgets work in a Wayland work. The protocol I submitted has now been merged into wayland-protocols!
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Dragging Docks and Tugging Toolbars on Wayland
Most of our desktop applications have a toolbar, sometimes they
even have multiple toolbars next to or stacked on top of each other.
More complex desktop applications such as Krita, Kdenlive or LabPlot often
consist of multiple sub-windows, docks, tabbed views, etc.
Docks and toolbars can be undocked, moved around and arranged freely and when dragged over a part
of a window snap back into the window. This allows the user to customize their
work environment to their liking and needs.
This worked fine on X because it lets you do anything, this post explores the situation
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Akademy 2023 in Thessaloniki
On Friday Akademy 2023 came to a close. This was the second time I attended
the conference physically after the online editions of 2020 and 2021 and I want
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Plasma Sprint 2023 in Augsburg
Finally a sprint again! The 2019 the Plasma Sprint in Valencia was my first in person KDE event and I was hooked instantly. However something mysterious happened in the next years that and in person meet ups stopped happening. While Akademy 2022 happened in person again, a sprint has different atmosphere and I was awesome to see people that couldn’t make Akademy or for whom it was their first sprint. Other attendees have blogged about the sprint as well, check them out too. Either on the planet or over on discuss Carl created a collection of a bunch of them.
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Wayland native interface in Qt 6.5
Qt 6 introduced a new way to access platform specific objects and functionality in the
QNativeInterfacenamespace. Starting with Qt 6.5 it will be possible to obtain handles to wayland object handles this way. Let’s look at what’s new and how it improves on the past method. -
Setting a default global theme has just become much easier
tl;dr: Just set the default global theme in
/etc/xdg/kdeglobalsand your good to go.
In the last years System Settings has been gradually improved with each release featuring more pages being cleaned up, redesigned or even rewritten from scratch. In this process there was also focus on proper state handling, adding ‘Defaults’ button where missing and sensible, adding highlighting of changed settings and making sure that these systems do the correct thing. In this post I will explain how Global Themes factor into this and how their pre-run set-up is now much simpler for distributions starting with Plasma 5.24. -
Shortcut configuration in 2020
Last year I spent some time working one the (formerly global) shortcuts settings module, including rewriting it from
scratch. Given that Plasma 5.21 is to be released soon, I though it was a good opportunity to do a write up of what
has happened in this area in the past year. I want to apologize in advance for the size of this blog post that turned
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Plasma 5.21 Beta Review Day
I am happy to announce that we are going to hold the second Plasma Beta Review Day on the 28th January from 9.00 CET to at least 20.00 CET. We will meet in a Big Blue Button room and you can join via audio, video or text.
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Displaying Problems inline in KDevelop
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KF6 Sprint in Berlin
Last week I arrived on a rainy Thursday evening in Berlin to attend the KDE Frameworks Kickoff sprint. The next three days were spent with discussions and ideas about the future of the libraries that are the base of most of the software of the KDE Community.
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Usability & Productivity Sprint 2019
