KDE
8 mentions across all digests
Community-driven project developing the Plasma desktop environment and associated applications collection.
KDE’s 30th anniversary
KDE's 1998 KHTML engine became the foundation for both WebKit and Blink, shaping the browser engines behind Safari, Chrome, and Edge.
Automatic brightness in Plasma
KDE Plasma 6.6 adds automatic display brightness adjustment via environmental light sensors, with implementation enabled by Framework Laptop 13's built-in hardware.
Qt No Contextless Connect
Qt 6.7 introduces compile-time safety enforcement to prevent crashes from signal lambdas capturing destroyed objects by mandating explicit context parameters in connect() calls.
This Week in Plasma: Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Wayland Session Restore
KDE Plasma 6.7 delivers per-screen virtual desktop switching and Wayland session restoration, advancing Linux desktop multitasking through a 20+ contributor sprint focused on consensus-building.
KDE Gear 26.04 released
KDE Gear 26.04 advances its desktop ecosystem with calendar scheduling refinements, native Matrix chat threading, and expanded keyboard customization—deepening usability across its core applications.