... to Graz for Akademy 2026, KDE's annual summit ... it marked KDE's 30th birthday. Happy birthday, KDE! For three decades, KDE has been the largest open-source community building on Qt.
KDEPlasma 6.8 is nearly here, bringing the revived Oxygen theme and dropping its X11 session. For those who prefer an older look, a new project called Klassik recreates the KDE 3 experience using modern Plasma technology.
Last weekend KDE's annual Akademy conference included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE," writes The Register...Someone else outside of KDE set up kdeforpeople.com in an attempt to... pressure KDE into banning LLMs.
A proposal to make KDE an "AI-native" desktop has gone down like a house on fire ... There may be no survivors.* Last weekend was KDE's annual Akademy conference and it included a presentation proposing an AI-native KDE.
"In a few weeks, KDE will turn 30 years old," writes core contributor Kevin Ottens, celebrating with some special KDE community data analytics (including a 30-year graph of the number of contributors)..
The potentially contentious proposal comes in a Sunday afternoon talk entitled What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE, presented by longtime KDE contributors Eva Brucherseifer and Jan Muehlig.
Announced late last week, the effort aims to provide "at least" three years of backported fixes for KDEPlasma 6.6 and the associated KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear apps ... Although it's far from finished yet, there's now an official KDE Linux distro.
"While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support," argues XDA Developers. ... and KDE alternatives."].
KDEPlasma 6.6.6 is here, along with a beastly long list of bugfixes, so if you have Plasma 6.6.5 – for instance, if you are using KDE on FreeBSD 15.1 – then it's an update well worth having.