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KDE Goals: Ask The Champions

1.7K views · 1d ago · 1:53:46

Guest: KDE Goals

Champions of the new KDE Goals for the 2026-2028 cycle are here to answer your questions Ask David Edmundson, Kevin Ottens, Neal Gompa, and Kai Uwe Broulik about "KDE for Enterprise and Deployments". Check in with Nate Graham, Thiago Masato Costa Sueto, and Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss and learn about the "Better documentation" goal. Find out about the "Next Generation Styling for KDE" form Arjen Hiemstra, Akseli Lahtinen, and Andy Betts.

Matija Šuklje: Activities BoF

1.2K views · 1mo ago · 9:12

Activities are a very powerful, yet heavily under-appreciated (and under-explained) feature of Plasma. In this lightning talk I would like to convince you why they are cool and to join us in the Activities BoF to discuss how both Activities themselves and KDE’s messaging/documentation/onboarding about them could be improved.

Modernizing KDE Print Manager for the Future of Linux Printing

3.1K views · 1mo ago · 42:25

The Linux printing ecosystem is currently undergoing one of its biggest architectural transitions in decades. Since the [CUPS 2.2.x][1] series, printing has increasingly moved toward [IPP-native and driverless][2] workflows, allowing applications to print directly to discovered IPP print destinations without requiring manually created print queues, PPD files, or vendor-specific driver filters.

Still Breathing: The Past, Present, and Future of Oxygen

6.2K views · 1mo ago · 39:46

Guest: Still Breathing

By examining its past, its present restoration, and its potential future, this presentation contextualizes Oxygen, the flagship theme of the KDE 4 era, within the broader questions it raises for KDE as a project. We argue two things about Oxygen: that it carries genuine historical and artistic value, and that KDE's continued stewardship of the theme reflects something important and positive about our community.

Lydia Pintscher: Sponsor's talks

1.2K views · 1mo ago · 18:46

Guest: Lydia Pintscher

Report of the board

911 views · 1mo ago · 39:07

In this session the board will report on the activities of KDE e.V. over the past year. Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Carl Schwan, David Redondo, Eike Hein, Lydia Pintscher

Aleix Pol Gonzalez: Akademy Awards, & Closing Announcements

435 views · 1mo ago · 9:59

Guest: Aleix Pol Gonzalez

Akademy Awards (10-20 mins) Closing Announcements - GET TO THE PARTY (5-10 mins) Aleix Pol Gonzalez

Richard Moe Gustavsen: StyleKit - A common QML API for styling Controls and Widgets

750 views · 1mo ago · 39:00

Guest: Richard Moe Gustavsen

StyleKit (formerly known under the working title "Unified Style") is a new QML module shipped with Qt 6.11 under the "Qt.labs.StyleKit" namespace. StyleKit is a declarative styling system for Qt Quick Controls and Widgets, built on top of Qt Quick Templates. It lets you define a complete visual style for all your controls from a single Style document, including support for themes, state-based styling, and transitions.

What would it take? A lovable, sovereign, AI-native KDE

1.6K views · 1mo ago · 43:11

Lydia Pintscher: Report of the Working Groups

362 views · 1mo ago · 40:53

Guest: Lydia Pintscher

In this session the working groups of KDE e.V. will present their work of the past year. Lydia Pintscher

Eike Hein: KDE goes to the Pyramids

1K views · 1mo ago · 20:36

Guest: Eike Hein

Eike's adventure using KDE/Qt/HMI software in the field on an archeological mission for a robotic system! Eike Hein

Méven Car: Dolphin, the beloved filemanager, past and future

2.6K views · 1mo ago · 6:49

Guest: Méven Car

Present how dolphin is made accross its libraries usage and plugins, its wide usage, its community involvement, and future work ahead. Méven Car

Sandro Knauß: Packaging KDE on Debian

803 views · 1mo ago · 19:42

Guest: Sandro Knauß

What is Debian? What Debian gives the whole open source community, what is special about Debian? (Cross-compiling, Mulit-Arch, reproducible builds,..) You uses Debian? Cern Debian in outerspace Why are a distribution like Debian with "a normal release cycle" is still relevant for KDE? Can KDE Linux replace Debian?

Harald Sitter: License all the files \o/

371 views · 1mo ago · 3:45

Guest: Harald Sitter

Find out why it's important to license all your files from the get-go. Harald Sitter

KDE Linux at 2: what we've learned and how it can help you

5.7K views · 1mo ago · 39:12

KDE Linux is two years old. Building an operating system turns out to be hard! Along the way, we've learned a lot about what users love. We'd like to share it with other OS builders as we've learned from them, and lay out what's next.