KDE Frameworks 6 / Plasma / Gear Release Schedule Plan

The Qt 6 based KDE Frameworks 6 (KF6) development is ongoing since some time. Already many things including Plasma and several applications, like Kate, have working KF6 based development versions. KDE contributors did meet this week online for planning the final release time-frames. We came up with this current plan: Frameworks / Plasma/ Gear Release Schedule Plan Following on from the last Akademy we checked where we were with our development progress in a meeting and settled on the following plan for all 3 major parts:...

September 7, 2023 · 2 min · Christoph Cullmann

Plasma & Kate on Wayland end of 2021

Wayland, the future after X11 Since years Wayland based compositors are promoted as the successors to the venerable X.org X11 display server. In the embedded space it seems Wayland already has made a lot of progress and some distributions start to use it per default, too. My experience of the past years I tried Wayland over the last few years multiple times, but I most often needed to go back to X11 due to random crashes/displaying issues/… (independent of the compositor, I tried a few)....

December 18, 2021 · 3 min · Christoph Cullmann

Join the KDE e.V.

The KDE e.V. is a registered non-profit organization that represents the KDE Community in legal and financial matters. The KDE e.V. is for example responsible for paying the servers that run our GitLab instance and all our other web services. The e.V. takes care of sponsoring developer sprints and contributor travel costs, too. You did participate at some Akademy? This wouldn’t have been possible without the KDE e.V., both by sponsoring and helping to organize the event!...

February 20, 2021 · 2 min · Christoph Cullmann

Manjaro with KDE on a MacBook Pro

I bought a MacBook end of 2014. My initial reason to buy it was to improve the Kate port for macOS. Beside that, I wanted to try if the Apple ecosystem and macOS are really that great and will solve all my issues in life (short answer: no, they aren’t, at least not for me). The HiDPI screen looked nice, too :=) After some initial “not a lot works”, if you don’t go the Homebrew or MacPorts way, the Kate port improved over the following years....

January 14, 2020 · 4 min · Christoph Cullmann

KDE & Qt Applications and High DPI Displays with Scaling

What is a High DPI Display? In the past, most displays had (or the OS pretended to have) around 96 PPI, more or less. If you differed a bit and had too small/large UI elements, you mostly just resized your default font size a bit and were kind of happy. In the last years, more and more displays arise that have a much higher PPI values, which allows for e.g. very crisp rendering of text....

October 3, 2019 · 7 min · Christoph Cullmann