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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:...

The Planck Keyboard Over the past two years I tried out a few different keyboards for fun. I started with common form factors like TKL boards, went over 75% boards like the Q1 and then to a 60% HHKB. For typing feel, the HHKB is really amazing, but unfortunately the programmable features of a stock HHKB board are very limited. Now that I went down to 60%, I will give a more extreme keyboard a chance, the 40% Planck ortholinear keyboard....

Keyboards and Open-Source, how is that related? In my Keyboard Fun post from last year I talked a bit about my interest in mechanical keyboards. Since then, I played around with a few more keyboards/switches/keycaps/… Interesting enough, beside the actual hardware, naturally there is some software component to all these keyboards, too. Whereas most commercial keyboards still come with proprietary firmware, there is the trend within the keyboard enthusiast scene to go for open-source firmware....

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)....

In the last few years I started to use Telegram as my main messenger, beside good old SMS/e-mail. I never used WhatsApp as I try to stay away from the Facebook/Meta/… ecosystem. Telegram seemed like a good choice as a lot of people I know are there and we e.g. mirror our KDE channels often to Telegram for better outreach, too. And all old messengers like ICQ more or less were abandoned by everybody I know including myself ;=)...