Akademy

Our manifesto calls us to have an "end user focus". Among other things, we set up the Visual Design Group to take care of this. Unfortunately the effect of their work is limited by our knowledge about our users. We act ethically, respect privacy, ...

While actual source code is at the heart of what makes our software work, there is so much more you can do to help us create phenomenal software that helps millions be more productive. This is the story of how the donation of an external DVD driv...

About David: David is a long-standing #KDE contributor to Plasma, currently working with Blue Systems. Adapt or Die How new Linux packaging approaches affect wider KDE Everyone is familiar with #Flatpak, or #Snaps, as an another way to get softw...

A Look on the Bright Side of Life Let us explore ways to stay positive even when things are dragging us down. KDE is an open-source community developing free software for desktop and mobile, including the powerful Plasma desktop environment. Joi...

Are we creating an OS? Is KDE even the right place? The rumor mills are churning. What is behind project "🍌 OS"? Is this finally the time to create a KDE OS? What does it take to make a good OS? We will look at existing endeavors, what we can lea...

In this video we highlight and honor some of our most beloved and impactful contributors in the KDE Community. We are proud of their work. Enjoy! KDE is an open-source community developing free software for desktop and mobile, including the powe...

Over the 28 years KDE has been active, the community has developed its own particular vision, goals, values, norms of behavior and processes. Yet, as a living organism, it constantly needs to adapt to the ever evolving world around it, and to rem...

Last year during Akademy I presented the Union styling system, which is a project to create a styling engine that is intended to unify the various styling methods we use in KDE. Now, about a year later, I will talk about what kind of progress h...

User Interfaces (UI) are an essential part of our lives, we use them every day, in all our devices, everywhere we go. At the same time, we see new technologies and programming languages enriching our tech scenario, but in some cases, they don’t ha...

Last year we covered the "KDE Neon Core" effort to bring Plasma on Ubuntu Core. We focused on the work required and the challenges we encountered along the way. We concluded on an upcoming radical change in the system architecture. This time, w...

Over the last year many KDE libraries have gained bindings for Python and Rust, enabling developers using these languages to create KDE applications. In this talk we are going to look into why this is important, how the binding generation works...

Through real experiences and lessons learned, the talk highlights the challenges, small wins, and internal grit required to claim space in a male-dominated industry — and offers encouragement to anyone who's ever felt underestimated. This sessi...

KEcoLab is an automation tool that allows KDE developers to remotely measure the energy consumption of their KDE software through GitLab CI/CD. Instead of obtaining measurements manually and in person in a lab such as the one at KDAB, Berlin, KDE ...

Historically, we have developed our applications locally together with the system libraries and someone else has been taking care of the distribution of the application. With the introduction of Flatpak amongst other tools we have been breaking th...

Fedora KDE has had an exciting few years with a growing community and significant efforts between Fedora and the KDE project, with the latest milestone of Fedora KDE becoming a recognized flagship offering in the Fedora Project as the Fedora KDE P...

By the time Akademy happens api.kde.org will have completed the transition away from Doxygen to using QDoc for documentation generation. In this talk we are going to look at how and why this is happening and how we can leverage QDoc to make our...

In QML, you generally use the model/view/delegate pattern to expose data. In the last few years, several features have been added to the QML language to help you do this in a type safe and predictable way. Required properties have been around sinc...

CppCheck is a static code analyzer that is easily integrated into KDE's CI workflow on invent. As with all static code analysis tools, code needs some initial grooming to be useful. We will here go over some of the things needed to get prope...

A big focus for KDE in Plasma 6 has been making our Wayland session usable for artists. It has been ready for general computing for some time, but these users have special requirements that require extra care - from drawing tablets to remotes to c...

In this talk I will provide a list of all the updates and implementations made since the last design system announcement last year at Akademy. This includes a review on variables availability for designers and developers. I will detail the pref...