For when you are using Feral Interactive’s GameMode and want some UI indication of its use. https://invent.kde.org/sitter/plasma-gamemode

It’s boring but important! Stay with me! Please! 😘 For the past couple of years Andreas Cord-Landwehr has done excellent work on moving KDE in a more structured licensing direction. Free software licensing is an often overlooked topic, that is collectively understood to be important, but also incredibly annoying, bureaucratic, and complex. We all like to ignore it more than we should. If you are working on KDE software you really should check out KDE’s licenses howto and maybe also glance over the comprehensive policy. Read More

As it recently came up I thought I should perhaps post this more publicly… As many of you will know SMB1, the super ancient protocol for windows shares, shouldn’t be used anymore. It’s been deprecated since like Windows Vista and was eventually also disabled by default in both Windows 10 and Samba. As a result you are not able to find servers that do not support either DNS-SD aka Bonjour aka Avahi, or WS-Discovery. Read More

Harald Sitter is a long-time KDE developer who previously also worked on the music player Amarok and the Linux distribution Kubuntu. He loves talking about the nitty-gritty details of technology and making things more automated and reliable. Also on: LinkedIn GitHub KDE Invent