Akademy 2024
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Adapt or Die How new Linux packaging approaches affect wider KDE | David Edmondson | 41m |
Argues that containerized app delivery via Flatpak runtime+sandbox fundamentally changes security, plugins, styling, dev setup and library policies… | ||
| An Operating System of Our Own | Harald Sitter | 40m |
Proposal builds an image-based KDE operating system called "Banana"/KDE Linux with a working prototype: image-based, no packages using SputterFS, MKOSI + Arch… | ||
| Contributing Is More Than Just Code | Kai Uwe Broulik | 07m |
A donated external DVD drive lets a developer reproduce real-world edge cases and unlock a massive performance boost in Solid by removing per-device blocking… | ||
| Cutting Gordian's "End-User Focus" vs. "Privacy" Knot | Björn Balazs | 36m |
Claims a working proof of concept that lets KDE gather usable statistics without touching raw user data by combining a local user database synced to a central… | ||
| A Look on the Bright Side of Life | Harald Sitter | 03m |
A quick, practical pep talk that treats debugging and community as concrete tools for staying positive: reproducing a stubborn error often fails so try asking… | ||
| Akademy Awards 2024 | Friedrich W. Kosselbau, Nikolaus Feller | 05m |
Application Award goes to Friedrich W. Kosselbau for longterm work on Octeta and years of KDE contributions; Non-Application Contribution Award goes to… | ||
| Building Culture: It Starts at Onboarding and Never Ends | Neofytos Kolokotronis | 41m |
KDE has 28 years of history and a cultural framework made of the code of conduct, manifesto, vision and mission, the Goals Initiative and a recent culture… | ||
| Daily driving Plasma Mobile and What's Still Lacking | Bart Ribbers | 10m |
Describes a working Plasma Mobile daily-driving setup on an actual smartphone with a list of apps used and what reliably works versus what breaks; shows… | ||
| Why and How to Use KDE Frameworks in Non-KDE Apps | Javier Blanco Cordero | 32m |
Shows a working workflow that uses Kirigami, KCrash, KIconThemes and Breeze icons to build a native Linux teleprompter, QPrompt teleprompter, and explains how… | ||
| Qt Beyond 6.8 | Volker Hilsheimer | 40m |
Qt 6.8 ships as the next LTS with concrete changes: apps can request dark or light mode, better font controls, improved SVG/vector rendering, Qt Quick now… | ||
| The Road to KDE Neon Core — Gosh We're Surrounded by Snaps Everywhere | Kevin Ottens | 38m |
A fully snap-based Plasma desktop image called KDE Neon Core is built on Ubuntu Core with apps packaged as content and app snaps and a tiny Plasma session snap… | ||
| Union The future of Styling in KDE | Arjen Hiemstra | 40m |
A project called Union aims to become a single source of truth for KDE styling by converting existing formats into an intermediate, logic‑free theme layer. A… | ||
| What Even Is Color? | Xaver Hugl | 35m |
Defines color as numeric XYZ coordinates and shows concrete workflows: convert linear RGB → matrix → XYZ → matrix → target RGB, apply gamut mapping when… | ||
| KDE to Make Wines — Using KDE Software on Enterprise Desktops a Return on Experience | Kevin Ottens | 11m |
De Bortoli Wines runs hundreds of KDE desktops for over 10 years on Ubuntu 22 with in-house patches and relies on Plasma Desktop. Work uncovers concrete fixes… | ||
| What's a Maintainer Anyway? | Nicolas Fella | 07m |
Most KDE projects lack a formal maintainer and frameworks explicitly remove maintainer entries from metadata files. One person usually ends up doing code, UI… | ||
| Lint All The Things | Albert Astals Cid, Alexander Lohnau | 05m |
JSON files get schema validation on CI using schemas published on the Autoconfig website, catching type errors like string "true" vs boolean and allowing… | ||
| Looking Back: What's Next | Nicolas Fella | 38m |
KDE completes the Qt6 migration with the Feb 2024 Plasma 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 mega release, after adding Qt6 CI, branching KF6 in Jan 2023, and maintaining… | ||
| Pythonizing Qt | Cristián Maureira-Fredes | 33m |
PySide presents concrete additions: a SnakeCase runtime API and true property option that convert Qt's camelCase and getter/setter patterns into idiomatic… | ||
| Only Hackers Will Survive | Joanna Murzyn | 46m |
Argues hacker ethos — open knowledge, bold tinkering, community repair — is needed to cut e‑waste: field research in India documents informal, often illegal… | ||
| KWin Effects The Next Generation | David Edmundson | 07m |
KWin replaces ad hoc OpenGL calls with a two‑layer approach: a low‑level core that insists on fine‑grained, predictable rendering and a high‑level path that… | ||
| Report of the Board | Dr Adriaan de Groot, Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Mr Eike Hein, Lydia Pintscher, Nate Graham | 40m |
Board recounts concrete outcomes: seven new KDE e.V. members added, a spike from 53 to 719 paying supporting members after replacing CiviCRM with DonorBox, and… | ||
| Finding Your Way Around Akademy: Venue Maps and Indoor Routing in Kongress | Volker Krause | 05m |
Kongress displays up-to-date indoor maps built from OpenStreetMap data with event overlays applied as event-specific OSM changesets (room names, registration… | ||
| Plasma Next Visual Design Evolution for Plasma | Andy Betts | 40m |
A Visual Design Team effort builds a deployable design system (based on Untitled UI) with 24px icons replacing 22px, roughly 1,600 icons audited and redrawn… | ||
| Report of the Working Groups | Lydia Pintscher | 33m |
Advisory board holds meetings every four to six months and keeps partners briefed; Community Working Group records 41 requests since AGM 2023 with 37… | ||
| KDE Goals: Reveal of the New Goals | Lydia Pintscher | 35m |
Three concrete goals: streamlined application development experience pledges outreach to schools and technical courses, tooling guidance for C++/Qt and KDE… | ||
| Towards a Pragmatic Understanding of Large Language Models | David Schlangen | 51m |
Argues that modern LLMs are fundamentally a next-token predictor whose surprising breadth comes from scale, and proposes treating them as function… | ||
| C++ Rust and Qt Easier than you think | Joshua Goins | 45m |
Shows concrete glue paths: using CXX or cbindgen to expose Rust types to C++, or KDAB’s CXX-Qt to write QML-first apps entirely in Rust; Corrosion automates… | ||
| Panel: Openwashing – How Do We Handle (and Enforce?) OSS Policies in Products? | Markus Feilner | 36m |
Panel lays out concrete openwashing cases and remedies: a digital‑twin vendor asked to label product open source to win public tenders without publishing code… | ||
| Embedded Linux is a Glorious Lie | Aleix Pol | 35m |
Claim: “embedded Linux” mostly renames existing constraints; KDE code ends up forked and heavily patched to ship reliably in cars and phones. Evidence… | ||
| Getting Them Early Teaching Pupils About The Environmental Benefits Of FOSS | Nicole Teale | 07m |
A school workshop in Hanover has eight ninth graders pull 19 computers revived from the cellar and install Kubuntu, Ubuntu, Fedora, Bazite and Mint, preventing… | ||
| KDE Apps Initiative | Carl Schwan | 40m |
KDE currently hosts 200 first‑party apps and about 60 frameworks, with most projects migrated to KF6; goal is to grow app count and contributors to close… | ||
| Opt In? Opt Out? Opt Green! KDE Eco's New Sustainability Initiative | Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss | 41m |
New two year project Opt Green funds consumer-facing campaigns, workshops at eco‑festivals and print ads, with a budget for international placements, aiming to… | ||
| KDEs CI and CD Infrastructure | Ben Cooksley | 39m |
Migration from Jenkins to GitLab finishes this year and the CI now runs every build in clean ephemeral Docker containers across Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and… | ||
| KDE Goals: Two Years of Progress in Accessibility, Sustainability, and Processes | Lydia Pintscher | 01h 09m |
Two years of work produce concrete tooling, measurable fixes, and ongoing gaps: accessibility gets an Accessibility Inspector released, about 200 a11y merge… | ||
| Financial Support for Working on KDE | Jos van den Oever | 09m |
NLnet funds engineering work on KDE and reports 1000+ projects supported historically; examples include Ocular PDF digital signing, Dolphin’s secure admin… | ||
| QML in Qt6 | Ulf Hermann | 35m |
Type annotations are enforced in Qt 6.7 and type assertions checked since 6.2 with value‑type fixes landed in 6.8 and a pragma to avoid surprises; a… | ||
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