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KDE announces that Plasma 6.8 will drop X11 session support, fully transitioning to Wayland after 15 years of development. The change affects only Plasma desktop; XWayland support remains for legacy applications.
The NNN Stack combines NixOS, Niri compositor, and Noctalia shell to create a declarative, scrollable, and reproducible desktop environment, inviting users to contribute their dotfiles.
The Sovereign Tech Fund has invested over €1 million in KDE to support the development of its free and open-source software, aiming to strengthen digital sovereignty and security infrastructure.
This article explores the revival of the KDE Oxygen theme as part of a broader anti-minimalist backlash and nostalgia trend in software design, drawing parallels to architectural preferences.
This article introduces the open-source project niri, a new Wayland-based desktop compositor that avoids traditional window crowding issues through a scrollable tiling layout, and supports features such as dynamic workspaces, independent multi-monitor management, and custom shader animations.
KDE Plasma 6.7 introduces per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland session restore, and numerous UI improvements following the annual KDE mega-sprint in Graz, including calendar app configuration, Alt+Tab positioning options, and app action favorites.
The xdg-user-dirs 0.20 release enables the 'Projects' directory by default in Linux desktop environments, providing a standardized location for project files that don't fit other categories. The release also includes Meson build system support and security fixes.