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KDE Plasma 6.6, KAccounts, and OSM Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe
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Linuxiac ☛ KDE Plasma 6.6 to Bring OCR in Spectacle Screenshot Utility
The KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment is taking shape, and although there are still a few months to go before the final stable release—scheduled for February 17, 2026—some of the changes are already clear.
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A new online accounts system?
For many years Plasma comes with its own system online accounts system, known as KAccounts. The idea is simple: In Systemsettings you log into a given online service once, and then several applications can use that login, instead of loggin in inside each application separately.
The number of services available and applications making use of them changed a bit over recent years. As of right now the following services are supported: [...]
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Volker Krause ☛ OSM Hack Weekends October and November 2025
Last weekend I once again attended the bi-annual OSM Hack Weekend in Karlsruhe hosted by Geofabrik. I’ve also been at the OSM Hack Weekend in Berlin hosted at Wikimedia Deutschland a couple of weeks ago and haven’t written about that yet, so this is the combined report for both events.