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KDE Funding, Development, and Hacking
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Kai Uwe ☛ Holiday Hacking 2025
Like every year I took a couple of days off at the end of the year to wind down and spent some quality time with the family. Time just flies and it feels like the year had only just begun. I have also taken the time to revisit some of my work-in-progress merge requests and tried to push them over the finish line.
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Ubuntu Handbook ☛ Graphical Shutdown App KShutdown 6.2 added Beep Sound & D-Bus Help
KShutdown, the graphical shutdown utility for backdoored Windows and Linux, released new 6.2 version few days ago. The new version of this free open-source application added some minor new features, UI tweaks, and basic D-Bus help dialog for those who would like to automate the process via a widget or script.
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Linuxiac ☛ How to Help KDE Improve Plasma Through User Feedback
Instead, this article looks at another way to help KDE improve. With just a few clicks, you can provide anonymous technical data that helps KDE focus development efforts on the areas that matter most. Thus, you indirectly help your favorite desktop environment become even better.
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Ricardo García ☛ Year-end donations round, 2025 edition
One more year, one more year-end donations round before reaching the next one. As every year, I highly encourage you to do the same. Please think about organizations that make a difference to you and software that you may use every day. Your contribution may make a difference to them in return.
This year I went with:
Signal because I still use it every day. In reality, I’ve promoted this donation to a monthly recurring one and I’ve been donating throughout all the year, but I’m still mentioning it here.
KDE because I’ve recently switched to it on my personal computer, just to try something different, and it’s really nice. I’ve been using it now for multiple weeks and it works great!