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KDE: Ocean, OpenKylin, Kdenlive, and More
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What Even is Ocean???
Throughout this new process at KDE, I believe I have failed to clearly state what Ocean is and what it means for the future for Plasma user interface and experience.
In this post, I will try to shed some light into this and hopefully it’s easier for new people interested in this project.
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Shanghai Report: Collaboration Talks with OpenKylin
Back in March at FOSSASIA in Bangkok, I got invited to visit the OpenKylin team in Shanghai. I mentioned it briefly at the end of that report, and here we are — the follow-up post.
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Nate Graham ☛ This month in KDE Linux: May 2026
Welcome to another edition of “This month in KDE Linux” — KDE’s in-progress operating system.
Infrastructure
This month we completed a major infrastructure project. Previously, our build process was generating Arch packages for KDE software and having
mkosiinstall them; Hadi Chokr ported this to use KDE’skde-buildertool to compile all KDE software directly. This change brings three benefits: [...] -
Week 1 : Tabs are in
This is my first weekly update as a Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026 student working with KDE on Kdenlive.
My project is "Improving Effect Widgets for Kdenlive." The first widget I'm working on is the Curves Widget, specifically adding per-channel tab support to the avfilter.curves effect.
The problem: Kdenlive's current Curves effect uses a dropdown to switch between channels (R, G, B). Switching channels wipes the previous curve there's no memory per channel. So if you tune the red channel and switch to green, your red curve is gone. You'd have to stack multiple instances of the effect to adjust more than one channel.