Qt 5.10 Beta was released this week and the neon builder cloud elves have been compiling it away ready for testing. There’s no QtWebEngine or Qt3D so stuff which needs those will be broken. Other stuff likely broken too, don’t … Read More
KDE neon 5.11 is Out
Plasma 5.11 was out this morning with many bugfixes, Plasma Vaults to keep your private files secure, System Settings redesign, a new wallpaper of course and many other nice features. The KDE neon scalable cloud devops build farm has been … Read More
Qt 5.10 Alpha in testing for KDE neon
Qt 5.10 got an alpha release last week and rumours are there’s lots of interesting new stuff for Plasma developers and other parts of KDE. Packages are available in KDE neon but hidden away in the testing repository because there … Read More
Great Web Browsing Coming Back to KDE with Falkon, New Packaging Formats Coming to KDE with Snap
Today is a good day filled with possibility and potential. The browser formerly known as QupZilla has gained a better name Falkon and a better home, KDE. This bring quality web browsing back to native KDE software for the first … Read More
How do I to Update to the Latest Software?
New FAQ added to KDE neon FAQ. KDE neon does continuous deployment of the latest KDE software which means there are nearly always new versions of our software to update to. We recommend using Plasma Discover’s updater which appears in … Read More
Wayland Option Now in Neon Dev Unstable ISO by Default
Back in the day I started making a Plasma Wayland ISO to help people try out Plasma on Wayland. Then we started Neon and the obvious way to create the ISOs became through the Neon infrastructure. With Wayland becoming closer … Read More
Qt 5.9 Packages now in Testing for KDE neon Developer Unstable Edition
We held off on Qt 5.8 because of problems with the Wayland support between it and KWin. Qt 5.9 seems a little more promising but we don’t want to change something so fundamental to KDE’s software without checking for issues … Read More
KDE neon User Edition 5.10
Plasma 5.10 is just out with many spangly new features to make your desktop run smoother. Being able to group and ungroup windows in the task bar is a small but handy feature when you turn it on. Having icons … Read More