KDE's gear26 (26.04.0) now also released for the Haiku people, a few applications are still a wip but should be online in the near future. Thanks upstream on the update!
In total 120 updated recipes have been involved including libraries and applications.

For a list of new features, look up at:

New are Kirigami Gallery (with qqc2_breeze_style) and Lokalize.

https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.0/

#HaikuOS #haikuports #KDE #gear #opensource #software #Kirigami #Lokalize

I'm looking for someone familiar with QML/Qt Quick/Kirigami who could help.

I've always had an issue with Qt Quick apps being **painfully slow**, especially when resizing, and I still don't understand why.

However, I found two workarounds.

A comparison: the same sample - different settings:
1. Default
2. QSG_RENDER_LOOP=basic
3. QT_QUICK_BACKEND=software

Why do these make apps so much faster? Shouldn't GPU acceleration be better? I'm using an RX 6600 with Mesa.

#Qt #Kirigami #QML #KDE

Noted with pleasure:
https://mymodernmet.com/paper-cranes-naofumi-hama/

#origami #kirigami

I'm facing a slight problem with my project.

#QT / #Kirigami doesn't show properly outside of KDE Plasma, I need to figure it out before I can think about a new release of Apollo.

https://codeberg.org/OrbitalMartian/apollo/issues/28

#KDE #Kirigami programmers: Is having a MenuBar that turns into a GlobalDrawer if the window is too narrow for it Not HIG? If it's OK is there an established way to do it in Kirigami? Relatedly, can I detect if a MenuBar is being shown as the global menubar somehow? It would obviously be silly if making the window narrower causes the global menubar to become empty…

(Asked in the Matrix room also.)

Marknote 1.5.0 is out and is packed with new features! Marknote is turning into a robust knowledge base while keeping the interface as clean and distraction-free as possible. Coming up for Haiku shortly!

Read all about it at: https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/13/marknote-1.5/

#HaikuOS #haikuports #KDE #Marknote #kirigami #markdown #Notes #opensource #software

Using origami for engineering and design: "it can be difficult to scale up origami-based designs and also to use them with materials that aren't paper – which is extremely forgiving even after being folded and re-folded many times. ... "Origami still isn't commonly used yet in real engineering applications," says Schenk. But that could be changing."

As for real origami, Mark Schenk "has little interest in making paper origami models. "My mother, funnily enough, is very good at it.""

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v0e4n8kw0o

#origami #kirigami #science #design #engineering