David RevoyGNU Terry Pratchett - Tiffany Aching fan-art
I love FOSS, animals, philosophy, art, games, dark humor.
KDE Developer.
| Website | https://merritt.codes/ |
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@bogdanbiv I'm not sure about how other GUI toolkits do it, but the way those hints are applied by Qt can indeed be read by plasma-keyboard.
@bogdanbiv Yes, most toolkits provide a way for an app to specify what a textfield should support (e.g. digits only, email characters, etc). Qt for example: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qml-qtquick-textinput.html#inputMethodHints-prop
@davidrevoy so beautiful! Really feels like Tiffany to me. The wee free men are a great touch 😍
KDE"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that...
You can use long-presses on your regular keyboard to access alternative glyphs—just like on your phone, e.g. press and hold down [$] and a popup appears that let's you choose between €, £, ¥, ¢, ₹. Also new is that you can download and install alternative sound themes and that we reduced CPU and GPU load for full-screen windows on screens using more fractional scale factors, and much more!
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/03/14/this-week-in-plasma-press-and-hold-for-alternative-characters/
@Beurt I installed "Show Me The Key" to create the demo video. Now we need to add showing such key-pressed overlay to Spectacle recordings! 🔥
I added diacritics support to Plasma Keyboard!
https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/03/13/2026/_plasma-keyboard-funding-diacritics
Now I can more easily write German words as I continue learning it, such as: über, schön, and Straße!
Also, I can sprinkle my lovely symbols in my writing without having to resort to the compose key or copy-pasting — isn't that great‽ 😁
KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign
#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.
Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.
KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.
KDE has been selected to participate in Google Summer of Code 2026.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2026/organizations
Through GSoC, KDE seeks to encourage new contributors to join Free Software projects long term and ensure the continuity of FLOSS.
This year's proposed ideas cover improving Okular, Kdenlive, digiKam, and our localization infrastructures, among others.
https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2026/Ideas
The list is still open. If you would like to participate in GSoC 2026 with your own idea, check out
https://community.kde.org/GSoC#Instructions_for_potential_contributors
