@MatthiasMailaender @Bro666 There is no new Trojita release because they still use QtWebkit which is dead. There is a merge requests to move to QtWebengine but it is stalled for a few months.

@boredsquirrel Yes Merkuro uses the same backend. And we (Merkuro dev) are contributing to improve it which benefit all the Kontact users.

@boredsquirrel @kde 1. While some devs (like me) works on both Kontact and Merkuro devs, other are only working on one of them. I don't see Kontact disappearing anytime soon.

2. CalDAV is definitively supported

3. Journals works in KOrganizer. It's quite unlikely I will add that to Merkuro mail any time soon as I have no real use for them and I don't want to makes the UI more complex.

@alfajet @kde @[email protected] BMW is using a bunch of our frameworks already and do occasionally some contributions: https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/bluez-qt/-/commit/1a5660ab1547236c7bc0f883bbbb039889489a22

@QuazarOmega https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIO

@QuazarOmega @G020B The power of KIO!

@Strit @leopold It takes a lot of time to port to KF6 and it is good that a release sooner than later even if it is still based on KF5.

@[email protected] @[email protected] kubuntu 24.04 won't include plasma 6 but a not so well maintained plasma 5 session unfortunately

@baduhai @kde because the version number follow the date. So if you are running 24.02.5 (published around May 2024) in 2026 something is wrong :)

@Corb_The_Lesser @kde @[email protected] yeah the new wizard had to be completely rewritten for Qt6 and still requires a bit of work and testing with various email providers. 😔

@leopold @riodoro1 it wasn't a gnome app, but a gtk gnu app.

@kellyaster @Bro666 Pretty hungry but I'm cooking a ratatouille right now to fix this issue :)

@shaan7 @kde @[email protected] You go to Fosdem or the next Akademy, and you buy one :)

@Bro666 No it will be in building H this year, next to gnome, mastodon and mozilla

@parens The last financial report for 2022 is available https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2022/#working-groups_

and for 2021 https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2021/#working-groups_

@parens @troyunrau Exactly, it took me 5 years from my first contribution to finally getting hired full time to work on some KDE and KDE related open source code. And I'm very prolific in term of contributions (https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan).

It's quite an issue to get money, the current budget KDE e.V. has is around 200 000€ a year and that pays for a few part time employees. I'm lucky that I found a company interested in developing a commercial open source project based on KDE (gnupg/g10 code).

@troyunrau @leopold We now create .exe and .appx for each app using Craft. The ultimate goal is to automatically submit the job artifact when releasing to the microsoft store https://blogs.kde.org/2023/12/20/gitlab-microsoft-store

We also do the same for some app for submitting to our own F-Droid repo on Android.

@misophist @Andy no in french it's pronounced exactly the same as in German and English 😂

@justin @kde @[email protected] we don't want people to vote on them. This will be decided by community judges.

@jsh @kde According to https://discuss.kde.org/t/finalists-announcement/7862 yes, there will be an additional wallpaper pack with some of the wallpaper from the competition.