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KDE, Plasma 6, and Qt (Now Proprietary)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 28, 2024

Bogomil Shopov - Bogo: Thunderbird Council, FOSDEM, OpenStreetMap, KDE Plasma6.

My employer, GEN Digital (ex-Norton, ex- Avast, ex-Symantec), is pairing up with Doctors Without Borders for a workshop about mapping new regions. I will contribute some time there as well. It was a long time ago when I did that.

Fedora KDE Sig is organizing a Plasma 6 testing week. I switched to KDE for some time now, and I love it. I plan to spend a few hours executing some of the test scenarios. Do it as well if you are using Fedora and KDE.

Qt ☛ What's New in [Proprietary] Qt Insight 1.7: Updates and Improvements

We are happy to announce the Qt Insight 1.7 release. Qt Insight is a comprehensive tool for analyzing and optimizing Qt applications.

Qt ☛ Software-Defined Imaging's Impact on the Future Medical Industry

It should allow users to program the image sensor in a way best suited to the end application. According to IEEE Xplore, the scope of SDI covers imaging systems for single-image capture, multi-image, burst photography, and video.

Qt ☛ Automotive Industry Shifts to Software-First Approach

One learning was to move away from being a traditional manufacturer of a single physical product and instead focus on providing software-based services that can be updated or improved over time, which is what a software-as-a-service provider is.