Aleix Pol Gonzalez

In this presentation I’ll discuss how we worked out which areas we have discussed to hire for and why we decide it will make a difference.

While this talk is focused on KDE by definition, I’m sure there’s aspects of it that will apply to different communities and organisations similar to ours.

How we are integrating the Snap and Flatpak packaging systems into Plasma and what steps we've had to take to get KDE applications packaged and working on Flatpak and Snap.

KDE is present on different platforms, but most notably on GNU/Linux and it's here where we're seeing recently the most changes lately. In this presentation I'll explain how we are integrating the Snap and Flatpak packaging systems into Plasma and then what steps we've had to take to get KDE applications packaged and working on Flatpak and Snap.

Presenting the KDE SlimBook laptop and answering any questions the audience may have.

Please note this talk replaces "Assumptions made when porting to a modern display server" by Brandon Schaefer, who got sick with the flu.

The KDE software has been built on Qt since its birth, but often we've needed to create libraries on top of Qt to solve our needs. This ended up being a huge project that was both hard to maintain and a huge dependency, especially on embedded platforms.

The situation has evolved, we moved as much as we could to Qt and we split the features we have available when it made sense. Now we offer a lightweight set of frameworks on top of Qt that will help you make applications with the power of Qt and the KDE Frameworks combined.