Over the last year many KDE libraries have gained bindings for Python and Rust, enabling developers using these languages to create KDE applications.

In this talk we are going to look into why this is important, how the binding generation works under the hood, how to use them in applications, and what their existence means for KDE as a community.

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Through real experiences and lessons learned, the talk highlights the challenges, small wins, and internal grit required to claim space in a male-dominated industry — and offers encouragement to anyone who's ever felt underestimated.

This session is not just about gender — it’s about perseverance, perception, and identity in tech. The talk will explore what it means to grow in a professional space where your role is often assumed before it's understood, and how that shaped a leadership journey rooted in resilience rather than conformity.

By sharing real examples from open source events, client interactions, and everyday professional dynamics, this talk opens up a conversation about how subtle bias shows up — and how to push past it without burning out.

It’s aimed at anyone who has ever been misjudged, overlooked, or questioned — not just women. It will resonate with those trying to build a voice, lead authentically, or support inclusivity in meaningful ways.

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KEcoLab is an automation tool that allows KDE developers to remotely measure the energy consumption of their KDE software through GitLab CI/CD. Instead of obtaining measurements manually and in person in a lab such as the one at KDAB, Berlin, KDE developers can trigger the process through GitLab CI/CD, wherever they are. This enables developers to effortlessly assess their software's energy consumption when merging new code into the codebase.

KEcoLab opens the door for data-driven software development that prioritizes energy efficiency, while also making it easy to obtain the reports needed for certifying software with the Blue Angel ecolabel, the official environmental label of the German government.

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Historically, we have developed our applications locally together with the system libraries and someone else has been taking care of the distribution of the application. With the introduction of Flatpak amongst other tools we have been breaking that barrier, thus allowing KDE to ship the apps to fellow Linux users.

While that works for the most part, there is still a last mile part of the story that I keep seeing our fellow developers miss which is the actual development time. We keep using flatpak as the distribution method rather than the actual environment where the application is developed.

In this presentation I'd like to explain how I've been doing such development personally with KDevelop and will also offer some ways of doing so for other editors in our ecosystem like Kate, vim or vscode. This will ensure a simpler development story and a more accurate QA process.

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Fedora KDE has had an exciting few years with a growing community and significant efforts between Fedora and the KDE project, with the latest milestone of Fedora KDE becoming a recognized flagship offering in the Fedora Project as the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition.

This presentation will briefly cover the recent history and contextualize it for the future developments emerging to attract and grow the mind share and market share for KDE through Fedora.

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By the time Akademy happens api.kde.org will have completed the transition away from Doxygen to using QDoc for documentation generation.

In this talk we are going to look at how and why this is happening and how we can leverage QDoc to make our documentation even better in the future.

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In QML, you generally use the model/view/delegate pattern to expose data. In the last few years, several features have been added to the QML language to help you do this in a type safe and predictable way. Required properties have been around since Qt 5.14, but only since Qt 6.10 you can actually write through required properties into the underlying model. Also in 6.10, Synchronizer has been added as a way to synchronize model values with views. Finally, a SortFilterProxyModel for QML might still get finished in time for 6.10.

The talk will give an overview over the tools at your disposal today, show their respective benefits and drawbacks, and discuss possible further developments.

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CppCheck is a static code analyzer that is easily integrated into KDE's CI workflow on invent.

As with all static code analysis tools, code needs some initial grooming to be useful.

We will here go over some of the things needed to get properly started and also showcase some instances of where CppCheck has been helpful in KDE code.

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A big focus for KDE in Plasma 6 has been making our Wayland session usable for artists. It has been ready for general computing for some time, but these users have special requirements that require extra care - from drawing tablets to remotes to color management. The KDE community also happens to maintain popular software like Kdenlive and Krita - so we also need to help our own developers as they switch to the Wayland stack!

Let's explore the artist-oriented features we have in KDE Plasma Wayland today, what's on the horizon!

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In this talk I will provide a list of all the updates and implementations made since the last design system announcement last year at Akademy.

This includes a review on variables availability for designers and developers. I will detail the preferred method of use for these variables and how to submit any issues.

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