"This Week in KDE Apps" brings the news that Dolphin gets new looks, and its connectivity to Samba shares improves; Photos, the image viewer that works both on desktops and mobiles, can share photos again; and KRetro, the app for retro gaming, gets one step closer to being incubated as an official KDE app, among many other things.

blogs.kde.org/2025/06/29/this-

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A screenshot of Photos showing some pictures in the users storage.
A screenshot of KRetro with two games (2048 and Legend of Zelda) in the users library.

Talking of awesome KDE apps, digiKam 8.7.0 has just been released!

KDE's full-featured image and photo managing software enhances its face detection and recognition feature, improves support for GPU actions, and updates its RAW decoder, G'MIC plugin, and more.

digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.

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A view of digiKam's main screen, with a beautiful picture of a view in the central pane, a map indicating where the photo was taken on the left, and the file's metadata on the right.
Another cool screencap of digiKam with a picture of a rose, and all the different RAW decoders in a list on the left.

The latest issue of "This week in Plasma" brings the news that now there's a pop-up preview for folders on the desktop that are empty, that the Plasma Virtual Keyboard is coming along nicely, and that screen recordings of specific windows now capture that window's popups too:

blogs.kde.org/2025/07/05/this-

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A screenshot of the "preview" of a folder on the desktop. As the folder is empty, instead of showing a blank rectangle (which could be confused with a glitch), the message "Folder is empty" is displayed, making it clear what you are seeing.

KDE devs have been quietly working on Plasma Keyboard, a new on-screen keyboard for desktop and mobile part of the “We Care About Your Input” KDE Goals initiative. Although not ready for texting yet, it has been making progress. Hopefully it'll be in a screen near you soon. Join the effort!

invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-k

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Plasma On-Screen Keyboard Graphics

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