Joshua Goins

In CXX-Qt 0.8.0, Rust applications now have a way to forward structured log events from the tracing crate to the Qt logging system. This enables unified logging output across Rust and Qt, enabling consistent formatting, better filtering, and easier integration with tools like GammaRay. By leveraging qt_message_output and QMessageLogContext, developers can bridge Rust's log metadata with Qt's categorized logging infrastructure.

With NLnet support, KDE Plasma’s Wayland session now offers improved accessibility and creative tool support. Enhancements include better sticky keys feedback, customizable tablet areas, pressure curve adjustments, and configurable stylus buttons. These updates make Wayland more inclusive, reinforcing KDE’s commitment to accessibility.

Since we first announced it last year, our Vulkan wrapper KDGpu has been busy evolving to meet customer needs and our own. Our last post announced the public release of v0.1.0, and version 0.5.0 is available today. It's never been easier to interact with modern graphics technologies, enabling you to focus on the big picture […]

When writing large graphics applications in Vulkan or OpenGL, there's many data structures that need to be passed from the CPU to the GPU and vice versa. There are subtle differences in alignment, padding and so on between C++ and GLSL to keep track of as well. I'm going to cover a tool I wrote […]