Welcome to KDAB News, the monthly update for developers working with Qt, C++ and 3D technologies.
The KDAB Training Day will be back in Berlin, at the H4 Hotel Berlin Alexanderplatz, on November 27th this year, right before the annual Qt World Summit, which will happen November 28-29th. Ideal to take part in both events! KDAB is well-known for its quality training courses around Qt/QML, Modern C++, Debugging and Profiling, OpenGL, […]
The KDE Community has developed Qt software for 25 years, porting code across all major Qt versions. With Qt 6's release, the next transition presents challenges and opportunities. This talk covers the work done and planned for Qt 6 transition, challenges faced, design decisions, and how Qt 6's new features benefit KDE, helping attendees plan their own porting projects.
This episode of KDAB News includes: KDAB Training Day 2025: dates, courses and why nd?; Effective Modern QML course by Nicolas Fella - Trainer Overview; How is this course different from the other 2 QML courses?; Other courses information; Qt World Summit 2025: date and tickets
In this training, participants learnt about porting their Qt application from Qt5 to Qt6. That included a lot of steps, starting from comparing the available modules in Qt5 and Qt6, then discussing the strategy of, and how to estimate, a port. It finished with having a look at some modern QML practices to improve code and participant's questions about porting.
Jesper Pedersen gives a comprehensive introduction to the 5 KDAB special one day training courses offered in November 2023 in conjunction with Qt World Summit.
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.
In recent years, a lot has been happening to improve performance, maintainability and tooling of QML. Some of those improvements can only take full effect when your code follows modern best practices. Here are 10 things you can do in order to modernize your QML code and take full advantage of QML's capabilities. 1. Use […]
Every sizable project has a 'utils' file or folder that contains functionality that is needed more than once but too small to be a library. KDE is no different, except we want to share our 'utils' folder across hundreds of projects. This is where the KCoreAddons framework comes into play. The name comes from the […]
CMake is increasingly becoming the de-facto build system for C++ projects. While it has been possible to build Qt applications using CMake for a long time, with Qt6, Qt switched its own internal build system to CMake. The KDE Community was among the first large, open-source projects that adopted CMake about 15 years ago. Over […]
The KDE Community has been developing a variety of Free Software products using Qt for 25 years now. Among them, the Plasma Desktop Environment, creativity tools like Krita and Kdenlive, educational applications like GCompris, groupware suites like Kontact and countless other applications, utilities, and widgets. Qt is famous for its rich set of high-quality, cross-platform […]
