This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026 - KDE Blogs

Welcome to the inaugural edition of This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty!

This blog series will cover the work done throughout KDE’s software stack that’s funded by the investment KDE received earlier this year from Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/06/this-quarter-in-kde-digital-sovereignty-q2-2026/
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Very cool!

Both the work being done in these areas as well as the great report :slight_smile:

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Great update. Since we are mentioning the PIM suite, does anyone have any idea how Merkuro Mail is coming on?

The other day one of the devs told me it was out of Beta.

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Fantastic news. Thanks for sharing Paul. Some keys are knackered on this keyboard otherwise I would show a bit more enthusiasm with an exclamation mark.

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Would that have implications for Nix/Home-manager?

I’ve been playing with NixOS on my secondary laptop and being able to set up Plasma and KDE software in general “natively” on NixOS would be a game changer for me.

I’m not sure, as I don’t use NixOS or its tools.

What I can tell you is that KConfigXT can be used to get machine-readable lists of settings and their potential values, which is definitely of use to any kind of tool for automating settings management.

Yes! Yes! Yes! This makes me so happy to hear that KDE PIM is getting some love! Awesome!

Also great to hear about BTRFS snapshots too!

Check out the Onboard browser extension. It gives you an on-screen keyboard that you can toggle on and off.

due to some damage on my mainboard I’m typing with mouse-clicks: