Akshat Jiwan Sharma
I thank the American institute of physics for organising their monthly Physics of plasma webinar series and for giving me. a chance to interact with some of the leading researchers in plasma science. On several occasions I have remarked that plasma science is possibly one of the most important...
Akshat Jiwan Sharma
13th May 2026I thank the American Institute of Physics (AIP) for organising an exceptional talk by Dr Merav Opher on the SHIELD (Solar wind with Hydrogen Ion charge Exchange and Large-Scale Dynamics) project, which she is heading at Boston University in collaboration with NASA and several other...
alienbob
Time for a KDE Plasma6 package refresh. On KDE’s announcement page, the releases of KDE Gear 26.04.1 and Frameworks 6.26.0 were announced yesterday and today. Since OS packagers have early access to the source tarballs, I had everything compiled and ready for days and could simply push everything...
alienbob
KDE just announced the KDE Frameworks 6.25.0, and earlier this week they came with Plasma 6.6.4. I built the packages for those new releases – targeting Slackware -current of course. Along with these updates I also refreshed KleverNotes, Krita, Kstars and Okteta to their latest versions. You can...
Akseli
I spent past three weeks working on refactoring and fixing legacy code (the oldest of which was from 2013) that handled positioning Plasma desktop icons, and how this data was saved and loaded. Here's the merge request if you're curious: plasma-desktop: Refactor icon positioner saving and loading...
Akseli
I'm bit late to the train of Plasma 6 related posts... But anyway. I will go through some things I did. For me working on Plasma 6 was pretty fun, I learned a lot of new things and fixed bunch of bugs and crashes. The most resourceful ones can find my merge requests, but I am too lazy to link them...