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KDE sets goals that help the community focus on important things that need to get done in collaboration across many teams.
KDE sets goals that help the community at large to focus on to improve upon over the next few years. The initiative began in 2018, and new sets of goals are selected every few years.


https://kde.org/goals
=== Current goals ===
These goals were announced at Akademy 2024.
* [https://phabricator.kde.org/T17396 Streamlined Application Development Experience]
* [[Goals/Input|We care about your Input]]
* [https://phabricator.kde.org/T17439 KDE Needs You! 🫵 - Formalize and boost KDE's processes for recruiting active contributors]


'''The current goals are:'''
=== Previous goals ===
* [[Goals/Consistency|Consistency]]: As KDE's software evolved small and large inconsistencies creep in that make our software less pleasant to use. It also means having to maintain different implementations of essentially the same component like a scrollbar. We will identify and remove these inconsistencies in all of KDE's software.
This is an archive of previous year's goals. While these are old goals, they are still considered as important areas to work on in the community.
* [[Goals/All about the Apps|All about the Apps]]: We want to refocus on KDE's applications and make them easier to discover and install for our users.
* [[Goals/Wayland|Wayland]]: We will finalize the transition to Wayland and embrace the future of desktop. This is a necessary step towards a lot of new features and improvements our users want to see, like better touchscreen support.


=== Goals process ===
==== 2022-2024 ====
The process of selecting goals is described in a [[Goals/Goals Process|dedicated page]].
* [[Goals/KDE For All|KDE For All: Boosting Accessibility]]
* [[Goals/Sustainable Software|Sustainable Software]]
* [[Goals/Automate and systematize internal processes|Automate and Systematize Internal Processes]]


=== Previous goals ===
==== 2020-2022 ====
In the past the KDE community has focused on these goals:
* [[Goals/Consistency|Consistency]]
* [[Goals/All about the Apps|All about the Apps]]
* [[Goals/Wayland|Wayland]]
 
==== 2018-2020 ====
* [[Goals/Usability & Productivity|Top-notch usability and productivity for basic software]]
* [[Goals/Usability & Productivity|Top-notch usability and productivity for basic software]]
* [[Goals/Privacy Software|Privacy Software]]
* [[Goals/Privacy Software|Privacy Software]]
* [[Goals/Streamlined onboarding of new contributors|Streamlined onboarding of new contributors]]
* [[Goals/Streamlined onboarding of new contributors|Streamlined onboarding of new contributors]]
=== See also ===
* [[Goals/Goals_Process|Goals Process]] — The process of selecting new KDE goals.
=== External links ===
* [https://kde.org/goals The dedicated page for goals on the official KDE website.]

Latest revision as of 18:33, 19 September 2024

KDE sets goals that help the community at large to focus on to improve upon over the next few years. The initiative began in 2018, and new sets of goals are selected every few years.

Current goals

These goals were announced at Akademy 2024.

Previous goals

This is an archive of previous year's goals. While these are old goals, they are still considered as important areas to work on in the community.

2022-2024

2020-2022

2018-2020

See also

External links