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Currently, Karton is actively developed by Derek Lin, a University of Waterloo student participating in Google Summer of Code 2025. His primary aim is to deliver a virtual machine manager that truly belongs in the KDE ecosystem.
Neat, but celebrating this as "finally getting" seems premature at best.
Devin has previously delivered what he says he's gonna do, so I'm certain this is on it's way. Might take longer than the Summer Of Code runs for, but it will get there.
GNOME has Boxes and now KDE has Kartons. Nice.
I feel like KDE really spread themselves too thin.
It is true we are always complaining how understaffed project X and app Y are, but we are not a company, but an association run by volunteers.
In that context, if someone comes in and decides to work on a new project Z, there is no-one with the authority to tell them to go and work on X or Y instead.
That is not how we solve understaffing in KDE. Instead we have to recruit people directly into the understaffed projects. We cannot take them away from whatever their pet projects are.
Also, Karton, does not worsen the understaffing of Plasma in any way. On the contrary: we now have a new developer contributing to the overall KDE software stack that will possibly later tackle stuff in other areas of Plasma, as projects tend to overlap with each other.
KDE development isn't limited to a fixed number of developers. Lots of the things that go into it are contributed by regular users who want to see something improved.
I don't agree with your assessment really as I don't see the core experience declining.
But also, it's a free project and people are putting in their time wherever they want; I don't think the project would reject a submission for something based on "we're doing too much" if it's within the scope of a desktop environment.