And here is KDE's Victoria Fischer explaining how Mercedes uses Qt in its vehicles:
KDE highlight at 8:22.
Note that the bling Victoria is sporting is not official KDE merch... yet!
KDE goes vroom vroom 🚗! 2026 Mercedes-Benz CLA, the first car to run KDE's KWin, receives "Car of the Year" award
https://media.mercedes-benz.com/article/4cbc2640-87c7-4c4a-95f6-789319e9abc0
11 Comments
dan@upvote.au · 35 pts · 244d
Can you enable wobbly windows in the car?
Eldritch@piefed.world · 17 pts · 244d
Only at sufficient highway speeds.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 22 pts · 244d
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz?
Bro666@lemmy.kde.social · 15 pts · 244d
We'll raffle one off at the next Akademy!
[Ed.: No we won't. We aren't even allowed legally to do that. But maybe come to Akademy anyway.]
hperrin@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 244d
My friends all drive Porsches. I must make amends.
Janx@piefed.social · 16 pts · 244d
FYI for anyone else looking: there's absolutely nothing about it in the linked Mercedes press release.
Ephera@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 244d
Yeah, they're really dropping the ball here on the important stuff...
Bro666@lemmy.kde.social · 2 pts · 243d
Correct, to our chagrin. But it is there. KDE developers actually worked on it and implemented it. See the linked video. It is only a few minutes long.
pglpm@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 244d
Now I understand what people mean when they write about "daily driving" in connection with their OSs.
Bro666@lemmy.kde.social · 4 pts · 243d
🏅 For best joke in thread 🙄
HaunchesTV@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 244d
2026: The year of the Linux dashboard