This Week in KDE Apps
Welcome to the second post in our "This Week in KDE Apps" series! If you missed it we just announced this new series last week and our goal is to cover as much as possible of what's happening in the KDE world and complete Nate's This Week in Plasma.
This week we had a new Ruqola, KDE's Rocket.chat client, release and a new GCompris release. There is also news regarding NeoChat, KDE's Matrix chat client; Itinerary, the travel assistant that lets you plan all your trips; the Dolphin file browser; Marble, KDE's map application application; the Okular document view and more.
Let's get started!
Dolphin
Dolphin now ensures that the Trash always correctly shows all trashed files of all connected storage devices, even if they get dynamically connected or disconnected. (Akseli Lahtinen, 24.12.0. Link)
Made the lists of recent files and locations update more reliably. (Méven Car, 24.12.0. Link)
Filelight
Resolved a bug that caused the graphs to sometimes be mis-rendered until hovered with the pointer. (Harald Sitter, 24.12.0. Link)
Itinerary
Itinerary can now handle geo:// URLs by opening the "Plan Trip" page with a
pre-selected arrival location. This is supported both on Android and Linux.
(David Redondo, 24.12.0. Link)
Itinerary now defaults to showing the new two-level trips/timeline view. (Volker Krause, 24.12.0. Link)
Trip groups can now be restored from backups. (Volker Krause, 24.12.0. Link)
KDE PIM
Fixed a crash when auto-discovery of or connection to Exchange Web Resources has failed (Daniel Vrátil, 24.08.2. Link)
Okular
Implemented support for more types of items in comboboxes of PDF forms. (Pratham Gandhi, 24.12.0. Link)
Improved the speed and correctness of printing for the common case of not needing to rasterize the document and not needing to print annotations. (Oliver Sander, Albert Astals Cid, and Nicolas Fella sponsored by TU Dresden, 24.12.0. Link)
Improved the UX of digitally signing a document (Nicolas Fella sponsored by TU Dresden, 24.12.0. Link)
Spectacle
Improved visual quality for screenshots taken at non-fractional scale factors. (Noah Davis, 24.08.2. Link)
Marble
Marble was ported to Qt6. (Gilles Caulier & Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)
The Kirigami UI — which was last updated in 2017 — was significantly rewritten and modernized. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link).
NeoChat
The NeoChat team meet at the Matrix Conference in Berlin which ended up being productive! Learn more at Carl's mastodon post.
Fix two semi-common crashes reported to Sentry. (Tobias Fella & James Graham, 24.08.2. Link 1, Link 2, Link 3)
An F-Droid build is again available in KDE's F-Droid repository. (Tobias Fella & Volker Krause)
Fixed various visual papercuts for NeoChat on Android and Plasma Mobile. (Carl Schwan, 24.08.2 and 24.12.0. Link, Link, Link, Link, ...)
KDE Connect
The Ping and Find Remote Device plugins were ported to Kotlin. (TPJ Schikhof, Link 1, Link 2)
LabPlot
Add possibility to apply functions on curves directly on the plot. This makes it is possible to, for example, calculate the differences between curves, scale or shift curves, etc. (Martin Marmsoler. Link)
Kate
Improved the visuals of Kate's inline code formatting tooltips. The content of these tooltips can now also be displayed in a special context tool view which can be enabled in the Behavior settings (Karthik Nishanth, 24.12.0. Link)
GCompris
GCompris 4.2 is out with some bug fixes and graphical improvements for multiple activities. More information is available in the release announcement.
Ruqola
Ruqola 2.3.0 — the KDE Rocket.chat client — is out with an administrator mode, a new welcome page, and better support for the custom markdown syntax of Rocket.chat. More information is available in the release announcement.
Other
Eamonn Rea made many Kirigami application remember their size across launches:
...And Everything Else
This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out Nate's blog about Plasma and KDE's Planet, where you can find more news from other KDE contributors.
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