This Week in KDE Apps

New KCron Settings UI, Krita 2.2.5 released, and more

Sunday, 29 September 2024 | Nate Graham, and Carl Schwan

Welcome to the third post in our “This Week in KDE Apps” series! If you missed it, we just announced this new series two weeks ago, 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 new releases of Amarok and Krita. There is also news regarding KDE Connect, the link between all your devices; Kate, the KDE advanced text editor; Itinerary, the travel assistant that lets you plan all your trips; Marble, KDE's map application; and more.

Let's get started!

Amarok

Amarok 3.1.1 was released. 3.1.1 features a number of small improvements and bug fixes, including miscellaneous fixes for toolbars and the return of tag dialog auto-completions — functionality that initially got lost during the Qt5/KF5 port. However, most of the work has again happened under the hood to improve the codebase's Qt6/KF6 compatibility.

See the full announcement for more information

Itinerary

Itinerary now supports search for places (e.g. street names) in addition to stops. (Code: Jonah Brüchert, Icon: Mathis Brüchert, 24.12.0. Link)

Itinerary now shows the date of the connection when searching for a public transport connection. (Jonah Brüchert, 24.12.0. Link 1, link 2)

Digikam

A new face detection algorithm based on YuNet is now available. (Michael Miller, Link)

Kate

The debug plugin now works on Windows! (Waqar Ahmed, 24.12.0. Link)

The debug plugin is now much more usable. (Waqar Ahmed, 24.12.0. Link 1, link 2, link 3)

Kate context menu will now show relevant external tools. (Waqar Ahmed, 24.12.0. Link)

KCron

The System Settings page was ported to QML and given a fancy new UI! (Evgeny Chesnokov, 24.12.0. Link)

KDE Connect

Fixed the Bluetooth support for KDE Connect. (Rob Emery, 24.12.0. Link 1, link 2)

Keysmith

Keysmith now has an "About" page. (Plata Hill, 24.12.0. Link)

Kleopatra

Kleopatra now supports OpenPGP v5 keys. (Ingo Klöcker, 24.12.0. Link 1, link 2)

Krita

Krita 5.2.5 was released and is bringing over 50 bugfixes since 5.2.3 (5.2.4 was a Windows-specific hotfix). Major fixes have been done to audio playback, transform mask calculation and more! Read more.

LabPlot

LabPlot implements a new type of plot: Process Behavior Chart (X-Chart), (Alexander Semke, Link)

Marble

Marble Maps, the QML version of Marble, has a new icon. (Mathis Brüchert, 24.12.0. Link)

Fixed a major source of visual glitches in the QML version of Marble when looking at the Earth globe. (Carl Schwan, 24.08.2. Link)

Marble Behaim — a special version of Marble to look at the oldest globe representation of the Earth known to exist — now also works on desktop thanks to Kirigami, and all the additional information and credits are now displayed using a standard "About" page. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)

Marble's KRunner integration, Plasma Widget and the Wallpaper plugin are now fully ported to Plasma 6. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)

NeoChat

On modern versions of Android, NeoChat will now request the correct permission to send system notifications. (James Graham, 24.12.0. Link)

Spectacle

Spectacle now respects your custom save file format as expected when using the "Save As" functionality. (Noah Davis, 24.08.2. Link)

Others

Valentyn Bondarenko updated several screenshots of KDE apps:

Eamonn Rea made more Kirigami applications 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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