This Week in KDE Apps

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps. This time again a bit delayed. If you are a non technical person and are looking at a way to contribute to KDE, you can help editing "This Week in KDE Apps" would be very much welcome. Just join our Matrix chat.

This week we have some big changes in Krita, a redesign in SystemDGenie and a new, more compact statusbar for Dolphin.

Amarok Rediscover your music

We dropped the Qt5 support and moved to Qt6 (Tuomas Nurmi, Link).

Dolphin Manage your files

Dolphin now uses a more compact statusbar by default (Akseli Lahtinen, 25.04.0. Link).

When in selection mode, Dolphin now has a special keyboard navigation mode. You can read all about this feature in detail in the merge request description (Felix Ernst, 25.04.0. Link).

Kasts Podcast application

We fixed various usability issues and recent regressions (Bart De Vries, 25.04.0. Link 1, link 2, link 3, ...).

Kate Advanced text editor

We improved support for DAP (the generic protocol for debuggers) (Waqar Ahmed, 25.04.0 Link), and sped up KWrite's startup time by not loading a MIME database when just querying the icon for text/plain file. (Kai Uwe Broulik, 25.04.0. Link)

Kleopatra Certificate manager and cryptography app

We removed the Decrypt/Verify all files in folder menu item in the Dolphin context menu as it was never implemented (Tobias Fella, 25.04.0. Link).

Konqueror KDE File Manager & Web Browser

The Save As dialog now remembers where a file was last downloaded and will open that directory. Note that the last location is only remembered for the duration of the Konqueror window (Stefano Crocco, 25.04.0. Link).

Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom

We added a glyph palette to choose between alternates or variation of a given glyph, as well as a character map of a given font (Wolthera van Hövell, Link).

And implemented the edition of the CSS Font Variants in the text properties docker (Wolthera van Hövell, Link).

Krita now compiles with Qt6 on Windows (Dmitry Kazakov, Link).

We added a new extension "Mutator". This new extension provides a docker which adds brush variations through action-invoked settings randomization (Emmet O'Neill, Link). We also added global pen tilt direction offset which is helpful to make brushes feel the same for right- and left-handed users (Maciej Jesionowski. Link). Another brush related improvement is that their smoothness is now also affected by the speed (killy |0veufOrever, Link).

Kup Backup scheduler for KDE's Plasma desktop

We improved the link text in the KCM user interface (Robert Kratky - first contribution 🚀, 0.11.0. Link).

NeoChat Chat on Matrix

Long pressing has been disabled on non-touchscreen devices (Joshua Goins, 25.04.0. Link), and we improved the usability of the account menu by giving it a proper button (Joshua Goins, 25.04.0. Link).

Okular View and annotate documents

We have improved the error handling entering a bad passphrase for a digital signature (Sune Vuorela, 25.04.0. Link) and made the overprint preview setting a combobox that gives you the option to choose between "Always", "never" and "Automatic", which is similar to Acrobat Reader. The "Automatic" value depends on the value of HasVisibleOverprint in the PDF metadata (Kevin Ottens, 25.04.0. Link).

SystemDGenie

SystemDGenie was ported to a more "frameless" interface and the statusbar was removed (Thomas Duckworth. Link 1 and link 2).

SystemDGenie shows unloaded and inactive units by default (Thomas Duckworth. Link) and the startup time was sped up by fetching the list of sessions and units asynchronously (Carl Schwan. Link).

…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 be sure not to miss his This Week in Plasma series, where every Saturday he covers all the work being put into KDE's Plasma desktop environment.

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