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.
Creative Applications
Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom
Wolthera van Hövell continued to work on text rendering this week. She made the text rendering mode editable, so now it's possible to switch between text rendering optimizing speed, legibility, or geometric precision, and an automatic mode (link). She also fixed a bug where the resource system was slow because font metadata was not erased when removing the font (link).
Maciej Jesionowski improved the performance of the status bar by optimizing a function called in the hot path (link).
Kdenlive Video editor
Balooii optimized the process of downloading the online resource thumbnails. Kdenlive now downloads the thumbnails in parallel and converts them to pixmaps directly in memory (link). They also sped up audio thumbnail generation by 2.5x (link)!
Balooii also fixed some misalignment of the monitor tools which were caused by some rounding errors (link).
Travel Applications
KTrip Public transport navigator
Volker Krause and Carl Schwan worked on the departure page of KTrip, redesigning it completely and fixing a few bugs (link 1, link 2, link 3 and link 4).
Social Applications
NeoChat Chat on Matrix
James Graham ported the message delegate from QML to C++ to reduce the memory usage of the timeline (link) and reworked the implementation of the hover actions (link).
Office Applications
Calligra Sheets Spreadsheet
Pierre Ducroquet fixed the SEARCH function (link) and a crash when decoding some formulas (link).
Utilities
Barcode Scanner Scan and create QR-Codes
Salvo Tomaselli optimized the battery usage of Qrca by stopping the camera on mobile devices when the Qrca is in the background (link). He also made Qrca remember the last device used (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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