This Week in KDE Apps

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.

Getting back to all that's new in the KDE App scene, let's dig in!

KDE PIM

Merkuro Calendar Manage your tasks and events with speed and ease

Yuki Joou continued improving Merkuro Calendar, fixing the "Today" button, which wasn’t working as expected (25.08.3 - link).

System Applications

Dolphin Manage your files

Akseli Lahtinen fixed an issue where the icon sizes of list items were incorrect when zooming in and out rapidly. (25.12.0 - link).

Journald Browser Browser for journald databases

Andreas Cord-Landwehr added support for loading user units in KJournald Browser (25.12.0 - link).

Utilities

Kate Advanced text editor

Jack Hill added configuration for rust_hdl, a language server for the VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) (25.12.0 - link).

Kåre Särs fixed Git blame parsing for commits containing tabs in their summary. (25.12.0 - link)

Clock Keep time and set alarms

Kai Uwe Broulik reworked how the list of alarms and timers is loaded. This process is now asynchronous. (25.12.0 - link)

Konsole Use the command line interface

Wendi Gan fixed some styling issues that occurred when saving Konsole output as HTML. (25.12.0 - link)

Calculator A feature rich calculator

Alberto Jiménez Ruiz fixed decimal number parsing for locales that don’t use a dot as the decimal separator, such as Spanish. (25.12.0 - link)

Barcode Scanner Scan and create QR-Codes

Volker Krause added some missing icons on Android (25.12.0 - link).

KDE Connect Seamless connection of your devices

Forest Crossman fixed a crash in the virtual monitor plugin when used with misbehaving virtual monitor devices (link).

Games Applications

KRetro Libretro emulation frontend for Plasma

Laurent Montel updated KRetro to follow KDE best practices (link 1, link 2, link 3 , link 4, link 5, and more).

Chat Applications

NeoChat Chat on Matrix

Arno Rehn added basic support for Matrix Widgets and Jitsi (25.12.0 - link).

James Graham and Tobias Fella fixed various crashes in NeoChat detected by Sentry (link 1, link 2, and link 3).

Social Networks

Tokodon Browse the Fediverse

Joshua Goins moved the "Post" toolbar action to be a floating button on mobile devices (25.12.0 - link).

Browsers

Falkon Web Browser

Juraj Oravec added a context menu to the bookmark menu (25.12.0 - link) and fixed custom protocol handler registration (25.12.0 - link).

Konqueror KDE File Manager & Web Browser

Stefano Crocco increased the quality of the exported PDFs (25.12.0 - link) and added support for the standard JS window.print() call to open a print dialog (25.12.0 - link).

Third Party Applications

Dr. Tej A. Shah started porting Clear.Dental to Kirigami!

…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.

For a complete overview of what's going on, visit KDE's Planet, where you can find all KDE news unfiltered directly from our contributors.

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