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!

Travel Applications

Last weekend, some of the developers behind Itinerary and KTrip were in Vienna for the first edition of the Open Transport Community Conference, where there were many discussions relevant to Itinerary and Transitus.

KDE Itinerary Digital travel assistant

Jonah Brüchert simplified the journey selection by moving the mode of transport selection to a separate page (25.12.0 - link) and by asking for a trip group after selecting a journey (25.12.0 - link).

Jonah also brought back the top-level import action in the trip group list page (25.12.0 - link)

Volker Krause added the altitude information to the live status map when the information is available (25.12.0 - link).

David Pilarčík added 10 new extractors and improved some existing ones (25.12.0 - link)

Joshua Goins made the United extractor more resilient when parsing multi-passenger tickets (25.12.0 - link)

PIM Applications

Volker Krause and Albert Astals Cid fixed some safety issues found by the newly added OSS-Fuzz tests in KMime (25.12.0 - link 1 and link 2).

Office Applications

Plan Project Management

miko53 ported Calligra Plan to Qt6 (link).

Okular View and annotate documents

Creative Applications

Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom

Carsten Hartenfels added a Marker blend mode to Krita, which works like Alpha Darken but properly adheres to channel flags (so it e.g. obeys alpha lock and inherit alpha) and interpolates colors without artifacts. When you use it on a brush in build-up mode, it will only increase opacity up to your stroke's intended opacity but not compound what's on the layer, while the colors get interpolated. It works like Paint Tool SAI's marker tool, hence the name. (link)

Wolthera van Hövell improved the support for loading and saving PSD files and now text, shapes, and guides are supported (link).

Pavel Shlop added the possibility to edit icons for toolbar actions in the toolbar editor (link).

Kdenlive Video editor

Jean-Baptiste Mardelle improved the audio view in the clip monitor (link).

Utilities Applications

KAIChat AI Chat

Laurent Montel released a new version of KAIChat. This version adds tools support, make it possible to download Ollama on Windows and macOS and add some configuration options to some plugins.

Kate Advanced text editor

Waqar Ahmed enabled bracketed paste when piping text to the terminal (link).

KRegexpEditor

Matthias Mailänder fixed some UI elements when using KRegexpEditor with dark mode (link)

System Applications

Dolphin Manage your files

Marco Martin removed some unnecessary animations in Dolphin (25.12.0 - link 1 and link 2)

…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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