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.

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

Multimedia/Graphics Applications

Photos Image Gallery

Anders Lund added support for navigating between images when zoomed in using a touchscreen or stylus in Photos (25.12.0 - link). He also made the viewer auto-zoom when releasing a pinch when appropriate (e.g., the image is now smaller than the view) (25.12.0 - link).

Anders also enabled the slideshow feature on mobile (25.12.0 - link).

Travel Applications

KDE Itinerary Digital travel assistant

Jonah Brüchert implemented auto-resolving from railway station names to coordinates based on Nominatim (the geocoding engine powering OSM) (25.12.0 - link).

Volker Krause added support to the extractor for citycity.se, Comboios de Portugal, and Wiener Linien barcodes, and improved a bunch of existing extractors (25.12.0 - link 1, link 2, ...).

PIM Applications

Akonadi Background service for KDE PIM apps

Christoph Erhardt fixed a segmentation fault when migrating an existing Akonadi database to SQLite (25.12.0 - link).

Nicolas Fella dropped the barely used feature to show an "About Data" dialog in Akonadi resources (25.12.0 - link).

Office Applications

Okular View and annotate documents

Jack Barmes added new bookmark actions to add and remove books in various context menus in Okular (26.04.0 - link).

Utilities Applications

Kate Advanced text editor

Waqar Ahmed improved Git support in Kate. The list of branches now shows the latest activity (25.12.0 - link).

Additionally, he improved the Quick Open dialog, and it is now possible to jump to a specific line and column by entering something like 10:5 (25.12.0 - link).

Dennis Lübke added a plugin to transparently edit encrypted text files with GPG in Kate (25.12.0 - link).

Social Applications

NeoChat Chat on Matrix

Joshua Goins added an informational Keyboard Shortcuts settings page to NeoChat (25.12.0 - link).

Joshua also improved the design of the room notification settings and made it more consistent in terms of wording with the context menu used to configure notifications (25.12.0 - link).

Among a multitude of other small fixes, he improved the user experience related to the basic Jitsi meeting button to show whether a meeting is in progress, and to only enable it when the user has permission to start a meeting (25.12.0 - link).

Creative Applications

Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom

Carsten Hartenfels added a way to trigger the "toggle eraser preset" action via touch gestures in Krita (Krita 5.2.x - link).

Wolthera van Hövell ported the text tool dock to QML (link).

Dmitry Kazakov implemented basic HDR support on Wayland (link).

Games

Chessament Chess tournament manager

Manuel Alcaraz replaced the hamburger menu with a menu bar (link).

Third-Party Applications

Easy Effects - Audio Effects for PipeWire Applications

Easy Effects 8 was released and now uses Kirigami! Read the full announcement for details.

…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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