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.

Last Saturday a bunch of KDE devs (and a guest) met in my kitchen for a "Kitchen sprint". As always, we discussed and worked on quite some exciting stuff, mostly around Itinerary and public transport infrastructure in KDE, but not only. Here is a short overview of what some of us worked on: Jonah experimented with integrating maplibre in our apps, Nico demoed his new online account integration for applications, and, outside of cooking some Käsespätzle for the whole group, I spent some time packaging Merkuro as a flatpak!

Outside of that, and as part of our end-of-the-year fundraiser, you can adopt one of KDE's apps and we can share with the whole world how awesome you are and how much you're doing to support us. Thanks to everyone who already donated, this is super helpful!

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

Multimedia/Graphics Applications

Photos Image Gallery

Noah Davis added a crop tool to the image editor of Photos. (25.12.0 - link).

Joshua Goins improved the performance a bit in the main view (25.12.0 - link).

Sytem Applications

Dolphin Manage your files

Nate Graham reverted a change which impacted keyboard-driven folder manipulation (25.12.0 - link).

Oliver Schramm fixed trashing files from temporary folders. Now they no longer end up in your home trash bin. (KDE Frameworks 6.22 - link)

PIM Applications

Merkuro Calendar Manage your tasks and events with speed and ease

Tobias Fella fixed setting the calendar name (25.12.0 - link). He also disabled the calendar editor when we don't have permission for it (25.12.0 - link).

Social Applications

NeoChat Chat on Matrix

Tobias Fella simplified the process to unlock the key backup by providing only one text field (26.04.0 - link) and it is no longer behind a feature flag (link).

Tokodon Browse the Fediverse

Loïs Rioul fixed login with GoToSocial (25.12.0 - link).

Games

Pumoku

Anders Lund pushed the first early alpha version of his Kirigami based sudoku application called Pumoku. It is still a bit basic but very promising.

Third-Party Applications

Easy Effects - Audio Effects for PipeWire Applications

Wellington Wallace released Easy Effects 8.0.3 containing a bunch of fixes for regression from the major 8.0.0 release.

Giusy Digital fixed some translations issues in the spinboxes (link) and the number validator (link)

Carl Schwan ported the settings to KirigamiAddons ConfigurationView (link)

Carl also fixed various spacing issues in the effect pages (link), ported the navigation menus to normal tool buttons (link), ported the application metadata to KAboutData and FormCard.AboutPage (link) and various other small graphical changes.

…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.

Get Involved

The KDE organization has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we're going to need your support for KDE to become sustainable.

You can help KDE by becoming an active community member and getting involved. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer either. There are many things you can do: you can help hunt and confirm bugs, even maybe solve them; contribute designs for wallpapers, web pages, icons and app interfaces; translate messages and menu items into your own language; promote KDE in your local community; and a ton more things.

You can also help us by donating. Any monetary contribution, however small, will help us cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors and in general just keep KDE bringing Free Software to the world.

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