This Week in KDE Apps
A week full of fixes
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!
PIM Applications
Akonadi Background service for KDE PIM apps
Tobias Leupold fixed a compatibility issue with MariaDB 12.1 (25.12.0 - pim/akonadi MR #310)
Carl Schwan optimized some maintenance routines from Akonadi; this also fixes an issue when running on SQLite (25.12.0 - pim/akonadi MR #299).
KMail A feature-rich email application
Andreas Hartmetz fixed a bug where mail filters would be deleted in some situations (25.12.1 - pim/kmail MR #164).
Graphics Applications
Photos Image Gallery
Noah Davis added a setting that allows enlarging small images. Without this option the minimum zoom level is 100% (26.04.0 - graphics/koko MR #251).
Creative Applications
Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom
Luna Lovecraft fixed a crash that occurred when the window was too small to fit a selection actions panel (graphics/krita MR #2548) and also fixed the selection panel blinking when making a new selection (graphics/krita MR #2551).
Wolthera van Hövell split the character and paragraph properties, making it more intuitive to apply text transformations to just one character or to a whole paragraph (graphics/krita MR #2470).
Joshua Goins fixed a crash in the Krita plugin manager when using Python 3.14 (graphics/krita MR #2451).
Utilities Applications
Calculator A feature rich calculator
Devin Lin cleaned up the sidebar and removed some custom code.
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Recorder Audio recorder
Tobias Burnus made his first contribution to KDE and fixed an issue where the list of audio input sources contained duplicated entries (25.12.0 - utilities/krecorder MR #62).
Kate Advanced text editor
Leia uwu fixed a crash in the project tree view (25.12.0 - utilities/kate MR #1950).
Keysmith Two-factor code generator for Plasma Mobile and Desktop
Shubham Arora fixed an issue where the account name could overflow when it was too long (25.12.1 - utilities/keysmith MR #171).
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…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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