Dolphin 26.04 release

Méven Car — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I want to highlight a few changes that came to Dolphin 26.04 and add some nuance to the release announcement.

The the KDE Gear 26.04 release announcement mentions:

In version 26.04, Dolphin lets you add keyboard shortcuts to nearly any option in any menu, plugin or extension.

This refers to this MR: Add keyboard shortcut support for service menu actions. This change made it possible to add shortcuts to the beloved service menus and closed a highly-requested feature.

In other words, this allows you to add shortcuts to custom actions that can be run on currently-selected files or folders in Dolphin.

This was implemented by a new contributor Albert Mkhitaryan, who also did the necessary library work with my assistance. Kudos to Albert.

Most of Dolphin's UI could already benefit from shortcuts with some caveats and t he new feature does not apply to context menu plugins, such as Ark's "Extract here" or Dolphin's "Set Folder Icon".

Additionally, context menus options are reloaded as they are modified thanks to Pan Zhang.

xi ota added an option to pick the tab width.

There was an important fix for split view users by Māris Nartišs.

I made a small improvement to the layout of the Settings dialog.

Rafał Lichwała improved dragging and dropping from the Places panel.

Of course a few bugfixes (not exhaustive list):

514209 preventted flickrering when holding F5 key, by Ritchie Frodomar,
510829 improved the rendering of gif/animated images in hidpi context, by me.
453262 refreshing the image preview in the information panel after a file is renamed, by me.

And we reverted a dreaded change to the Create New Folder shortcut.

Another thing worth mentioning is the memory leak detection effort started by Nicolas Fella, as this allowed me to find a couple of uncommon mem leaks. The work is not complete as KIO CI tests don't pass under LSAN scrutiny yet. I have been working on it and only a couple of hard cases remain to be solved - help welcome.

Next will be activating LSAN for Dolphin tests and CI for further stability but that is already fruitfull.

Having stopped my personal blog, I am now using kde-blogs.

That's all, folks.

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Dolphin 26.04 release