Discover will continue to improve, along with many other KDE software

What comes in KDE - Discover

It's Sunday, which means the KDE Community is back on publish an article that, at a minimum, users of your software will want to take a look. Between what was published this week and as they have done on other occasions, they have mentioned many new features that are already available for being part of plasma 5.17.2, but they have also mentioned some others as several related to Discover, the software center used by distributions with the KDE graphical environment.

As usual, most of the changes they mention this week are bug fixes and performance and minor tweaks to the interface, but they also talk about new features, 4 in total. Of the four novelties that are ahead of us this week, I would highlight one that allows us to silence the audio from the sound icon in the task manager. Below you have everything that has advanced us this week, which includes the news of Discover and those that have already been available since last Tuesday.

What's new available since last Tuesday (Plasma 5.17.2), with several in Discover

  • They reversed a change so that checkboxes and radio buttons in GTK apps follow the colors of the scheme.
  • Fixed a common crash in system preferences when running in Wayland.
  • The wallpaper slide show is random again.
  • Discover can now cancel the installation of a Snap without freezing.
  • When Discover runs in another graphical environment, it no longer starts automatically at login.
  • Discover now accepts URLs of type "appstream: [app]".
  • By using a color scheme that results in black text on the login and lock screens, the text no longer has a weird shadow behind it.
  • The virtual desktops page in system preferences no longer has a broken layer when using languages ​​such as German or Brazilian Portuguese.
  • KMenuEdit is again able to apply changes that require creating a directory as part of the save operation.

Plasma 5.17.2 continues to show a glitch in the images when waking up from sleep.

New functions

  • Dolphin now tells us what is blocking unmounting of a volume (Dolphin 19.12).
  • When importing photos, Gwenview no longer crashes when importing to paths containing bars, and now creates folders when needed (Gwenview 19.12).
  • The volume indicator icon in the task manager can be used to mute an audio source by clicking on it (Plasma 5.18).
  • The weather widget can now display pressures in 'millimeters of mercury (Plasma 5.18).

Bug fixes and performance improvements

  • Okular's annotations now show our local time zone, not GMT (Okular 1.8.3).
  • The integrated Konsole panel in Dolphin now refocuses on the keyboard correctly after being closed and reopened (Konsole 19.12).
  • The icon rolling animation that we see when launching applications is seen again for people who use the default size of the cursor (Plasma 5.17.3).
  • The "Default" button on the system preferences font page now works correctly (Plasma 5.18).
  • Titles on non-multi-page system configuration pages that are written in QML no longer receive background highlighting when hovering over them (Frameworks 5.64).

UI improvements (also in Discover)

  • Dolphin's extended search options view is now much more streamlined and space efficient (19.12.0).
  • The Digital Clock settings window now shows an online preview for the configured time format, which is especially useful when setting a custom format (Plasma 5.18).
  • Drawing tool icons have received a visual overhaul and are now more consistent with each other (Frameworks 5.64).
  • Discover's sidebar toolbar is now always at the top and no longer awkwardly scrolls out of view (Frameworks 5.64).
  • System reference pages with multi-page navigation now display back and forth arrows in their headings for easier navigation (Frameworks 5.64)

As for when we can enjoy all these news, Plasma 5.17.3 will arrive on November 12, while v5.18 will arrive in February. Plasma 5.17.2 has been available since last Tuesday. KDE Applications 19.12 will arrive in mid-December and Frameworks 5.64 will arrive on November 9.


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  1.   newbie said

    Hey.
    Plasma 5.17.3 will NOT arrive on December 11, but it will arrive on November 12.