We repeat the same header image as that of in the past week, but because the general news is practically the same. Although the entry Nate Graham posted today has been titled «a bit of everything", Most of that" little "is bug fixes and performance and interface improvements, which in other words is that they will continue to polish the kde desktop that we remember that it is formed, at least, by Plasma, KDE Applications and Frameworks.
Regarding new roles, Graham has advanced us only two this week, one in Dolphin, the file manager that from August will add an item in the menu that will be called "Copy location" (or route, we'll see when they launch it in Spanish), a function that will also be coming to Konsole , and another for the KDE terminal emulator. Below you have the full news list that have advanced us this week.
What's new with KDE Applications 20.08
The three novelties that have advanced us this week will arrive together with KDE Applications 20.08.
- Added "Copy Location" menu item to Konsole and Dolphin.
- The Konsole split screen view headers can now be optionally disabled, and the thickness of the separator can also be optionally increased.
Bug fixes and performance and interface improvements
- Several non-default task switchers are now correctly sized when using a high DPI scaling factor (Plasma 5.18.6 onwards).
- Fixed multiple context menus for systray items appearing in the wrong location (Plasma 5.18.6 onwards).
- When using a wallpaper pack with multiple sizes (e.g. Plasma default wallpaper), the correct size is now displayed when using a high DPI scaling factor or changing screen resolutions (Plasma 5.19.3. XNUMX).
- The Plasma startup sound no longer cuts out when the PC starts up (Plasma 5.19.3).
- New System Monitor widgets now always have the correct text color when using a Plasma theme with a different color scheme than the application color scheme (Plasma 5.19.3).
- System settings no longer hang when you open the applications page without any file manager installed (Plasma 5.19.3).
- Krunner now opens faster, so the text you type ends up in KRunner instead of the app underneath (Plasma 5.20).
- When changing the default browser, the "default browser" entry visible in Kickoff and the default Task Manager is now automatically updated as well (Plasma 5.20).
- Dolphin can rerun script files with spaces in the filename or path (Frameworks 5.72).
- Close buttons on Kirigami sheets no longer subtly pixelate sometimes (Frameworks 5.72).
- Several Breeze icons that had subtle pixel misalignments that could make them appear blurry no longer suffer from this issue (Frameworks 5.72).
- When using Qt scale in Plasma setting environment variable PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING = 1, windows are now minimized to the correct locations in Task Manager (Frameworks 5.72).
- The lock screen sheet in System Preferences has been rewritten in QML, which fixes all open bugs (Plasma 5.20).
- The keyboard layer systray item now always uses a monochrome icon, which fits better with the overall style (Plasma 5.20).
When will all this get to the KDE desktop
Well, so and how we explain In its day, on Plasma 5.19 we can give dates, but we will also clarify later. As for landings, Plasma 5.19.3 is coming July 7, but Plasma 5.18.6, which will have more than 5 revisions for being an LTS version, has no scheduled date yet. The next big release, Plasma 5.20 is coming October 13. KDE Applications 20.08.0 will arrive on August 13th and KDE Frameworks 5.72 will be released on July 11th.
At this point we usually remember that to enjoy all this as soon as possible we have to add the KDE Backports repository or use an operating system with special repositories such as Kde neon, but this time we will only say the second. Plasma 5.19 relies on Qt 5.14 and Kubuntu 20.04 uses Qt 5.12 LTS, which means it won't come, or at least KDE has no plans to backport. Other distributions whose development model is Rolling Release will be able to enjoy all the news close to the scheduled dates.