some time ago, KDE released a version of Spectacle that allowed us to "annotate" on screenshots. The truth is that this option is very good, but it is far from perfect if it can only be used after making a capture. In my opinion, Shutter yes, it has everything: it allows you to take screenshots, annotate them and even open images that had not been captured from Shutter itself and edit them. The latter will soon be possible in KDE, but two applications will be required.
As forward last night Nate Graham from KDE is that Gwenview, the image viewer, will be able to use the same annotation tool as Spectacle, with which we can annotate any image, and not only those that have been recently captured. It's something I would have liked to do from the beginning with Spectacle, but in the end it doesn't matter. In fact, it's better to add it to Gwenview, as images open directly on double click.
The 15-minute bug count has dropped from 57 to 53. Of the four bugs fixed, two were already fixed, and the other two were fixed at the point of formats and languages.
New Features Coming Soon to KDE
- Gwenview will be able to annotate images with the same tool as Spectacle (Gwenview 22.08, Ilya Pominov).
- The System Preferences "Formats" and "Languages" pages have been merged, clarifying the relationship between the system-wide language and its default formats and fixing most of the bugs that affected the two old pages (Plasma 5.26 , Han Young).
- Support for the org.freedesktop.secrets standard has been implemented in KWallet, which allows KDE applications to be more compatible with third-party credential storage methods. In terms of real-world impact, the Minecraft launcher should no longer ask you to log in every time you open it. They don't mention it, but this might fix the VS Code notification as well (Slava Aseev, Frameworks 5.97).
- Support in KDE bug reporting for sending bug information to Sentry, a server-side bug tracking service that will eventually be able to inject debug symbols automatically (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.26).
Improvements in the user's interface
- When a slow folder upload is canceled in Dolphin, the placeholder message in the middle of the window now says “Upload cancelled” instead of “Folder is empty” (Kai Uwe Broulik, Dolphin 22.08).
- Clicking on a Konsole notification about a particular session now takes you to that session in Konsole (Kasper Laudrup, Martin Tobias Holmedahl Sandsmark, and Luis Javier Merino, Konsole 22.08).
- Dragging a file to a notification now activates and raises the corresponding sending app window so the file can be dragged into it (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.26).
- The System Preferences page, Display and Monitor, now displays explanatory help text for the two Wayland system-specific scaling methods in a tooltip, rather than inline (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.26).
- Text changes made in the "Name" field of file open/save dialogs can now be undone and redone (Ahmad Samir, Frameworks 5.97).
- Message dialogs with "Yes" and "No" buttons are changing their text to be more descriptive in multiple pieces of KDE software (Friedrich WH Kossebau, upcoming versions of a lot of stuff).
Bug fixes and performance improvements
- Sidebar entries in Elisa no longer get cluttered after changing what is embedded in the sidebar (Yerrey Dev, Elisa 22.08).
- The new “wallpaper accent color” feature now updates the title bar color as expected when the wallpaper changes automatically (for example, when a slideshow is used for the wallpaper) and also correctly applies manually chosen accent colors to window title bars when using a color scheme that does not use header colors, such as Breeze Classic (Eugene Popov, Plasma 5.25.3).
- Swipe effect no longer annoyingly flickers when using a multi-screen setup (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.25.3).
- The Cover Flip effect and Flip Switch effect are now smoother with fewer frame drops when using the default "Show selected window" option in the System Preferences task switcher page (Ismael Asensio, Plasma 5.25.3 .XNUMX).
- In the Plasma Wayland session, using a global hotkey to launch an app with the launch animation disabled now inhibits the launch animation as expected (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.25.3).
- Right-clicking an item in the right pane of the Kickoff app launcher no longer causes its highlight effect to disappear while the context menu is open (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.25.3).
- In Discover, the tooltip displayed when hovering over the new large app page buttons no longer sometimes disappears immediately after appearing (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.25.3).
- Removing the leftmost screen from a multiscreen layout no longer sometimes causes windows on the remaining screens to become unmoveable (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.26).
When will this all come to KDE?
Plasma 5.25.3 will arrive on Tuesday, July 12, Frameworks 5.97 will be available on August 13 and KDE Gear 22.08 on August 18. Plasma 5.26 will be available from October 11.
To enjoy all this as soon as possible we have to add the repository backports from KDE or use an operating system with special repositories like Kde neon or any distribution whose development model is Rolling Release.