It is Sunday, and as many of our readers will already know, that means there is news in the KDE world. To be more specific, information is published on Sundays about what they are working on and today they have published an article in which they imply that they have begun to focus on polishing the software that they will launch in the coming months. Some of the above is likely to be included in the Kubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa which will be released in April 2020.
La entry posted today It has been titled "Polishing it up." In it they tell us about two new functions, but also about other changes coming to Plasma in early December or to your Applications in the middle of the same month. Below you have the list of news that they have published this morning.
New Features Coming Soon to the KDE World
- When KFind and other external search applications are installed, Dolphin displays a quick link to open it. The link can be added to the toolbar (Dolphin 20.04.0).
- The properties dialog now shows a button that will take us to the objective of a symlink (Frameworks 5.65)
Bug fixes and performance and interface improvements
- Momentary duplicate entries are no longer created when refreshing the music collection in Elisa (Elise 19.12.0).
- When an individual song is on Elisa's playlist and replay is active, that song now repeats well when finished playing (Elisa 19.12.0).
- Discover's update page no longer has a broken layer (Plasma 5.17.4).
- Maximized or vertically tiled windows no longer exhibit strange behaviors with respect to shadows and window sizes when maximized or not displayed (Plasma 5.17.4).
- Photo of the day slides can once again be used on the lock screen (Plasma 5.17.4).
- Tree views in GTK or GNOME applications are now visible when using a dark color scheme (Plasma 5.17.4).
- The list of applications and system services on the notification settings page now allows keyboard navigation (Plasma 5.17.4).
- When using a weather widget in a horizontal panel with the temperature display turned on, the text size now matches the text size for the default digital clock (Plasma 5.17.4).
- A Folder View widget on a panel now uses the correct text color for selected (not highlighted) items (Plasma 5.17.4).
- When entering the password on the lock screen, if the computer goes back to sleep while the password is still entered in the password field, it is now cleared so that people cannot see it when the computer wakes up again (Plasma 5.18. 0 ).
- Changing our user's real name on the Users page of System Settings no longer resets the image (Plasma 5.18.0)
- When changing the user image, if we cancel the password request, our image will no longer change (Plasma 5.18.0).
- Reliability of searching internet source icons in Kirigami-based applications has been improved, which should improve stability across the board in Discover as it makes heavy use of this functionality (Frameworks 5.65).
- The "Network" place in Dolphin now shows its real name in the Information Panel (Frameworks 5.65).
- Searching in Discover (and the GNOME Software and pkcon command line tool) is now case insensitive in openSUSE (PackageKit 1.1.13).
- High DPI support in Yakuake has been improved so that various icons are no longer blurry (Yakuake 19.12.0).
- Dolphin URL browser now auto-completes text as you type (Dolphin 20.04.0).
When will all this come to the KDE world?
Plasma 5.18 will arrive on February 11. KDE Applications 19.12 will be officially released on December 12, but we still don't know the exact day that 20.04 will arrive. We do know that they will arrive in mid-April, so it is unlikely that they will be available in Kubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa. On the other hand, KDE Frameworks 5.65 will be available from December 14th.
Do not forget that in order to install all these new features as soon as they are available we have to add the Backports repository from KDE or use an operating system with special repositories like KDE neon.