One more Saturday, Nate Graham has published an article of what months ago we believed was coming to an end. And it is that what he is doing now is to continue with something that should have lasted only a few weeks, but it seemed like a good idea to continue. All they did was change its name to This week in KDE, as well as the this week's article He has titled it "Get New Solutions and More."
With "new solutions", if you refer to functions, it is not that there are many; only 4. As for the rest, he keeps mentioning bug fixes and performance improvements, which this week has also been joined by security improvements. Below you have the list of future news that Graham has advanced us this week.
New Features Coming to KDE
- When drawing annotations in Okular, holding down the Shift key now constrains the new annotation to 15 degree increments or perfect squares, as in many drawing applications (Okular 1.11.0).
- Okular now has a new hidden action that you can put on your toolbar that will toggle the reading direction from right to left for the current document (Okular 1.11.0).
- KRunner can now also display Falkon markers (Plasma 5.20).
- The Properties dialog can now also display SHA512 checksums for files (Frameworks 5.73).
Bug fixes and performance, interface and security improvements
- Dolphin selection highlighted in Compact and Details modes is no longer too short (Dolphin 20.08.0).
- Fixed a recent regression that caused wallpapers downloaded using the Get New [Item] dialog to not be applicable (Plasma 5.19.4).
- Fixed a recent regression that caused Plasma to overwrite the system locale even if nothing had been changed (Plasma 5.19.4).
- When cracking a Plasma Vault, if the password has been made visible, it is now hidden again the moment you submit it so that it is not visible but not erasable on the screen for a few seconds (Plasma 5.19.4).
- Plasma Networks systray applet no longer hangs when clicked if OpenVPN VPN is configured (Plasma 5.20.0).
- KRunner's single corridor mode now works (Plasma 5.20).
- The Plasma KRunner widget now respects the list of enabled and disabled runners set in System Preferences (Plasma 5.20).
- KRunner no longer hangs when you type something while the PIM Contact Search plugin is active (Frameworks 5.73).
- When using the Get New [Item] dialog box to download new wallpapers, the "Use" button will now apply the wallpaper as it should (Frameworks 5.73).
- When something fails to install using the Get New [Item] dialog, it is no longer incorrectly marked as installed (Frameworks 5.73).
- Get New [Item] dialogs now display the same sort order as the sort order combo box (Frameworks 5.73).
- Dolphin's URL browser and file dialogs and various other KDE applications now have more comprehensive auto-complete behavior (Frameworks 5.73).
- Plasma widget pop-ups no longer appear in the task launcher (Frameworks 5.73).
- FUSE mounts are now automatically excluded from the list of visible disks in the Disk Usage widget (Plasma 5.20).
- Cursor no longer resizes when hovering over GTK / GNOME application windows (Plasma 5.20).
- After taking into account user and designer feedback, the systray icon layout options now include a way to go back to the old style: one or two rows / columns of small icons that do not scale with thickness panel (Plasma 5.20).
- Systray pop-ups have been made a bit higher (Plasma 5.20).
- The battery applet in the systray now tells us when the power source we have connected is not delivering enough power to charge the battery (Plasma 5.20).
- Scrollable pages in Kirigami-based applications can now be scrolled with the arrow keys (Frameworks 5.73).
- The "Overwrite" action / button that is used in various places throughout KDE software now has a nice icon (Frameworks 5.73).
- When the list of file types in the open / save dialogs would show multiple entries with the same name, they are now disambiguous by adding the file name extension (Frameworks 5.73).
- Icon-only view buttons in Get New [Item] dialogs now display tooltips so you can know what they are (Frameworks 5.73).
When will all this come
Well, so and how we explain In its day, on Plasma 5.19 we can give dates, but there is something to clarify. As for landings, Plasma 5.19.4 is coming July 28, and Plasma 5.20, the next big release, will arrive on October 13. KDE Applications 20.08.0 will arrive on August 13th and KDE Frameworks 5.73 will be released on August 8th.
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.