Tras This week in GNOME, now it is the turn of this week in KDE. With ya plasma 5.23.4 Between us, what is the fourth point update of the 25th anniversary edition, the project has started to focus more on the future. Many of the changes you name this week will arrive already in Plasma 5.24, while others will follow when KDE Gear 21.12, the December set of apps, arrives with new features.
Among the novelties that has advanced us today Nate Graham we have one that I personally don't find very useful, but not because it isn't. I think it is not useful to me because it is precisely related to something that I do not usually remember to use: the Spectacle annotations function. The KDE screenshot tool allows us to annotate on them, and we will soon be able to launch the editor from the system tray notification.
New Features Coming to KDE
Before mentioning the first novelty on the list, I have to say that in the absence of testing it, I have doubts about how it will work. Will allow us edit existing images How does the Shutter editor do it? It's a posibility.
- Spectacle now allows annotating an existing screenshot via a button in the notification or argument –Edit-existing from the command line (Bharadwaj Raju, Spectacle 22.04).
- Music files and playlists can now be dragged and dropped from the file manager to Elisa's playlist panel (Bharadwaj Raju, Elisa 22.04).
Bug fixes and performance improvements
- Ark can now open zip files containing malformed PHP files (Albert Astals Cid, Arca 21.12).
- Dolphin now shows the correct data when creating a folder when filtering the view (Eduardo Cruz, Dolphin 22.04).
- Opening .m3u * playlist files in Elisa using file manager now works correctly (Bharadwaj Raju, Elisa 22.04).
- Bluetooth status is now saved when logging out when using the "remember" option (Nate Graham, Plasma 5.23.5).
- Plasma panels now load faster when logging in and look less crashed when logging in (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.23.5).
- Discover no longer crashes when opening the description page of a Flatpak app that was just removed (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.24).
- Discover is now faster to check Flatpak app updates (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.24).
- The System Monitor application and applets now use fewer resources by not constantly polling disk and sensor data when nothing would show the polled data (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 5.24)
- It is now possible to scroll the view in the notification applet when there are many notifications in the history (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.24).
- Transient jobs that display text notifications like "Browsing" or "Opening" no longer remain visible once the job has been completed (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.24).
- Adjusting the screen brightness when using a multi-GPU setup now always works correctly (Dan Robinson, Plasma 5.24).
- Right-clicking the weather applet no longer displays a nonsensical menu item that says "Open in »(Nicolas Fella, Plasma 5.24).
- The media player applet now correctly displays "nothing is playing" when the last media source application is closed (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.24).
- When exiting and restarting an application (or browser tab) that is playing media, the Task Manager thumbnail now correctly displays the media controls (Bharadwaj Raju, Plasma 5.24).
- Repositioning grouped apps / tasks in Task Manager no longer causes incorrect items to be displayed when clicked when using textual list style (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.24).
- In the Plasma Wayland session, the scale factor displayed on the Display and Monitor page of System Preferences is no longer inappropriately rounded down when using a fractional scale factor such as 150% (Méven Car, Plasma 5.24).
- In the Plasma Wayland session, monitor names are no longer strangely duplicated on the Display and Monitor page of System Preferences (Méven Car, Plasma 5.24).
- Typing text to search in the Emoji Picker window as soon as it appears now works correctly (Bharadwaj Raju, Plasma 5.24).
- The System Monitor application and the widgets of the same name no longer show absurdly negative disk read speeds (Arjen Hiemstra, Plasma 5.24).
- Plasma theme graphics no longer go totally crazy and appear strange after being changed in a new version (Marco Martin, Frameworks 5.89).
- Monochrome Breeze icons revert to the correct color when using a dark color scheme (Rodney Dawes, Frameworks 5.89).
- When using an icon theme that is missing a requested icon, it will fall back to the closest icon of the current theme (for example, edit-copy-location will return to edit-copy) instead of first looking for the icon in the theme backup (Janet Blackquill, Frameworks 5.89).
- In the Plasma Wayland session, the Morphing Popups effect now works, so most notably, the panel tooltip will animate smoothly as it appears and disappears, just as it does in the X11 session (Marco Martin, Frameworks 5.89 ).
Improvements in the user's interface
- The Dolphin status bar is no longer shown and hidden depending on the context; now its visibility is completely controlled by user settings to show or hide it (Kai Uwe Broulik, Dolphin 21.12).
- When the "Bookmarks" button is added to the Konsole toolbar, its pop-up window can now be opened with a normal click, not a click and hold (Nate Graham, Konsole 21.12).
- Spectacle now respects the last used values of "include mouse pointer" and "include title bar and window borders" when taking screenshots using global shortcuts (Antonio Prcela, Spectacle 22.04).
- Gwenview now supports 512x512 and 1024x1024 large thumbnails (Ilya Pominov, Gwenview 22.04).
- KWrite and Kate can now be found by searching for more terms such as "text", "editor" or "notepad" (for KWrite) and "programming" or "development" (for Kate) (Nate Graham, Kate & KWrite 22.04).
- Dolphin can now be found by searching for more terms such as "files", "file manager" and "shared network" (Felipe Kinoshita, Dolphin 22.04).
- Dolphin URL browser drop down menu now shows hidden files when main view also shows hidden files (Eugene Popov, Dolphin 22.04).
- Discover now displays a sensible message when you have the Flatpak backend configured without any repos; It even gives you a button that you can click to add Flathub (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.24).
- When using the system in a language other than English, search terms entered in the System Preferences search field using English will continue to find results (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.24).
- When using a global scale factor, the System Preferences display settings page now shows the physical resolution in the display view of the screen, rather than the actual scaled resolution (Méven Car, Plasma 5.24).
- Hovering over a file or folder in the trash no longer causes that item to be secretly copied to / tmp in order to generate thumbnails for it (Eduardo Sánchez Muñoz, Frameworks 5.89).
- Scroll bars, progress bars and sliders in the Breeze Plasma style now have the same slightly darker background color as in application windows (S. Christian Collins, Frameworks 5.89).
- The tooltip for elided items in KRunner search views now uses the same style as elsewhere (David Redondo, Frameworks 5.89).
- The icon picker search field can now be focused with the shortcut Ctrl + F (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.89).
- The Escape key can now be used to close dialog layers in Kirigami-based applications (Claudio Cambra, Frameworks 5.89).
When will this all come to KDE?
Plasma 5.23.5 will arrive on January 4 and KDE Gear 21.12 on December 9. KDE Frameworks 5.89 will be released on December 11th. Plasma 5.24 will arrive on February 8. KDE Gear 22.04 has no scheduled date yet.
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, although the latter usually take a little longer than the KDE system.