KDE to introduce a new Plasma applet for Night Color and other advanced features this week

This week in KDE

This week, Nate Graham, who is in charge of anticipating everything that is to come to the KDE world, posted an article that implies that they are working to make everything work much better. Not surprisingly, they have titled the entry as "More speed, more functions and massacre of bugs." As for the all-new features, it's not like they mentioned many more than in other weeks, three in total.

Highlights as a new function a applet for the system tray that will allow us to control the Night Color. According to Graham, it will appear automatically in the same way that the microphone appears when we use an app that uses it and it will also allow us to turn on / off the function designed at first so that we sleep better at night. Below you have the complete list of the news that has been mentioned to us this week.

New Features Coming Soon to KDE

  • Okular tabs can now be closed by middle clicking on them. Closed tabs can be reopened using the new menu item File / Undo closed tabs or with the standard keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + T (Okular 1.10.0).
  • There is a new applet for the system tray to control the Night Color function that appears automatically when it is activated and allows us to activate and deactivate it (Plasma 5.18.0).

Night Color Applet

  • It is possible to rename files from the context menu in open / save dialogs (Frameworks 5.67).

KDE Frameworks 5.67 allows us to rename from the open and save dialogs

Bug fixes and performance and interface improvements

  • The header area of Elisa It no longer vibrates when the window is resized (Elisa 19.12.1, available now).
  • Konsole no longer freezes when copying in TMux Copy mode or after setting a really long tab title (Konsole 19.12.2).
  • Gwenview no longer crashes when generating thumbnails for images with malformed preview images (Gwenview 19.12.2).
  • Fixed various bugs related to displays in Wayland so that KWin no longer crashes when an external display is unplugged or turned off, turned on or reconnected (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Gwenview no longer allows you to uselessly initiate drag and drop operations with right clicks, middle clicks, etc. (Gwenview 20.04.0).
  • Fixed two of the most common KWin crashes (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Plasma is now faster to connect to a Wi-Fi network at startup for up to 3 seconds (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • System Preferences no longer hangs when you try to install an invalid GTK theme (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • It is now possible to click the entries in the context menu for the systray items in Wayland (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Discover now starts much faster and no longer displays a graphical error instead of its main UI while starting up (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Icon-only Task Manager apps now always show the "audio play" indicator when playing audio regardless of Panel thickness or icon size (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • It is no longer possible to use window tile shortcuts in the system tray pop-up window (Plasma 5.18.0).
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  • When using a vertical pane, the clock's "Long Date" format now displays all text instead of circumventing most of it (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Fixed a visual bug that caused the window title bar to appear separate from the window content when using the Zoom In or Wobbling Windows effect (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • The Audio Volume applet is now the correct size and no longer displays a large empty right margin when used on the desktop outside of the systray (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • The KRunner calculator now correctly rounds long numbers (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Dragging in the text field while renaming items on the desktop no longer allows you to select other items in the process (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Menu bars in Electron-based applications are now more readable (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Hovering over items in the GTK file dialog now highlights those items with the correct color (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • When using Chromium or Chrome with client-side decorations, the maximize button now changes appropriately when the window is maximized (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • Fixed a performance and battery life issue that could cause a rogue http.so process to hang and consume power and CPU time (Frameworks 5.67)
  • Inline messages generated by the KMessageWidget are no longer briefly cleared on first occurrence when using a fractional scale factor (Frameworks 5.67).
  • When searching for tags in Dolphin, the tag menu remains open after selecting each tag, so you don't need to reopen it if you want to search for files with multiple tags (Dolphin 20.04.0).
  • Songs in Elisa's playlists now make better use of available horizontal space (Elisa 20.04.0).

Elizabeth 20.04

  • The battery and brightness systray applet no longer flickers annoyingly and consumes additional CPU resources when the battery charge level is critically low (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • The Plasma Vaults item in the systray is now automatically hidden when no vault is configured (Plasma 5.18.0).
  • The wallpaper picker UI has been improved in several ways (Plasma 5.18.0):
    • Time picker selection boxes now display their labels online.
    • Lists now have placeholder messages when empty.
    • Items in the wallpaper folder list now display the full path in a subtitle.
  • Push buttons used in Plasma configuration panels now have the same clear and obvious keyboard focus style as push buttons used elsewhere (Frameworks 5.67).
  • Microsoft Windows link files now use the symbolic link file icon (Frameworks 5.67).

When will this all come to KDE?

This week they have named many changes, so, in order not to lengthen the post, we will detail the dates:

  • Plasma 5.18.0LTS: February 11st.
  • KDE Applications 19.12.2: February 6th. 20.04 will arrive in April, still without the exact day scheduled.
  • Framework 5.67: February 8st.

We remember that the fastest and official way to enjoy all these news as soon as they are available is by using the Backports repository from KDE or an operating system like KDE neon that already uses special repositories.


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  1.   truko22 said

    Excellent 😀 I don't know where I had read that KDE had been given a small donation by a video game company to improve Kwin. Dolphin + ark have improved but should give more love to these tools, Gwenview should simplify it and make it work better, okular keep improving like the great kdelive.
    That night color feature was a golazooo 😀
    Elisa used it a lot, but then it gave me a lot of errors and I discovered strawberry and nobody moves me.

  2.   Carlitos said

    Undoubtedly, the KDE Community and Team is simply spectacular, that's why I decided a year ago to use KDE Neon until today everything works very well and today the best thing is without a doubt the configurability, the simplicity, the power and the bass. Resource consumption is incredible.

    In my opinion, KDE is way ahead compared to the other DEs, especially GNOME, which increasingly makes DE boring and tortuous for the user at least in my experience.