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This week in KDE: everything happened
This was a pretty huge week for KDE. Apparently people had a lot of pent-up work, because right after Akademy finished last week, the floodgates started opening! Amazing stuff has been landing left and right every day this week! Some highlights are touch support in Dolphin, user-configurable per-view sort ordering in Elisa, optional Systemd startup, tons of Okular scrolling improvements, and much, much, much more.
Oh and meet Plasma 5.20’s beautiful new wallpaper, Shell:
Big thanks to Lucas Andrade for this beautiful wallpaper!
New FeaturesDolphin now has full touch support! (Steffen Hartlieb, Dolphin 20.12)
Elisa now lets you sort each view by whatever criteria you want, and defaults to sorting albums by year (Matthieu Gallien, Elisa 20.12)
Konsole now has a “focus follows mouse” feature for its split views that you can turn on to automatically focus the split view that the cursor passes over (Luc Dufresne, Konsole 20.12)
For those of you who liked Kate’s previous tab behavior–where it shows a limited number of tabs and automatically orders them according to recency of access in the sidebar–you can now use it again (Christoph Cullmann, Kate 20.12)
Spectacle now has command-line arguments to include or exclude window decorations or the cursor, overriding whatever is defined in the config file (Nazer Kalinowski, Spectacle 20.12)
Filelight now offers you an easy way to exclude a folder from further indexing (Efe Çiftci, Filelight 20.12):
Plasma now uses Systemd for startup (when Systemd is available), which brings numerous benefits such as faster startup and load times, no more odd race conditions during startup causing weird bugs, better session cleanup on logout ending the possibility of logout hangs, better logging of what’s going on, the possibility of using slices and cgroups to improve responsiveness and clarity in system monitoring apps, and much more. It’s a very exciting change! (David Edmundson, 5.21)
The System Settings Shortcuts page now also shows you which shortcuts have been changed from their defaults when using the “Highlight changed settings” feature (David Redondo, Plasma 5.21)
When scrolling in Okular with a finger on the touchscreen or a mouse drag with the Browse tool, the view no longer “sticks” slightly for the first few pixels of movement (Kezi Olio, Okular 1.11.2)
Okular no longer crashes when trying to open malformed PDF documents with the same digital signature on multiple pages (Albert Astals Cid, Okular 1.11.2)
Middle-clicking on a tab in Kate now closes it again (Christoph Cullmann, Kate 20.08.2)
In Kate’s “Save modified documents” dialog, the Cancel button is now focused by default as it should be (Alexander Lohnau, Kate 20.12)
When annotating a document in Okular, the annotation tool’s tooltip no longer gets mistakenly painted over the document in certain circumstances (Pedro Arthur Pinheiro Rosa Duarte, Okular 20.12)
Partition Manager now correctly modifies the /etc/fstab file after you make changes (Andrius Štikonas, Partition Manager 4.2.0)
The Ctrl+d shortcut no longer unexpectedly moves selected desktop items to the trash (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.6 and 5.20)
Improved the graphics performance on Wayland (Gang Wu, Plasma 5.20)
It’s now possible to drag windows on Wayland from their empty areas, just like on X11 (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.20)
Discover no longer crashes when you visit its Settings page immediately after launching the app (Arjen Hiemstra, Frameworks 5.75 or Plasma 5.20, whichever one you get first)
Running a VNC server inside a Plasma session no longer crashes the Plasma session (Fabian Vogt, Plasma 5.20)
On Wayland, Plasma no longer sometimes crashes when you hover the cursor over an auto-hide Panel (Andreas Haratzis, Plasma 5.20)
Open and Save dialogs can now open and save files containing double quotes in their names (Andreas Bontozoglou, Frameworks 5.75)
It’s once again possible to set custom shortcuts that use the Tab key (David Edmundson, Frameworks 5.75)
Updating icon themes installed using the Get New Icons window now works (Alexander Lohnau, Frameworks 5.75)
A mysterious file named “:foo” is no longer ever randomly created inside your home directory for no good reason (Ahmad Samir, Frameworks 5.75)
User Interface ImprovementsSingle-line text in Elisa’s list-style views is now vertically centered as expected (me: Nate Graham, Elisa 20.08.2)
Elisa’s playlist sidebar now turns into a collapsible drawer on mobile or with a very narrow window, which means it’s no longer ever accessible (Stef Lep, Elisa 20.12)
Okular’s recently-added smooth scrolling animated transitions now respect the global animation speed multiplier, which means that people who hate animations and have then turned off globally now don’t have to live with the animated scrolling effects in Okular any longer. We still plan to add an off switch in Okular itself for people who want to disable smooth scrolling in just Okular or are using Okular on non-Plasma platforms (me: Nate Graham, Okular 20.12)
Discover now provides feedback on Arch-based distros when there is a dependency problem preventing updates from being installed (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.20)
KRunner now prioritizes apps higher than System Settings pages in the results view when there are matches for both (Harald Sitter, Plasma 5.20)
When you try to assign a shortcut on the System Settings Shortcuts page that’s already used, you’re now warned immediately rather than only when you click the “Apply” button (David Redondo, Plasma 5.20)
System Settings’ sidebar view now displays little arrows for list items which are top-level categories containing other items (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.20)
You can now middle-click on the Night Color applet to toggle the feature on and off (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.20)
The Battery applet now shows the brightness percentage (Eugene Popov, Plasma 5.20)
VPN-related notifications and network authentication dialogs now use clearer and more consistent terminology (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.21)
It’s now possible to configure a keyboard shortcut in Kate to paste the text that was last selected by the mouse (usually you middle-click to paste this text) (Jonathan Poelen, Frameworks 5.75)
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Submit a KSyntaxHighlighting Color Theme
The KSyntaxHighlighting framework provides support for color themes.
These color themes specify all colors (text/background/selection/…) and font style roles (italic/bold/…) that are used for the highlighting. The definition happens in some easy to understand JSON file format.
Starting with the upcoming KDE Frameworks 5.75 release, all KTextEditor framework based application will support these color themes for their embedded editors.
This includes Kate & KWrite, but naturally a lot more, like for example KDevelop, Kile and RKWard.
Beside using the themes, all these applications will allow you to create own themes based on the bundled ones. The created themes will be stored in the new JSON format of KSyntaxHighlighting and can be used as is for e.g. submission to us.
How was it before Frameworks 5.75?Before 5.75, KTextEditor already had support for color themes (or schemes). But we just shipped a very limited amount (as KConfig based bundled configs).
We only had Breeze & Solarized (as Light and Dark), a Vim Dark and a Printing theme.
There were no real additions of new themes in the past years, thought some are sprinkled around the internet.
How will 5.75 change that?The 5.75 KSyntaxHighlighting framework release will at least feature all themes we had before and in addition:
- Dracula
- ayu Dark
- ayu Light
- ayu Mirage
- gruvbox Dark
- gruvbox Light
Beside this, Vim Dark got some overhaul to be more consistent with the real Vim theme it is based on.
This means we have now already doubled the number of themes an user can choose between on a default installation.
I think this is a nice improvement. Thanks to all people that did help to make this possible!
For preview renderings of all themes we offer, visit our color themes page. This page is auto-generated and will be periodically updated with the current state of the master branch of KSyntaxHighlighting.
For people just reading this post, here an preview of ayu Mirage:
The future => We want more, please help out!With the recent additions we already cover some more well known text editor color themes. But if you just search a bit around the internet or look what other text editors ship per default, we still lack a lot of well known ones.
For example even our GitLab instance provides the Monokai theme in the configuration for its web highlighting that we still lack.
Therefore, we are eager to get submissions for more MIT licensed color themes we can bundle with KSyntaxHighlighting.
All users of applications using this framework will enjoy to be able to choose between more themes with ease if you help us!
Therefore, take the chance and help us out, provide some more themes as merge request.
License must be MIT, this seems to be no problem for most themes out there, at least it seems most of the ones I stumbled over are MIT licensed.
If you need to have some template how such a submission shall look, here the requests that got merged for the ayu themes and the gruvbox themes.
We have some development issue open that tracks a bit what happend so far.
But please don’t just show there up to say “hey people, I want to have theme X”. This is not helpful ;=)
Just searching for “popular text editor color themes” or something like that already gives a good idea which themes people yearn for. We don’t need some more pointers.
What is helpful is to show up with a MIT licensed theme as a merge request, as seen above.
Hope to see more themes submitted, scratch your own itch, but please contribute the stuff back to us upstream!