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This week in KDE: Dolphin levels up
In addition to lots and lots of Plasma 6 stability work and the beginning of Plasma 6.1 feature work, Dolphin received large amount of development this week, resulting in some nice improvements. Check it out!
New FeaturesKSSHAskPass (which has the best name of any app in the world, change my mind) now supports SK-type SSH keys (Franz Baumgärtner, KSSHAskPass 24.05. Link)
Gave the Web Browser widget the option to always load a specific page every time, or remember the last-browsed-to one (Shubham Arora, Plasma 6.1. Link):
Info Center has a new page showing you technical audio information for debugging purposes (Shubham Arora, Plasma 6.1. Link)
The icon chooser dialog now has a filter so you can see only symbolic icons, or no symbolic icons (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 6.1. Link):
UI Improvements
Dolphin’s icon once again changes with the accent color (Kai Uwe Broulik, Dolphin 24.02.1. Link)
Most of Dolphin’s bars now animate appearing and disappearing (Felix Ernst, Dolphin 24.05. Link):
Some folders in Dolphin get special view settings applied by default, such as the Trash and Recent Files/Folders locations. Now these special view settings get applied to those folders even if you’re using the “use same view settings for all folders” setting (Jin Liu, Dolphin 24.05. Link)
Dolphin now has a new tab in its settings window for settings about its panels, which were previously hidden away in a context menu. So far just the Information Panel is represented there, but others may be added later! (Benedikt Thiemer, Dolphin 24.05. Link):
Made touch scrolling in Konsole work better (Willian Wang, Konsole 24.05. Link)
Improved the way Konsole’s text cursor scales on Wayland, especially with fractional scale factors (Luis Javier Merino Morán, Konsole 24.05. Link)
Okular already lets you scroll around a document with the hjkl keys. Now if you hold down the Shift key while doing it, it scrolls 10 times faster! (Someone going by the pseudonym “GI GI”, Okular 24.05. Link)
KRunner-powered search fields in Overview and the Search widget show the same search ordering that other ones already do (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
The Power and Energy widget now hides its “Show Battery percentage on icon when not fully charged” option when the system has no batteries (Natalie Clarius, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
With non-random wallpaper slideshows, Plasma now remembers the last-seen one and starts from there the next time you log in (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
Improved keyboard navigation in Kirigami sidebars powered by the GlobalDrawer component (Carl Schwan, Frameworks 6.1. Link)
Increased the size of the “Get new Plasma Widgets” dialog (Me: Nate Graham, Frameworks 6.1. Link)
Bug FixesFixed one source of issues with the lock screen breaking on X11 by showing a black background. There may be more, and we’re on the case for those too (Jakob Petsovits, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
Fixed a way that the Battery Monitor widget could cause Plasma to crash (Natalie Clarius, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
Fixed a way that Plasma could crash when you middle-click tasks in the Task Manager, or rapidly left-click on random audio-playing tasks (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.0.2, Link 1 and link 2)
On X11, clicks no longer get eaten on part of top panels (Yifan Zhu, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
On X11, lock and sleep inhibitions once again work (Jakub Gocoł, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
Fixed most of the incorrectly-colored System Tray icons when using mixed dark/light themes. There’s still one remaining source of this that we found, which is also being worked on (Nicolas Fella, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
You can once again scrub through songs played in Spotify using the Media Player widget (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
Fixed several issues with panel widgets (including Kickoff) incorrectly passing focus to their parent panel when activated (Niccolò Venerandi, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
Dragging widgets to or from panels no longer sometimes causes Plasma to crash or makes the widget get stuck in ghost form on the desktop (Marco Martin, Plasma 6.0.3. Link 1 and link 2)
On Wayland, adding a second keyboard layout now causes the relevant System Tray widget to appear immediately, rather than only after Plasma or the system was restarted (Harald Sitter, Plasma 6.0.3. Link)
Fixed a way that Bluetooth pairing could fail (Ajrat Makhmutov, Plasma 6.0.3, Link)
On X11, the screen chooser OSD works again (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.0.3. Link)
Breeze GTK is once again the default GTK theme (Fabian Vogt, Plasma 6.0.3. Link)
Yet again fixed the login sound so that it actually plays (Harald Sitter, Plasma 6.0.3. Link)
Reverted to an older and better way of sending pointer events on Wayland, which fixes multiple issues involving windows and cursors teleporting unexpectedly while dragging to maximize or de-maximize windows (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 6.1. Link 1, link 2, and link 3)
Fixed a bunch of weird cursor issues with GPUs that don’t support variable refresh rate properly (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.1. Link)
Fixed a source of xdg-desktop-portal crashes on boot (David Redondo, Frameworks 6.1 Link)
Fixed two issues with the “Get New [thing]” dialogs that caused them to not show installation progress correctly, and get stuck after uninstalling something (Akseli Lahtinen, Frameworks 6.1. Link 1 and link 2)
System Monitor charts now appear properly for users of 10+ year-old Intel integrated GPUs (Arjen Hiemstra, Frameworks 6.1. Link)
More UI elements throughout QtQuick-based KDE software stop animating when animations are globally disabled, which also fixes an issue where Plasma button highlights would disappear with animations are globally disabled (me: Nate Graham, Frameworks 6.1. Link 1 and link 2)
Other bug information of note:
- 3 Very high priority Plasma bugs (up from 2 last week). Current list of bugs
- 36 15-minute Plasma bugs (same as last week). Current list of bugs
- 207 KDE bugs of all kinds fixed over last week. Full list of bugs
Fixed a source of 25-second Plasma startup delays when using KDE Connect with Bluetooth disabled or absent (Simon Redman, the next KDE Connect release, though most distros have already backported it. Link)
Fixed another source of slow Plasma startups caused by using the Bing picture of the day wallpaper (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.0.2. Link)
KWin now does direct scan-out even for rotated screens (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.1. Link)
Reduced the size of all the wallpapers in the plasma-workspace-wallpapers repo by 10 MB (Martin Rys, Plasma 6.1. Link)
Ported Kile to KDE Frameworks 6. Hopefully this should presage a new release soon (Carl Schwan, link)
Automation & SystematizationWrote a tutorial about setting up your app’s continuous integration system to package and publish to the Windows store (Ingo Klöcker, link)
Added some autotests for X11-specific window behavior (Vlad Zahorodnii, link)
OtherRewrote a some chunks of text on KDE neon’s website to make it reflect reality: it is a distro, its target users are those who want KDE stuff fast and can tolerate some instability, and you shouldn’t use the package manager to get apps (me: Nate Graham, link 1, link 2, link 3, and link 4)
…And Everything ElseThis blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out https://planet.kde.org, where you can find more news from other KDE contributors.
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