After four months of development, the August consolidated update of KDE Gear 26.08, developed by the KDE project, has been presented. The suite includes releases of over 250 applications, libraries, and plugins. Information about the availability of Live builds with new application releases can be found on this page. New versions of individual applications can be downloaded from Flathub and SnapCraft directories.
The most notable changes:
- In the Dolphin file manager, integration with KDE Connect has been enhanced for pairing a smartphone with the desktop – when navigating files on the smartphone, a button 'Open KDE Connect' now appears on the panel, allowing users to access the KDE Connect application for interaction with the mobile device.
When viewing a directory with a large number of files, it is now possible to open an extended content filtering panel using the combination 'Ctrl + i' to show files that match a text string, mask, or regular expression.
Support has been added for grouping files and directories regardless of the selected sorting mode (for example, files can be sorted alphabetically and then grouped by file type).
Buttons have been added to the context menu of tabs to remove the tab to the right or left of the current one.
- In the Okular document viewer, enhancements have been made for signing documents; the dialogs for application settings and backends have been merged; the ability to select an entire line with three clicks has been added; when working with annotations, the selected text is automatically highlighted when a note is added; and the ability to transfer notes and comments between documents via clipboard has been implemented.
- In the Konsole terminal emulator, the ability to drag a file to an external application by clicking on the file name in the terminal while holding the Alt key has been added (for example, this allows passing the file path of an image to an image editor or the path of a text file to a text editor). Similarly, URLs, email addresses, and color codes can be dragged (for instance, a URL can be dragged from the terminal to the browser to open the page).
- In the Kdenlive video editor, the transformation effects now allow for free movement of rotation axes within the frame (previously, the rotation axis was always fixed strictly in the center).
In the 'Gradient Map' effect, it is now possible to add an arbitrary number of points to control the color transition. In the 'Curves' effect, each color channel can be adjusted independently.
The timeline now allows for selecting a group of clips for copying into a separate nested sequence. An automatic creation feature for audio tracks necessary for the clip has been added. It is now possible to swap tracks by dragging them with the mouse. Support for assigning custom colors to different types of objects on the timeline has been added.
In the title editor, copying and pasting objects through the clipboard has been implemented. It is now possible to round the corners of rectangular frames. Objects can now be anchored to other elements, edges, or the center of the screen using visual guides.
- A new interface for the music training program Minuet has been introduced, which adapts for both desktop and mobile device screens.
Source: opennet.ru
