The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 22.04 mobile platform has been published, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the ModemManager phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework. The kwin_wayland composite server is used to display graphics in Plasma Mobile, and PulseAudio is used for sound processing. Simultaneously, the release of the Plasma Mobile Gear 22.04 set of mobile applications, which is formed by analogy with the KDE Gear set, has been prepared. To create the application interface, Qt is used, a set of Mauikit components and the Kirigami framework from the KDE Frameworks, which allows you to create universal interfaces suitable for smartphones, tablets and PCs.
Includes apps such as KDE Connect to pair your phone with your desktop, Okular document viewer, VVave music player, Koko and Pix image viewers, buho note-taking system, calindori calendar planner, Index file manager, Discover app manager, sending SMS Spacebar, plasma-phonebook address book, plasma-dialer phone call interface, plasma-angelfish browser and Spectral messenger.
In the new version:
- The mobile shell carries over changes developed in the KDE Plasma 5.25 branch, which is expected to be released on June 14th.
- In the interface for switching between running applications (Task Switcher), animation has been improved when activating and minimizing applications. Added the ability to sort running applications in the order they were opened, not just in alphabetical order.
- Improved adaptation to the screen width in the taskbar. The navigation bar is set to turn off transparency when opening the on-screen keyboard, but not other shell windows.
- Added the ability to call a truncated version of the drop-down quick settings panel (Action Drawer) when the screen is locked. Provided closing of the panel when touching the outer empty area. Provided support for rearranging shell settings. Improved animation when clicking on the quick settings buttons.
- Added the ability to switch between home screen implementations. No new home screen types have been added yet, but the KDE Store will provide alternative home screen options for KDE Plasma Mobile.
- In the basic home screen, an animation has been added to increase and decrease the icons of applications when the user interacts with them. Application title text is now bold for better readability.
- The media player supports parallel streams (multiple applications can output sound at the same time).
- In the configurator, the design of the module for setting the parameters of cellular networks has been updated. Improved page for setting APN.
- The interface for making calls (Plasma Dialer) was transferred to the use of the callaudiod background process developed by the Mobian project, which made it possible to get rid of its own sound handlers and ensure the use of common code for different devices and distributions.
- Added support for background execution Flatpak portals to the clock widget, allowing the kclockd process to be autostarted in sandbox isolation mode.
- Tokodon, a client for the Mastodon decentralized microblogging platform, provides the output of all available user profile information. Added support for blocking, muting and following other users. The account selection interface and the sidebar have been redesigned.
- Improved work of calendar-scheduler Kalendar.
- Work continued on the client for the Nextcloud Talk communication system, which implements most of the chat rooms API.
- Improved interface of Spacebar, a program for sending SMS/MMS. The top bar, app navigation, and attachment management interface have been redesigned. Added notification settings to hide the sender and message content when showing notifications during screen lock. Added the ability to select an active phone number for entries in the address book that have multiple numbers associated with them. Added support for following links when viewing messages.
Source: opennet.ru