The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 22.06 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 22.06 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:
- Changes prepared in the KDE Plasma 5.25 release have been carried over to the mobile shell.
- In the interface for switching between running applications (Task Switcher), the sorting of applications by the order they were opened is enabled by default, and not in alphabetical order. The code for previewing thumbnails of running tasks has been translated to use the KPipewire component.
- The Action Drawer drop-down panel has been expanded to support splitting settings into pages, which allows you to increase the number of available options. A component for scrolling text labels has also been added, which allows you to attach longer text descriptions of settings that are larger than the block width. Added the ability to quickly open the quick settings panel through a sliding gesture from the corner of the screen. Added the ability to control multiple sources of multimedia content to the integrated playback control widget in the panel. Added a button for quick screen capture settings.
- Added a shake effect to the navigation bar when touching buttons for more tactile feedback. Provided the ability to quickly switch between applications with a gesture that shifts content to the left or right.
- The screensaver has been switched to the kscreenlocker 3 interface, which allows you to implement passwordless login.
- The Breeze styling has improved the rendering performance of shadows for buttons and various controls, allowing shadows to be used on low-powered devices where they were previously disabled.
- The weather forecast widget configuration dialog has been moved to Kirigami components.
- Settings have been added to the configurator to reduce the use of animation and disable the display of thumbnails of running tasks for more comfortable work on low-powered devices.
- The interface of the AudioTube music player has been redesigned.
- In the Kasts podcast listening program, the code for updating podcasts has been completely rewritten, optimized to work on small screens in portrait and landscape modes, the ability to extract images from id3v2tag tags has been added, the queue for playing episodes in chronological order has been added, support has been added for synchronization with own GPodder servers .
- Tokodon, a client for the Mastodon decentralized microblogging platform, has added basic support for notifications and the Nextcloud Social service.
Source: opennet.ru