As part of the next program, 24 students will work on improvements that will be included in the next versions of the libraries, shell and applications of KDE. Here's what's planned:
- create a lightweight WYSIWYG Markdown editor with pagination, previews and color schemes;
- teach the Cantor math package to work with Jupyter Notebook (data processing application);
- in Krita, the Undo / Redo mechanism will be redesigned to use full-fledged snapshots;
- also Krita may be ported to mobile devices, primarily to Android;
- add a new brush using an SVG file as a source;
- finally, Krita implements the "magnetic lasso" tool, which was lost during the transition from Qt3 to Qt4;
- for the digiKam photo collection manager, it has been traditionally improving and activating face recognition for many years now;
- he will also get a magic brush to retouch unwanted areas by tiling it with similar areas;
- Labplot statistical analysis package more data processing functions and the ability to create mixed reports;
- the system of integration with mobile devices KDE Connect will come to Windows and macOS in the form of full-fledged ports;
- Falkon will learn how to synchronize browser data across devices;
- major improvements in Rocs - IDE for graph theory;
- in the set of children's educational programs Gcompris, it will be possible to create your own data sets for tasks;
- KIO file systems will now be mounted as full-fledged file systems through the KIOFuse mechanism (i.e. KIO will work for all software, not just KDE);
- the SDDM session manager will get the settings synchronized with the user's desktop settings;
- Kiphu, a flat and 3D plotting utility, will receive many fixes, will cease to be a beta, and will become part of KDE Edu;
- Okular will improve the JavaScript interpreter;
- interaction between Nextcloud and Plasma Mobile will be improved, in particular, synchronization and distribution of data;
- The KDE ISO Image Writer utility for writing images to usb drives will be released for Linux, Windows and maybe macOS.
Source: linux.org.ru