The December 22.12 rollup update of applications developed by the KDE project has been released. As a reminder, the consolidated set of KDE applications has been published since April 2021 under the name KDE Gear, instead of KDE Apps and KDE Applications. In total, releases of 234 programs, libraries and plug-ins were published as part of the update. Information about the availability of Live builds with new releases of applications can be found on this page.
The most notable innovations:
- The Dolphin file manager provides the ability to manage access rights for external Samba partitions. Added selection mode (Selection Mode), which simplifies the selection of a part of files and directories to perform typical operations on them (after pressing the spacebar or selecting the βSelect files and foldersβ option in the menu, a green panel appears at the top, after which clicking on files and directories leads to select them, and a panel with available operations such as copying, renaming, and opening images is shown at the bottom).
- The Gwenview image and video viewer has added support for adjusting the brightness, contrast, and color of viewed images. Added support for viewing xcf files used by GIMP.
- The Welcome window has been added to text editors Kate and KWrite, which is shown when starting programs without specifying files. The window provides a button to create or open a file, a list of recently opened files, and links to documentation. A new keyboard macro tool has been added to create macros, allowing you to record a sequence of keystrokes and play back previously recorded macros.
- The Kdenlive video editor has improved integration with other video editing programs, for example, the ability to transfer timelines (timelines) to the Glaxnimate vector animation program has appeared. Added support for search filters and creating custom categories in the guide/marker system. The interface has the ability to use the "hamburger" menu, but the classic menu is shown by default.
- The KDE Connect application, designed to pair your phone with your desktop, has changed the interface for responding to text messages - instead of opening a separate dialog, the KDE Connect widget now has a built-in text input field.
- The Kalendar scheduler offers a "basic" view mode that uses a more static layout that saves CPU power and is best suited for low-powered or standalone devices. A pop-up window is used to display events, which is better suited for viewing and managing the schedule. Work has been done to improve the responsiveness of the interface.
- The Elisa music player now displays messages explaining the reason for the inability to process a non-audio file moved to a playlist in drag&drop mode. Added support for full-screen mode. When viewing information about a musician, a grid of albums is shown instead of a set of typical icons.
- Added support for ship and ferry information to the KItinerary travel assistant, in addition to displaying information about trains, planes and buses.
- The Kmail email client has made it easier to work with encrypted messages.
- Binding of the "Calculator" button on some keyboards to the KCalc call is provided.
- The program for creating screenshots Spectacle remembers the last selected area of ββthe screen.
- Added support for the ARJ format to the Ark archive manager and enabled the new hamburger menu.
- Separately, the release of digiKam 7.9.0, a program for managing a collection of photos, is presented, in which the management of the location of faces based on metadata has been improved, problems with connecting to Google Photo have been resolved, import of coordinates and tags from metadata has been improved, and performance of working with external databases has been improved.
Source: opennet.ru