After four months of development, the April consolidated update of KDE Gear applications 25.04, developed by the KDE project, is presented. The set contains releases of 250 programs, libraries and plugins. Information about the availability of Live builds with new releases of applications can be found on this page. New versions of individual applications can be downloaded from the Flathub and SnapCraft catalogs.
The most notable changes:
- Work has been done to improve the usability of the Dolphin file manager. For people with disabilities, Dolphin's integration with the Orca screen reader has been improved. The selection of input focus has been optimized and keyboard navigation has been simplified, for example, in the selection mode (activated by pressing the space bar), you can now move between files using the cursor keys, and to select a file, you just need to press the Enter key, without having to hold down the Ctrl key. Protection against accidental emptying of the Recycle Bin has been added - the emptying icon is now highlighted in red, and the restore button has been moved away from the delete button in the context menu.
In the Places sidebar, when adding items, icons of the directories in which these items are located are now shown, and the item itself will be visible not only in the file manager, but also in the corresponding area of the file opening dialogs. To save screen space, three separate buttons for switching between viewing modes have been combined into one button, and the status bar has been designed more compactly. Support for renaming tabs has been added (the "Rename" button has been added to the context menu).
- In the Konqueror browser, the Save As dialog now remembers the location of the last downloaded file to make it easier to save files in the same directory later.
- Falkon browser now supports WebSocket API blocking.
- In KRDC, the client for connecting to remote desktop Using the RDP and VNC protocols, support for desktop scaling has been added to fit its contents within the current window. Support for the new version of the FreeRDP protocol has been implemented. The ability to specify domain during authentication.
- KDE Connect, the desktop-smartphone integration application, has improved Bluetooth data transfer speeds.
- The Itinerary travel assistant has expanded the range of supported payment methods for transport and various types of services. A separate My Data page has been added, which contains travel-related data, such as medical insurance, lists of attractions, and statistics on the progress of the trip. It is possible to import and export your data. The design of the pages with the schedule and transport search results has been changed, which now correctly adapt to small screens.
- The Kongress conference attendee app now features the ability to list speaker names for each talk in the event calendar.
- The Merkuro application (formerly Kalendar), which combines the capabilities of an address book, task manager and calendar planner, now has the ability to separately configure weekends for each region, as well as mark weekends when displaying information broken down by weeks and months. The ability to show only tasks that need to be completed today has been added. Support for selecting multiple items in the address book to simultaneously perform actions on them has been implemented.
- The KMail mail client has simplified the verification of unknown OpenPGP certificates (clicking on a certificate automatically starts its verification on key servers).
- A new date selection interface has been added to the KOrganizer calendar planner, speeding up the transition to the desired date.
- The Okular document viewer now has a setting for changing the default zoom level. Support for PGP/GPG-based digital signatures has been implemented (previously, only S/MIME was supported) and the ability to display only certificates for qualified electronic signatures in the list has been provided. When creating signatures, the text is automatically scaled to display it in the available window area.
- Keysmith, an OTP token generator for two-factor authentication, has added support for loading tokens from QR codes and importing tokens from the andOTP program.
- The Kdenlive video editor now supports import and export of projects in OpenTimelineIO format. The sound wave visualization has been completely redesigned and its generation has been significantly accelerated. The ability to use a "chessboard" background in the clip editing interface has been added.
- The Kwave audio editor has significantly improved playback performance.
- The Matrix-based messaging app Neochat now lets you sort chats in the sidebar based on recent activity. A "Copy Link Address" option has been added to the context menu to create a web link to the selected message.
- Tokodon, a client implementation for the decentralized microblogging platform Mastodon, has added support for saving drafts and sending messages with a delay. It has added a menu for filtering the content shown in the feed, as well as a button to turn off notifications about new messages in selected discussions. A dialog has been added to confirm sending messages.
- Kate, a text editor for developers, has added support for an LSP server for debputy scripts used when creating packages for DebianIn the settings, you can now add custom paths to the PATH environment variable to organize the launch of LSP servers, code formatting utilities, and linters installed in separate directories. The "build" plugin, which allows you to rebuild code without exiting Kate, now supports working with multiple projects simultaneously.
- In addition to built-in support for C++, PHP and Python, the KDevelop integrated development environment now includes the ability to connect programming language handlers implemented as LSP servers.
- The Arianna e-book reader features a new rendering engine based on the foliate.js library.
- The Kasts podcast manager now has a switch between mobile and desktop interface options.
- The Elisa music player now has the ability to automatically play files when you try to open them in other applications (for example, to start playback from Dolphin).
- Audiotube, an app for listening to music from Youtube Music, has added a feature to download lyrics from the LRCLIB website.
Source: opennet.ru
