The release of the KDE Plasma Mobile 21.07 mobile platform, based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the Ofono phone stack and the Telepathy communication framework, has been published. The application interface is created using Qt, 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. The kwin_wayland composite server is used to display graphics. PulseAudio is used for sound processing.
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.
The release is positioned as a monthly update and includes mostly bug fixes. Changes include:
- Work has been done to increase the performance of the top panel.
- In the interface for making calls, problems with international numbers stored in the address book without a country prefix have been resolved.
- Improved interface for working with SMS. Provided correct reporting of failures when sending. Added display of the number from which the message was sent.
- The KRecorder, KWeather and KClock indicators have been brought to the style of the rest of the platform components. Added the ability to select different locations to KWeather. In KClock, problems with the alarm going off during sleep mode have been resolved.
- The application interface for scanning Qrca barcodes has been redesigned. Added the ability to select different cameras and provided the ability to transfer ticket barcodes to the KDE Itinerary application. Added the ability to pass URLs to services like Imgur in the Share dialog and added a loading indicator.
- Improved Calindori scheduler interface. Fixed an issue with meaningless nighttime wakeups.
- Significantly improved application for listening to Kasts podcasts. A Discover page has been added to search for content in the podcastindex.org service. Added support for continuing to download incompletely received podcasts. Changed playback speed settings. Added option to block automatic download of new podcast episodes and images when connected via mobile networks.
Source: opennet.ru