In accordance with monthly update release cycle January applications (19.12.1) developed by the KDE project. Total as part of the January update releases of more than 120 programs, libraries and plug-ins. For information about the availability of live builds with new application releases, visit .
The most notable innovations:
- To use Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 libraries application
for planning personal time KTimeTracker, which has not been updated for about five years and has not been developed much since 2013. In addition to the transition to modern technologies, the new release of KTimeTracker also offers a new dialog for editing task execution time and the ability to preview the resulting data in the export dialog in CSV or text format. - new release of the program for lovers of astronomy , which provides a starry sky simulator that allows you to observe the position of more than 100 million stars, taking into account the position of the Earth at a given point in time.
KStars builds are generated for Android, Windows, macOS and Linux (Snap). In the new version, the display of shadows, midtones and highlights has been modernized, which made it possible to observe even the faintest stars. Provided display of alternative constellation names that are not typical for Western culture. - The design of the typical user interface provided by the KNewStuff framework for organizing the loading of add-ons for applications has been redesigned. The design of the dialogs for navigating through available add-ons and for downloading add-ons has been completely changed.
In the section with user comments, the ability to use filters for separate viewing of reviews and responses to them has been implemented.
- In development environment Fixed a longstanding confusion about GPL and LGPL licenses.
- In panels Issues that popped up when using Qt 5.14 have been resolved and crash bugs have been fixed.
- In Dolphin Plugins 19.12.1, the display of the SVN Commit dialog has been adjusted.
- Improved file indexing in the Elisa music player and fixed build issues for Android. Provided the ability to build without a semantic search engine .
- The card game KPat has no age limit defined.
- Fixed a crash in the Okular document viewer when closing the preview window before printing.
- Added LSP client to Kate text editor () for the JavaScript language.
- In the video editor Improvements have been made to the timeline and preview.
- Expanded the number of KDE applications, in Flatpak format and available for installation through the directory .
- Application for analysis and visualization of scientific data Π² , Windows application directory.
- Updated page design for some applications on the KDE site, including the launch of new application sites ΠΈ .
Source: opennet.ru