Nate Graham already said that, although the KDE Usability and Productivity initiative came to an end, they would continue to advance us weekly what is to come to the KDE world. It is true that in past weeks they have told us less news, but this week they have returned to publish a good handful of them. Among everything published they mention the latest Plasma news, such as more improvements in the Plasma software center Discover.
Regarding the novelties of the Plasma graphical environment, they have told us about the latest of the Plasma 5.17 that will be released this Tuesday, from plasma 5.18 which will be released in February and the first maintenance update of v5.17 will arrive in just over a week. They also tell us about Frameworks, Applications and all kinds of improvements. In short, a blog post that reminds us more of what we have been receiving weeks ago.
News coming to Discover
- When Discover is loading app snapshots, the loading spinner is located in the correct place (Plasma 5.17).
- Discover now displays application licenses correctly (Plasma 5.17).
- Discover no longer futilely attempts to cancel update operations that are not cancellable (Plasma 5.17).
- When Discover is being used for offline updates or an operation fails, it now offers to repair the system (Plasma 5.18).
- K3B 19.12 addons are listed again on Discover.
- The list of installed Discover applications are organized by name (Plasma 5.17).
Bug fixes and performance and interface improvements
- Font smoothing settings are now read and written correctly so we get a slight RGB font hint by default as intended (Plasma 5.17).
- KeePassX's systray icon and various other applications appear correctly instead of being rendered as white squares, no longer scaling down under various circumstances, and no longer blocking Plasma under certain strange circumstances (Plasma 5.17.1)
- Full screen windows can no longer be improperly moved and resized in X11 or Wayland (Plasma 5.18).
- Baloo's file search page in system preferences has been rewritten to have a new and brighter QML-based user interface, which looks almost identical to the old one, but provides a better basis for bug fixing and implementation. new functions (Plasma 5.18).
- Kate's color scheme selector now works properly when using a second High DPI screen (Frameworks 5.64).
- The Spectacle 19.08.3 "Take New Screenshot" button can again be launched with Enter when it is selected.
- Dolphin 19.08.3 no longer crashes when opened from the command line with a search schema.
- Adding multiple albums to Elisa 19.12's list no longer results in her songs being added in a mixed order.
- The Dolphin 19.12 information panel no longer includes hidden files in the file count unless the hidden files are visible.
- The Plasma Audio Volume applet and its page in System Preferences they now have a more streamlined and less redundant display style, and are much more similar to each other (Header Capture - Plasma 5.18.0).
- The dialog that asks if we want to close the Konsole 19.12 tabs can be marked so that it does not appear again.
When will all these news arrive
The news mentioned here will arrive from next Tuesday until February:
- KDE Applications 19.08.3 coming November 7, while 19.12, which will include more outstanding news, will arrive in mid-December.
- plasma 5.18 will be released on February 11.
- Although they were not mentioned today, Frameworks 5.63 will arrive on October 12. What has been mentioned is Framework 5.64, which will be officially released on November 9. In both cases, we will have to wait several days for them to arrive at Discover.
We remember that in order to enjoy news such as KDE Applications or Plasma on the day of its launch or very shortly after, we have to add the KDE Backports repository or be using KDE neon. Is there anything on this list that you are looking forward to with particular enthusiasm?
