Version 20.04.0 of KDE’s apps has been released! Go check it out; there’s amazing stuff in there.
Work proceeds on the Breeze Evolution task for Plasma 5.19. In particular, the System Tray visual overhaul subtask is nearly complete and our tray popups are looking better than ever:
Other work is proceeding nicely as well!
New Features
- Elisa’s top bar is now responsive to the window size and device form factor, so it looks good with a portrait orientation window/device and can scale down to be really tiny (Dami Erny, Elisa 20.08.0):
- Gwenview now saves the size of the last-used crop box, so you can quickly crop multiple images to the same size in rapid succession (Mario Aichinger, Gwenview 20.08.0)
- When Okular is asked to open a document that’s already open, it can now be configured to swith to that document instead of opening it again in a new window (Andi Sardina Ramos, Okular 1.11.0)
- The System Settings KWin rules page was rewritten from scratch and now features a much better user interface (Ismael Asensio, Plasma 5.19.0):
- The amazing Plasma Browser Integration system now supports the Brave browser (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.19.0)
- The holiday calendar now includes holidays for Taiwan and Nicaragua (Ricky Lindén and Carlos Arguello, Frameworks 5.70)
- KRunner can now convert to and from Imperial Gallons and U.S. Pints (Felix Riiga, Frameworks 5.70)
Bugfixes & Performance Improvements
- The folder View popup dialog is once again wide enough to show three columns of icons (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.5):
- Fixed several memory leaks in Gwenview (Martin T. H. Sandsmark, Gwenview 20.08.0)
- The menu items for “Encrypt File” and “View Decrypted File” in Dolphin when kGPG is installed now use more semantically-correct icons that are now legible when using a dark color scheme (me: Nate Graham, kGPG 20.08.0)
- Searching on the Kickoff Application Launcher works again when the cursor is positioned below the tab bar (Tranter Madi, Plasma 5.18.5)
- Full screen screenshots taken on High DPI systems using Wayland now have the correct resolution (Méven Car, Plasma 5.19.0)
- The OSD to choose what happens when you plug in an external monitor is now centered on Wayland (Benjamin Port, Plasma 5.19.0)
- After applying a Global Theme, the correct Plasma style, widget style, and splash screen are now selected in their respective pages (Cyril Rossi, Plasma 5.18.5)
- Inline messages that include buttons in Kirigami apps no longer put the buttons in an overflow menu when there’s plenty of space to display them inline (Xuetian Weng, Frameworks 5.70):
- The Breeze icon for VSCode is once again visible (Guo Yunhe, Frameworks 5.70)
- Icons throughout Plasma and Kirigami-based apps now look better on high DPi multi-monitor setups (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Frameworks 5.70)
User Interface Improvements
- It’s now additionally possible to navigate from Dolphin’s search field to the results view by pressing the down arrow key (Shlomi Fish, Dolphin 20.08.0)
- The Standard Shortcuts System Settings page window now has a sane default size when opened standalone in its own window (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.18.5)
- The Weather applet’s weather station chooser window now has a clearer user interface (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.19.0):
- It’s now more feasible to position your notification pop-ups on the top or bottom center because when located there, they are now wider and have less vertical spacing, so they don’t intrude into the center of the screen as much (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.19.0):
- The size of the default fixed-width font has been raised from 9 to 10, to match the size of the default non-fixed-width font (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.19.0)
- The mount dialog for Plasma Vaults now includes the vault’s name in the titlebar (Konstantinos Smanis, Plasma 5.19.0)
- The Bluetooth applet now displays a nicer tooltip when only a single device is connected (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.19.0):
- The latitude and longitude displayed in the System Settings Night Color page no longer display a pointlessly large number of digits after the decimal point (Shubham, Plasma 5.19.0):
- When using KDE software in Polish, the translation for “Cancel” is now “Anuluj” (Łukasz Wojniłowicz, the next released versions of all KDE software)
- Dolphin and the file dialogs now use the same shortcuts for their “show/hide hidden files” actions such that changing the shortcut in one place changes it for the other too (me: Nate Graham, Frameworks 5.70 and Dolphin 20.08.0)
How You Can Help
Just keep being awesome, and rest when you need it. These are hard times. Don’t beat yourself up for not doing more; it’s enough. We’ll get through it.