https://pointieststick.com/2021/02/12/this-week-in-kde-plasma-5-21-approaches/ Skip to content [997b6be07d] Adventures in Linux and KDE Below is a brief look at recent changes in the KDE projects I work on and follow! Menu * Get involved * Develop for KDE * File a bug * Submit a patch * Contact me This week in KDE: Plasma 5.21 approaches! Nate This Week in KDE February 12, 2021February 13, 2021 3 Minutes There are just a few days left before Plasma 5.21 is released, so get ready! And check out all this cool stuff too. Train doesn't stop! New Features Kate's project plugin now offers you the ability to switch git branches right there in the main UI (Waqar Ahmed, Kate 21.04): https://i.imgur.com/C8DnC7l.mp4 Plasma's Audio Volume applet now offers you the opportunity to change a device's audio profile right there in the applet, without having to go elsewhere (Kai Use Broulik, Plasma 5.22): [profiles-in-the-applet-1] Bugfixes & Performance Improvements Kate no longer sometimes creates a new document when closing tabs with a middle-click (Jan Paul Batrina,c Kate 21.04) Dolphin no longer crashes when viewing large folders in Tree view (Felix Ernst, Dolphin 21.04) QML-based apps that override the theme no longer crash when that theme is Breeze (David Redondo, Plasma 5.21) Neither Plasma nor the whole session will crash when dragging a file over a Task Manager entry in the Plasma Wayland session (David Edmundson, Plasma 5.21) Fixed a bug that could cause widgets to sometimes be irremovable from a panel (Niccolo Venerandi, Plasma 5.21) Non-Task-Manager panel applets once again respect Fitts' law regarding their click targets (Niccolo Venerandi, Plasma 5.21) The buttons in Plasma's "new screen connected" OSD once again work (David Redondo, Plasma 5.21) KRunner's Locations runner now works again (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.21) Plasma no longer sometimes crashes when deleting an activity (Willyanto, Plasma 5.21) Disk monitoring widgets now show the correct information for current throughput and no longer display "Total Uploaded" when they should be displaying "Upload Rate" (David Redondo, Plasma 5.21) Discover is now substantially faster to launch (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.21) Fedora's Anaconda installer now works in the Plasma Wayland session (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 5.21) Discover no longer sometimes shows bogus extra sources in its "Sources" menu when viewing the details page for a Flatpak app (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.21) KWin now detects hot-plugged VR headsets (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 5.21) Reducing the screen brightness to the lowest level such that it turns off the backlight no longer causes the backlight to flicker back on for a moment before turning off again (Kai Uwe Broulik, Plasma 5.21) Scrollbars in Breeze-GTK-themed GTK apps no longer display stepper arrows when they shouldn't (Jan Blackquill, Plasma 5.21) Discover's "Write a review" sheet is no longer almost unusably narrow (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.21.1) It's now possible to immediately apply newly-downloaded wallpapers whose names include a space (Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen, Frameworks 5.79) When comparing two files in the move/copy overwrite dialog, size differences larger than 2 GiB are no longer erroneously described as being 16 EiB (!!!) (Meven Car, Frameworks 5.80) Konsole no longer crashes when searching for new appearance settings using the Get New [thing] dialog (Alexander Lohnau, Frameworks 5.80) Slightly improved the launch speed of all Kirigami-using apps (Arjen Hiemstra, Frameworks 5.80) The few remaining settings pages that open in standalone windows now look good again (Ismael Asensio and me: Nate Graham, Frameworks 5.80): [screenshot_20210211_113502] User Interface Improvements Gwenview now allows you to change the quality/compression level for other lossy image formats, such as WEBP, AVIF, HEIF, and HEIC (me: Nate Graham, Gwenview 21.04) Kate now enables by default the feature to cut or copy the current line when nothing is selected and you use the cut or copy action (Alexander Lohnau, Kate 21.04) Resizing Dolphin's window now re-arranges the icons using a single smooth animation, not a weird two-part animation (Felix Ernst, Dolphin 21.04) Hitting the escape key while in Okular's full-screen view now returns to the windowed view (Michael Augaitis, Okular 21.04) The new Wayland-specific keyboard layout applet now has text that scales with the thickness of the panel it's located on (Andrey Butirsky, Plasma 5.21) System Settings' Window Decorations page now uses the fancy shiny new QML-based Get New [thing] window instead of the old funky QWidgets one (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.22) System Settings' Virtual Desktops page now supports the "Highlight changed settings" feature (Cyril Rossi, Plasma 5.22) You can now configure the Disks & Devices applet to play a sound when a device can be safely removed (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 5.22) Web Presence (ooh, let's try out a new section) Carl Schwan overhauled Kate's website to use our fancy modern new theme: [kates-new-] Niccolo Venerandi published part two in his video series about how to create a plasma theme: Leszek Lesner published a video about kio-fuse, which makes it easier to interact with remote files: How You Can Help Have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover ways to be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don't have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn't when I got started. Try it, you'll like it! We don't bite! Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation. Share this: * Twitter * Facebook * Like this: Like Loading... Related [997b6be07d] Published by Nate View all posts by Nate Published February 12, 2021February 13, 2021 Post navigation Previous Post The FOSS honor culture 17 thoughts on "This week in KDE: Plasma 5.21 approaches!" 1. [e3906] Felipe Kinoshita says: February 12, 2021 at 11:03 pm Hey, i reported the first bug Thank y'all for improving KDE software, world domination is coming! LikeLiked by 1 person Reply 2. [5fcd9] Oclay says: February 13, 2021 at 12:12 am Just a suggestion, align the Plasma Style themes on top, please, it looks weird LikeLike Reply 1. [997b6] Nate says: February 13, 2021 at 7:28 am Yeah, I need to fix that. LikeLike Reply 1. [997b6] Nate says: February 13, 2021 at 8:57 am Let's see if this does it: https://invent.kde.org/ frameworks/kdeclarative/-/merge_requests/52 LikeLike Reply 1. [5fcd9] Oclay says: February 13, 2021 at 11:10 am Amazing LikeLike Reply 3. [c164f] popov895 says: February 13, 2021 at 4:41 am Can we make the tabs in Kate more visual? Something like this https://ibb.co/NyThC0V. Upd: Waiting for https://invent.kde.org/plasma/breeze/-/ merge_requests/76#note_180811 LikeLike Reply 1. [906b6] waqar144 says: February 13, 2021 at 2:30 pm Optionally yes. Right now a lot of other stuff is pending so this may take a while. PRs welcome though LikeLike Reply 1. [997b6] Nate says: February 13, 2021 at 2:56 pm I think it's probably best if Kate's tabs use the style from the widget theme, so they're consistent with other tabs. We just ported them away from a custom appearance last year. If the theme's tab appearance is not good enough, we should fix that there! LikeLike Reply 4. [d70d5] Juan Pablo Firrincieli says: February 13, 2021 at 5:39 am Great Work to eveyone involved! thanks!! Can we geta Save current config to global theme? It would be really useful to just copy the global theme to a new computer instead of the .kde directory that's full of user home references. =) LikeLike Reply 1. [69471] martin Fritz says: February 13, 2021 at 10:07 am isn't the .kde directory not used anymore? all kde related config is now in the .config .local/share and .cache LikeLike Reply 2. [33d90] Manuel Geisser says: February 13, 2021 at 2:38 pm If you mean only colour schemes, then you can simply copy the file(s) in ~/.local/share/color-schemes Maybe these links can also help you: https://develop.kde.org/docs/plasma/theme/theme-details/ https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Create_a_Global_Theme_Package /en LikeLike Reply 5. [83843] DMurbetas says: February 13, 2021 at 6:51 am How to install plasma 5.21 beta on my kubuntu 20.10? kubuntu-ci/ unstable is giving release file error. LikeLike Reply 6. [e16e3] Alexander Browne says: February 13, 2021 at 8:07 am Hey, posting this here so more people see it; Right now VS Code doesn't show any launch feedback on Plasma. The team will add the feature request to their backlog if the issue gets 20 upvotes by 9 March. Right now there are only 3 https://github.com/ microsoft/vscode/issues/103606 LikeLike Reply 7. [28d49] Sys says: February 13, 2021 at 8:13 am Good news! Thank you all! LikeLike Reply 8. [f26d2] Sandis says: February 13, 2021 at 10:20 am Please fix the search. Pressing super key and typing application name often times does not work. This bug is in every KDE distro I tried. And the bug is there for ages now. Thanjs LikeLike Reply 1. [997b6] Nate says: February 13, 2021 at 2:01 pm I've never encountered this. Have you/can you file a bug report? LikeLike Reply 9. [31279] koma111 says: February 13, 2021 at 3:33 pm Will the Kate branch thing work in KDevelop too? That would be a nice addition. (while at it, anyone remember Umbrello? I am fine with it being a separate app, but please integrate it more with KDevelop, on its own it seems out of place and out of context. The best would be, however, to offer it as an extension of KDevelop or Kate, instead of its own app. Same story with Qt Creator and the Plasma Theme Explorer app. Tighter integration between these related development tools would allow a lot more users to actually use them, and enhance the workflow of people who already use them. Also, I think some web stuff wouldn't hurt in KDevelop, it is an awesome IDE, with some HTML/CSS functionality, it would be perfect for some web devs. Maybe with a module system, so that when you create a project, it asks you the language(s), and adds modules accordingly, including autocomplete and coloring packages, templates, runtimes/debuggers and GUI views in a checkbox list, so you can select what you need. Then it would install all the selected modules that aren't already installed, and load up the project. Maybe if I get really into C++/Qt/KDE app programming, I could contribute at some point... KDevelop is the best IDE I know, so it would be really nice to see it improve, or improve it a lot myself. LikeLike Reply Leave a comment Cancel reply Enter your comment here... [ ] Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: * * * * Gravatar Email (required) (Address never made public) [ ] Name (required) [ ] Website [ ] WordPress.com Logo You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change ) Google photo You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out / Change ) Twitter picture You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change ) Facebook photo You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change ) Cancel Connecting to %s [ ] Notify me of new comments via email. [ ] Notify me of new posts via email. 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