Plasma Pass is a Plasma applet for the Pass password manager

This release includes build fixes for Plasma 6, due to be released later this week.

URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-pass/
Sha256: 2a726455084d7806fe78bc8aa6222a44f328b6063479f8b7afc3692e18c397ce
Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell <jr@jriddell.org>
https://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg

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About Me

I am Ajay Chauhan (IRC: hisir:matrix.org), currently in my second year of undergraduate studies in Computer Science & Engineering. I'll be working on adding multi-format rendering to Kdenlive for my Season of KDE project. This post describes my journey with KDE and why I submitted this project for the Season of KDE.

My introduction to KDE and Kdenlive

I was first introduced to KDE when I was distrohopping, starting with Ubuntu GNOME, then Arch, and finally settling on KDE Neon so that I could experience KDE's latest features. Although it was a bit buggy at times, I enjoyed using the KDE Plasma so much that I've stuck with it for over two years now.

I also used the Qt framework to write GUI applications in C++ for school projects in the past. The Season of KDE will also allow me to get better acquainted with KDE development

What is Kdenlive?

Kdenlive is a free and open-source video editing software that is based on the MLT Framework. Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on GNU/Linux, Windows, BSD and MacOS.
Whenever I've needed to edit videos, Kdenlive has always been my go-to video editor. I've used it to edit presentations for college and small projects.

I'll be working on adding Multi-format rendering (horizontal/vertical/square) to Kdenlive for my Season of KDE project. By adding support for rendering in horizontal, portrait, and square formats at export, videos can be rendered in different aspect ratios for different social media platforms and use cases easily.

My mentors for the project are Julius Künzel and Jean-Baptiste Mardelle.

The key tasks of my project are :

• Add code to apply filters to the clips in the main tractor to achieve the desired aspect ratio.
• Modify the user interface to allow users to select the desired aspect ratio during export and invoke that filter when they choose one of the aspect ratio
• Ensure that the aspect ratio selected by the user is integrated into the final rendering profile

This will allow users to render videos tailored for different popular platforms for use cases like social media stories, square videos for Instragram post etc.

Work done so far

At first, I did the math on how to get the aspect ratio right. The core of the implementation is a calculateCropParameters function that calculates the correct cropping, given the source and destination aspect ratios. It determines whether the source video needs to be cropped on the sides for a wider aspect or on the top and bottom for a taller aspect ratio.

calculateCropParameters(sourceAspectRatio, targetAspectRatio, ...) {
  if (sourceAspectRatio differs from target) {
    if (source wider than target) {
       // crop sides
    } else {
       // crop top and bottom
    }
  } else {
    // no crop needed
  }
}

For this the first step in this process was to extract the properties of the source video: its width, height, and Display Aspect Ratio (DAR).

int sourceWidth = pCore->getCurrentProfile()->width();
int sourceHeight = pCore->getCurrentProfile()->height();
double sourceAspectRatio = pCore->getCurrentProfile()->dar();

The pCore->getCurrentProfile() function plays a main role here, providing access to the video's current profile settings, including the DAR. The DAR gives the width-to-height ratio of the video as displayed.

Setting Crop Parameters

After calculating the necessary crop dimensions, the final step was to apply these adjustments to the video. This was done by setting up a crop filter with the calculated parameters from calculateCropParameters.

std::unique_ptr<Mlt::Filter> cropFilter = std::make_unique<Mlt::Filter>(pCore->getProjectProfile(), "crop");
cropFilter->set("left", leftOffset);
cropFilter->set("right", sourceWidth - cropWidth - leftOffset);
cropFilter->set("top", topOffset);
cropFilter->set("bottom", sourceHeight - cropHeight - topOffset);

Demo video of work till now:

<div class="responsive-video-wrapper"> <iframe width="560" height="600" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oqrDxwQdwx0" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div>

Merge Request: Implement Multi-format Rendering↗

The main challenges faced in setting up a new profile were configuring the producer and consumer xmlConsumer2() to render video in the new aspect ratio profile when generating an XML playlist. Thanks to the mentor, who helped a lot with this task.

What's next?

In the upcoming weeks, I plan to add a GUI, modify the user interface to allow users to select the desired aspect ratio during export. And also ensure that I don't leave any bit and that it doesn't give any kind of error with the different aspect ratio of the source video that the user provides.

<style> .responsive-video-wrapper { position: relative; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 56.25%; /* 16:9 Aspect Ratio / border-radius: 10px; / Adjust this value for a subtle rounding effect */ }

.responsive-video-wrapper iframe { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border-radius: 10px; /* Adjust this value for a subtle rounding effect */ } </style>

Just in time for KDE Plasma 6, Chromium 122 and Electron 29 have been released! They contain my patch that adds support for Wayland’s new cursor-shape-v1 extension protocol. When running natively in a Plasma 6 Wayland session, up-to-date Chromium-based browsers and Electron apps should now always use the correct mouse cursor theme and have the...

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It’s time for another foss-north again and the Call for Papers is open (as is the Call for Sponsors, hint, hint, nudge, nudge). Make sure to save the dates (April 15-16), get yourself a ticket, and submit your talk!

Happy weekend!

A new version of Kirigami Addons is out! Kirigami Addons is a collection of helpful components for your QML and Kirigami applications. With the 1.0 release, we are now supporting Qt6 and KF6 and added a bunch of new components and fixed various accessibility issues.

FormCard

We added a bunch of new FormCard delegates:

• FormPasswordFieldDelegate: A password field
• FormDataTimeDelegate: A date and/or time delegate with integrated date and time picker which use the native picker of the platform if available (currently only on Android).

The existing delegates also recevied various accessibility issues when used with a screen reader.

Finally we droped the compatibility alias MobileForm.

BottomDrawer

Mathis added a new Drawer component that can be used a context menu or to display some information on mobile.

FloatingButton and DoubleFloatingButton

These two components received significant sizing and consistency improvements which should improve their touch area on mobile.

Packager section

You can find the package on download.kde.org and it has been signed with my GPG key.

Oxygen Icons is an icon theme for use with any XDG compliant app and desktop.

It is part of KDE Frameworks 6 but is now released independently to save on resources.

This 6.0.0 release requires to be built with extra-cmake-modules from KF 6 which is not yet released, distros may want to wait until next week before building it.

Distros which ship this version can drop the version released as part of KDE Frameworks 5.

sha256: 28ec182875dcc15d9278f45ced11026aa392476f1f454871b9e2c837008e5774

URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/oxygen-icons/

Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell <jr@jriddell.org>
https://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg

This project is creating a WS-Discovery client library based on the KDSoap library.

The name is short for Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB Simple Object Access Protocol Web Services Addressing Discovery Client.

It is used by the SMB KIO worker from kio-extras.

kio-extras will have two releases as part of KDE’s 6th Megarelease, one for Qt 5 and one for Qt 6. Distros should build and ship both versions of kio-extras but the Qt5 build should use the internal static copy of kdsoap-ws-discovery-client so does not need to be built separately. The Qt 6 build of kio-extras does need this external build of kdsoap-ws-discovery-client. Distros will need an up to date copy of KDSoap library.

There are no changes compared to 0.3.0 but this one is released as stable ahead of KDE Gear 24.02.

SHA 256: 2cd247c013e75f410659bac372aff93d22d71c5a54c059e137b9444af8b3427a
URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/kdsoap-ws-discovery-client/
Signed by E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Esk-Riddell <jr@jriddell.org>
https://jriddell.org/esk-riddell.gpg