As we continue to evolve and adapt the Qt Framework to the needs of our users and upcoming regulation changes, we are excited to announce some significant changes to our Long-Term Support (LTS) policy from Qt 6.8 onwards. The changes are designed to provide a more robust and predictable support strategy, ensuring your projects remain secure and stable over their entire lifecycle.
All but one of KDE's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) projects are complete. This post will summarize the completed project outcomes. GSoC is a program where people who are students or are new to Free and Open Source software make programming contributions to an open source project.
Python bindings for KDE Frameworks:
Manuel Alcaraz Zambrano, implemented Python bindings for KWidgetAddons, KUnitConversion, KCoreAddons, KGuiAddons, KI18n, KNotifications, and KXmlGUI. This was done using Shiboken. In addition, Manuel wrote a tutorial on how to generate Python bindings using Shiboken. The complicated set of merge requests are still being reviewed, and Manuel continues to interact with the KDE community.
Update SSHD library in KDE Connect Android app
The main aim of ShellWen Chen's project was to update Apache Mina SSHD from 0.14.0 to 2.12.1. The older version has a few listed vulnerabilities. The newer library required additional code to enable it to work on older Android phones, upto Android API 21.
Implementing a computerized opponent for the Mancala variant Bohnenspiel:
João Gouveia created Mankala engine, a library to enable easy creation of Mancala games. The engine contains implementations for two Mancala games, Bohnenspiel and Oware. Both games contain computerized opponents, João also started on a QtQuick graphical user interface. The games are functional, but additional investigation on computerized opponents may help improve their effectiveness.
Improved subtitling support for Kdenlive:
Kdenlive has gotten improved subtitling support. Chengkun Chen added support for using the Advanced SubStation (ASS) file format and for converting SubRip files to ASS files. To support this format, Chengkun Chen also made subtitling editor improvements. The work has been merged in the main repository. Documentation has been written, and will hopefully be merged soon.
Creating Pixel Perfect Tool for Krita:
Ken Lo worked on implementing Pixel Perfect lines in Krita. As
explained by
Ricky Han,
such algorithms remove corner pixels from L shaped blocks and ensure the thinnest possible line
is 1 pixel wide. Implementing such algorithms well is of use not only in Krita, but also in
rendering web graphics where user screen resolutions can vary significantly. The algorithm was
implemented to work in close to real time while lines are drawn, rather than as a post processing
step. Ken Lo's work has been merged into Krita.
Improve Python Interoperability with LabPlot
Israel Galadima worked on improving Python support in LabPlot. Shiboken was used for this. It is now possible to call some of LabPlot functions from Python and integrate these into other applications.
Kuntal Bar added 3D graphing abilities to LabPlot. This was done using QtGraphs. The work has yet to be merged, but there are many nice examples of 3D plots, for bar charts, scatter and surface plots.
Improving Snap Ecosystem in KDE
Snaps are self contained linux application packging formats. Soumyadeep Ghosh worked on improving the tooling necessary to make KDE applications easily available in the Snap Store. In addition, Soumyadeep improved packaging of a number of KDE Snap packages, and packaged MarkNote. Finally, Soumyadeep created Snap KCM, a graphical user interface to manage permissions that Snaps have when running.
The GSoC period is over, for all but one contributor, Pratham Gandhi. A follow up post will summarize contributions from the remaining project. Contributors have enjoyed participating in GSoC and we look forward to their continuing participation in free and open source software communities and in contributing to KDE.
Kdenlive 24.08.2 is out with many fixes to a wide range of bugs and regressions.
The post Kdenlive 24.08.2 released appeared first on Kdenlive.
If you want to contribute to KDE in a significant way (beyond coding), here is your opportunity — help us organize Akademy 2025!
We are seeking hosts for Akademy 2025, which will occur in June, July, August, or September. This is your chance to bring KDE’s biggest event to your city! Download the Call for Hosts guide and submit your proposal to akademy-proposals@kde.org by December 1, 2024.
Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns! We are here to help you organise a successful event and are here to offer you any advice, guidance, or help you need. Let’s work together to make Akademy 2025 an event to remember.
Oxygen Icons 6.1.0 is a feature release of the Oxygen Icon set.
It features new SVG symbolic icons for use in Plasma Applets.
It also features improved icon theme compliance, fixed visability and added mimetype links.
URL: https://download.kde.org/stable/oxygen-icons/
Source: oxygen-icons-6.1.0.tar.xz
SHA256: 16ca971079c5067c4507cabf1b619dc87dd6b326fd5c2dd9f5d43810f2174d68
Signed by: E0A3EB202F8E57528E13E72FD7574483BB57B18D Jonathan Riddell jr@jriddell.org
https://jriddell.org/jriddell.pgp
Hey folks! Apologies for the long gap since my last post. A lot has happened both personally and professionally—I got a new job and relocated, which led to me extending my GSoC deadline to wrap up the remaining tasks. I’m happy to share that I’ve now completed everything, and all the pending MRs related to my GSoC work have been merged. Here’s a quick overview:
Although much progress has been made during GSoC’24, there are still many areas where Okular’s PDF form functionality could be expanded:
Participating in GSoC with KDE and contributing to Okular has been an incredible learning experience, and I’m proud of the contributions made. Huge thanks to my mentor, Albert Astals Cid, for his constant support, guidance, and patience through all my mistakes. Special thanks to Sune Vuorela for his reviews and insights which helped me learn a lot, and to the KDE Mentorship and GSoC teams for their indirect but invaluable help. I’m looking forward to continuing my journey with KDE.
See you next time. Cheers!
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.
This week we migrated more apps to Qt6, made Dolphin more optimized for mobile and added many new features to Tokodon.
Let's get started!
Cantor has been ported to Qt6. (Alexander Semke, Carl Schwan, Nikita Sirgienko and Stefan Gerlach, 24.12.0. Link)
Cantor's website was ported from Jekyll to Hugo for easier maintenance and a sleeker design. (Carl Schwan, Now! Link)
Percent values are now correctly translated. (Emir Sari. Link)
From now on, Dolphin uses a phone-optimized alternative user interface when started on Plasma Mobile. After the addition of a selection mode and improvements to touchscreen-compatibility, Dolphin is surprisingly great on phones now! However, more work is still needed to more closely align the phone user interface with that of a phone app expectations. (Felix Ernst, 24.12.0. Link)
The right-click context menu for the Trash folder now contains actions to sort the Trash, change its view mode, and for cutting and copying items. (Eren Karakas, 24.12.0. Link 1, Link 2)
Quickly pressing the back or forward buttons on a mouse twice is no longer incorrectly interpreted as only wanting to go back or forward once. (Wolfgang Müller, 24.12.0. Link)
Francis now lets you skip the current phase of work or break time. (Joëlle van Essen, 24.12.0. Link)
There is new a setting to disable starting over from the first image when moving forward beyond the last one. (Christian Svensson, 24.12.0. Link)
You can now filter plugins in the plugin settings page. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)
We fixed getting default sounds for the "Find this Device" plugin in the Kirigami app. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)
Improvements have been made to the debug dialog and it now allows you to run both pre-configured and custom debugging commands. (Tobias Fella, Gear 24.12.0. Link)
KleverNotes is now available on Flathub. (Louis Schul. Link)
KMail's SMTP configuration dialog has been redesigned. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)
KRDC starts just by opening a .rdp file containing the RDP connection configuration. (Fabio Bas, 24.12.0. Link)
There is now an option that lets you select the default color space for EXR files. (Dmitry Kazakov. Link)
Tooltips that had white on white text (and were thus unreadable) have been fixed. (Albert Astals Cid. 24.08.3. Link)
You now have a more compact date format for the torrent list "Added" column. (George Florea Bănuș, 24.12.0. Link)
Labplot has been ported to Qt6 (Alexander Semke. Link).
Various small regressions in Merkuro have been fixed. (Claudio Cambra, 24.08.3. Link 1, link 2, link 2, link 3, link 4, link 5, link 6)
Navigation on mobile has been improved by loading the timeline only when requested. (James Graham, 24.12.0. Link)
The context menu on mobile has been fixed. (James Graham, 24.12.0. Link)
Sending SMS has been fixed. (Alistair Francis, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)
A warning message is shown when Spacebar is not able to connect to its background service. (Devin Lin, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
The chat page now makes it easier to distinguish between "single contact conversations" and "groups" when creating a new chat. (Devin Lin, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
A fake ModemManager has been introduced to help developing Spacebar on laptops without a modem. (Devin Lin, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
"Content Warning" has been changed to "Content Notice" and the warning iconography has been removed. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
Tokodon lets you remove and add users to your lists. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
We added an "unread" notification count and you can now set your notifications to "read". (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
A proper grid view for the media tab has been added in the profile page. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
The wording of the private note field's label in the profile page has been improved. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)
Support for displaying authorship in preview cards has been added. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
A "News" and a "Users" sections have been added to the Explore page, and the "Tags" section has been renamed to "Hashtag". (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link 1, link 2, link 3)
Network settings have been removed from the login view as they are now available from the welcome page. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
The "joined date" info has been added to the profile information. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
A safety page has been added to the Tokodon settings to manage the list of muted and blocked users. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
The placeholders have been improved for when no posts are loaded. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
Tokodon handles Mastodon 4.3.0's new (moderation warnings and severance events) notifications types. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
The media descriptions (also known as alt text) are now displayed in a popup when clicked. (Joshua Goins, 24.12.0. Link)
And many more improvements and cleanups. (Link)
We updated the screenshots of many KDE games including Bomber, Granatier, Kapman, KAtomic, KBlocks and more. (Valentyn Bondarenko. Link)
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Hello again, sorry it’s been a while since the last post. In this case, I’m doing a never-before-seen multi-month post!
This may be the last post in this series, as the KDE Promo team has launched “This Week in KDE Apps” which covers my work here (and I also have plans to contribute to… 😅) Nate Graham typically reports on my Plasma changes in his “This Week in Plasma” series. All that would be left is the uninteresting changes, so I was thinking it might be more sensible to do an emersion-style “Status update” that’s isn’t strictly KDE related. We’ll see!
Feature You can now tweak the pen pressure. This is useful if you prefer a specific style to your strokes, and you can’t change this directly in your preferred application. We plan to have add “soft” and “hard” presets to make using the curve easier. This is one of the last items paid for by our NLnet grant, so it’s exciting to see it finally come to fruition! 6.3
Feature The stylus cursor is now hidden on the Calibration page but this will only work once your distribution switches to Qt 6.8. The credit belongs to Nicolas Fella as he’s the one who put in the work upstream in Qt! 6.2.1
Bugfix The calibration accuracy is now improved slightly and refining your existing calibration further should work closer to how you expect. 6.2.1
Bugfix Added more safety rails in the Calibration code to prevent possible crashes. 6.2.1
Bugfix Made sure the calibration matrix is reset when you hit the “Defaults” button. 6.2.1
Bugfix Now the Calibration window opens on the correct screen. 6.2.1
Bugfix Now the action dialog doesn’t show up in the wrong place when your KCM scrolls a lot, like mine. 6.2.1
Feature The welcome page when you first open Tokodon now looks much nicer and friendly. Hopefully it makes it clearer what Tokodon is, and also includes an even clearer badge to indicate what service it connects to. 24.12
Feature Display public servers to ease registration for first-time Mastodon users. Right now there’s not any filtering options, but this is a huge improvement over an empty textbox and expecting users to know where to find a server. 24.12
Feature My post tag display improvement was merged, which limits tags to one line. Note that this isn’t the final design we’ll go with, but they will no longer spill onto multiple lines. 24.12
Feature It seems people want Cohost’s “Following” feed for Mastodon, and of course Tokodon could do it! So that’s what I did, and implemented Cohost’s “Following” feed. Albiet it’s currently limited due to the Mastodon API we have available, so it comes with two big caveats currently: You only see when people were last active by the day, and the pagination kinda sucks. 24.12
Feature Added support for managing your social graph within Tokodon. For example if you don’t want someone to follow you anymore, or to quickly unfollow someone from your “Following” list. 24.12
Feature Self-identified bots are now correctly identified on the profile page. 24.12
Feature Due to limitations in the Mastodon API, we now put a button on the account page to denote there are more settings available online. 24.12
Feature Changed the media tab to a grid view, making it easy to see a user’s media all at once. This works different compared to Mastodon Web as you can even filter by featured tag in this mode - but it’s not shown in this screenshot. 24.12
Feature Laid the initial groundwork unread notifications. You now have a number indicator in the sidebar for unread notifications, and mark them as read. 24.12
Feature Added list user management, so now you can use lists to their full advantage within Tokodon itself. 24.12
Feature The warning iconography for “Content Warnings” are now removed, and replaced with “Content Notice” to denote it’s true and more generic purpose. 24.12
Feature Added support for read markers, allowing you to continue reading where you last left off. 24.12
Feature Now the authorship of links are displayed in link preview cards including a Mastodon account, if available. See this official Mastodon blog post for more details. 24.12
Feature Added a way to view poll results before voting, finally. 24.12
Feature Now it’s possible to see which poll options you voted for. 24.12
Feature When clicking the “ALT” button, the media description pops up. This could be useful if you want to quickly view what the media is, before unhiding it. 24.12
Feature Tokodon now supports displaying admin report, severed relationship and moderation warning notifications. These notifications can then be configured in the notifications settings as per usual. The details shown in the notifications can still use a bit of work, though. 24.12
Feature The Notifications page is redesigned, to better suit non-English languages. I also added a button to go straight to Notification settings from here. 24.12
Feature When you’re using Tokodon on a newer and emptier Mastodon account, the application is much friendlier with more helpful explanatory text everywhere. 24.12
Feature Tokodon’s UI is now more responsive. The sidebar will appear on mobile devices if their screen is wide enough, like the Android tablet I use Tokodon on. 24.12
Feature Timeline streaming and read markers can be turned off, if you prefer. 24.12
Feature When viewing someone’s profile, a list of people you follow that you have in common is now shown. Hopefully this will make it easier to find new friends on Mastodon! 24.12
Feature You can now edit your profile fields within Tokodon, without having to do it through Mastodon Web. 24.12
Feature You can now see trending links (or “news”) on the Explore page, and also suggested users. I’m intentionally not showing a screenshot since it doesn’t look very good yet. 24.12
Bugfix The font size in the post composer now follows your preferred font setting. 24.12
Bugfix Tapping a post only works by tapping on the content itself, not the margins. 24.12
Feature You can open location links in your preferred map application. This is the same Map application under the Applications KCM, so you can choose something like OpenStreetMap or even Marble. 24.12
Feature The location chooser is now better in general. There’s a toolbar button to re-center the map, and if your device supports positioning then it can use that to center itself. 24.12
Feature The security page is overhauled and now contains more relevant settings from other pages. 24.12
Feature NeoChat’s welcome page when you first open it now looks a bit nicer. 24.12
Bugfix Now when you only have friend invites and no messages a better icon is displayed, instead of none at all. 24.12
Bugfix The buggy look of the date section header is finally fixed. 24.08.1
Feature I added support for United Airlines reservations, so they can be imported to Itinerary and show up in KMail. Paired with Kalendar, this makes it really easy to keep track of my travel plans! I hope to add support for more North American airlines as I fly them, it’s surprisingly easy to write extractors. 24.08.1
Feature Added support for separator actions in ToolBarLayout in Kirigami. 6.7
Feature Added command names for “Remove Spaces” and “Keep Extra Spaces” in KTextEditor, for a secret future project. 6.7
Feature You can now disable the scrollbar interactivity on ScrollablePages in Kirigami. 6.8
Feature Initial support for QML bindings to the KTextAddons emoticons API. This means that eventually our applications will no longer need to have their own special emoji picker, and our Unicode data will be unified! 1.6
Bugfix The caption text in applications that use the Kirigami add-ons fullscreen image viewer is now copyable. I usually write alternative text for my artwork in Tokodon first, and then copy it elsewhere. So it’s really cool to be able to do this within Tokodon itself and not have to go through Mastodon Web. 1.6
The goal I championed for, “We care about your Input” was selected! You can check it out on the goals page on the KDE website, which also includes links to our public workboard, chat and the original proposal. Let’s make KDE Plasma the perfect desktop environment for artists! (And everyone else too, I guess 😜)
I also attended Akademy this year! You can read more about it in it’s dedicated blog post if you missed it.
It’s been almost a year since I started this series, and I can’t believe I’ve done almost a dozen of these. People seem to really like them, and I’m really appreciative of that! Like I said in the beginning, there will most likely not be a next part as it will be rolled into someone else’s blog posts now.
If you want a hint as to what I’ll be about blogging next, you might want to remember where this all began.
I’m pretty interested in tablet stuff . Not because I think it makes senseo type long chunks of text using an on-screen keyboard, but they should make for a good drawing and painting experience. I’ve already written about the largest tablet I ever had, a 24″ Cintiq Pro and the Remarkable 2.
Today I’m going to run the gamut of the other tablets I’ve used…
Let’s start at eleven o’clock. That’s an iPad pro, first generation. I got it to see whether painting applications would work on it, and maybe port Krita to it. In the end, I pretty much only used it to read comics on. It’s top-heavy, the pen is top-heavy and I just didn’t like the painting applications I could get for it, like Procreate. I did create a little mock-up Qt-based painting application for testing purposes. But… I really, really hated the Apple Pencil. Like, really. I also dislike iPadOS quite a bit.
Then, at two o’clock, the latest addition to the stable. The Remarkable Paper Pro. It’s bigger than the Remarkable 2, which isn’t necessarily a good thing. It’s supposedly the most advanced color e-ink panel there is, and there’s a front light. That makes it better than my Remarkable 2, which I now handed over to Irina, because without the front light, it’s unusable in anything but the brightest sunlight. That might just be my eyes, of course. The color, though… It’s fine for reading comics or pdf’s, if you like that seventies cheaply printed comic book look. Since the Remarkable runs its own OS, you cannot install Android apps, and since the OS changes quite a bit from version to version, third party apps ten not to work, or even brink the device, despite the device being remarkably open. (Sorry, pun intended.) The device does ooze quality, though! And the pen is great, really great.
Then, at four o’clock, there’s an Onyx Boox. It does run Android, and I wanted to see how well it would run Krita. Well, Krita runs, but the device is a bit slow. The pen is pretty nice, too, even if the cap is dinky. The color is worse than the remarkable’s one, but, again, if you’re reading counterfeit seventies Uncle Scrooge PDF’s, it’s fine. I mostly use this device to learn Hangul and read right-to-left manga. It’s too slow, and the display is too slow, for vertical scrolling manhwa.
Next, at six o’clock, the Samsung Tab S4 Android tablet that we got when we first ported Krita to Android. Despite being really old and not getting any OS updates anymore, it’s still doing fine. I mostly use it to read manga and manhwa using Nihom, and still for testing Krita. The pen is too small to be comfortable, but I only use it for testing. What’s really annoying is that every Saturday morning, I get a notification that Samsung’s legal stuff has changed — even though I don’t get any security updates.
Finally, at eight o’clock, the Frunsi Rubenstab. It’s a bit heavy, a bit small, a bit slow, but on the whole, it’s amazing. It runs Android. It’s mostly designed to be used in landscape mode. The pen is great, the display is good, the large bezels make it easy to hold and it comes with just about too much extra stuff, ranging from ant-static gloves to a brush-like implement.
At this point we’ve addressed most of the nasty regressions people found in Plasma 6.2. Thankfully most were not widespread, and were instead related to people’s diverse hardware setups. Most seem to have had smooth upgrades, but those whose hardware setups misbehaved with changes made in 6.2 were a focus for rapid response. These kinds of hardware-specific issues are really difficult to test for ahead of time, which is why we’re always asking for more beta testers! For folks whose hardware encountered problems, I expect things to be pretty good with Plasma 6.2.2, which’ll be released in a few days.
In the meantime, the floodgates have been opened for those not working on bug fixes to start landing their feature work for Plasma 6.3! Check it all out below:
It’s now possible to customize the pressure curve for drawing tablet pens! (Joshua Goins, Plasma 6.3.0. Link):
Added a new page to Info Center that shows technical data extracted from your screens’ EDID blocks (Harald Sitter, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
In Plasma’s Weather Report widget, added support for nighttime forecasts when using a weather station from the Deutscher Wetterdienst source (Wolfgang Müller, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
If you manage to mess up your tablet calibration badly enough that it becomes impossible to use it to re-calibrate, System Settings’ drawing Tablet page will now reset the calibration when you click the “Default” button (Joshua Goins, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)
Plasma’s digital Clock widget now displays all events on days with more than five events, making it actually useful for that use case (Tino Lorenz, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
Improved the way pop-ups using the “Sliding Popups” effect slide out of floating Plasma panels (Niccolò Venerandi, Plasma 6.3.0. Link):
Plasma’s Power and Battery widget now shows better placeholder text when you’re managing power using tlp instead of power-profiles-daemon, or when power-profiles-daemon is installed but not supported by the device’s firmware (Natalie Clarius, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
It’s no longer possible to accidentally resize a Plasma widget’s pop-up from one of its edges that touches the edge of a screen or Plasma panel (Niccolò Venerandi, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
The upload and download arrows in Plasma’s Networks widget now uses a different character that’s substantially more readable with many fonts (Tem PQD, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
Fixed a regression that could sometimes cause graphical corruption on external screens attached to certain NVIDIA GPUs (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.2.1. Link 1 and link 2)
Fixed a regression that caused Kickoff to unexpectedly open after you hold down the Shift key and press Alt, which may seem like it’s an unusual thing to do, but it can be common in certain video games and it’s quite disruptive in that context (Yifan Zhu, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)
Fixed a case where System Settings’ Wallpaper page could crash when previously configured in a way that’s now invalid (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)
Fixed a case where the tablet calibration overlay could appear on a monitor where it doesn’t make any sense (Joshua Goins, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)
Fixed three regressions accidentally introduced in Plasma 6.2.1 while fixing other bugs: one causing crashes on multi-GPU systems, the second making the splash screen take too long, and the final one making the cursor not change shape properly when hovering over links in certain apps (Xaver Hugl and David Edmundson, Plasma 6.2.1.1. Link 1, link 2, and link 2)
Fixed a performance regression affecting people using NVIDIA GPUs and the Night Light feature (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.2.1.1. Link)
Fixed a regression that caused HDR to stop working properly in games that request absurd brightness levels, like a billion nits of brightness (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.2.2. Link)
Fixed a regression that could cause the cursor to misbehave in certain video games (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.2.2. Link)
Fixed an issue that caused visual distortion in the clipboard widget’s config window when interacting with it in a very specific way (David Edmundson, Plasma 6.2.2. Link)
Fixed two visual issues in Breeze’s GTK 4 theming (Łukasz Patron, Plasma 6.3.0. Link 1 and link 2)
Fixed a minor issue with widgets on the Plasma desktop that would cause the cursor to inappropriately use the hand shape after dragging them and then later hovering over an edge (Niccolò Venerandi, Plasma 6.3.0. Link)
Some third-party apps handle files in a buggy way, and overwrite your file associations such that certain file types get configured to always open with the kde-open or xdg-open command-line tools. When they do this, the system no longer consumes all CPU and memory resources and crashes; instead opening the file simply doesn’t work (Akseli Lahtinen, Frameworks 6.8. Link)
Opening a “Get New [stuff]” dialog on any System Settings pages no longer sometimes causes the app to secretly stay open after you close it, which would prevent it from being re-opened again and make you want to throw the computer out the window (Harald Sitter, Frameworks 6.8. Link)
Category icons in Kickoff are now symbolic as intended when using the Breeze Dark icon theme. Also put in place some other changes to prevent this happening again in the future (David Redondo, Frameworks 6.8. Link 1 and link 2)
Other bug information of note:
Refined the tablet calibration feature so that it produces more accurate calibrations (Joshua Goins, Plasma 6.2.1. Link)
If you’re a developer, keep on working to fix Plasma 6.2 regressions! We’ve got ’em on the run, and this is our chance to finish them off!
Otherwise, visit https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover additional 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! Or consider donating instead! That helps too.
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