My work in KDE for March 2023

Another month in the year, another collection of bugfixes and features I contributed to KDE!

Documentation Improvements

Something I want to improve for KDE Frameworks 6 is the API documentation, it’s pretty bad sometimes:

[Bugfix] For plasma-framework, we started marking private QML types as internal. I’m in the process of manually fixing up the custom QQuickItem types in plasma-framework too, although I haven’t gotten around to opening up a merge request for that.

[Feature] I opened a doxyqml¹ merge request to make it’s output more useful, by automatically adding import statement hints to the page:

Plasma 6 Porting

[Feature] Early this month, I ended up porting most of our applets to Plasma 6! The current hitlist is:

• Sticky Notes
• Binary Clock
• Color Picker
• Fuzzy Clock
• Web Browser
• Konsole Profiles
• Media Frame
• Quick Launch
• Quick Share
• Timer
• Input Method
• Activity Manager
• Kicker

The two I’m still working on and need further testing and reviewing:

• Comic
• Kate Sessions
• Disk Quota (if you have disk quotas, please help me test this one!)

I also fixed activity switching, and fixed KRunner’s broken layout.

For those who are building Plasma 6 for the first time, extragear modules are now built by default!

PlasmaTube

[Feature] I started using PlasmaTube which is KDE’s Youtube Client, to replace FreeTube. I started by cleaning up and overhauling the account management, so it flows better.

[Bugfix] I also made the info chips non-interactable, fixed the spacing on video grid text, added more loading placeholders and stop desktop users from being able to drag the video page.

Ruqola

[Feature] Because of $work, I discovered that we have a Rocket.chat client! I miss being able to quickly switch my presence via the tray icon, so that’s the first thing I opened a merge request for.

Dr. Konqi

[Feature] Someone pointed out that the margins in the bug reporting wizard was terrible, so I started a redesign of the whole UI trying to update it to look similar to our modern applications:

Tokodon

In preparation for the 23.04 gear release, I added a slew of new features and bugfixes!

• [Bugfix] The Status Composer is now automatically focused, and you can press CTRL+Enter or CTRL+Return to submit.
• [Feature] You can now check, allow and deny follow requests.
• [Feature] When replying to a post, the post now shows up inline in the composer!

• [Feature] There are now way more notification filter types, not just “All” and “Mentions”.

And of course, there are of course many bugfixes:

• [Bugfix] Account strings that are just “@” are now detected and handled properly, so it doesn’t get stuck.
• [Feature] When searching, it’s clearer for slower connections that the list is temporarily empty because it’s loading.
• [Bugfix] Don’t allow users to edit the visibility of existing posts, which doesn’t work.

[Feature] As a treat for people who manage popular accounts - like our great KDE and Krita promo teams - I have a work-in-progress merge request to allow you to group notifications! I expect to find time next month to finish and polish this feature, but no promises yet.

Miscellaneous

• [Bugfix] Finished Nate’s work on hiding separators when the kickoff is sorted alphabetically, this will land in 5.27!
• [Feature] Added a unit test to Kalendar.