This Week in KDE Apps
Chat Changes, Editor Enhancements and Audio Advancements
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's changes and improvements cover a wide range of applications, from audio apps (including the classic Amarok, which is making a comeback) to Kate getting improvements to its integrated Git features.
In between, you have everything from new functionalities for note-taking utilities and media players, to upgrades in financial software and mobile apps.
Let's dig in!
Amarok A powerful music player that lets you rediscover your music
Tuomas Nurmi worked on making the codebase Qt6-compatible. (Tuomas Nurmi, Link)
Ark Archiving Tool
Jin Liu disabled the "Compress to tar.gz/zip" service menu items in read-only directories. (Jin Liu, 24.12.0. Link)
Dolphin Manage your files
You can now sort your videos by duration. (Somsubhra Bairi, 24.12.0. Link)
Eren Karakas added more standard actions (Sort By, View Mode, Cut and Copy) to the context menu in the trash view. (Eren Karakas, 24.12.0. Link)
Elisa Play local music and listen to online radio
Elisa now supports loading lyrics from .lrc files sitting alongside the song files. (Gary Wang, 24.12.0. Link)
Manuel Roth fixed the bug in which the metadata for webradio http streams was not getting displayed. (Manuel Roth, 24.12.0. Link)
Haruna Media player
You now have the option to open videos in full screen mode. (Rikesh Patel, Link)
KDE Itinerary Digital travel assistant
Volker Krause was at the OSM Hack Weekend last week and worked on the support of MOTIS v2 API support in the public transport client library used by KDE Itinerary. He also added a map view of an entire trip to Itinerary and the KPublicTransport demo application.
Kate Advanced Text Editor
In large repos, a git status update can be slow. The least we can do for the user is show that something is happening. Hence, now, if the git status is being refreshed you will see the refresh button become unclickable and start spinning. (Waqar Ahmed, 24.12.0. Link)
In the project tree view, files will now show their status in git. The status is shown minimally, i.e. via a small circle displayed in front of the file name. If the file has been modified, the circle is red; if the file is staged, it's green. (Waqar Ahmed, 24.12.0. Link)
We simplified the git panel by hiding the project combobox. The git panel will now show the status of the currently opened project. (Waqar Ahmed, 24.12.0. Link)
We fixed the SQL plugin's SQL export being randomly ordered. (Waqar Ahmed, 24.08.3. Link)
Clock Keep time and set alarms
KClock's timer now shows the remaining time instead of the elapsed time. (Zhangzhi Hu, 24.12.0. Link)
KMix Sound Mixer
We fixed the Audio Setup button, which didn't open the System Settings Audio page correctly. (Sergio Basto, 24.12.0. Link)
KMyMoney Personal finance manager based on double-entry bookkeeping
It's once again possible to download stock quotes from yahoo.com after they changed their output format. (Ralf Habacker, Link)
Reports can now be exported as PDF and XML. (Ralf Habacker, KMyMoney 5.2.0. Link 1, link 2)
Photos Image Gallery
We improved the design of the properties panel. (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link)
Kleopatra Certificate manager and cryptography app
The name of the "KWatchGnuPG" utility provided by Kleopatra has been updated to "GnuPG Log Viewer" (Carl Schwan, 24.12.0. Link) and we gave it a new logo.
KleverNotes Take and manage your notes
KleverNotes' painting mode has been completely rewritten. It is now possible to add circles, rectangles, labels, and to choose the stroke size. The UI also uses a new floating toolbar. (Louis Schul, 1.2.0. Link)
We improved the animation when switching pages. (Luis Schul, 1.2.0. Link)
The note preview in the appearance settings was simplified to only show the important parts. (Luis Schul, 1.2.0. Link)
KMail A feature-rich email application
Fix a crash in the Exchange Web Services (EWS) backend. (Louis Moureaux, 24.08.3. Link)
KRDC Connect with RDP or VNC to another computer
We fixed sharing folders. (Fabio Bas, 24.08.3. Link)
Merkuro Calendar Manage your tasks and events with speed and ease
Claudio Cambra fixed adding and creating sub-todos (Claudio Cambra, 24.08.3. Link and Link)) and a bug that made clicking on the month view unreliable. (Claudio Cambra, 24.08.3, Link).
We also added back the maps showing the location of individual events. This was disabled during the Qt6 migration and never enabled back afterwards. (Claudio Cambra, 24.08.3, Link)
NeoChat Chat on Matrix
Support for libQuotient 0.9 has been backported to NeoChat 24.08. This brings, among other things, cross-signing support and support for the Matrix 1.12 API, including most importantly content repo functionality switching to authenticated media. (James Graham, 24.08.0, Link)
Okular View and annotate documents
Albert Astals fixed switching between pages in the single-page mode when using a mouse with a "high resolution" scroll wheel. (Albert Astals Cid, 24.12.0. Link)
You can now use any image type as a signature background. (Sune Vuorela, 24.12.0. Link)
We removed the last CHM support mention in Okular and on the website. CHM support was dropped when transitioning to the Qt6 version. (Albert Astals Cid, 24.12.0. Link 1, link 2)
Zanshin To Do Management Application
Fixed an issue where projects would be displayed twice when toggling on and off their data source. (David Faure, 24.08.3. Link)
And all this too...
Justin Zobel fixed various appstream files to use the new way of declaring the developer's name. (Justin Zobel, KRuler, Gwenview, KEuroCalc, ...)
We ported various projects to use declarative QML declaration for better maintainance and performance (Carl Schwan, Koko, Francis, Kalk).
... And Everything Else
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