This Week in KDE Apps
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.
Creative Applications
Kdenlive Video editor
Balooii fixed the high memory consumption of the SAM2 based background removal (link).
Multimedia Applications
Peruse Comic Book Reader
Carl Schwan ported Peruse to Qt6 (Link) and to the newer Kirigami components.
JuK Music Player
Lukas Kahnert ported Juk from Phonon to QtMultimedia (25.08.0. Link).
Travel Applications
KDE Itinerary Digital travel assistant
Volker Krause automated the generation of static builds of the library powering Itinerary. This allows to simplify the deployement of Itinerary on servers like for Nextcloud Mail integration or the online extractor.
Grzegorz Mu expanded the documentation for writing ticket extractors (link). Writing an extractor is quite easy and only requires some knowledge of JavaScript, so checkout the new documentation and integrate the tickets from your local transport company!
Social Applications
NeoChat Chat on Matrix
Aleix Pol fixed a crash in NeoChat (link).
Tokodon Browse the Fediverse
Joshua Goins redesigned the notification view to be more compact (25.08.0. link).
Joshua also ported the navigation over to KirigamiAddons.StatefulApplication which means the different pages can now be accessed by the command popup (Ctrl+Shift+I) and can be assigned to a shortcut (25.08.0. link).
System Applications
Dolphin Manage your files
The toolbar button for view mode changing has become more powerful: Jin Liu added all the view-related actions to its dropdown menu, so this button that lies to the left of the location bar is now your one-stop shop for changing the file display of the main view. (25.08. Link)
Kai Uwe Broulik reworked the new files dialog used in Dolphin and other KIO based applications to now include the icon of the new file or folder (KF 6.14.0, link).
Journald Browser Browser for journald databases
Andreas Cord-Landwehr replaced the custom About dialog with the standard Kirigami About dialog (link). Journald Browser also adopted KirigamiAddons.StatefulApplication.
Utilities
Krfb Share your desktop to another computer via VNC
Wendi Gan added support for UTF-8 clipboard in Krfb and Krdc (25.08.0. link 1 and link 2). This means non-European alphabets are now supported!
KDE PIM
Akonadi Background service for KDE PIM apps
Krzysztof Nowicki added support for Microsoft's InTune enterprise authentification service to Akonadi's Exchange support (25.08.0. link).
Kiên Hồ added support for displaying holidays in Vietman (KF 6.14.0, link 1 and link 2).
KOrganizer KOrganizer is a calendar and scheduling application
Allen Winter continued polishing KOrganizer. This week the todo view state is now fully saved and restored across sessions (25.08.0, link), the wording of some tooltips was improved (25.08.0, link) and a crash was fixed (25.04.1. link).
…And Everything Else
This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out Nate's blog about Plasma and be sure not to miss his This Week in Plasma series, where every Saturday he covers all the work being put into KDE's Plasma desktop environment.
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