Last Two Weeks in KDE Apps

Tuesday, 2 December 2025 | This Week in KDE Apps

Performance improvement in Krita, Trust and Safety in NeoChat and files actions in Photos

Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.

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Getting back to all that's new in the KDE App scene, let's dig in!

Travel Applications

Volker Krause published a blog post about the current progress of KDE Itinerary in October and November. This includes an improved journey search page, fine-grained deletion control of tickets, altitude information in the live status view, and more! You can read all of that on his blog.

Grapics Applications

Okular View and annotate documents

Mohammad Kazemi added a “Copy Without Line Breaks” action to remove line breaks when copying text (26.04.0 - link).

Quinten Kock added native pinch gestures with a touchpad in Okular (26.04.0 - link).

Photos Image Gallery

Noah Davis added more standard file actions in Photos when viewing a picture (26.04.0 - link).

KPhotoAlbum KDE image management software

Randall Rude made the metadata extractor also extract the creation date and time for videos (link).

Creative Applications

Krita Digital Painting, Creative Freedom

Agata Cacko improved the performance of the Liquify Transform tool making it a lot more smooth to use (link).

Agata also added a knife tool prototype to Krita (link).

Joshua Goins removed the error dialog when cancelling an export (link).

Utilities Applications

Konsole Use the command line interface

Matan Ziv-Av added two keyboard actions in Konsole for focusing on the next/previous view in split view mode (26.04.0 - link).

Sune Vuorela added an option to enable or disable whether Konsole listens to zmodem terminal codes, which might happen accidentally when outputting a binary file. (26.04.0 - link)

Kate Advanced text editor

Héctor Mesa Jiménez added some default configuration for netcoredbg, a standalone debug server for .NET Core. (26.04.0 - link)

Alligator RSS feed reader

Oula V improved the feed group feature of Alligator. Now when creating a feed group, you will get an error if another one exists with the same name. They also cleaned up the list of feed groups (26.04.0 - link).

Oula also fixed some crashes in Alligator after editing a feed (25.12.0 - link) and Stephan Seitz fixed some conformance issues with the OPML export feature (25.12.0 - link).

Salvo Tomaselli reordered the buttons in the menu, and now opening the current article in an external browser is the first button (25.12.0 - link).

System Applications

Dolphin Manage your files

Alex Hermann made KIO-powered applications like Dolphin keep the permissions of files copied from an SFTP server (link 1, link 2, link 3).

NeoChat Chat on Matrix

Joshua Goins continued efforts to improve Trust and Safety in NeoChat and added support for reporting rooms and users (26.04.0 - link).

"renner 03" fixed the KRunner integration of NeoChat when running the application in Flatpak (25.12.0 - link)

Browsers

Konqueror KDE File Manager & Web Browser

Stefano Crocco added a configuration page to configure Speed Dials in Konqueror. These speed dials are buttons that allow you to quickly open pre-configured links (26.04.0 - link).

Falkon Web Browser

Juraj Oravec added support to add items in the sidebar menu to the Falkon plugin API (link).

Angelfish Webbrowser for mobile devices

Rinigus Saar fixed an issue with retrieving the last visited entries (25.12.0 - link)

PIM Applications

Trojitá IMAP E-mail Client

Sandøy Hustad started pushing some work to make Trojita support Qt 6 (link).

Third-party Applications

Chris Rizzitello released Deskflow 1.25.0! The main changes are support for a symbolic tray icon which is recolored correctly even when using Plasma's Twilight theme; support for changing the application's language without restarting it; and initial support for the wl-clipboard Wayland protocol.

EasyEffect

Giusy Digital continued working on unifying the wording of the various physical units (e.g. dB, Hz, ...) all over the application (link).

Wellington Wallace ported some overlay sheets to Kirigami dialogs (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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