KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 70
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Hold on to your hats, folks, because this week’s Usability & Productivity report is OVERFLOWING WITH AWESOMENESS! Let’s jump right in:
New Features
- The Plasma notifications system has been rewritten from the ground up, and now supports Do Not Disturb mode , persistent notifications , more intelligent history with grouping , critical notifications in fullscreen apps , improved notifications for file transfer jobs , better multi-monitor behavior , a much more usable System Settings page to configure everything , and more. Check out the commit, it’s truly epic! For even more information, see Kai’s blog post on the subject . (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Plasma 5.16.0):
- Added support for one-time passwords for OpenConnect VPNs (Enrique Melendez, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- Dolphin and the Places panel in various apps and the open/save dialogs now display FUSE-mounted filesystems , including Plasma vaults (Stefan Brüns, KDE Frameworks 5.58):
- KTextEditor-based apps like Kate and KDevelop now have a radically better and more usable menu to choose syntax highlighting style which includes a built-in search (Nibaldo Gonzalez, KDE Frameworks 5.59):
- Spectacle’s Rectangular Region mode now works on Wayland! (Boudhayan Gupta, KDE Applications 19.08.0)
- Okular’s Line annotation can now have various visual flourishes added to the ends, allowing them to be turned into arrows and more! (Rajeesh K Nambiar, KDE Applications 19.08.0):
Bugfixes & Performance Improvements
- When muting all audio using a keyboard’s mute button, now the volume level notification sound is never played (Nicolas Fella, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- On X11, GTK headerbar windows now correctly change their titlebar color when inactive (David Edmundson, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- The KWin window manager no longer crashes when a script removes the current virtual desktop (Vlad Zagorodniy, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- The “Connection Activated” notification no longer appears in the notification history , so as to avoid cluttering it up with un-actionable items (me: Nate Graham, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- Horizontal scrollbars in Kirigami and QML-based apps now have a more accurate scroll handle width (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, KDE Frameworks 5.59):
- When Spectacle is configured to use a quality setting of greater than 89 for lossy image formats like JPEG, PNG images are no longer erroneously affected and are once again saved with reasonable file sizes (David Redondo, KDE Applications 19.04.1)
- When Spectacle is configured to save in a file format other than PNG, dragging the image from the main window to somewhere else now passes the other application an image in the appropriate alternative file type (me: Nate graham, KDE Applications 19.04.1)
User Interface Improvements
- When saving a file and there’s a file type chooser, its label now says “File type:” rather than “Filter:” (me, Nate Graham, KDE Frameworks 5.59)
Next week, your name could be in this list! Not sure how? Just ask! I’ve helped mentor a number of new contributors recently and I’d love to help you, too! You can also check out https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved , and find out how you can help be a part of something that really matters. You don’t have to already be a programmer. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!
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