KDE Usability & Productivity: Week 62
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Week 62 for KDE’s Usability & Productivity initiative is here, and we didn’t let up! We’ve got new features, bugfixes, more icons… we’ve got everything! Take a look:
New Features
- The System Settings Desktop Session page now lets you reboot directly into the computer’s UEFI setup screen, if applicable (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Plasma 5.16.0):
- Gwenview now has full touchscreen support, with gestures for swiping, zooming, panning, etc. (Steffen Hartlieb, KDE Applications 19.04.0)
- Okular’s presentation mode now allows you to optionally navigate both backwards and forwards using a touchscreen (Oliver Sander, KDE Applications 19.04.0):
Bugfixes & Performance Improvements
- When using multiple Virtual Desktops, Task Manager tooltips once again indicate the Virtual Desktop that a task is on , and sorting tasks by Virtual Desktop once again works (Eike Hein, KDE Plasma 5.15.3)
- Fixed a bug that could cause certain GTK themes to display huge icons in the System Settings GTK configuration page (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, KDE Plasma 5.15.3)
- KInfoCenter once again activates list items with a single-click even when using the systemwide double-click mode for files and icons (Harald Sitter, KDE Plasma 5.15.3)
- When when using X11 and the KWin window manager’s compositing is interrupted or stopped in the middle of the Present Windows effect, mouse and keyboard input no longer get disabled (Vlad Zagorodniy, KDE Plasma 5.15.3)
- In the Application Dashboard, Ctrl+a now selects all search text even after the context switches (Eike Hein, KDE Plasma 5.15.3)
- Discover no longer lets you pull down on the updates page to refresh while it’s already refreshing (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, KDE Plasma 5.15.4)
- Discover once again displays the proper background colors on the app list, search, and updates pages (me: Nate Graham, KDE Plasma 5.15.4)
- The login and lock screens’ clock no longer sometimes displays some of the numbers clipped off at the sides (Krešimir Čohar, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- The qtquick2 style framework is now listed as a runtime dependency for Plasma , which should hopefully provide a helpful hint to packagers that it needs to be installed and reduce the incidence of people who use certain distros seeing ugly user interfaces on QML/Kirigami apps (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- The Baloo file indexing service should now crash much less often (Valeriy Malov, KDE Frameworks 5.57)
- When a move or copy operation is canceled in the middle, the half-finished destination file is now automatically deleted (Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan, KDE Frameworks 5.57)
- Fixed another memory leak in Dolphin (David Hallas, KDE Applications 19.04.0)
- Dolphin’s Information Panel’s context menu is now correctly positioned on Wayland when using two screens (Méven Car, KDE Applications 19.04.0)
- When downloading new Yakuake skins from the Get Hot New Stuff window, the newly-downloaded skins actually appear as options you can choose (Lionel Chauvin, Yakuake 3.0.6)
User Interface Improvements
- Discover’s update notifier no longer opens a little pop-up when you click on it; now it just opens Discover itself , which fixes problems with the notifier and the app disagreeing over how many updates are available (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- Cleaned up and re-organized the Task Manager context menus (me: Nate Graham, KDE Plasma 5.16.0):
- Task Manager tooltips that display album art now look much better (Tranter Madi, KDE Plasma 5.16.0):
- When using a vertical panel, the Digital Clock’s date display now takes up the full amount of available horizontal space (Antny Zilla, KDE Plasma 5.16.0):
- In Kate, KWrite and other apps like KDevelop that use the KTextEditor framework, text selection now works like it does everywhere else : when text is selected, the left arrow key moves the insertion point one character to the left of the beginning of the selection, and the right arrow key moves the insertion point one character to the right of the end of the selection (Loh Tar, KDE Frameworks 5.57)
- In Kate, KWrite and other apps like KDevelop that use the KTextEditor framework, text drag-and-dropped onto the left border inserts it at the beginning of the line (Loh Tar, KDE Frameworks 5.57)
- Various icons throughout KDE software such as in Dolphin and System Settings now look better when using a fractional systemwide scale factor (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Frameworks 5.57)
- The Breeze applications-gaming icon is now visible against dark background, and just looks better in general (Noah Davis, KDE Frameworks 5.57):
- KIO and Dolphin now display thumbnails for PCX files (Kai Uwe Broulik, KDE Applications 19.04.0)
- Spectacle’s filename template chooser now has clickable tokens (David Redondo, KDE Applications 19.04.0):
- The “Find” action in Yakuake, the embedded terminal in Dolphin and Kate, and any other users of the Konsole KPart now has a keyboard shortcut by default (Nicolas Fella, Yakuake 3.0.6)
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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