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This week in KDE: Activities on Wayland
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now mostly works on Wayland
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now have an option to change the font size
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now works correctly when using the “Trim Margins” feature
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can once again be played in Okular
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the loading page now retains its correct color
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can now un-archive zip files with Windows-style backslashes used as path separators
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a bug in the Breeze application style that could manifest as a big ugly black square appearing in KMail
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one way that Plasma could crash right after login
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will no longer crash if you plug in an external screen while in a non-GUI session (e.g. a virtual terminal)
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no longer displays the wrong name of the currently connected device
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fixed this 9 months ago in Plasma 5.19.1 but
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are now displayed as “21:9” in System Settings’ Display Configuration page, rather than “64:27”
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one way that KWin could crash with certain low-power embedded GPUs
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are no longer positioned too high in the Plasma Wayland session
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now works again
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no longer causes all Qt apps to crash
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are now working even on non-US keyboard layouts
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no longer lags or hangs when displaying a massive number of tooltips for grouped Task Manager tasks
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can no longer block re-login by crashing on the previous log-out and then getting stuck
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no longer only displays typed text on the text field of the left-most screen, even if you clicked on the text field on a different screen
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now works in the Plasma Wayland session
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no longer crash if you delete an open file on disk and choose the “Close file, discarding contents” option in the warning message that appears in the app
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a rare case where Kate and other KTextEditor-based apps could crash when dragging text
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are no longer displayed below the sheet content
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no longer sometimes take up the whole screen width
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now gets elided when there’s not enough space, rather than overflowing
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now displays errors inline, rather than using an ugly modal dialog window
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is now considered to be a document-specific setting (like the zoom settings are), rather than a global setting
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now use the “pending deletion” pattern used in many other pages, whereby deleting an item only marks as it as in a “pending deletion” state and it only actually gets deleted when you click the “Apply” button
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now receive keyboard focus when opened, so they can be interacted with using the keyboard
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are now top-aligned for tall ones, so that the trash button doesn’t shift around according to height, which makes it easy to click on that button repeatedly to manually prune your history list
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no longer shows a huge weird rapidly-disappearing tooltip while loading the Updates page if the cursor is over any part of it
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now makes its purpose more clear
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renamed
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given a UI overhaul
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now visually indicates when it’s scrollable by displaying a visible scrollbar
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it’s now possible to disable “click a selected file’s label to rename it” feature for desktop icons, just as it is in Dolphin
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shows you the exact name of the package for the app in question
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groups the dependencies by installation status
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now sort items case-insensitively
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now have left and right margins that are consistent with their top and bottom margins
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no longer display pointless tooltips saying, “Yes” and “No” when you hover your cursor over buttons whose own text may already be “Yes” and “No”!
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https://planet.kde.org/
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making a tax-deductible donation
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KDE e.V. foundation
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Nate
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This Week in KDE
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the hamburger menu
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introduced KHamburgerMenu to the world
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big long post criticizing GNOME-style headerbars
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Usability & Productivity
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User Interface Design
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KHamburgerMenu
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porting Dolphin’s custom implementation
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https://pointieststick.com/2021/04/03/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-hamburger-menu
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it now opens and focuses that location, rather than opening a redundant new tab for it
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no longer possible to use Dolphin’s “Mount ISO” action to mount the same ISO image multiple times
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now works
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no longer fail to load your keyboard options and variants
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no longer sometimes pointlessly show a badge with the number zero in it
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now works in the case where the system is using its default font size, but that size differs from the default font size of the login screen
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create new files on a writable FTP share using Dolphin’s “Create New…” menu
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no longer sometimes crashes when taking a screenshot
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is now more reliably able to notice when files have been renamed or moved
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is now a more reasonable 1020×700
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we decided to revert the changes and go back to the customary KDE style
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Discover
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the “Get New [thing]” dialogs
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is now presented in a clearer way in the settings window
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now look more similar to Breeze-style scrollbars in Qt apps
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This week in KDE: all the things
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now have basic touchscreen scrolling support!
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now opens to a new “Quick Settings” page that displays some of the most commonly-used settings
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even includes a link to the wallpaper settings as well
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to force single-line display of both date and time irrespective of the panel’s height
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it now comes to the front automatically instead of hiding annoyingly behind existing windows
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our proposed cross-app activation protocol
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improved the speed and performance of taking high DPI screenshots in Spectacle
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once again show the correct colors in the inner view section
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no longer sometimes gets cut off at the bottom
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the right sidebar’s content no longer sometimes gets cut off
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no longer sometimes causes it to get increased or decreased by one percentage point more or less that the amount you would expect it to be adjusted by
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Plasma
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KWin
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the Task Manager is now capable of cycling through windows of a grouped task on click exactly as in the X11 session
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even if you’re using a crusty old Plasma theme that’s a fork of an old version of Breeze and hasn’t been updated in ages and ages
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now works again, and has been future-proofed a bit to hopefully make it less likely to break in the future if the source URLs change again
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now shows whether the Window Behavior page has any changed settings with the customary orange dot in the sidebar when using its “Highlight Changed Settings” feature
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no longer activate every single window that the cursor passes over while dragging
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no longer closes both the popup and also any other closable thing below it that was also open
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no longer sometimes launches apps as the wrong user under certain circumstances
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no longer gets stuck
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no longer sometimes crashes when playing a video preview in the Information Panel, and also uses a bit less memory when doing so
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now wraps, so that the error next never gets elided before the useful part of the message can be printed
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now retains its interactive button when viewed in the notifications applet, so you can click on it to open Discover and start the update
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show a pop-up with all the saved clipboard entries right at the cursor position is now bound to the Meta+V shortcut
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a new approach that simply indents all the child pages below it
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restores the ability to click on the whole header area to go back
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received a visual overhaul which makes them more consistent with other modern KDE apps
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sometimes abruptly changing its size
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no longer shows ghost outlines of non-highlighted windows that can cause a bizarre jumble on the screen when many windows are stacked on top of one another at the same or similar positions
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now have a subtle colored line on the top of the active tab, which makes it clear which tab is active when there are only two
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now possible to delete installed Splash Screens installed using the Get New Splash Screens window straight from the System Settings page itself
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now respects your active color scheme
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no pointlessly longer prompt you to save your changes when you close a document that’s both blank and also unsaved
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This week in KDE: Some cool new features
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now supports the quick reply feature of Plasma’s notifications, allowing you to reply to a text message from within the notification itself!
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now has an optional panel that displays all the TODO items in a project
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now displays which device it’s outputting to
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now correctly reports the S.M.A.R.T status for all disks
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now have legible text when using a dark color scheme
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Okular now draws its window and content according to the scale factor of whichever screen it’s currently located on, rather than the highest one from among all connected screens
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now works
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applet positions no longer get messed up when logging in as that user the second time
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no longer incorrectly applies it to every one
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now respects the “Navigation wraps around” setting that you can set in the System Settings Virtual Desktops page
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no longer gets confused by localized text in the Locations page
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XWayland windows now respond properly to mouse input immediately, rather than requiring that the system be restarted first
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the UI no longer sometimes claims that the uninstallation process is hanging forever even when it actually succeeded
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possible to select the text of the filename in Dolphin’s information panel
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now switches to that document by default (the behavior is configurable) instead of opening it again in a new instance
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now always lives at the bottom of the window
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is now the same width as all the other ones so all you OCD people can stop twitching uncomfortably now 🙂
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it now opens in System Settings rather than in a strange custom dialog
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text not being copyable
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Improved the animation effect
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now has a visible close button so you don’t have to figure out that you click on the darkened background area to close it
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This week in KDE: Elisa grows up
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now has a full mobile interface, making it a first-class citizen on Plasma Mobile and Android
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let you jump back to the previous cursor position
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notified and asked to back up your data when problems with your disk are detected that do not quite rise to the level of a full S.M.A.R.T failure, but are nonetheless worrying and could potentially cause data loss soon
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no longer crashes if you close a tab and then immediately use the “Bookmark all tabs as folder” action
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can now play AAC files
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it no longer orders folders first when not asked to do so
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it no longer somewhat terrifyingly shows an overwrite dialog prompting you to delete one of them which freezes and becomes non-interactive anyway
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no longer inappropriately enables “on click” mode under certain circumstances
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could crash on Wayland
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is once again usable on Wayland
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Wayland’s blurry fractional scaling
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now always results in the Apply button being enabled
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now works
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now works
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now remembers its filter text if you switch away from the filtered view and then go back
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is now always properly vertically aligned no matter what font settings you use
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no longer mis-renders its checkbox when using certain fonts
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once again works in the Plasma Wayland session
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it now remembers this state after the computer is rebooted
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those menus are now properly displayed in the Plasma X11 session
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now stores its API key in a central location so that it can be updated as needed, without people having to wait for updates to their software
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System Settings could crash while installing new themes
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now add the correct filename extension while saving in the particular case when the document’s filename already ends with a period
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now do what you expect every time that button is pressed, not only every second time
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no longer change when compositing is disabled
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once again exposes the default profile in the UI, for those of you who missed it
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now set a keyboard repeat rate higher than 50 key events per second; the new maximum is 100
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the notification now indicates which app will open the file if you click on the “Open” button
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can now be used to enable it again as well
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now offers a standalone “Show in File Manager” action that you can activate for open vaults to easily jump right there
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no longer prompts you to re-accept the license agreement unless it has actually changed
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now ask for confirmation when you try to delete a note, but only when the note has real content in it–not when it’s empty or when you just created it from clipboard content
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now remembers the way you left your table columns and sidebars when you quit and re-launch it
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now follow the same visual convention of locked icons having a filled body and unlocked icons having a hollow body
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This week in KDE: Adaptive panel opacity and auto-restored unsaved documents in Kate!
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adaptive Plasma panel opacity
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the ability to have Kate automatically preserve and restore unsaved files or even unsaved changes in files when quit and re-launched
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now consumes less memory when you scroll around the app and see a lot of album art
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now works
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no longer sometimes display a broken config window
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now always returns the appropriate number of apps when asked to find handlers for a file format
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now works on multi-user systems when multiple users are logged in at the same time
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is no longer a blank entry in the Digital Clock’s time zone chooser; it now shows “Yangon”, a city in Myanmar
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no longer dumps an ugly unprintable character in its search field when you hit the Escape, Backspace, or Delete key while the history view is open
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no longer sometimes get cut off when using Plasma Mobile or using a system language with long text
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no longer sometimes crashes after spending a lot of time minimized
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no longer suffers from a variety of minor visual glitches
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the resulting window is no longer hilariously small
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now correctly update their titles to reflect user-initiated changes immediately after such changes are made
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now appears correctly again
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once again have the same height as menus in KDE and Qt apps
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now display their top headerbars with the correct height
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a few issues in the Breeze Dark Global Theme which were causing it to not properly apply the intended color scheme and splash screen
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the system no longer wastes CPU and GPU power drawing un-rendered components
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are no longer blurry
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now presents the correct cursor when you move your mouse over it and is never the wrong color or even inappropriately selectable
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Gwenview’s image thumbnail view now scrolls by the same amount (matching Dolphin) no matter how large the thumbnails are
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more obvious how to stop a presentation in Okular
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is now used to enter and exit fullscreen as it does in many other apps, rather than toggling line numbers on and off
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now shows a quality chooser slider when saving images in the JPEG XL file format, if supported on your system
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now fully respects your animation duration settings, including not animating anything at all when animations are disabled
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This week in KDE: a little bit of everything
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can now be configured to not cause its hidden panel to become visible when one of its apps or tasks receives a “needs attention” status
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now support the HEIF and HEIC image formats
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can now be set to 100%
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no longer sometimes crashes in the Plasma Wayland session when you copy something in an XWayland app and immediately paste it in a native Wayland app
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no longer sometimes crashes when closing the Audio Volume applet
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no longer crashes on close when a custom page was open
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no longer crashes when you open and close the new Firewall page twice
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can once again execute executable script files
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delete or disable unwanted fonts from the System Settings Font Management page
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finally finally finally works again!
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once again works with keyboard navigation
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can once again be configured to not show the “Shut Down” action
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are now horizontally aligned with the header over the sidebar
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no longer causes a spurious “Loading more stuff…” indicator to appear at the bottom
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really actually finally re-enabled by default again now
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no longer crashes when clearing the history from the Activities page
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are once again draggable
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the bottom row of buttons now moves buttons that can’t fit into the available space into an overflow menu
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are no longer all caps
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should no longer be slightly blurry
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no longer cover Plasma panels when they’re visible
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no longer causes the newly-renamed file to display the wrong thumbnail
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no longer tries to index Ninja build files
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no longer causes the view in the window that created it to scroll up to the top, if it was scrolled to a different position
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You can see it all over at Carl’s blog
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is now a bit faster to display thumbnail previews
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a line is no longer drawn between an app’s toolbar and the main content area
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even when you’re using an Aurorae window decoration theme
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now more heavily weights title matches and higher user ratings
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now makes it clearer in the search and browse lists when an app comes from a non-default backend
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now makes it clear on the home page when there are updates available
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you can hover your cursor over its generic name in the Plasma Audio Volume applet to see its full name, just in case you forgot which device was connected
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now always display an “Open containing folder” button
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will now send newly-changed values to the app immediately rather than requiring that you hit the return/enter key or de-focus the control
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now moves with buttery smoothness
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This week in KDE: Plasma 5.21 is finally here!
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Plasma 5.21
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now lets you perform basic git operations from within the app, such as viewing diffs, staging, committing
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stashing
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no longer asks for confirmation twice when you update a file in an archive
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once again allows you to run non-distro-provided executable programs you’ve pinned to it
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no longer crashes on login when using an Nvidia Optimus laptop
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no longer sometimes just fails
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no longer crashes on launch when not using the optional Systemd startup feature
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now display the correct information again
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now displays the correct one
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now works with a stylus
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no longer takes a long time to load when the splash screen is disabled when using the optional Systemd startup feature
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regains an option to disable screen tearing protection and maximize the refresh rate irrespective of what the GPU says
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no longer looks wrong when using a non-Breeze icon theme
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no longer lowercase when the first item in that section begins with a lowercase letter
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once again wobble correctly
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now works in the Plasma Wayland session
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now enabled its “Apply” button as soon as you change anything, not when you move to something else
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no longer crash when you clear all of their bookmarks
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no longer crashes when you install a Windows app using WINE
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no longer display glitchy tooltips when no search results are visible
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now arranges the columns in the correct order when using a right-to-left language and a large window size
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no longer display irritating misalignment for adjacent items where one has a subtitle and the other does not
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no longer truncates reviews shown on app pages
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now uses the nicer new-style Get New [Thing] dialog
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This week in KDE: Plasma 5.21 approaches!
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now offers you the ability to switch git branches right there in the main UI
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https://i.imgur.com/C8DnC7l.mp4
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now offers you the opportunity to change a device’s audio profile right there in the applet, without having to go elsewhere
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no longer sometimes creates a new document when closing tabs with a middle-click
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no longer crashes when viewing large folders in Tree view
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no longer crash when that theme is Breeze
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Neither Plasma
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the whole session
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could cause widgets to sometimes be irremovable from a panel
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once again respect Fitts’ law regarding their click targets
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once again work
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now works again
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no longer sometimes crashes when deleting an activity
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now show the correct information for current throughput
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no longer display “Total Uploaded” when they should be displaying “Upload Rate”
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is now substantially faster to launch
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now works in the Plasma Wayland session
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no longer sometimes shows bogus extra sources in its “Sources” menu when viewing the details page for a Flatpak app
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now detects hot-plugged VR headsets
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no longer causes the backlight to flicker back on for a moment before turning off again
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no longer display stepper arrows when they shouldn’t
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is no longer almost unusably narrow
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immediately apply newly-downloaded wallpapers whose names include a space
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size differences larger than 2 GiB are no longer erroneously described as being 16 EiB (!!!)
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no longer crashes when searching for new appearance settings using the Get New [thing] dialog
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the launch speed of all Kirigami-using apps
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now look good again
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now allows you to change the quality/compression level for other lossy image formats, such as WEBP, AVIF, HEIF, and HEIC
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now enables by default the feature to cut or copy the current line when nothing is selected and you use the cut or copy action
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now re-arranges the icons using a single smooth animation, not a weird two-part animation
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now returns to the windowed view
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now has text that scales with the thickness of the panel it’s located on
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now uses the fancy shiny new QML-based Get New [thing] window instead of the old funky QWidgets one
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now supports the “Highlight changed settings” feature
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can now configure the Disks & Devices applet to play a sound when a device can be safely removed
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overhauled Kate’s website to use our fancy modern new theme
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Older posts
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Follow Adventures in Linux and KDE on WordPress.com
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RSS - Posts
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KDE roadmap for 2021
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High DPI update
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Discover
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FOSS culture
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High DPI
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Inside KDE
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Linux Hardware
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New Contributor Friendliness
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Planning
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Plasma Mobile
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The KDE Community
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Uncategorized
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World Domination
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April 2021
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