This Week in KDE
New Features
Gwenview now uses a combobox to hold all of its zoom/size modes, freeing up enough space on the bottom bar to add a background color selector! This useful feature allows you to quickly change the background color behind an image to be dark, light, somewhere in the middle, or to match the background color of your active color scheme. If the active image looks better with a different background color and you want a quick way to change it, this can be useful.
Bugfixes & Performance Improvements
Skanlite is now launched in the Plasma Wayland session.
Okular no longer crashes when you drag-scroll the document in such a way that the cursor touches a window edge in a Plasma Wayland session. It still doesn't wrap around like it does on X11, but the KDE developers are working on it.
The default window size of Konsole when you first launch it is no longer ridiculously small.
When you run a sandboxed Flatpak app and then switch to another, the popup asking you to approve background activity no longer crashes the xdg-desktop-portal process.
The process that runs the Plasma logout screen in the Plasma X11 session no longer occasionally crashes as it disappears.
Killing a process in Tree View mode in Plasma System Monitor now kills the correct process.
System Tray icons that implement context menus using the xembedsniproxy process are no longer invisible.
The Plasma Audio Volume applet now uses less background CPU power.
The Media Player applet now removes an audio source from its list of audio sources as soon as it stops playing, rather than waiting until all audio sources have stopped playing.
Dialogs in GTK apps can now be moved with a touchscreen.
When compositing is disabled, the KWin window manager no longer occasionally crashes when attempting to render window thumbnails.
Improved the speed of SVG item lookups, which should result in a slight increase in responsiveness and a decrease in CPU consumption across the board.
When you change the system font, QtQuick-based apps now update immediately without requiring you to relaunch them.
User Interface Improvements
Discover now displays a more appropriate name for the Kate Snippets category.
While folders are loading, Dolphin now displays a “Loading...” placeholder text in the center of the window.
Ctrl+Tab in Yakuake now allows you to switch between terminals in a split view.
The System Settings Launch Feedback page has been renamed Appearance.
…And everything else
Remember that this blog is only the tip of the iceberg! There are many KDE apps whose development I don't have time to follow, and I also don't mention backend refactoring, improved test coverage, and other changes that are generally not user-facing. If you're looking for more, go to KDE Planet, where you can read blog posts by other KDE contributors about their work.
How You Can Help
Look at KDE :: Get Involved to learn how you can contribute to a worthwhile project. Each contributor makes a significant contribution to KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don't even have to be a programmer to apply. I wasn't when I first started out. You'll like it if you give it a shot! They are not going to bite!
Finally, consider donating to the KDE e.V. foundation, which is tax-deductible.
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