The aim of this task is to encourage current and new users to adopt KDE software applications using the announcement of the new versions contained within the 23.08 release as a hook.
The firs order of business i to collect all resources and coordinate all the tasks that need to be carried out for the KDE Gear release scheduled for 24/08/2023 (check the developers' release timeline).
Timeline
| Date(s) | What |
|---|---|
| 17/08 | Announcement text to translators |
| 24/08 | KDE Gear 23.08 released |
TODO
- Write announcement
- Collect all noteworthy info of changes to apps and other soft from the last 4 months in document
- Kate
- Kate now has an option to open new tabs immediately to the right of the current one https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471225
- Kate’s LSP client support now supports the GLSL language https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1227
- Kate’s Debugger plugin has received various enhancements: interactive GDB navigation buttons in its toolview, a configuration window, and a clearer name https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1210 https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1213 https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1207
- Kate now supports Godot Engine’s Language Server Protocol https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/735
- Links in files open in Kate are now clickable! https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93087
- Kate now includes a QML language server option when using Qt 6 https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1172
- Elisa
- Elisa now has a smarter algorithm for finding cover files (which turns out to be a surprisingly complex topic after you cover the simple and easy cases), ensuring that fewer of them get missed https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/468
- When Elisa switches album art between one image and another one, it’s now smoother and nicer-looking, with no visual flash or flicker https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/466
- Dragging the volume slider in Elisa now shows a tooltip indicating its current level https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/451
- In Elisa, double-clicking on a song or clicking its “Play now” button now puts its entire album in the playlist and begins playing from that song https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/450
- Elisa now supports controlling its Shuffle and Repeat settings via MPRIS, which means that you can now do so via the Media Player widget https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448215
- Star rating widgets in Elisa are now focusable and usable with the keyboard https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/elisa/-/merge_requests/431
- Dolphin
- The size information is now updated while counting instead of only displaying the final result https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/541 (Not sure if this is good marketing material but it is kind of flashy when seen in action: https://phabricator.kde.org/file/data/hx3hhuwzy5m4eyey4dr6/PHID-FILE-oziz3knv42uldlil4qie/2023-08-02_11-12-24.mp4)
- Dolphin now hides apps’ temp files and backup files (i.e. the kind of useless files that end in ~ or #) unless actively showing hidden files. This is a 23 year old feature request! https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3212
- You can now double-click on a tab in Dolphin to create a duplicate of it https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470388
- When Dolphin is in split view mode, there are now context menu items and keyboard shortcuts to let you quickly move or copy items to the opposite view https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356436
- Dolphin now has an option to not change the information and preview shown in the Information Panel when hovering over files, and to instead only do so when deliberately selecting files https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/501
- Okular
- Okular’s digital signature workflow has been improved, and now offers you the opportunity to add various pieces of metadata such as “reason” and “location” to the signature, and also to optionally add a background image behind it https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/745
- Okular now shows the “Digitally Sign” action at the top level of its hamburger menu, for faster access https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/758
- Okular no longer bugs you when you save a document that was deleted on disk; it simply re-saves it as instructed https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/752
- Okular now lets you choose the default scaling mode when printing PDFs https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=463732
- In Okular, you can now copy an annotation’s text to the clipboard using the context menu for the annotation’s entry in the annotations sidebar list https://invent.kde.org/graphics/okular/-/merge_requests/735
- Skanpage
- Many significant UI improvements to Skanpage, including drag-and-drop page re-ordering, better keyboard shortcuts, and better error reporting https://invent.kde.org/utilities/skanpage/-/merge_requests/48?commit_id=36a8fd94da3e060dbcbfa80de951f09225d66a04
- Skanpage now exposes scanner-specific adjustment options like for brightness, contrast, gamma, and color balance https://invent.kde.org/utilities/skanpage/-/merge_requests/44
- Skanpage now offers a “preview” feature in which you can select multiple specific parts of the image to scan, or automatically split the area into two pages, which can be useful when scanning books https://invent.kde.org/utilities/skanpage/-/merge_requests/43
- Skanpage now lets you customize its keyboard shortcuts https://invent.kde.org/utilities/skanpage/-/merge_requests/41
- Gwenview
- Switching between images is now completely seamless (when animations are disabled and the loading takes less than 400ms) (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=472351) or more seamless (when animations are enabled and loading of the next image is fast)
- Gwenview’s color correction settings have been rephrased to be more comprehensible and correct https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468706
- For those of you who were using the fact that Gwenview appears in its own “Open With” menu to open the current image in a new window, there’s now a new “Open in New Window” feature that does the same thing in a fully supported way https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=469179
- Removed a few less-important items from Gwenview’s Editing Tools sidebar (they’re still present in the menu structure) to make the window fit on a 1366×768 screen again https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458987
- Gwenview no longer appears in its own “Open the image in a different app” menu https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462088
- Made various improvements to Gwenview’s Zoom UI: you can now click on any part of the zoom slider to jump to that zoom level, and the zoom combobox is now more keyboard-friendly https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/192 https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/194
- Konsole
- Konsole now has a new “Monitor for prompt” feature that can be used to send a notification once a long-running task finishes https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/merge_requests/848
- Spectacle
- While annotating a screenshot in Spectacle, annotations now have a nice hover outline so it’s obvious how to select them https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/233
- Partition Manager
- Partition Manager now finally has its own icon, instead of re-using Filelight’s icon https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/-/merge_requests/258
- KDialog
- KDialog dialogs no longer append ” – KDialog” to their window titles when showing a custom user-provided title https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kdialog/-/merge_requests/23
- Revise
- Kalendar/KOrganizer: https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/07/05/kde-pim-may-june-2023.html
- Neochat: https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/06/24/matrix-neochat-location-sharing.html
- Itinerary: part 1: https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/05/27/kde-itinerary-april-may-2023.html, part 2 planned for Aug 5
- Kate
- Make screenshots/casts
- Draft announcement
- Collect all noteworthy info of changes to apps and other soft from the last 4 months in document
- Prepare web page
- Make videos ?
- Film/source live action sequences
- Source music
- Write section about Dani (see below)
- Promote
- ...
In Memoriam
This release is dedicated to Dani Gutiérrez Porset, an Spanish community member who is no longer with us.
