Gear/Gear 24.02

User-facing changes

Kate

• Add auto configuration for Dart and Flutter
• Add LSP settings for CSS, SCSS, LESS, XML, Juliua and PHP
• Text to speech support
• Option to synchronize the scrolling for split views
• Faster LSP with RapidJSON
• Support for LSP window/showMessageRequest

Tokodon

• Focal points for cropped media attachments
• Color themes for Android
• Share content from Purpose to Tokodon
• More ways to add media attachments in the composer
• Confirmation dialogs for deleting drafts, etc
• View server announcements
• Show embed html for posts
• Granular notification controls
• Support for registration and better login handling in general, especially when there's errors
• TweetDeck-style cross account actions
• Profile page redesign
• Filter posts on a profile by their featured tags
• Easier to find block and mute actions and a report dialog
• Post edited status is now visible
• Report moderation tool to view and manage outstanding user reports
• Hide boosts or replies on most timeline pages
• Support for push notifications
• View and manage lists

Kiten

• Added search dialog in Kanji browser

PlasmaTube

• Support for watch history which is synced to your Invidious account
• Open a video directly by passing it as a command line argument
• Inhibit sleep when playing a fullscreen video
• Add experimental support for PeerTube and Piped video sources
• Add video queue system for playlists, etc
• Show channels and playlists in search results
• Add support for MPRIS, which is supported by the Media Player applet, lockscreen, KDE Connect, etc
• Added a picture in picture mode

PIM

• https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2023/2023-11-01-kde-pim-september-october-2023/
• https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2024/2024-01-01-kde-pim-november-december-2024/
• one more such posts expected for end of February

Itinerary

• https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/09/29/kde-itinerary-august-september-2023.html
• https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/12/02/kde-itinerary-october-november-2023.html
• (one more such posts expected for end of January)

Dolphin

• Completely restructure Dolphin's settings
• Add a "Open in Split View" action for folders
• Some improvements to accessibility (those are mostly implemented in frameworks but I (Felix Ernst) don't know if they are going to be mentioned there): Toolbar buttons can now get keyboard focus, F10 to open Main Menu, Shift+F10 to open context menus: 1, 2, Make the disk space in the status bar keyboard accessible, there is still a lot more work necessary though to call Dolphin accessible.
• On middle-click, open file with the second application for the file mime

Kasts

• Enable color scheme selection
• Add setting to disable network connection checks
• Speed up feed updates
• Switch to RoundedItemDelegate

Spectacle

Major features, changes, and bugfixes

• Added the option to exclude shadows from window screenshots.
• Added global shortcuts for recording. Meta+R/Meta+Shift+R for region, Meta+Alt+R for screen and Meta+Ctrl+R for window. After starting a recording, you can press any recording shortcut to finish the recording.
• System notifications for copied images now show a thumbnail that can be dragged and dropped. You can also open the copied image in an image viewer by clicking the thumbnail. These behaviors work even when the notification has expired and been sent to notification history until the next time you open Spectacle.
• Changed default screenshots location to ~/Pictures/Screenshots.
• Changed default screencasts location to ~/Videos/Screencasts.
• There is now a system tray icon while recording. Hover over the icon to see the time recorded. Click the icon to finish recording.
• Long and abbreviated month name filename template placeholders were added.
• Switched from using VP8 to VP9 for WebM video recordings. This should improve the quality.
• Added video saving settings.
• Region recording is now scaled to the highest scale factor, so high DPI screens no longer look low quality.
• Behavior with multiple displays with different scale factors was improved.
• Behavior with multiple displays with creative arrangements and orientations was improved.
• Behavior with fractional scale factors and scale factors less than 100% were improved.

Minor features, changes, and bugfixes

• Annotation changes are synced more reliably with the final image.
• Fixed the Share menu so that it actually displays a menu.
• The settings dialog has a larger default size so that you don't need to scroll to see all the image saving settings.
• Made default screenshots and screencasts locations translatable.
• Fixed the screenshot mode CLI options when the "Do not take screenshot automatically" setting is set.
• Added support for region recording. While recording, there will be a dotted outline around the recorded area. Pressing Enter or double clicking with no selection selects all screens.
• Added CLI options for recording. "-R"/"--record" are the options. They accept "r"/"region", "s"/"screen" and "w"/"window" as arguments.
• Some existing CLI options such as "-b", "-o", "-C" work with recording now.
• With the "-o" CLI option, you can set the video format based on the file extension. ".webm" uses VP9 and ".mp4" uses H.264.
• Recordings now have inline UI or system notifications when saved and/or the location was copied.
• You can now use Save As and Copy Location buttons with recordings.
• You can see the mouse cursor in recordings again.
• The option for seeing cursors in recordings is now separate from the option for seeing cursors in screenshots.
• Added Meta+Shift+P as an alternative to the PrintScreen key.
• You can now double click with no selection to select all screens when doing a region screenshot.
• Images copied to the clipboard now use the image format from your settings.
• Default filename templates are now translated.
• Spectacle's own minimize animations are now kept out of its own screenshots.
• Spectacle now behaves like it normally would when using global shortcuts while a system notification for Spectacle is active instead of acting like it was opened from the application menu (i.e., GUI mode).
• Pressing Escape while in the region capture UI now goes back to the viewer UI if spectacle was started in GUI mode.
• The filename template placeholder format was changed to a more flexible and readable format.
• Filename template placeholders were added for all QDateTime::fromString() formats. See QDate and QTime documentation for the list of all formats. There are a lot, so most of these aren't shown in the settings dialog instructions.
• Fixed menu buttons always reopening menus when pressed on Wayland.
• When using a light region mask overlay, the selection outline when the selection modification controls are disabled is now black so that the outline doesn't blend in with the mask overlay.
• The magnifier in the region screenshot UI now shows when holding Shift and hovering or using the arrow keys.
• It is now possible to modify the selection with arrow keys diagonally.
• Fixed various crashes.

NeoChat

• Space home page supporting all features making it a one stop shop for managing your spaces (also [1],[2])
• Full support for setting the parent of a room ([3], [4], [5])
• Support for manually finding a room if the explore search doesn't return the desired room
• Add markers for when then messages are loading and when the end of the timeline has been reached
• KUnifiedPush support added ([6], [7], [8], [9])
• Add view for highlighted notifications
• New Welcome page which also stop NeoChat getting into a state where it doesn't load ([10], [11])
• Chatbox layout improvements
• Properly support the restricted room security setting
• Improved mobile layout for the room list
• Show QR codes for the user in the useers details dialog
• Add account / device security settings page
• Improve room upgrades
• Workaround to always show colorful emojis in reactions
• Fix image sizing in replies
• Add button to reject invitation and ignore user
• The room drawer now has a media tab
• Support account deactivation
• Account registration (finally)
• Room drawer optimised for mobile formats
• Improve the memory usage of images

KClock

• Pause MPRIS media sources when an alarm or timer rings and resume them after dismissal

Elisa

Features

• Add a confirmation dialog when trying to close the mobile settings page with unsaved changes
• Add support for webp cover images
• allow configuring the initial Files View path

UI Changes

• Make the metadata form to be more intuitive
• Make the view history behave more like a stack (i.e. clicking on views will always append a new page, opening a view from the sidebar will clear the view history)

Bug Fixes

• Fix not being able to close the mobile playlist menu
• Remove Baloo integration
• Notify the user when playing an invalid track
• Make the previous/next button always play the same track when repeating current track
• Fix Elisa displaying the wrong initial view with certain embedded categories
• Fixed bugs that occurred when moving playlist items around the currently playing track

KDE Connect

• Bluetooth backend enabled by default - Considered beta-quality, help us test it! (Desktop, Android)
• Add mDNS-based device discovery (Desktop, Android)
• Remove the Photo plugin (Desktop, Android)
• Use EC instead of RCA for key generation for SSHFS plugin (Android only)