Gear/Gear 24.05

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User-facing changes

We removed the fancy effect. They were not working anymore and were causing some serious performance regression https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat/-/merge_requests/1700
Integration with Itinerary https://invent.kde.org/network/neochat/-/merge_requests/1505
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Spectacle regains a Crop tool
Improved quality of blurs, pixelations, and shadows in Spectacle’s annotations https://invent.kde.org/graphics/spectacle/-/merge_requests/339
mproved the visual quality of cross-screen screenshots that Spectacle takes when using multi-screen setups where the screens have different scale factors https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478426

Dolphin now shows a visible error message when you use a keyboard shortcut to trigger an action that can’t be performed in the current context, like cutting a file in a read-only folder https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/738
Better animation:
- When dragging a file or folder over another folder in Dolphin with the option turned on that opens the folder if you hold the dragged file there for a moment, the hovered folder now displays a little animation showing it open a bit https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/715
- Most of Dolphin’s bars now animate appearing and disappearing https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/725

you can now switch between list and grid views as you see fit https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411952
you can now search for albums on the Tracks page

Ark can now open and un-archive self-extracting .exe archive files https://invent.kde.org/utilities/ark/-/merge_requests/233

You can now split embedded terminal views in Kate horizontally or vertically https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1417

Kate now considers a file as recent when it’s saved or closed, not just when it’s opened. This means your recent files list will no longer omit files you kept open for a long time while working on them https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486203

Gwenview now has a minimal “Spotlight View” mode in which all the normal UI is hidden, and all you see is the image and the window titlebar https://invent.kde.org/graphics/gwenview/-/merge_requests/222