This week in Usability & Productivity, part 58
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Week 58 for KDE’s Usability & Productivity initiative is here! Hot on the heels of last week’s update, we’ve got lots of nice goodies to share:
New Features
- The System Settings Window Decorations page h as been completely rewritten, bringing it into greater conformance with the modern visual style and fixing a huge number of bugs in the process (Valerio Pilo, KDE Plasma 5.16.0):
- Dolphin now lets the user choose which split view will be closed by the “Close Split” button (Angelo Oliveira Jr., KDE Applications 19.04.0)
- Okular gained a command-line argument to open a file and instantly highlight all occurrences of a given string (Joao Netto, KDE Applications 19.04.0)
Bugfixes & Performance Improvements
- The Weather widget now correctly displays weather alert text when there’s either a watch or a warning, but not both at the same time (Chris Holland, KDE Plasma 5.12.8)
- Fixed the most common crash-on-launch issue in Discover that was plaguing many users who have devices capable of being updated with fwupd, but had not actually applied the update yet (Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen, KDE Plasma 5.14.5.1)
- Icons on Discover’s Updates page no longer glitch out when using the three-column widescreen view and clicking on the “More Information” button for the selected package (Jonah Brüchert, KDE Plasma 5.15.1)
- The Digital Clock widget’s 12-hour/24-hour toggle now works again (Chris Holland, KDE Plasma 5.15.1)
- By default, the Task Manager now only shows tasks from the current virtual desktop (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- Ported the System Settings Audio Volume page to QtQuickControls2 and Kirigami, which makes it look good when using a fractional scale factor (me: Nate Graham, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- GTK 3 applications no longer spew zillions of warnings to the console (Andrzej Broński, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- Scrollbars in Kirigami apps now behave the same as other scrollbars : left-clicking in the trough does a PageUp/PageDown action, and middle-clicking will zoom directly to the clicked location (Marco Martin, KDE Frameworks 5.56)
- Restoring manually-saved Plasma sessions now works with all apps again (David Edmundson, KDE Frameworks 5.56)
- Long wallpaper names can no longer blend into one another (Filip Fila, KDE Frameworks 5.56)
- Plasma can no longer crash when BZip2 support abruptly disappears (David Edmundson, KDE Frameworks 5.56)
- The Baloo file indexing service now correctly indexes folders that were moved from a non-indexed location to an indexed location (Igor Poboiko, KDE Frameworks 5.56)
- Wide characters such as some Emojis are now displayed properly in Konsole (Mariusz Glebocki, KDE Applications 19.04.0)
- When a folder is opened in a new tab in Dolphin, the new tab is placed immediately to the right of the current one instead of always on the end of the tab bar (David Hallas, KDE Applications 19.04.0)
User Interface Improvements
- The Networks widget is now faster to refresh wifi networks, and more reliable at doing so (Valerio Pilo, KDE Plasma 5.16.0)
- In System Settings, the Look and Feel page is now a top-level item , because it affects everything (Björn Feber, KDE Plasma 5.16.0):
- When you hide the Desktop Toolbox, an informational message tells you how to return to the configuration window without it (me: Nate Graham, KDE Plasma 5.16.0):
- Inline buttons in Kirigami lists are now real ToolButtons, so they change their appearance appropriately when hovered over or clicked (me: Nate Graham, KDE Frameworks 5.56):
- When a Kirigami app sends a low-priority transient notification of the type that automatically disappears after seven seconds, the countdown timer now only starts when the parent window has focus , so you don’t miss the notification if the window was behind another one or minimized or something (Kai Uwe Broulik and me: Nate Graham, KDE Frameworks 5.56)
- Konsole now has an on-by-default option to display close buttons on individual tabs, like most other tabbed apps do nowadays (KDE Applications 19.04.0)
- Much more image metadata is now displayed clearly in apps like Dolphin (Alexander Stippich, KDE Applications 19.04.0)
Next week, your name could be in this list! Not sure how? Just ask! I’ve helped mentor a number of new contributors recently and I’d love to help you, too! You can also check out https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved , and find out how you can help be a part of something that really matters. You don’t have to already be a programmer. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!
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