KDE has been published since April 2021 under the name KDE Gear, instead of KDE Apps and KDE Applications.
It became known the release of KDE Gear 23.04, which is the corresponding April cumulative update for applications developed by the KDE project.
In total, releases of 546 programs, libraries, and plugins were released as part of the update. Information about the availability of live builds with new app versions can be found on this page.
KDE Gear 23.04 Key New Features
In this new version that is presented, it is highlighted that the Plasma Mobile Gear mobile applications are now being developed as part of the KDE Gear core. KDE Gear adopted the Tokodon application with a client implementation for the Mastodon decentralized microblogging platform. The new release facilitates communication with users of Fediverse's decentralized networks.
For example, support has been added for sending surveys to subscribers, and when typing a reply, it is possible to view previous messages. The mobile version has a separate message search page. We've also added the ability to set up working through a proxy before connecting to an account and viewing subscription requests.
Another novelty of this new version of KDE Gear 23.04 is the new app, «AudioTube» with an interface to listen to music from Youtube Music. It supports searching for music, sending links to other users, and creating playlists, among other things, based on the most played songs and playback history.
Besides that, Neochat has been updated using the Matrix protocol and it is that it presents an improved interface design in the new version, since a more compact layout of elements has been proposed and the menu has been simplified, keyboard navigation has been redesigned along with improved video playback control buttons, added the new "/knock" command to call up chat, and provided the ability to edit your previous messages in place without opening separate dialogs .
Another of the applications that has been redesigned is Spectacle, in which the ability to attach annotations to screenshots was also added. In environments based on the Wayland protocol, the ability to record video with screen changes is implemented.
Dolphin offers the possibility to customize the display of access rightsor on the page with detailed information about the file, added support for viewing data from Apple iOS devices using the "afc://" protocol» and the standard file management interface, added the kio-admin plugin, which provides the ability to run in administrator mode for full access to the file system
The image viewer Gwenview for Wayland protocol based environments adds support for zooming in on images using the pinch gesture on the touchpad. When showing a slideshow, the screen saver activation is blocked only when the applications are in the foreground.
Added the ability to collapse the title area in the Elisa music player, In addition, the interface to view frequently played songs has been redesigned, which now shows a list ordered by the number of plays, excluding the time the song was last heard, and support for creating and opening. playlists in “.pls” format.
In Okular, added a view mode menu and zoom buttons and view appeared on the left side, the panel can now be detached into a separate window or attached to the side. Implemented support for smooth scrolling.
The design of Filelight, a program for visual analysis of disk space distribution and identification of the reasons for wasting free space, has been changed, and a list with text information about the size of directories has been added on the left side of the window.
Kdenlive now has the ability to use nested streams, allowing you to select multiple clips, group them, and work with the group as a single sequence, plus you can edit a sequence, apply effects to a sequence, and create transitions between nested sequences and normal clips.
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