KDE Applications 20.12.2 Cumulative Update Just Released February developed by the KDE project. In total, as part of the February update, versions of 225 programs, libraries, and plugins were released.
For those who are still unfamiliar with KDE Applications, we can tell you that these are a set of compatible applications and libraries designed by the KDE community, which are mainly used in Linux-based operating systems, but mostly of these applications are cross-platform and are released on a common launcher.
Formerly the KDE application package it was part of the KDE software build.
Examples of featured applications in the package include Dolphin file manager, Okular document viewer, Kate text editor, Arky Konsole terminal emulator file tool among others.
KDE Applications 20.12.2 Key New Features
In this new update of KDE Applications 20.12.2 a new application called "Kongress" has been proposed and which was included in its version 1.0. Kongress is intended to accompany conference attendeesWell, the program allows you to view the conference calendar and schedule visits to the reports of interest, in addition to that for those who are Android users they can also try the nightly compilation from the KDE F-Droid repository.
Another novelty that is presented is that a launch of the project management system "Calligra Plan 3.3", that allows coordinating the execution of tasks, determining the dependencies between the work carried out, planning the execution time, tracking the status of the various stages of development and managing the allocation of resources when developing large projects.
The main changes in the new version are related to the improvement of the printing media, for example, now you can print data corresponding to a certain time interval, as well as scale the output to one or more pages.
On the other hand, it is emphasized that the client XMPP Kaidan 0.7 added the ability to send files in Drag & Drop modeIn addition to what time there is support to obtain information about the application and the operating system of the users in the contact list.
Added Shift + Enter combination to insert a line break when composing a message. In the next release, support for text input notification and message history synchronization is expected.
In addition, the client Matrix Neochat has been updated to version 1.0.1 and this solves the problems with the edition of publications, showing avatars and saving images.
Also on the corrections side, in the announcement of this new version of KDE Applications 20.12.2 it is mentioned thate fixed a bug in Ark's file manager which caused a crash when the window was closed while loading the TAR file.
And also fixed crash when exiting all tabs in Konsole terminal emulator.
Of the other changes that stand out from the new version of KDE Applications 20.12.2:
- The Dolphin file manager provides the correct directory size calculation for FUSE partitions and network file systems.
- In the hex dump editor, Okteta 0.26.5 simplified the color scheme selection and added an option to disable cursor flashing.
- A selection of dictionaries has been added to the Kiten Japanese learning application settings.
- In the Umbrello UML modeling system, a crash was fixed when searching for a widget in a diagram.
Get KDE Applications 20.12.2
For those who are interested in being able to obtain this new version of KDE Applications 20.12.2, they should know that it will be coming to the following Linux distributions that make use of KDE.
Without further mentioning, I can only add that if you want to know more about it or want to know how to test this beta version, you can visit the following link.