The first day of this September KDE project developer Nate Graham reported that the KDE desktop environment received new bug fixes and above all new improvements in the usability and productivity of the environment.
In addition to it in these fixes they also made a focus on improving the integration of the Samba protocol in the desktop environment, with which it is promised to have improvements in the experience of using it.
He also shares that KDE Frameworks 5.50 is bringing a variety of improvements to handle Samba.
According to the KDE usability and productivity reports, KDE applications can now save samba share files that were mounted by the GNOME gvfs system, which is common when using Nautilus to access Samba shares, or, using KDE software.
Guest access to Samba shares created by the Dolphin file manager now works again.
Fixed KDE applications potentially breaking when using smb: //, and several other improvements are also on the way.
As well is reaching a fix for a critical issue, as well as a silent data loss bug.
KDE developers now also expose information about a file's file system and other information through the properties dialog, and in the last few days they have fixed various Framework and Plasma issues.
About this new updates and improvements Nate Graham shares the following:
I'm happy to report that more Samba enhancements are also on the way, including a critical fix for an issue that causes silent data loss when using a non-KDE application that performs atomic saves (such as LibreOffice or Blender) to save modifications. modified. files that are located on a Samba share originally accessed from Dolphin.
My feeling is that poor support for samba sharing is a strategic issue that causes pain to many of our users and prevents others from using our software.
I would like to verify this theory, so if these fixes benefit you or if you have experienced more weaknesses with Samba beyond what is already fixed or planned, please share in the comments.
Bugs fixed
From the bug fixes that we can highlight the following:
Fixed a bug that could cause Discover to hang forever after attempting updates in addition to this, a memory leak was fixed in Discover that could manifest itself when exploring add-ons.
The desktop environment KDE Plasma now handles VPN SSH tunnels correctly and placeholder text within text and search fields throughout the KDE Plasma desktop environment is now truly visible with light color themes.
Pictures of the Day wallpapers now update your pictures once a day. Multiple monitor support for connected primary displays now works properly.
Scroll bars in LibreOffice now work correctly when using the Breeze GTK theme and the GTK3 LibreOffice backend. KDevelop now looks good on HiDPI screens.
After using Okular to annotate a PDF with links and then save it, the links now still work.
Discover's "Update All" button is now disabled while updates continue to be obtained.
The Dolphin Information Panel and Tooltip now always shows previews (if available) for the selected file or folder.
When hovering over a link in Okular, the URL is now displayed every time the link is clickable, instead of just when in browse mode.
Finally, we just have to wait for these new fixes and new improvements to be deployed in the next updates to the KDE desktop environment, before going to the next beta of what will be its new version.
Hi good day…! Excellent reports, continue to contribute to the community, all information and advances are valuable to collect and reread! Thank you. José.