The new version of KDE Plasma Mobile 21.08 has already been released and in this new version, several bug fixes have been made, most of which were to the clock application, spacebar, kasts and more.
For those who are unfamiliar with KDE Plasma Mobile, you should know that this is a platform based on the mobile edition of the Plasma 5 desktop, the KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, the Ofono phone stack, and the Telepathy communication framework.
About KDE Plasma Mobile
The structure includes applications like KDE Connect to pair the phone with a desktop system, document viewer Okular, VVave music player, Koko and Pix image viewer, Buho system reference notes, Calindori calendar planner, Index file manager, Discover application manager, SpaceBar SMS sending program, among other apps from the Plasma Mobile project.
To create the application interface, Qt, a set of Mauikit components and the Kirigami framework from KDE Frameworks are applied, allowing you to create versatile interfaces, suitable for smartphones, tablets and PCs. The kwin_wayland composite server is used to display graphics. PulseAudio is used for sound processing.
KDE Plasma Mobile 21.08 Key New Features
In this new version of monthly update mainly include bug fixes and of those mentioned in the ad is that they arrive to improve the Shell by addressing problems that affected the virtual keyboard and improving its reliability when it is opened or closed, in addition to implementing an infrastructure to facilitate the creation of custom buttons for quick configuration.
Among the Plasma Mobile applications improved in this version is the application Clock lto which has had a code factorization, plus it now allows users to cycle timers and specify custom commands to run when the timer expires. The Clock app now tIt also offers Pinephone users a better experience of landscape and also it is emphasized that the problems related to an insufficient screen height that appeared in Pinephone in landscape mode were corrected and the animation effects were improved.
The code has been rewritten to implement the quick top panel settings, components were added to create your own buttons to quickly change settings and in the application to display the weather forecast has been significantly redesigned, the interface of which has been translated to use Qt Quick. Fixed the issue of displaying too thick lines on the Pinephone.
The podcast listener of Kasts in addition to getting some minor bug fixes, now allows to change the location where the episodes of downloaded podcast and cached images, it also has the ability to provide the visualization of the disk space occupied by scenes and images, since previously this information was not provided and problems with storage occurred and an option is provided to clear the cache with images.
On the other hand in spacebar, from this new version already has the support to receive and send SMS messagesIn addition, it now correctly informs users about messages that have not been sent and that they are no longer blocked when sending a phone number to oFono in a correct display format.
Of the other changes that stand out of this new version
- It also rewrote the top panel quick setup code, putting in place the infrastructure that will make it easy to create custom quick setup buttons.
Finally, if you are interested in knowing more about this new update version, you can check the details In the following link.
Get Plasma Mobile 21.08
Those who are interested in having this new Plasma Mobile Gear 21.08 update should know that it is available in the software repositories of the various GNU / Linux distributions available for mobile devices, such as Manjaro Linux or PostmarketOS.