List the new update for KDE Applications 19.12.1

According to the new monthly update cycle of publications represented for this month of January the KDE application suite (KDE Applications 19.12.1) developed by the KDE project, updated versions released of more than 120 programs, libraries and plugins.

For those unfamiliar with KDE Applications, they should know that is an open source software package designed as part of the KDE ecosystem that offers the ability to also be used independently on any Linux-based operating system, in addition to the fact that some of the applications are cross-platform and can be used in other operating systems, such is the case of the Kdenlive video editor.

KDE Applications 19.12.1 Key New Features

In the announcement of this new KDE Applications version 19.12.1 the developers made the update of KTimeTracke (a personal time planning app) which has been translated to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, It hasn't been updated for about five years and has hardly been developed since 2013.

In addition to the transition to modern technologies, the new version of KTimeTracker also offers a new dialog to edit the execution time of tasks and the ability to preview the resulting data in the export dialog in CSV or text format.

We can also find that a new version of the program has been prepared for astronomy lovers KStars 3.3.9, which provides a starry sky simulator that allows you to observe the position of more than 100 million stars, taking into account the position of the Earth at any given time.

In the new version, the display of shadows, midtones and reflections has been modernized, which made it possible to observe even the faintest stars. Alternative names for constellations that are not typical of Western culture are shown.

Also in this new version of KDE Applications 19.12.1 redesigned user interface layout standard provided by the frame KNewStuff to organize the download of add-ons for applications. Completely redesigned dialogs for browsing available plugins and downloading plugins.

In the section with user comments, the possibility of using filters to see separately the reviews and the responses to them is implemented.

The development environment KDevelop 5.4.6 solves a long-standing confusion by mentioning the GPL and LGPL licenses.

The panel Latte Dock 0.9.7 solved the problems that arose when using Qt 5.14as well as the fixed bugs that caused the crash.

Besides, also It is highlighted in the announcement that the number of KDE applications packaged in Flatpak format has been expanded and available for installation through the Flathub directory.

From the other changes mentioned in the KDE Applications 19.12.1 announcement:

• LabPlot's scientific data visualization and analysis application is available from Chocolatey, the Windows application catalog.
• Updated the appearance of some application pages on the KDE website, including the launch of the new KPhotoAlbum and Juk application sites.
• Dolphin Plugins 19.12.1 configures the display of the Confirm SVN dialog.
• Elisa Music Player has improved file indexing and compilation troubleshooting for Android. Provided the ability to build without the Baloo semantic search engine.
• In the card game KPat, the absence of age restrictions is determined.
• Fixed Okular document viewer crash when closing preview window before printing.
• Kate's text editor adds an LSP (Language Server Protocol) client for JavaScript.
• Kdenlive video editor has been improved in timeline and preview.

If you want to know more about this new version of KDE Applications 19.12 you can check the original announcement at the following link.

Besides that this new version will be coming to the following Linux distributions that make use of KDE.