The new version of KDE Applications 18.12 arrives

KDE

Recientemente the new version of KDE Applications 18.12 was released which includes a selection of user applications adapted to work with KDE Frameworks 5.

With which in this new release of KDE apps new improvements are added to some of the already existing ones and especially several bug fixes.

KDE Applications 18.12 Key New Features

File reading speed over SFTP was significantly increased. In addition, the visualization was improved in icons and thumbnails.

Sketches with content preview are now rendered only for images without transparency.

When you enable thumbnail generation for directories, they now display video files larger than 5MB in size.

When reading audio CDs, you can change the CBR bit rate for the MP3 encoder and adjust the time for the FLAC files.

Dolphin

From the package of applications that benefited from this new launch, the improvements to the Dolphin file manager because in this new version it has been added a new implementation of the MTP protocol to access mobile device storages

After unmounting a partition from the Places panel, you can now mount this partition immediately.

In the 'Control' menu, the items 'Show hidden places' and 'Create new ...' were added to show hidden areas and simplify the creation of new files and directories.

KMail

As for KMail, it received a unified way of displaying incoming correspondence, as well as a plugin implemented to generate text in HTML and Markdown.

Okular

A new annotation tool has been added in Okular that can be used to attach notes to documents.

Kate

The text editor of Kate provides synchronization of the active document directory and the current directory in the embedded terminal.

Added ability to switch focus between document and embedded terminal by pressing F4 key.

In the tab change interface for similar file names, the full path is displayed. The line number display function is enabled by default.

It was also enabled by default in the plugin to apply filters on text. The display of duplicates in the quick open file list is excluded.

On the other hand, sketching provided for LibreOffice documents and AppImage packages.

KDE

File manager output is provided in case of closing a single tab.

In the "Recent Documents" block, only relevant documents are displayed and links to the Web are excluded.

Support for searching using metadata received through KFileMetaData has been added to the KFind file search interface.

When viewing the hierarchical table of contents, you can now collapse and expand any section and section.

When you hover over links, the URL associated with them is now displayed at any time, and not just in browse mode.

As well correct display of ePub files provided with spaces in urls of resources.

Console

Received an upgrade which provides full support for Emojias well as simplified file path mapping via double click.

Mouse forward and back buttons can now be used to switch between tabs. An item has been added to the menu to reset the font size to its default value. Improved the tab reorganization process.

Gwenview

Se added an updated tool to remove red eyes from photos and when you hide the menu, a warning is added with information about its restoration.

This new release came with many improvements which many can already obtain by making the corresponding package updates in their distributions.

Show

Added support for sequential numbering of saved files. In the metadata within the image file, the time required to create the screenshot is set correctly. All save options are moved to a separate "Save" page.


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  1.   Oscar avila said

    At last it seems that we will have a better implementation of MTP, the previous one was really crap