Gear/Gear 24.02
User-facing changes
Kate
- Add auto configuration for Dart and Flutter
- Add LSP settings for CSS, SCSS, LESS, XML, Juliua and PHP
- Text to speech support
- Option to synchronize the scrolling for split views
- Faster LSP with RapidJSON
- Support for LSP window/showMessageRequest
Tokodon
- Focal points for cropped media attachments
- Color themes for Android
- Share content from Purpose to Tokodon
- More ways to add media attachments in the composer
- Confirmation dialogs for deleting drafts, etc
- View server announcements
- Show embed html for posts
- Granular notification controls
- Support for registration and better login handling in general, especially when there's errors
- TweetDeck-style cross account actions
- Profile page redesign
- Filter posts on a profile by their featured tags
- Easier to find block and mute actions and a report dialog
- Post edited status is now visible
- Report moderation tool to view and manage outstanding user reports
- Hide boosts or replies on most timeline pages
- Support for push notifications
- View and manage lists
Kiten
PlasmaTube
- Support for watch history which is synced to your Invidious account
- Open a video directly by passing it as a command line argument
- Inhibit sleep when playing a fullscreen video
- Add experimental support for PeerTube and Piped video sources
- Add video queue system for playlists, etc
- Show channels and playlists in search results
- Add support for MPRIS, which is supported by the Media Player applet, lockscreen, KDE Connect, etc
- Added a picture in picture mode
PIM
- https://kontact.kde.org/blog/2023/2023-11-01-kde-pim-september-october-2023/ (two more such posts expected for end of December and end of February)
Itinerary
- https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/09/29/kde-itinerary-august-september-2023.html
- https://volkerkrause.eu/2023/12/02/kde-itinerary-october-november-2023.html
- (one more such posts expected for end of January)
Dolphin
- Completely restructure Dolphin's settings
- Add a "Open in Split View" action for folders
- Some improvements to accessibility (those are mostly implemented in frameworks but I (Felix Ernst) don't know if they are going to be mentioned there): Toolbar buttons can now get keyboard focus, F10 to open Main Menu, Shift+F10 to open context menus: 1, 2, Make the disk space in the status bar keyboard accessible, there is still a lot more work necessary though to call Dolphin accessible.
- On middle-click, open file with the second application for the file mime