KDE Ships KDE Applications 17.08.0

August 17, 2017. KDE Applications 17.08 is here. We have worked to make both the applications and the underlying libraries more stable and easier to use. By ironing out wrinkles and listening to your feedback, we have made the KDE Applications suite less prone to glitches and much friendlier. Enjoy your new apps!

More Porting to KDE Frameworks 5

We're pleased that the following applications which were based on kdelibs4 are now based on KDE Frameworks 5: kmag, kmousetool, kgoldrunner, kigo, konquest, kreversi, ksnakeduel, kspaceduel, ksudoku, kubrick, lskat, and umbrello. Thanks to the hard-working developers who volunteered their time and work to make that happen.

What's new in KDE Applications 17.08

Dolphin

Dolphin developers report that Dolphin now shows 'Deletion Time' in the Trash, and shows 'Creation Time' if the OS supports it such as on BSDs.

KIO-Extras

Kio-Extras now provides better support for Samba shares.

KAlgebra

The KAlgebra developers have worked on improving their Kirigami front-end on the desktop, and implemented code completion.

Kontact

Kdenlive

In Kdenlive, the team fixed the broken 'Freeze effect'. In recent versions, it was impossible to change the frozen frame for the freeze effect. Now a keyboard shortcut for Extract Frame feature is allowed. Now the user can save screenshots of their timeline with a keyboard shortcut, and a name is now suggested based on frame number https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381325. Fix downloaded transition lumas do not appear in interface: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382451. Fix audio clicks issue (for now, requires building the dependency MLT from git until a MLT release): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371849.

Krfb

Developers have finished porting the X11 plugin to Qt5, and krfb is working again using a X11 backend that is much faster than the Qt plugin. There's a new Settings page, allowing the user to change preferred framebuffer plugin.

Konsole

Konsole now allows unlimited scrollback to extend past 2GB (32bit) limit. Now Konsole allows users to enter any location to store scrollback files. Also, a regression was fixed, Konsole can once again allow KonsolePart to call the Manage Profile dialog.

KAppTemplate

In KAppTemplate there is now an option to install new templates from the filesystem. More templates have been removed from KAppTemplate and instead integrated into related products; ktexteditor plugin template and kpartsapp template (ported to Qt5/KF5 now) have become part of KDE Frameworks KTextEditor and KParts since 5.37.0. These changes should simplify creation of templates in KDE applications.

Bug Stomping

More than 80 bugs have been resolved in applications including the Kontact Suite, Ark, Dolphin, K3b, Kdenlive, KGpg, Konsole and more!

Full Changelog

You can find the full list of changes here.

Spread the Word

Non-technical contributors are an important part of KDE’s success. While proprietary software companies have huge advertising budgets for new software releases, KDE depends on people talking with other people. Even for those who are not software developers, there are many ways to support the KDE Applications release. Report bugs. Encourage others to join the KDE Community. Or support the nonprofit organization behind the KDE community

Please spread the word on the Social Web. Submit stories to news sites, use channels like delicious, digg, reddit, and twitter. Upload screenshots of your new set-up to services like Facebook, Flickr, ipernity and Picasa, and post them to appropriate groups. Create screencasts and upload them to YouTube, Blip.tv, and Vimeo. Please tag posts and uploaded materials with 'KDE'. This makes them easy to find, and gives the KDE Promo Team a way to analyze coverage for this KDE Applications release.

Installing KDE Applications Binary Packages

Packages

Some Linux/UNIX OS vendors have kindly provided binary packages of KDE Applications for some versions of their distribution, and in other cases community volunteers have done so. Additional binary packages, as well as updates to the packages now available, may become available over the coming weeks.

Package Locations

For a current list of available binary packages of which the KDE Project has been informed, please visit the Community Wiki.

Compiling KDE Applications

The complete source code for KDE Applications may be freely downloaded. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the KDE Applications 17.08.0 Info Page.

Supporting KDE

KDE is a Free Software community that exists and grows only because of the help of many volunteers that donate their time and effort. KDE is always looking for new volunteers and contributions, whether it is help with coding, bug fixing or reporting, writing documentation, translations, promotion, money, etc. All contributions are gratefully appreciated and eagerly accepted. Please read through the Supporting KDE page for further information or become a KDE e.V. supporting member through our Join the Game initiative.

About KDE

KDE is an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE's products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development. KDE software is translated into more than 60 languages and is built with ease of use and modern accessibility principles in mind. KDE's full-featured applications run natively on Linux, BSD, Windows, Haiku, and macOS.

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