KDE Gear ⚙️ 26.08

Dolphin is KDE’s powerful file/folder/server explorer. Version 26.08 goes even further and improves its integration with KDE Connect. When exploring files on your phone from Dolphin, click on the Open KDE Connect button at the top of the window to make the KDE Connect app appear.

If you are browsing a busy directory, open the Filter Bar with Ctrl + i to use plain text, globbing (like you would use with the ls command in the terminal), or Regular Expressions to sort through the files.

In a similar vein, you can now group files and folders independently from the sorting criterion. This means you can order files alphabetically by name and then group the files by type.

And if the number of tabs you have open gets out of hand, right click on a tab and you can chose to close the tabs to the right, left, or both.

Kdenlive is KDE’s feature-rich video editor. 26.08 comes with lots of quality of life improvements and polishing.

In the effects department for example, you can now move the Transform effect’s rotation axis wherever you want, instead of having it fixed to the center of the item you need to rotate.

The Gradient Map effect now lets you add multiple stops to a gradient, and you can now adjust the curves in the Curves (avfilter) effect independently to the get the color hues you need.

Down on the timeline, you can copy a selection to a new sequence, or have Kdenlive create audio tracks automatically as needed for your clips. You can also reorder tracks and configure different colors for each item type — video, image, title, etc.

In the Titler, you can now copy and paste objects, give rectangles rounded corners, and snap objects to the center and edges of the screen as well as to other items. This feature includes a visual guide to help you.