KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.08

Many of the new features in Dolphin are designed to make it easier to access and manage files and folders that require administrative privileges. Visual cues, wizards to help install needed software, and menu options to elevate your privileges make it easier than ever to use Dolphin as a superuser.

New usability features include:

• A new "Move to New Folder…" option that pops up when right-clicking a file, allowing you to create a folder and copy the file into it all in one go.
• Double-clicking the view background that triggers the "Select All" action by default.

Filelight is a complementary application to Dolphin, and can be installed directly from Dolphin by clicking the down arrow in the lower right corner of the main window.

Filelight helps visualize how much space your files and folders are taking up. Version 24.08 comes with a friendlier home page, and the Windows version (available from the Microsoft Store) has been redesigned to improve its overall appearance.

Konsole 24.08 also comes with a brand new usability enhancement: if you need to bookmark something important in a long output, double-click the scroll bar to set a position marker. You can then quickly scroll back and locate it later.

Kdenlive is KDE's professional video editor, and this new release is all about the curves.

You can now use the brand new keyframe curve editor to customize effects, and easing methods (Cubic in/out and Exponential in/out) for fades.

To make things easier, we've redesigned the effects stack widget and improved the Transform effect, which now lets you select clips directly from the monitor. It also comes with a new grid, and improved design and behavior for the handle.

NeoChat is KDE's client for the Matrix chat system — and KDE's official way of chatting. Version 24.08 increases your safety by allowing you to preemptively block invites from unknown users not in any rooms with you.

Tokodon not only helps you read and post on Mastodon, but also manage your own server. Speaking of which, the version being released today can notify you of sign-ups on your server for better user management.

For posting, you can easily attach images from the internet, quote other posts and pop out the text editor to comfortably compose your toot.

When reading, Tokodon 24.08 supports scrolling up whole screenfuls of posts using the PageUp and PageDown keys.

Falkon is KDE's full-featured web browser. The new release implements many bug fixes and optimizations that make surfing the web with Falkon smoother, easier and safer.

A new feature in 24.08 allows you to customize things that affect privacy and functionality on a site-by-site basis. Say you don't mind JavaScript on one site because the authors are trustworthy and it actually provides useful functionality, but you want to block it elsewhere for security reasons. You can now configure this in Falkon's Settings.