Greetings lovely community,
Looks like the Arch repos just pushed out the latest KDE Frameworks v 5.97.0 update today. The dev team behind Frameworks announced the release yesterday via the following blog post, so this is another quick turn around for the Arch devs being really on top of things. Read the KDE Frameworks announcement below:
Some features and bug fixes worth mentioning in this latest release:
- The Breeze icon theme now includes icons for Windows DLLs (Alexander Wilms, Frameworks 5.97)
- Undoing a bulk rename job in Dolphin no longer sends a notification that says âMovingâ (Ahmad Samir, Frameworks 5.97)
- In the properties dialog, when a file has GPS coordinates in the metadata, this information is now displayed as a clickable link (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.97)
- In-window menubars in QtQuick apps now display the correct background color when using a color scheme with Header colors, such as Breeze Light and Breeze Dark (Kartikey Subramanium, Frameworks 5.97)
- Plasma no longer very commonly always randomly crashes on login or logout (David Edmundson, Frameworks 5.97)
- Plasma no longer sometimes crashes when dragging something from Firefox to the Desktop (David Edmundson, Frameworks 5.97)
- Non-EXIF textual metadata stored inside PNG images is now extracted and displayed in the Properties dialog (Kai Uwe Broulik, Frameworks 5.97)
- Spectacle and other apps now correctly detect the installation status for OBS Studio, Vokoscreen, and other 3rd-party apps in their âinstall other appsâ menu (Nicolas Fella, Frameworks 5.97)
- In the Plasma Wayland session, turning on an external monitor no longer immediately crashes apps that are currently display a notification with job progress (Michael Pyne, Frameworks 5.97)
- Fixed a common cause of freezes in Kirigami-using apps with scrollable pages (Marco Martin, Frameworks 5.97)
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RAW image files once again display preview thumbnails (Alexander Lohnau, Frameworks 5.97)- Text changes made in the âNameâ field of file open/save dialogs is now undoable and redoable (Ahmad Samir, Frameworks 5.97)
If youâre curious for more information you can check out the KDE Frameworks main page here: https://develop.kde.org/products/frameworks//
And if you donât already, one of the best resources (a KDE dev blog) for the latest KDE fixes and features can be read over here (honestly bookmark it if you havenât already!): https://pointieststick.com
Side note, I may be a Gnome user myself (I do use a few KDE apps!), but regardless of DE I enjoy Linux and following along on a lot of other developmental projects happening in the open source world too and I just wanted to say I hope you all enjoy the latest Frameworks Plasma users!