KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.08 - KDE Community
KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.08
Akademy 2024 Edition
Thursday, 22 August 2024
Every 4 months, KDE releases a long list of new versions of applications all
at the same time.
With KDE's yearly
Akademy event right around the
corner
, KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.08 is out today and
comes loaded with a rich collection of updated applications from
social media managers to storage monitors, and from terminal emulators to
travel assistants, all offering exciting new improvements and features.
Let's take a look at just a few of the refreshed applications coming to your
desktop in the next few days.
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Manage
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.
Create
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.
Travel
Coming to
Akademy 2024
? Don't forget to install
the updates for
Itinerary
and
Kongress
and make your journey easy.
Itinerary is KDE's travel assistant. It lets you plan and manage your trips,
providing an overview of where you need to be and when. It keeps boarding
passes, tickets, and health certificates all in one place, and the latest
version adds more details, including seat information displayed directly in the
timeline.
Once you arrive at your destination, it's time to fire up Kongress so you don't
miss any of the sessions or activities. Kongress now makes things easier by
providing indoor maps of the venue, so you not only know when and what's going
on, but also where.
Both Itinerary and Kongress work on desktop and laptop computers and most mobile
devices.
Communicate
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.
Develop
Whether you want to help KDE implement features and fix bugs, or develop the
next killer app, KDE's advanced text editor
Kate
has
you covered.
Kate 24.08 improves its document formatting plugin with better support for bash,
d, fish, Nix config, opsi-script, QML and YAML files. In related news, the
Language Server Protocol (LSP) feature adds support for the Gleam, PureScript,
and Typst languages.
If you're working on a CMake-based project, the Project and Build plugin now
allows you to open the build directory and get both files and targets.
Surf
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
And all this too…
Okular
— KDE's eco-certified document reader —
improves compatibility for fillable forms in PDF documents, gets a makeover for
Windows, and adds a more usable zoom feature.
PlasmaTube
— a player for watching online
videos from popular sites on your desktop — adds an option to block sponsored
sections in videos.
Elisa
— our elegant music player — gets a "Play
this next" feature, and allows resizing of the sidebar and playlist panes.
Full changelog here
Where to get KDE Apps
Although we fully support distributions that ship our software, KDE Gear 24.08 apps will also be available on these Linux app stores shortly:
Flathub
Snapcraft
If you’d like to help us get more KDE applications into the app stores, support more app stores and get the apps better integrated into our development process, come say hi in our
All About the Apps chat room
Note that packages of this release might not be available on all distributions at the time of this announcement.
Package download wiki page
Compiling KDE Gear
The complete source code for KDE Gear 24.08.0 may be
freely downloaded
. Instructions on compiling and installing are available from the
KDE Gear 24.08.0 Info Page
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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