Thursday, 21 April 2022
Welcome to KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.04!
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KDE Gear ⚙️ 22.04 brings you all the updates added to a long list of KDE
apps over the last four months. KDE programs allow you to work, create
and play without having to submit yourself to extortionate licenses and
intrusive advertising, or surrender your privacy to unscrupulous
corporations.
Below you will discover a selection of the changes added in the last
four months to software designed to make your life better. But remember,
there is much, much more: games, social media apps, utilities for
communicating, developing and creating stuff… All these things have been
worked on to give you more stability and boost your productivity.
If you want to see a full list of everything we have done, check out the
complete changelog.
WARNING: There’s a lot!
All the details can be found here:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.04.0/
Advanced file manager for Unix-like systems written in Vala. Supports
multiple panes (single, dual, quad) with multiple tabs in each pane.
Supports archive creation, extraction, and browsing. Support for cloud
storage; running and managing KVM images, modifying PDF documents and
image files, booting ISO files in KVM, writing ISO files to USB drives.
WWW: https://teejee2008.github.io/polo/
Thursday, 3 March 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* kcron: Improve temporary file handling
* kio-extras: SFTP can use random access
* kontact: Fix Manager Crash when clicking New
Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.3/
Release Notes:
https://community.kde.org/KDE_Gear/21.12_Release_notes
Thursday, 3 February 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations.
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.2/
- Bump PORTREVISION
- archivers/peazip update to 8.4.0
- editors/cudatext update to 1.155.3
- russian/emkatic update to 0.41
- x11-toolkits/qt5pas to latest version included into lazarus 2.2.0
ChangeLog at: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.2.0_release_notes
There have been lots of missing CONFLICTS_INSTALL entries, either
because conflicting ports were added without updating existing ports,
due to name changes of generated packages, due to mis-understanding
the format and semantics of the conflicts entries, or just due to
typoes in package names.
This patch is the result of a comparison of all files contained in
the official packages with each other. This comparison was based on
packages built with default options and may therefore have missed
further conflicts with optionally installed files.
Where possible, version numbers in conflicts entries have been
generalized, some times taking advantage of the fact that a port
cannot conflict with itself (due to logic in bsd.port.mk that
supresses the pattern match result in that case).
A few ports that set the conflicts variables depending on complex
conditions (e.g. port options), have been left unmodified, despite
probably containing outdated package names.
These changes should only affect the installation of locally built
ports, not the package building with poudriere. They should give an
early indication of the install conflict in cases where currently
the pkg command aborts an installation when it detects that an
existing file would be overwritten,
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Thursday, 6 January 2022
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations.
Distro and app store packagers should update their application packages.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.1/
The portal-gtk3.h header has been moved into a separate subdir.
Backport patch from upstream.
Reported by: poudriere
With hat: desktop
Sponsored by: Netzkommune GmbH
KDE Gear 21.12 has landed and comes with a massive number of updates and
new versions of applications and libraries. Literally, dozens of classic
KDE everyday tools and the specialised sophisticated apps you use to
work, be creative and play, are getting refreshers with design
improvements, new features and performance and stability enhancements.
What's new:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.12.0/#whatsnew
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.12.0/
Thursday, 4 November 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.08.3/
While here, make sure gtk-update-icon-cache is only on run dependency
where added as a dependency
Enforce gtk3 to depend on gtk-update-icon-cache (previously it was
inheriting the dependency)
Thursday, 7 October 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* kmail: Fix an infinite SSL error dialog loop
* konqueror: Make it compatible with KIO 5.86.0 and don’t open every
URL in a new window
* libksane: Fix multi page detection with certain scanners
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.2/
Dolphin still uses KToolInvocation::invokeTerminal() which is
deprecated and requires KInit. However Dolphin was ported away from
requiring it in other ways, so it is now possible to have Dolphin
running but not KInit, which breaks the "Open in Terminal"
functionality.
Using KTerminalLauncherJob fixes this. It was introduced in Frameworks
5.83, so the CMake dependency version is accordingly increased.
Upstream PR: 441072
Obtained from: 27bfcde4ef
Obtained from via: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/packages/dolphin/trunk/27bfcde4.patch
Thursday, 2 September 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* konsole: Fix KXmlGUI toolbars and Konsole MainWindow size.
* elisa: Fix the “Files” view.
* skanlite: Fix image saving when preview is not shown.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.1/
Full Changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/gear/21.08.1/
Thursday, 12 August 2021
KDE Gear 21.08 improves KDE apps across the board, bringing you quick
and responsive utilities, creativity programs with powerful features,
and secure tools for all your work and play needs.
If this is your first time with KDE software, discover a whole new world
of free and secure programs, packed with incredible possibilities. If
you are already a KDE regular, check out all the fresh innovations we
have added to your favorite apps.
Either way, go forth and try new things!
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.0/
