lumina-checkpass was disabled in the previous build, causing the
screensaver to unlock on any input rather than just the correct pw.
Also removed xscreensaver dep, replaced by LScreensaver.
LPanel patch is a hack to redraw the panel after screen resize. Makes
Lumina usable, though still not pretty, in a VirtualBox guest with
guest additions. Still needs wallpaper redraw.
PR: 262320
Approved by: lbartoletti
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
Sunday, 13 February 2022
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.91.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety
of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well
tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see
the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making
improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
Announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.91.0/
PR: 261934
Exp-run by: antoine
The apm command does not exist on arm, powerpc, or riscv.
This also reduces CPU time for lumina-desktop.
Patches have been proposed to upstream.
PR: 262018
Approved by: lbartoletti
Tuesday, 22 February 2022. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.2.
Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Plasma Desktop Hot New Stuff: Only trust the expiration date if
it’s less than 24 hours.
* Emoji Selector: Use a more appropriate icon for the Symbols page.
* Don’t install two copies of kcm_fontinst.
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.24.1-5.24.2
wl-mirror attempts to provide a solution to sway's lack of output
mirroring by mirroring an output onto a client surface.
Features:
- Mirror an output onto a resizable window
- Mirror an output onto another output by fullscreening the window
- Reacts to changes in output scale
- Preserves aspect ratio
- Corrects for flipped or rotated outputs
- Supports custom flips or rotations
- Supports mirroring custom regions of outputs
- Supports receiving additional options on stdin for changing the mirrored
screen or region on the fly (works best when used with pipectl)
https://github.com/Ferdi265/wl-mirror
way-displays: Auto Manage Your Wayland Displays
1. Sets preferred mode or highest at maximum refresh
1. Arranges in a row or a column
1. Auto scales based on DPI: 96 is a scale of 1
1. Reacts when displays are plugged/unplugged
1. Reacts when laptop lid is closed/opened
Works out of the box: no configuration required.
Wayland successor to xlayoutdisplay, inspired by kanshi.
https://github.com/alex-courtis/way-displays
Wayout takes text from standard input and outputs it to a desktop-widget
on Wayland desktops. Periodic updates are supported; e.g. newline-separated
input or any other delimiter of choice. We call this a feed. The desktop
widget can be shown either on top (OSD-like functionality) or below other
windows.
A Wayland compositor must implement the Layer-Shell and XDG-Output for wayout
to work.
Features:
- Allow updating from standard input at a regular interval; custom delimiters
- Configurable colours/border/position/fonts
- Supports the pango markup language for text markup/colours.
https://git.sr.ht/~proycon/wayout
Tuesday, 15 February 2022. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.24.1.
Plasma 5.24 was released in February 2022 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Discover: Don’t trigger updates while busy.
* KScreen: Workaround unknown Qt issue that causes the revert dialog
to be invisible.
* Powerdevil: Support hardware with only one charging threshold, not
both.
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.24.0-5.24.1
Now you can view images directly in the current terminal window!
The program uses Sway IPC to determine the geometry of the currently
focused container. This data is used to calculate the position and
size of the new "overlay" window that will be used to draw the image.
In the next step, swayimg adds two Sway rules for the self window:
"floating enable" and "move position". Then it creates a new Wayland
window and draws the image from the specified file.
https://github.com/artemsen/swayimg
Under 14-CURRENT MALLOC_PRODUCTION is not set which puts malloc() into
debug mode. In debug mode malloc() enables opt.junk to write junk to
newly malloc()ed heap in order to help developers discover memory
allocation bugs. Unfortunately CDE's dtinfogen assumes newly malloc()ed
memory is zero filled (i.e. not filled with junk), resulting in
"flex scanner jammed". This likely causes parsing of the junk past the
end of any legitimate statements. This affects stock 14-CURRENT without
MALLOC_PRODUCTION enabled. This is accomplished by setting the
make environment variable MALLOC_CONF=junk:false. See malloc(3) for
a complete description of MALLOC_CONF=junk:false.
MFH: 2022Q1
Today the KDE Community releases Plasma 5.24, a Long Term Support (LTS)
release that will receive updates and bugfixes until the final Plasma 5
version, before we transition to Plasma 6.
This new Plasma release focuses on smoothing out wrinkles, evolving the
design, and improving the overall feel and usability of the environment.
Things to look for in Plasma 5.24 can be found in the anncouncement:
https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.24.0/
The full changelog can be found here:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.23.5-5.24.0/
