Plasma 5.23 was released in October 2021 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: Flatpak, do not crash when a source is disabled.
* KScreenLocker: Fix sleep and hibernate actions.
* Plasma Desktop: Fix “clear emoji history” action.
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.23.0-5.23.1
Saturday, 09 Ocotber 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.87.0.
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.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.87.0/
Exp-run by: antoine
PR: 259032
Thursday, 14 October 2021
25 years ago today, Matthias Ettrich sent an email to the
de.comp.os.linux.misc newsgroup explaining a project he was working
on. The latest and direct result of that email (plus a quarter of a
century of relentless experimentation, development and innovation)
has just landed in KDE’s repositories.
This time around, Plasma renews its looks and, not only do you get a
new wallpaper, but also a gust of fresh air from an updated theme:
Breeze - Blue Ocean. The new Breeze theme makes KDE apps and tools
not only more attractive, but also easier to use both on the desktop
and your phone and tablet.
Of course, looks are not the only you can expect from Plasma 25AE:
extra speed, increased reliability and new features have also found
their way into the app launcher, the software manager, the Wayland
implementation, and most other Plasma tools and utilities.
Read on to find out all the details that make the new Plasma 25AE so
deserving of a celebration [1]
Full announcement:
[1] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.23.0/
Running gtk-udpate-icon-cache a packaging time is not how things are
supposed to be done in any case.
While here fix plist have wrong macros used there.
Reported by: antoine
After the removal of gtk-update-icon-cache, this port wrongly was
calling it at build time.
Ensure it is not needed anymore.
While here:
remove unneeded USE_GNOME=gnomeprefix and USES=gnome
add license
Reported by: antoine
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)
Saturday, 11 September 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.86.0.
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.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.86.0/
PR: 258426
Exp-run by: antoine
Simple gray themes for GTK-based desktops.
Features:
- gnome-shell is the theme for GNOME Shell. This themes stuff like the
calendar widget, the panel, the dock and more.
- gtk-2.0 contains the GTK+2 theme, styling applications that doesn't
use GTK+3 yet.
- gtk-3.0 contains the GTK+3 theme, styling most modern GTK+ applications.
- xfwm4 contains the theme that styles the xfwm4 window manager for XFCE4.
https://github.com/lassekongo83/zuki-themes
Tuesday, 31 August 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.22.5.
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a month's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* KDE GTK Config: Make sure to actually commit GSettings changes.
* KSystemStats: Fix handling of IPV6 addresses. Fixes bug #436296
* [applets/digitalclock] Let long timezones list scroll.
Fixes bug #439147
Full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.22.4-5.22.5/
- while here: reformat & sort the USES/USE_FOO lines consistently
Changelog:
* Base colors are now parsed from stylesheets provided by GTK 4
(currently GTK 4.4)
* Added variants for HighContrast and HighContrastInverse
- Made dependency on sassc explicit
Friday, 13 August 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.85.0.
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.
Full announcement and changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.85.0/
PR: 257837
Exp-run by: antoine
Saturday, 10 July 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.84.0.
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/5/5.84.0/
Exp-run by: antoine
PR: 257100
Plasma 5.22 was released in June 2021 with many feature refinements and
new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds three weeks' worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Discover: Address the keyboard shortcut tooltip.
* Sort Unsplash POTD image categories alphabetically.
* Info Center: Unbreak about CPU value when solid is missing a
product string.
[1] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.22.4/
Go another round with the dependency-cleanup:
- ECM and doctools are still more only a build-dep
- Qt testlibs is a build-dep
This touches plenty of ports outside of KDE Frameworks
that did **not** list their full dependencies and could
get away with it because frameworks pulled in too much.
