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This week in KDE: polishing up Plasma 5.19

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This week we plunged into fixing issues in Plasma 5.19 that slipped through QA as well as some older ones–a truly enormous number in all! We are taking to heart your pleas to focus on stability and polish. But of course we also worked on some new features too, because we can walk and chew bubblegum at the same time!

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Getting OSM Indoor Map Data for KDE Itinerary

  • Getting OSM Indoor Map Data for KDE Itinerary

    Before we obtain the map data we have to solve another problem first: which area do we actually want to display? In typical map applications the area that is presented is usually not constraint, you can scroll in any direction as long as you want. That’s not what we need here though, we are only interested in a single (large) building.

    Constraining the map display to that area has a number of advantages, such as having a well-defined memory bounds. Even a big station mapped in great detailed fits in a few hundred kB in OSM’s o5m binary format. That avoids the need of any kind of tile or level of detail management you’d usually need on global scope.

    It also means working with “raw” OSM data is feasible (which we need to enable all the features we want), we don’t need to reduce the level of detail of the data when sufficiently constraining the area.

    For now we have a reasonably well working heuristic that takes care of this.

KDE Plasma 5.19 Sees Many Regression Fixes, Other Work

  • KDE Plasma 5.19 Sees Many Regression Fixes, Other Work For Plasma 5.20

    KDE developers continue making much progress on enhancing their desktop through this pandemic and the nice summer weather.

    KDE's Nate Graham has published his usual weekly report on the development happenings for the trailing week. Here is a look at some of the very latest accomplishments:

    - Support for performing private/icognito searches in KRunner with the web shortcuts. KRunner also has an "arch: " shortcut for searching the Arch Linux Wiki.

The Many Features of the KDE Plasma 5.20 Desktop Environment

  • The Many Features of the KDE Plasma 5.20 Desktop Environment

    As usual, KDE developer Nate Graham is keeping us up to date with what’s going on in the Plasma world, and it looks like the KDE Plasma 5.20 desktop environment is already shaping up to be a great release with lots of new additions, as well as countless bug fixes and improvements.

    The most prominent new features included so far in Plasma 5.20 include a new icon-only task manager as default Plasma layout that’s more modern and touch-friendly, middle-click paste support on Wayland, re-written System Settings Users page, as well as the ability to unplug screens on Wayland.

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