Nate Graham, QA Developer for the KDE Project, published another report on KDE development. The most noticeable change was initiative to resolve icon issues when running applications included with the KDE Gear in non-KDE environments such as GNOME and Xfce. The problem is that when creating the interface of KDE applications, icons from the general Breeze theme are used. When running in KDE, the state of the icon theme and applications are synchronized, but in third-party environments the Breeze theme may be missing or diverge from the reference version, resulting in dialogs and widgets showing empty spaces, placeholders, or icons that are not what the application authors intended.
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As a solution to this problem, for KDE applications intended for use outside the KDE Plasma environment, functionality has been prepared for embedding the Breeze reference style and icons, which will be enabled by default, but can be overridden by the system or user. Projects Kate, Konsole and Dolphin are already planning to use this new feature. It is noteworthy that the discussion of a symmetric solution to problems encountered when running GNOME applications in KDE, is underway by GNOME developers.
Other improvements include:
- Support for displaying thumbnails for directories located on remote storages has been added to the Dolphin file manager.
- In Dolphin, when activating root mode (View/Act as Administrator menu), a warning warning about the need to be careful is now constantly displayed at the top. Improved handling of read-only files.
- The Discover application manager handles situations where an application in a Flatpak package is marked as no longer in existence and is replaced by another application. In such a situation, the user will be asked whether to leave the old application or switch to a new one.
- Spectacle screenshot software has been moved to use a generic tool tab style.
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