Sunday, 12 February 2023
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.103.0.
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/5/5.103.0/
PR: 269526
Exp-run by: antoine
PlasmaTube allows you to watch YouTube videos on your phone or desktop using a
elegant user interface integrated with the rest of Plasma.
WWW: https://apps.kde.org/plasmatube/
This software has been abandoned by the author and is not longer
available from an official repository. A verbatim copy exists on
GitHub, and the port is modified to be fetched from that repository.
This port is broken since it depends on audio resample functions that
have been deprecated in 2013 and removed from the ffmpeg sources in
2017, and therefore does not build.
The port is marked deprecated and to be removed after 2023-03-31.
If somebody wants to fix the port I'll accept patches (or transder
maintainership, since I do not use this software anymore).
Reported by: pkg-fallout
ChangeLog: https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-media-server/30447/554
NEW:
* Detect end credits markers for movies and episodes (Plex Pass required)
* Allow using end credits markers to determine fully watched state for movies
and episodes (Plex Pass required)
* (Linux) Automatic library updates are now triggered by filesystem permissions
and ownership changes
FIXES:
* (DVR) Some audio or subtitle streams could fail to be captured on channels
with multiple audio or subtitle services
* (IntroDetection) Detection may timeout on very slow systems causing items
to retry indefinitely
* (Transcoder) Transcoding from AV1 could take a very long time to start when
a GPU that did not support it was present
PR: 269541
Reported by: b.shertenlieb@yahoo.com (maintainer)
Today is 💖 Free Software Day and what better way to celebrate than with
a brand new version of Plasma! The KDE team expressing their ❤ for Free
Software
Plasma 5.27 brings exciting new improvements to your desktop, and the
first thing you'll notice when firing up Plasma is our new Konqi-powered
wizard which will guide you through setting up the desktop.
Other big new features include a window tiling system, a more stylish
app theme, cleaner and more usable tools, and widgets that give you more
control over your machine.
Additionally, Plasma 5.27 is a Long Term Support version with tons of
stability work and bugfixes, so you can feel the warm and stable 💘 from
the KDE community forever... Or at least until the next LTS rolls around
in 2024!
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.0/
Details:
- clang15 performs stricter checks for pointer conversions, some
questionable conversions graduated from warnings to errors
- Fixes multimedia/mencoder builds as well
MFH: 2023Q1
www/writefreely had a stray duplicate MAINTAINER block
from an earlier botched commit. I did intentionally not
touch the entry in UPDATING.
Reviewed by: eduardo, flo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D38435
All About the Widgets
Plasma 5.26 comes with new and tweaked widgets, improves the desktop
experience leaps and bounds, and Plasma Big Screen's app family grows
Tuesday, 11 October 2022
Even with a bare-bones installation, Plasma lets you customize your
desktop a lot. If you want more, there is always Plasma’s vast ecosystem
of widgets. Widgets add features and utilities to the Plasma desktop and
today you can find out all the stuff you can do and what’s new for
widgets in Plasma 5.26.
Widgets are not the only thing to look forward to in Plasma 5.26: check
out all the new stuff landing on the desktop designed to make using
Plasma easier, more accessible and enjoyable, as well as the two new
utilities for Plasma Big Screen, KDE’s interface for smart TVs.
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.26.0/
KDE: Update KDE Plasma Desktop to 5.26.5
Thursday, 2 February 2023
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:
* dolphin: Don't recurse into symlinks when counting directory contents
(Commit, fixes bug #434125)
* kdeconnect: Fix ssh authentication using pubkey on recent openssh
versions (Commit, fixes bug #443155)
* libkdegames: Fix finding knewstuff themes (Commit, fixes bug #464288)
Announcement: https://kde.org/announcements/gear/22.12.2/
