Intro After getting the Selection Action Bar into a working state over the past few weeks, this week I focused on creating documentation and refactoring code to improve clarity, maintainability and make sure other contributors can build off of this work without confusion. Progress Documentation One of the most important parts of contributing to open source is writing about what you have built. Krita's documentation is maintained in a dedicated repository. This week I began drafting a merge re...| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more. --- This week we didn’t focus on features, and instead fixed bugs, improved performance, and improved the UI. There were several concerted pushes on various initiatives that bore a lot of fruit! Relatedly, if you notice that the number of high-priority bugs has risen, this is the result of recent b...| KDE Blogs
Intro Last week, I added canvas limitations to keep the Selection Action Bar within a user's view. This week, I focused on positioning the toolbar so it renders directly underneath the initial selection instead of a hard coded value on the canvas. This change improves the user experience by reducing mouse travel and making the toolbar feel more intentional and intuitive to use. Side note: This week I also added 2 buttons: 'Fill with Color' and 'Crop to Selection'. Obstacles to Implementation ...| KDE Blogs
The Amarok Development Squad is happy to announce the immediate availability of Amarok 3.3.1, the first bugfix release for Amarok 3.3 "Far Above the Clouds"! 3.3.1 features a number of minor bugfixes and code and build system cleanups. Some occasional crashes related to the new audio backend have also been fixed, and the remaining non-theme icons in user interface have been replaced. The new release also features improvements to the scripting support. Although current scripting functionality ...| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more. This week some cool features and UI improvements landed. We’re in the middle of the Plasma 6.5 development cycle, so now’s the time to get your features merged, folks! Notable New Features Plasma 6.5.0 Pages in System Settings have gained the ability to communicate with the parent app a little bi...| KDE Blogs
Intro After adding the ability to drag and reposition the Selection Action Bar on the canvas last week, I spent this week improving that interaction. I tackled the issue where users could drag the toolbar completely off-screen, making it inaccessible. This week was all about keeping the toolbar within the canvas boundaries. Side note: This week I also updated the UI to resemble the mockup concept provided from the community. Obstacles to Implementation During testing I noticed that without bo...| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more. This week something was merged for Plasma 6.5 that a lot of people have been wanting for a long time: automatic day/night theme switching! And that's not all; we’ve got more visual customizability on offer too, plus a bunch more UI improvements and bug fixes. Check it all out here: Notable New Feat...| KDE Blogs
Intro Apart from setting up a new open source project, it is important to understand how the application works in order to make the changes you need. In this blog I will go over how I find code, understand the application, and my progress so far with the Selection Action Bar. Searching code One Stop Shop for Searching Command Line grep -rn "<string_to_search>" QTCreator ctrl + f crtl + shift + f Debug in C++ code qDebug()<<"[Debug] <string_to_display_for_debugger> << <additional_parameters>; ...| KDE Blogs
Intro This week I focused on making the Selection Action Bar draggable directly on the canvas. This would let the user reposition the toolbar that is best for their workflow. Obstacles to Implementation Up to this point adding elements on Krita using Qt was straightforward however making these elements interact and respond to mouse click events needed some deeper diving. The goal of this part of the Selection Action Bar was to allow users to click and drag the tool to reposition it anywhere w...| KDE Blogs
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma! Every week we cover the highlights of what’s happening in the world of KDE Plasma and its associated apps like Discover, System Monitor, and more. This week UI and feature work for Plasma 6.5 continued to progress, along with a bunch of nice technical changes and bug fixes. Have a look: Notable New Features Plasma 6.5.0 For supported printers, plasma now tells you when the printer is low on ink! (Mike Noe, link) Notable UI Improvements Plasma 6...| KDE Blogs