At this point we’ve got nearly all of the significant regressions from Plasma 5.18 fixed (so go file bugs if you have any new ones) and we’re starting to re-focus on fixing longstanding issues and land work for Plasma 5.19. Hopefully you’ll find something in this week’s update to feel excited about! 🙂

New Features

Dolphin’s SVN commit dialog now shows you a list of all changes that will be included in the commit (Nikolai Krasheninnikov, Dolphin 20.04.0):



Bugfixes & Performance Improvements

User Interface Improvements

Discover now has a much more friendly user interface for removing Flatpak repos: it now tells you which apps and components from that repo need to be uninstalled to remove the repo, and does so automatically if you approve (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 5.19.0):



How You Can Help

In Plasma 5.19, we really want to make a push on our Breeze Theme Evolution work. It’s proceeding, but would go faster with your help! There are tons and tons of mockups in the linked task and its child tasks, and what we really need at this point is people willing to help implement them. QML skills are helpful, and C++ is also useful for the needed work on the Breeze theme itself. If this sounds interesting to you, don’t be shy, step right up!

More generally, have a look at https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved and find out more ways to help be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

Finally, consider making a tax-deductible donation to the KDE e.V. foundation.