Plasma Mobile: weekly update: part 9-10

The Plasma Mobile team is happy to present the blogpost with updates from week 9 and 10.

Applications

Calindori

Calindori, the calendar application, now offers a flat event view which allows to show all events in single card list view. The events are sorted by start date.

Kaidan

Kaidan, the Jabber/XMPP client, has had multiple changes merged, including a branch from pasnox to overhaul multimedia messages. This new change allows to:

Send voice and video messages from within the application.

Take photos from within the application.

Share your location in chat messages.

Play videos and sounds directly in the chats.

Kaidan also gained the capability to search through messages.

Spacebar

Jonah Brüchert merged several improvements in Spacebar, the application used to send SMS messages.

Use unicode emojis instead of a custom emoji picker.

Added a loading animation in the chats page.

Fix display of phone numbers and contact names. Previously in some cases just Javascript’s undefined was displayed.

was displayed. Some general visual improvements on the conversation page. There is more space for messages and the input field has a more chat-app like design.

Spacebar was updated in postmarketOS by Bhushan Shah so that SMS now works correctly on supported devices.

Plasma Phonebook

Nicolas Fella committed a change to sort the contacts list and add section delegates. It now also shows the fallback avatar if a contact doesn’t have a picture.

Plasma Settings

Aleix Pol committed a change to save settings before closing a page as well as a change to call ::load on the configuration module. These two changes fix the translations KCM on mobile.

Want to be part of it?

Next time your name could be here! To find out the right task for you, from promotion to core system development, check out Find your way in Plasma Mobile. We are also always happy to welcome new contributors on our public channels. See you there!