The KDE Project today announced the general availability of KDE Frameworks 5.92 as a monthly update for March 2022 to this open source collection of over 80 Qt add-on libraries providing common functionality for the Plasma desktop and related applications. .
KDE Frameworks 5.92 is here to make your favorite file manager even better, Dolphinfixing bugs that caused it to crash when dragging files or folders above the Locations panel, as well as when closing the “Create New File” file dialog in a remote location.
Speaking of the Places panel, you can now drag a file or folder onto an item in the Places panel to open the corresponding location in the main view. Also, if the item in the Locations panel is an unmounted disk, it will automatically mount when you drag a file or folder onto it.
KRunner, on the other hand, has received a few new web search queries and is now able to convert teaspoons and tablespoons to each other, as well as other units.
The Spectacle screenshot utility has also been improved in KDE Frameworks 5.92 and now installs the popular O.B.S. Studio screen recording and streaming software when using the “Install” function under Tools > Record Screen > OBS Studio.
Among other notable changes, it is now possible to launch DBus-enabled GTK3 applications in the Plasma Wayland session, errors in open/save dialogs are now shown inline, and there is a new “Find Action” context menu in the Help menu of each KDE Application to improve the discoverability of KCommandBar.
For QtQuick-based applications, KDE Frameworks 5.92 improves scrolling views with text to not prevent visual glitches when the view scrolls very slowly (one pixel at a time), adds the ability to instantly apply font changes, and fixes a performance issue to make they use slightly less CPU resources.
For Kirigami apps, this release improves the rightmost scrollbars for apps that use side drawers and makes Kirigami FormLayout section headers bold to visually stand out from their section content.
For Kate, KDevelop, and other KTextEditor-based applications, KDE Frameworks 5.92 improves the way they differentiate between files with the same filename that are opened in tabs.
Other than that, this release fixes some memory leaks in KDE applications that use the Solid framework as well as when undoing in-progress move or copy operations. A bug that caused the Plasma desktop to crash when copying certain text to the clipboard has also been fixed.
Also added in KDE Frameworks 5.92 is the ability to open a requested Info Center page in a separate window when clicking a button in system tray applets when the Info Center is not installed. For more details on the changes included in this new KDE Frameworks update, see the release notes.
In the meantime, if you use the latest KDE Plasma desktop environmentit is strongly recommended that you update your installations to the 5.92.0 KDE framework packages as soon as they arrive in the stable software repositories of your favorite GNU/Linux distribution.
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