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    "KDE apps",
    "Marknote",
    "office/marknote MR #91",
    "office/marknote MR #90",
    "office/marknote MR #110",
    "office/marknote MR #109",
    "office/marknote MR #111",
    "office/marknote MR #115",
    "office/marknote MR #112",
    "office/marknote MR #108",
    "office/marknote MR #104",
    "office/marknote MR #99",
    "office/marknote MR #144",
    "office/marknote MR #122",
    "office/marknote MR #146",
    "office/marknote MR #142",
    "office/marknote MR #143",
    "Drawy",
    "graphics/drawy MR #295",
    "graphics/drawy MR #193",
    "graphics/drawy MR #345",
    "graphics/drawy MR #352",
    "graphics/drawy MR #372",
    "graphics/drawy MR #258",
    "graphics/drawy MR #285",
    "graphics/drawy MR #322",
    "graphics/drawy MR #380",
    "Okular",
    "graphics/okular MR #1324",
    "graphics/okular MR #1312",
    "KDE Itinerary",
    "pim/itinerary MR #413",
    "Hostel World",
    "GetYourGuide",
    "FRS ferries",
    "FCM flights",
    "French TER",
    "Gomus annual tickets",
    "blog post about all the other improvements in the Itinerary/Transitous ecosystem",
    "Akonadi",
    "pim/kdepim-runtime MR #154",
    "pim/akonadi MR #311",
    "Merkuro Calendar",
    "pim/merkuro MR #608",
    "pim/merkuro MR #610",
    "pim/merkuro MR #611",
    "pim/merkuro MR #609",
    "pim/merkuro MR #579",
    "Merkuro Mail",
    "pim/mimetreeparser MR #90",
    "Kdenlive",
    "multimedia/kdenlive MR #816",
    "Photos",
    "graphics/koko MR #267",
    "Kasts",
    "multimedia/kasts MR #315",
    "multimedia/kasts MR #305",
    "AudioTube",
    "multimedia/audiotube MR #179",
    "Kate",
    "utilities/kate MR #2044",
    "KomoDo",
    "utilities/komodo MR #72",
    "Clock",
    "utilities/kclock MR #244",
    "utilities/kclock MR #243",
    "NeoChat",
    "network/neochat MR #2488",
    "network/neochat MR #2671",
    "network/neochat MR #2727",
    "network/neochat MR #2687",
    "Tokodon",
    "network/tokodon MR #796",
    "Journald Browser",
    "system/kjournald MR #79",
    "libraries/kirigami-addons MR #421",
    "libraries/kirigami-addons MR #410",
    "libraries/kirigami-addons MR #419",
    "libraries/kirigami-addons MR #434",
    "libraries/kirigami-addons MR #431",
    "This Week in Plasma",
    "Plasma desktop environment",
    "KDE's Planet",
    "getting involved",
    "donating",
    "invent",
    "Matrix"
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  "textContent": "#### A lot of progress in Marknote and Drawy, a new homepage for Audiotube, and a rich text editor in NeoChat\n\nWelcome to a new issue of \"This ~~Week~~ Month in KDE Apps\"! Every week (or so) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.\n\nIt's been a while since the last issue, so I'll try my best to summarize all the big things that happened recently.\n\n## Office Applications\n\n### Marknote Write down your thoughts\n\nA lot happened in Marknote. We released version 1.4.0 of Marknote, which contains a large number of bug fixes. It also includes a few new features. Siddharth Chopra implemented undo and redo in the sketch editor office/marknote MR #91 and Valentyn Bondarenko made it possible to drag and drop images inside Marknote office/marknote MR #90. Valentyn has also been busy fixing many bugs and improving the stability of Marknote.\n\nIn the development branch even more happened. Shubham Shinde added a note counter to the notebook sidebar indicating the number of notes in each notebook office/marknote MR #110. Additionally, Shubham implemented text search inside a note office/marknote MR #109; drag-and-drop support for moving notes between notebooks office/marknote MR #111; internal wiki links between notebooks office/marknote MR #115; a table of contents panel office/marknote MR #112; and a button to copy the whole note content office/marknote MR #108.\n\nValentyn Bondarenko further improved the drag-and-drop support for images, which now supports multiple images at once office/marknote MR #104; made image loading async office/marknote MR #99; ported some custom `FormCardDelegate`s to the newer standardized delegates now available in Kirigami Addons office/marknote MR #144 office/marknote MR #122; added support for code blocks office/marknote MR #146 and block quotes office/marknote MR #142; significantly improved support for tables office/marknote MR #143; and delivered an even bigger list of bug fixes, code refactoring, and UI polish.\n\nA new release should follow soon :)\n\n### Drawy Your handy, infinite brainstorming tool\n\nDrawy saw a massive wave of improvements and new features this month. Prayag delivered a major UI overhaul that includes a new hamburger menu graphics/drawy MR #295; improved zoom and undo/redo controls graphics/drawy MR #193; and a more uniform appearance across the app. He also improved the saving mechanism to correctly remember the last used file graphics/drawy MR #345.\n\nLaurent Montel was busy expanding the app's core capabilities, implementing a brand-new plugin system to make adding new tools much easier graphics/drawy MR #352; Laurent also added a color scheme menu to switch themes graphics/drawy MR #372, and introduced the ability to customize keyboard shortcuts.\n\nNikolay Kochulin greatly enhanced how you interact with content, adding support for styluses with erasers and the ability to export your finished canvas to SVG graphics/drawy MR #258; Nikolay also made bringing media into Drawy a breeze by adding support for copying and pasting items, pasting images directly graphics/drawy MR #285, and dragging and dropping content straight onto the canvas graphics/drawy MR #322.\n\nFinally, Abdelhadi Wael polished the visual experience by making the canvas background automatically detect and respect the system's current light or dark mode theme graphics/drawy MR #380.\n\n### Okular View and annotate documents\n\nJaimukund Bhan added a setting to open the last viewed page when reopening a document graphics/okular MR #1324.\n\nAjay Sharma made it possible to open embedded file attachments in Okular graphics/okular MR #1312.\n\n## Travel Applications\n\n### KDE Itinerary Digital travel assistant\n\nCarl Schwan modernized some dialogs to be more convergent using Kirigami Addons' `ConvergentContextMenu` pim/itinerary MR #413.\n\nAs always, there were also improvements in terms of ticket support. Carl Schwan improved support for Hostel World, GetYourGuide, and FRS ferries. Volker Krause improved support for FCM flights and French TER. Tobias Fella added support for Gomus annual tickets.\n\nVolker Krause also posted a blog post about all the other improvements in the Itinerary/Transitous ecosystem.\n\n## PIM Applications\n\n### Akonadi Background service for KDE PIM apps\n\nWe removed support for Kolab. If you are using Kolab with KMail, you will need to reconfigure your account with a normal IMAP/DAV account pim/kdepim-runtime MR #154.\n\nWe also switched the default database backend to SQLite for new installations pim/akonadi MR #311.\n\n### Merkuro Calendar Manage your tasks and events with speed and ease\n\nZhora Zmeikin fixed a crash when editing or creating a new incidence (25.12.3 - pim/merkuro MR #608).\n\nYuki Joou fixed various small issues in Merkuro Calendar (25.12.3 - pim/merkuro MR #610, pim/merkuro MR #611, pim/merkuro MR #609, pim/merkuro MR #579).\n\n### Merkuro Mail Read and write emails\n\nCarl Schwan added basic support for displaying travel reservations in the mail view pim/mimetreeparser MR #90.\n\n## Creative Applications\n\n### Kdenlive Video editor\n\nSwastik Patel and Jean-Baptiste Mardelle added support for showing animated previews in the transition list (26.04.0 - multimedia/kdenlive MR #816).\n\n## Multimedia Applications\n\n### Photos Image Gallery\n\nValentyn Bondarenko added support for the standard zoom-in and zoom-out shortcuts in Photos (26.04.0 - graphics/koko MR #267).\n\n### Kasts Podcast application\n\nBart De Vries refactored the sync engine to be a bit more efficient (26.04.0 - multimedia/kasts MR #315 multimedia/kasts MR #305).\n\n### AudioTube YouTube Music app\n\nCarl Schwan added a home and explore pages to Audiotube (multimedia/audiotube MR #179) and ported the convergent context menu to the standardized one in Kirigami Addons.\n\n## Utilities Applications\n\n### Kate Advanced text editor\n\nLeia uwu added a way to clear the search history (26.04.0 - utilities/kate MR #2044).\n\n### KomoDo Work on To-Do lists\n\nAkseli Lahtinen released Komodo 1.6.0 utilities/komodo MR #72. This release adds Markdown-style inline links, fixes some parsing issues, and removes the monospace font from tasks.\n\n### Clock Keep time and set alarms\n\nMicah Stanley added a lockscreen overlay for the timer utilities/kclock MR #244 and improved the existing one for the alarms utilities/kclock MR #243.\n\n## Network Applications\n\n### NeoChat Chat on Matrix\n\nJames Graham rewrote the text editor of NeoChat to be a powerful rich text editor (network/neochat MR #2488). James also marked threading as ready, and this feature is no longer hidden behind a feature flag (network/neochat MR #2671); improved the avatar settings (network/neochat MR #2727); and, as always, delivered a lot of polishing all around the place.\n\nJoshua Goins improved the messaging around various encryption key options (network/neochat MR #2687).\n\n### Tokodon Browse the Fediverse\n\nAleksander Szczygieł fixed replying to posts with multiple mentions (network/tokodon MR #796).\n\n## System Applications\n\n### Journald Browser Browser for journald databases\n\nAndreas Cord-Landwehr introduced a common view for system and user unit logs (system/kjournald MR #79).\n\n## Supporting libraries\n\n### Kirigami Addons 1.12.0\n\nCarl Schwan released Kirigami Addons 1.12.0.\n\nGeorge Florea Bănuș added some missing `description` and `trailing` properties to a few of the `FormCard` delegate components (libraries/kirigami-addons MR #421, libraries/kirigami-addons MR #410). Carl Schwan made the configuration dialog modal (libraries/kirigami-addons MR #419). Hannah Kiekens fixed the templates for `KAppTemplate` (libraries/kirigami-addons MR #434). Volker Krause made the date and time picker locale-aware and fixed some issues with RTL layouts (libraries/kirigami-addons MR #431).\n\n## …And Everything Else\n\nThis blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out This Week in Plasma, which covers all the work being put into KDE's Plasma desktop environment every Saturday.\n\nFor a complete overview of what's going on, visit KDE's Planet, where you can find all KDE news unfiltered directly from our contributors.\n\n## Get Involved\n\nThe KDE organization has become important in the world, and your time and contributions have helped us get there. As we grow, we're going to need your support for KDE to become sustainable.\n\nYou can help KDE by becoming an active community member and getting involved. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE — you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to be a programmer either. There are many things you can do: you can help hunt and confirm bugs, even maybe solve them; contribute designs for wallpapers, web pages, icons and app interfaces; translate messages and menu items into your own language; promote KDE in your local community; and a ton more things.\n\nYou can also help us by donating. Any monetary contribution, however small, will help us cover operational costs, salaries, travel expenses for contributors and, in general, keep KDE continue bringing Free Software to the world.\n\nTo get your application mentioned here, please ping us in invent or in Matrix.",
  "title": "This Month in KDE Apps"
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