Right ahead of the holidays, KDE Gear 24.12 is out to deliver four months worth of refinements to the KDE desktop applications.

KDE Gear 24.12 released this morning with a variety of enhancements to these KDE desktop applications. Some of the notable changes in KDE Gear 24.12 include:

- The Okular document viewer has improvements for digitally signing documents and other new features.

- The Kleopatra certificate manager and crypto app has a redesigned notepad and signing encryption dialog area.

- The Kdenlive video editor has added new features like being able to resize multiple items on the timeline at the sane time.

- There's been renewed efforts on improving the Kwave sound editor and porting it to Qt6.

- Various accessibility and usability improvements to the Dolphin file manager.

- The KCron task scheduler's configuration page was migrated to QML and given new UI improvements.

- Bluetooth support for KDE Connect is now working for interfacing with your mobile devices.

- The KRDC RDP/VNC remote desktop program now works much better on Wayland.

- The Marble virtual globe software was ported to Qt6.

- The NeoChat Matrix chat program has a nicer emoji picker, new UI/UX enhancements, and other new settings.

- The Kate text editor has many smaller improvements to enhance the overall user experience.

More details on the KDE Gear 24.12 release via the announcement on [1]KDE.org .



[1] https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0/