The Linux community is already well acquainted with the KDE community which develops the Plasma desktop environment, KDE frameworks and KDE applications.
In addition, you may also know that in 2015 the KDE team launched a new project, Plasma Mobile, to provide a completely free, open source, privacy-enabled, and customizable platform for mobile devices.
Continuing development, the Plasma Mobile team has published Plasma Mobile updates starting in September. The report reveals several improvements and bug fixes in file dialogs, virtual keyboard, lock screen, and various applications.
As before, sandboxed apps were limited to using a plasma integration plugin for system dialogs like file dialogs, so they only need to rely on xdg -desktop-portal for this type of dialog.
But with the latest patch, plasma integration can now forward dialogue requests to xdg-desktop-portal. This means that all sandbox and non-sandbox applications now use xdg-desktop-portal.
Another update to Plasma Mobile includes a new virtual keyboard, which now uses Maliit Keyboard 2 (based on Ubuntu Keyboard) instead of QtVirtualKeyboard.
The new update also brings a rewritten lock screen with several improvements such as the short time and date, the new tablet layout, the indicator panel at the top of the lock screen and a basic notification display. .
Among the apps, the development team rewrote the KClock timer page and split the app into a daemon and a client app to reduce memory usage. Additionally, the KWeather development team created an animated background for different weather conditions in the KWeather app.
Finally, Plasma Mobile now offers Arkade, a Game Center containing a collection of games written in QtQuick. Although it is still in the early stages of development, it currently offers three games: Samegame, Connect Four Game and Play with blocks.
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