Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma!
This week Spectacle gained OCR (optical character recognition) functionality, allowing you to turn words in images into selectable text!
Ooh, if the OCR works really well, then that would help as I no longer need an external ones. Does it use tesseract, and if so, what models and languages are used? Can user change them? I often use OCR on English, Indonesian, and Japanese (horizontal and vertical) languages you see.
Renaming a file or folder on the desktop now lets it keep its existing position. (Błażej Szczygieł, link)
This is also very helpful! An annoyance on Windows but also on Linux as well when I’m renaming a lot of files. Thanks!
When an app asks to register keyboard shortcuts on launch and you don’t let it, this preference is now remembered, instead of the annoying app just asking again the next time it launches.
Hm, what if someone accidentally declines or just hurriedly click decline because they just want to do something else? I think a “Don’t ask again” toggle would help - I for one think it’s better to add that one extra click for permanent permissions, it’s an annoyance and people might just eventually auto-pilot it, but the extra one click might get more people to think from time to time.
Another thing that could help is a permission request log of some sort. Is there already such a thing implemented or being worked on?
But overall a really great list of improvements. Thank you for everyone’s hardwork!
I know this is not a feature request page, but, I would love to see inside the new device notification the mounting point, or the serial device inserted (e.g. /dev/USB0) or screen 1. I know it can be done easily, as I had that in my own implementation before this was implemented.
Regards,
Loren
It is FOSS, you can check by yourself and tell the world: Add OCR functionality to Spectacle (!462) · Merge requests · Plasma / Spectacle · GitLab
Allowing users to extract text from screenshots using Tesseract OCR engine.
The video shows how one can change the language used.
Although the available languages depend on your tesseract installation.
Nate, are there any planned updates or planned feature enhancements to the Plasma Keyboard? I just started using it instead of Maliit on my Surface Pro tablet PC. Just like with Maliit, Plasma Keyboard is missing features needed to support Plasma and Linux desktop computing, like function keys, special keys (Alt, Tab, etc), and arrow keys. I’m willing to test new features for Plasma Keyboard and provide feedback, if needed.
Plasma Keyboard is, to my knowledge, a fairly actively developed project. I recall that emulation of physical modifier and other special keys is planned in some capacity. But I’m not active in the project, so all I have is that fuzzy impression, sorry!
Maybe offtopic, but is KDE planning to change anything in Plasma for the Steam Frame’s desktop mode? Does KDE (or Techpaladin) have access to the upcoming Steam Hardware currently?