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KDE Gear 25.12

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Dec 11, 2025,

updated Dec 14, 2025

Quoting: KDE 🎄 Gear 25.12 - KDE Community —

Let's start with your holiday trips. Whether it is to visit family or to get away from it all, Itinerary has got you covered.

We have added over a dozen more extractors (the add-ons that allow you to process information on your tickets automatically) for railway companies, events, and more, and the newest version of Itinerary simplifies the journey planning and can automatically determine your location as the starting point.

Read on

Linuxiac:

KDE Gear 25.12 Apps Collection Delivers Holiday Updates Across Apps and Tools

KDE has released Gear 25.12, a holiday-season update that brings improvements across its applications and tools. Here’s what’s more important to note.

Itinerary receives one of the largest updates, adding more extractors for railway companies and events, along with automatic location detection for trip planning. The app now displays altitude during travel and includes a built-in currency converter, making it more useful on the move.

System tooling also sees progress. KJournald expands its capabilities by supporting loading user units in the log browser, giving users clearer insight into systemd activity without relying on command-line navigation.

How-To Geek:

KDE brings new features to Dolphin, Kate text editor, Photos, and other apps

Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents:

KDE Gear 25.12 is now available and comes with a substantial list of quality-of-life enhancements to essential apps like Dolphin and Kate. If you’re running the KDE Plasma desktop environment or using a GNU/Linux distribution, you should check out these updates.

One of the biggest beneficiaries is the Dolphin file manager, which gets a couple of really smart tweaks. For starters, when you trash temporary folders, they won’t clutter up your system trash anymore. That’s a huge win for keeping things organized. Dolphin also now supports hiding specific files and folders directly from the context menu, which is incredibly useful for tucking away configuration files you don’t need to see constantly.

Developers and power users aren’t left out either, as the Kate advanced text editor received some attention. Kate now comes with improved Git support, making it easier to see what’s happening in your projects. Specifically, the list of Git branches now shows you the latest activity, so you can quickly gauge where things stand.

9to5Linux:

KDE Gear 25.12 Software Suite Released with Many Improvements for KDE Apps

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 25.12 as the latest stable version of this open-source collection of applications for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and GNU/Linux distributions.

KDE Gear 25.12 improves the Dolphin file manager so that trashed temporary folders no longer end up in your home trash bin, along with support for hiding files and folders from the Dolphin context menu, and updates the Itinerary travel assistant with more extractors for railway companies, events, and more.

The latest KDE Itinerary release also simplifies the journey planning and automatically determines your location as the starting point. In addition, it now shows your altitude on a map, and it lets you use the built-in currency converter to buy souvenirs for your friends when you arrive at your location.

LWN:

KDE Gear 25.12 released

KDE has announced the release of KDE Gear 25.12. This release adds more "extractors" to the Itinerary travel-assistant application, improved Git support in the Kate text editor, better PDF export in Konqueror, and much more. See the changelog for all new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Planet KDE:

KDE Gear 25.12 with improved Wayland window activation for Kate & Konsole | Ignorance is bliss...

KDE Gear 25.12 got just released.

This includes my fixes (or workarounds) for Konsole & Kate window activation on Wayland.

If you now start Kate or Konsole inside Konsole, the new processes will properly activate their windows to come on top of Konsole.

This works both for just starting new instances and for re-using already running ones.

For more details, see my older post about the implementation.