Kai Uwe (KDE): Looking Back at 2022
Depending on your calendar system, another year is coming to a close very soon. While this year was a lot more enjoyable for many of us than the last two, we surely didn’t expect things to go downhill even more for others. As I am looking forward to some days off with my family, let me take a step back and reflect on some of the things I did in KDE in the last twelve months.
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One of my personal goals is for every file type imaginable to have a thumbnailer, metadata extractor, or at least a lovely Breeze icon and file type registration in shared-mime-info to go with it. This year I spent a lot of time in our KFileMetaData Framework, which is what extracts metadata from files for the file manager sidebar, file properties dialog, and our Baloo desktop search. For starters, today we’re able to index OpenDocument files of the “Flat XML” variant, where all data is in a single XML file, rather than bundled as a ZIP archive. Open Document Graphics vector images are also supported now. Additionally, for Office 2007 files line and word count is recorded.