Falkon: Development Update, Spring 2023

At the moment restoring session / window is a costly operation in Falkon. this bug can be experienced with few hundred tabs and due to it Falkon can be starting for a long time. The biggest problem is that during restore operation the GUI is called and updated the (almost) same way as if user did it, just way too fast. This results in wasted operations like adding and removing the tab close button, changing the window title, changing url in location bar, recalculating the size of tabs and so on for each restored tab. While I know this now, the trick is to bypass it without breaking anything.

Disabled by default, mostly suited for smaller displays like PinePhone where it can provide few more pixels.

Long awaited feature, a while ago I tried to make it and experiment with custom painting in Qt. It looks fine on my machine! This one benefited from the future me who managed to find multiple bugs in the initial implementation, but I still failed to catch the missing translation for percentage text (Caught thanks to "Emir SARI").

Default KDE bookmarks and speeddial entries. A kind of KDE branding and making people aware of more KDE sites and projects. (By Javier Llorente),

As name says, a try to integrate Falkon downloads into Plasma things. (By Javier Llorente).

I only tested if Falkon works properly after this patch and it does, there is no crash. Sadly I am unable to test Plasma things since I do not use it, maybe in the future.

Long awaited port to Qt6 will be merged to master (after rebasing and checking) in preparation for 23.12.0 release. (By Tiernan Hubble)

Since I did not have much time in spring for this one, and this feature needs time to mature it was put on hold for a while.

Some other things are still waiting and my big feature are waiting as well, but it all takes a will and time to finish it.