The project KDE continues its usual pace of squashing bugs while working on new features for the future. Seven days ago, Nate Graham He told us They had "destroyed" all the high-priority bugs, and a few hours ago they gave us some very bad news: they've gone from zero to now having... one. While there's only one, you can go to the bug list to see that it's a bug where "sometimes the screen lock fails to unlock the screen and shows an 'Unlock' button that does nothing."
For everything else, it seems clear that Plasma 6.4 will arrive with many tweaks to the user interface. This is the area that is showing the most changes week after week, although many of these improvements are minor tweaks. What follows is the list with the news of the last seven days, not counting the errors so that this type of article doesn't become too long.
What's New in KDE
Plasma 6.4 User Interface
- Sticky Notes widgets that live in a panel can now have their popup window open, just like most panel popups.
- Notifications no longer switch to scientific notation when displaying extremely large numbers; they now always display normal numbers.
- The Bug Report Wizard user interface has been polished to improve its design, appearance, and text clarity.
- If you change the cursor blink rate (currently a hidden setting, but it may be exposed in the GUI), this preference will now also be synced across GTK-based applications.
- The KWin Zoom effect and Plasma Desktop mouse wheel actions are now much easier to trigger and end when scrolling with a touchpad or a mouse with a high-resolution scroll wheel.
- Persistent notifications can now be sent to the notification history in case we no longer want to see them, but keep them for later, for example, for timers.
- Visual improvements to account details in portal-based dialog responses.
- Sound themes can now be applied with a double-click, just like other items on the grid-based theme picker pages in System Settings.
KDE Framework 6.14
- Telegram System Tray icons are now Breeze-themed again when using the Breeze Icon theme and Telegram version 5.12.4 or later.
Performance and technical
- System Monitor and its widgets are now able to retrieve statistics from Intel GPUs.
- Slightly improved KWin's startup speed by not having to uselessly calculate font metrics for something that doesn't really need to be adjusted with font size anyway.
- Refactored portal-based dialogs in a way that eliminates a whole class of crashes, both real and potential.
- Plasma is virtually silent in its logging output.
As for bugs, there is 1 high priority bug and 18 bugs that are 15 minutes old.
KDE Plasma 6.3.5 is expected to arrive on Tuesday, May 6th, Plasma 6.4 on June 17th, and Frameworks 6.13 on April 11th.
Images and content: KDE blog.