NVIDIA isn't the best fit for Linux graphics. Although everything improves over time, it is the root of many problems, especially if an environment such as KDE. Even so, and as we have mentioned, things are gradually improving, and this year, coinciding with the launch of Plasma 6, another step will be taken for users of these famous graphics cards.
What Nate Graham has advanced in his weekly article on new arrivals in KDE is that the color night feature will work as expected in Wayland when using an NVIDIA GPU under Wayland. The developer has explained that since NVIDIA drivers do not support the Gamma LUT functions necessary to make it work optimally as on Intel or AMD GPUs, they have had to use a different approach that is not as efficient. But they're hoping that's better than nothing.
User interface improvements coming to KDE
- KRunner's search results for very short 2 and 3 character strings should now be a bit better and more relevant (Alexander Lohnau, Plasma 5.27.6).
- The System Preferences sidebar now has better keyboard navigation, allowing you to use the arrow keys instead of the tab keys if you prefer, or if you're using a device with a d-pad and no tab keys obvious (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 5.27.6).
- In the Plasma Wayland session, when a KWin effect is activated with a touchpad gesture in a certain direction, the opposite gesture deactivates it (Aleix Pol Gonzalez, Plasma 6.0).
- The System Preferences File Search page has been visually revised and now has a nicer look (Nate Graham and Helden Hoierman, Plasma 6.0):
- Tooltips that display window previews in the Task Manager no longer turn off on their own while the cursor is hovering over a task, similar to the behavior of other tooltips elsewhere (Nate Graham, Plasma 6).
Correction of minor bugs
- Spectacle's sidebar is no longer too narrow to accommodate long button text in some languages ​​(Yoann Laissus, Spectacle 23.04.2).
- When using a horizontal bottom panel, the thumbnails of Task Manager tooltip windows no longer sometimes appear in the wrong location (Bharadwaj Raju, Plasma 5.27.6).
- In the Plasma X11 session, dragging files to Task Manager Tasks in such a way that you end up right-clicking while still dragging no longer sometimes causes drag and drop to break (Fushan Wen, Plasma 5.27.6) .
- In the Plasma Wayland session, some blurry and transparent Breeze-themes context menus no longer sometimes show strange visual glitches (Mouse Zhang, Plasma 5.27.6).
- When KDE applications run in dark mode on non-Plasma desktops where the plasma-integration package is not installed, Breeze icons will now correctly use light colors instead of staying dark and becoming unreadable (Jan Grulich, Frameworks 5.107).
- When the system is configured with an encrypted home directory, file and folder thumbnails will now be stored in their typical cache location in your home directory, preventing them from having to be re-generated each time (Payton Quinn, Frameworks 5.107) .
This list is a summary of the fixed bugs. The complete lists of bugs are on the pages of 15 minute bug, very high priority bugs and overall list. This week a total of 76 bugs have been fixed.
When will this all come to KDE?
plasma 5.27.6 will arrive on Tuesday June 20, KDE Frameworks 107 should arrive on the 10th of the same month and there is no confirmed date on Frameworks 6.0. KDE Gear 23.04.2 will be available on June 8, 23.08 will arrive in August and Plasma 6 will arrive in the second half of 2023. Although there is no confirmed date, the release has been prepared. page where they will report about the releases of the next version of Plasma.
To enjoy all this as soon as possible we have to add the repository backports of KDE, use an operating system with special repositories like Kde neon or any distribution whose development model is Rolling Release.
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