Last Saturday, Nate Graham started your weekly article about what's new KDE is working on showing more concern than usual. What had happened is that Plasma 5.20 had arrived with many bugs, and what is worse, the operating system that was affected the most was KDE neon, that is, the one that is based on Ubuntu LTS, but is not part of Canonical and over which they have the most control. Today, those problems will start to disappear, as it has been launched plasma 5.20.1, which is the first maintenance update in this series.
As usual, KDE has published several notes on this release, but the one that may interest us the most is the one in which they detail all changes introduced. The downside of this list is that it is long and the language they use is less clear than that used by Nate Graham in his articles, so we usually add the changes that the developer mentions in his posts on weekends, in part because he himself considered them important.
Plasma 5.20.1 Highlights
- Fixed a case where the daemon kactivitymanager it could crash over and over again.
- Blurry and partially transparent Breeze theme menus are no longer sometimes affected by a strange graphical glitch that makes the background look ugly.
- In a Wayland session, windows that were closed when in a maximized state are now reopened in the same maximized state.
- In a Wayland session, deliberately killing XWayland also does not block the entire session.
- Also in a Wayland session, the cursor is no longer clipping sometimes oddly.
- The hamburger menu for individual apps in the Audio Volume applet now works again, and the corresponding System Preferences page once again shows the correct output for a multi-output device in the Device Output combo box.
- Non-removable devices displayed in the Disks and Devices applet no longer allow attempting to unmount them and instead display a button to open them with the file manager.
- Tooltips for pinned icon-only Task Manager apps, all of whose windows are on another virtual desktop, are no longer visually corrupted.
- The circular timeout indicator in the pop-up notification is repositioned correctly when using a HiDPI scaling factor.
- 24 pixel thick panels no longer have the wrong size and spacing for systray items.
Soon in your distribution
plasma 5.20.1 is now available in code form and it's coming to the KDE neon repositories soon. Soon after, it should also reach operating systems whose development model is Rolling Release. If you are a Kubuntu user, v5.20 of the graphical environment will not reach Focal Fossa, so you will still have to wait two days until the launch of Groovy Gorilla and, from the new version, add the KDE Backports repository and update.