After a few last weeks in which KDE has given us news such as a more intelligent lower panel or the function to avoid losing the pointer on the desktop, the development team has lowered the bar a bit. A few hours ago, this morning in Spain, Nate Graham published an article in which almost everything they have published are corrected errors, which he may know little about but it was something that had to come.
The list of bugs does not include minor bugs or even less important ones that, although they were present, in theory have hardly reached the end user, we have not experienced them. What you have below is that list with the new that has arrived in the last seven days.
Just like new functions Yes, one has come from Harald Sitter: when using automatic bug notification, the system notification that a bug has been automatically reported now also gives the opportunity to send a message to tell the developers what was doing or help them understand the context surrounding the ruling.
Bug fixes coming to KDE
- Fixed a case where Dolphin could crash when undoing a mass rename job (Akseli Lahtinen).
- Resetting the sector alignment no longer crashes Partition Manager (Andrius Štikonas).
- Language switching to European Portuguese now works correctly (Harald Sitter).
- The Recent Files page in System Preferences now allows you to highlight non-default settings (Méven Car).
- The Power Savings page of System Preferences now also allows you to highlight non-default settings (Jakob Petsovits).
- On the Screen Borders page in System Preferences, the “Remain active when windows are full screen” checkbox is now correctly highlighted when in a non-default state (Nate Graham).
- When using a touchpad to scroll through sliders in Plasma, it now scrolls in the expected direction when using inverted/”natural” scrolling (Ismael Asensio).
- When taking a screenshot in Spectacle with the “automatically copy to clipboard” option, the system notification informing you of this can now be successfully clicked to open the image in the default image viewer (Noah Davis).
- The “Add more time zones” digital clock widget popup is no longer sometimes too narrow to read the available time zones (Nate Graham).
- Fixed several window positioning issues when using the Minimize Overlay placement mode with a fractional scaling factor in the Plasma Wayland (Yifan Zhu) session.
Performance and technical
- Added support for "DMA-Fence deadlines", which should improve performance and responsiveness on systems with Intel GPUs integrated into the Plasma Wayland session (Xaver Hugl).
- The performance of the KWin Overview effect has been greatly improved; It is now much more fluid and work is being done to make it open faster as well (Vlad Zahorodnii and Marco Martin).
- Transitioning to Night Color no longer impacts performance when using certain AMD GPUs (Xaver Hugl).
- Adapted the Accounts page in System Preferences to work with Qt 6 (Nicolas Fella).
Automation and systematization
- Added a test to ensure that the animation speed adjustment works as expected (Fushan Wen).
- Added a test to ensure that wallpaper accent color extraction works correctly (Fushan Wen).
- Added a test to ensure that the time slider in the Media Controller widget works correctly (Fushan Wen).
- Added a GUI test to ensure that the About This System page in the Information Center displays data correctly (Alexander Wilms).
When will this all come to KDE?
plasma 5.27.11 It will arrive in February, I am not saying date because it can dance, Frameworks 113 should arrive later today and on February 28, 2024 Plasma 6, KDE Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 24.02.0 will arrive.
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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