We just branched for Plasma 6.1 and released the beta, which means the window to add new features has now closed. But before it did, a ton of amazing stuff snuck in! Plasma 6.1 promises to be a large and impressive release. Probably the most impactful thing is triple buffering support on Wayland! This should…
New Features On System Settings' Region & Language page, you can now choose how you'd like storage sizes to be displayed. This means you can change them to the more common MB and GB style, instead of MiB and GiB, for example. Note that the default value has not changed, but you have the option…
The floodgates are fully open and developers have started landing juicy features for Plasma 6.1! But not just that. we asked for bug reports and you folks gave us bug reports! Usually we get 30-50 per day, but now we're up to 150-200. It's kind of crazy. Now, this doesn't mean the software is actually…
This week the focus was on annoying longstanding issues, and a whole bunch of them are now history! If you've used KDE software for any significant amount of time, I bet you noticed and were annoyed by at least one of the issues mentioned below, and can now rejoice at their annihilation! This effort has…
This week we've got quite a bit of everything! Mega-release UI improvements and bug-fixes, new features for post-mega-release software, more bugfixes for KF5 software, performance improvements, better internal documentation, and impactful ecosystem improvements. Let's dive in! Post-Mega-Release KCalc now shows you the equation you just entered, in addition to the calculated result (Gabriel Barrantes, KCalc…