This was a big week for backend work, especially on the subject of power management and energy efficiency! Plasma 6 General info - Open issues: 81 New Features Welcome Center's first page can now be customized by distros or for that matter, by users (me: Nate Graham, link) User Interface Improvements The KDE desktop portal implementation…
This was a big week for KRunner! In addition, the number of open Plasma 6 issues continues to tick down. Thanks to everyone who's been making this happen! Plasma 6 General info - Open issues: 81 You can now manually configure certain types of search results in KRunner to be high priority and hence always…
This was a week of huge changes and improvements, starting with our headliner! Yes it's true, by default in Plasma 6, you'll single-click to select files and folders, and double-click to open them. The patches have now landed, done by me. This remains user-configurable, of course. But there's a whole lot more to talk about…
We're hot on the heels of Akademy 2023, which proved to be a fertile space for collaboration. As a result, in addition to the background work being done to stabilize Plasma 6, a bunch of new features landed too! Plasma & Frameworks 6 General info - Open issues: 59 Plasma now plays a sound from…
KWin developer Xaver Hugl put a lot of work into HDR support in KWin during the recent HDR hackfest and Plasma sprint, and as a result, the first parts have now been merged for the Plasma 6.0 Wayland session! This also lays the groundwork for color management on Wayland. It's an interesting and complex subject,…