Merged for Mesa 23.3 today is the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) to allow for the 'PresentOptionAsyncMayTear' option that can be used to enable tearing under (X)Wayland if desiring peak performance at the cost of possible imperfect rendering.
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…
A month has passed since the last Plasma 6 status update, so it's time for another one! First, what you've all been waiting for: a release date! We've decided that Plasma 6 will be released in early February of 2024. We don't have a specific day targeted yet, but it'll be in that timeframe. I'm…
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 week we weren't done improving input device defaults; for Plasma 6, touchpad tap-to-click is now enabled by default! If you're curious about the reasons, click that link. In addition, convergence is starting to happen. You might notice that the number of open Plasma 6 issues is lower this week than it was last week!…