Excellent progress was made this week towards the goal of full sound theme support in Plasma 6, among other topics including some important performance work for KWin! Plasma 6 General info - Open issues: 70 Significantly reduced cursor latency under heavy load in the Plasma Wayland session! (Xaver Hugl, link) System Settings gained a page to…
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…
This week Plasma 6 underwent some major refactoring to the fundamental Plasma widget APIs to modernize them and make it harder to introduce errors when developing new widgets. Since almost everything in Plasma is a widget, this necessitated a lot of changes and QA. After a month of work, it's now done! The user-facing side…
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,…
In addition to the changes made and announced during the recent Plasma Sprint at Tuxedo Computers' offices in Augsburg, lots of other things have been brewing as well! New Features Kate now supports Godot Engine's Language Server Protocol (Michael Alexsander, Kate 23.08. Link) In Okular, you can now copy an annotation's text to the clipboard…