This week we put some of the final Plasma 6.0 bugs to rest, and continued working towards Plasma 6.1 with a variety of UI improvements. Nothing ground-breaking this week, just a slow grind of useful work towards a solid release! UI Improvements Kate now considers a file as recent when it's saved or closed, not…
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…
For years KWin has offered modifier-only shortcut handling via an obscure and undocumented method of editing the kwinrc file. Well, no more: in Plasma 6.1, KDE's shortcut choosers will accept lone modifier keys natively! This makes it much easier to, for example, re-bind what the Meta key does: now you can easily make it open…
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…