KDE Plasma developers continue to be busy landing more fixes for the recently introduced Plasma 6.5 while also lining up more new features for Plasma 6.6.
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly status update of interesting Plasma developments with This Week in Plasma. Some of the key highlights for KDE Plasma this week included:
- More bug fixing for early regressions on Plasma 6.5. Plasma 6.5.2 is coming out on Tuesday with it hopefully having “all the important stuff sorted” for those early Plasma 6.5 bugs. Among the fixes coming in Plasma 6.5.2 are more crash fixes.
- Plasma 6.6 will add suppor…
KDE Plasma developers continue to be busy landing more fixes for the recently introduced Plasma 6.5 while also lining up more new features for Plasma 6.6.
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly status update of interesting Plasma developments with This Week in Plasma. Some of the key highlights for KDE Plasma this week included:
- More bug fixing for early regressions on Plasma 6.5. Plasma 6.5.2 is coming out on Tuesday with it hopefully having “all the important stuff sorted” for those early Plasma 6.5 bugs. Among the fixes coming in Plasma 6.5.2 are more crash fixes.
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Plasma 6.6 will add support for configuring your preferred level of visual boldness for frames and outlines around Breeze UI elements.
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Preparations for the Intel-led effort around DRM adaptive sharpness property. Plasma 6.6 paired with a future supported kernel version will allow adjusting the visual sharpness of all content on the screen. On the hardware side Intel’s adaptive sharpness capabilities require Lunar Lake graphics or newer.
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Plasma 6.6 is implementing the USB portal for sandboxed apps to request access to USB devices.
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Various System Settings improvements for Plasma 6.6.
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Plasma 6.6’s virtual desktop limit has been raised from 20 to 25 to allow creating 5 x 5 grids.
More details on the many interesting changes this week via This Week in Plasma.