KDE developers were off to a busy start for the month of November. A lot of feature activity continues happening for Plasma 6.6 while a lot of bug fixing is still going on for Plasma 6.5 and related KDE components.
KDE developer Nate Graham continues doing a great job with the weekly Plasma development summaries via This Week in Plasma. With that, Plasma 6.6 continues taking shape with some of the KDE changes for this week including:
– Plasma 6.6 is bringing the ability to limit virtual desktops to only the primary screen. This option is coming via a new Plasma add-on KWin script so allow only virtual desktops on the primary screen while allowing windows on secondary screens to always stay visible.
– Plasma 6.6’s network widget adds a button for connecting to a network using a QR code.
– DrKonqi crash reporting now notices crashes for non-KDE applications.
– KDE Frameworks 6.20 also is bringing a fix where the DrKonqi crash reporter could itself crash. That could happen when clicking on the “Details” button of a notification about something else crashing.
– Support for the MHC2 tag used in ICC profiles by Microsoft Windows. In turn this should help KWin produce identical color effects to Windows. This is coming for Plasma 6.5.3.
– Hot-corner effects can now be triggered for all screens rather than just the corner of one screen.
– More crash fixes coming for Plasma 6.5.3.
– Plasma 6.6 is adding another page to the HDR calibration wizard for determining the maximum full-screen average luminance.
– Plasma 6.5.3 will improve the visual smoothness when switching modes on multi-monitor setups with VRR-capable screens.
– Plasma 6.6 will reduce Plasma’s memory usage by over 100MB by being smarter about unloading wallpaper images that aren’t needed anymore.
– Improved the robustness of drag-and-drop between XWayland windows and native Wayland windows.
More details on these many KDE Plasma changes for the first week of November via Nate Graham’s blog for This Week in Plasma.
