KDE developers have been busy ending out the month of November with a number of new features and fixes queued up for next year’s Plasma 6.6 desktop release.
On top of announcing plans to go Wayland-exclusive in Plasma 6.8, KDE developers spent time during this last week of November to land more features for Plasma 6.6. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly feature recap with some of the interesting changes for the week including:
– Plasma 6.6 is introducing new global actions for seeking forwards or backwards 5 or 30 seconds of currently playing media. This works for apps supporting seeking via MPRIS. There isn’t any default keyboard shortcuts set but the new actions are up to the user to configure if desired.
– Plasma 6.6 continues polishing the XDG portal dialogs:
– KDE Info Center’s SMART status page now has an improved appearance and usability.
– Improved usability of searching using the Kickoff Application Launcher.
– With Frameworks 6.21, the headers of Kirigami-based apps are now the same height as Qt Widgets based apps.
– Plasma 6.5.4 is fixing a random Plasma crash.
– Plasma 6.6 implements X11’s RandR emulation in KWin for this Resize and Rotate extension. This allows better behavior for XWayland-using apps making use of the X11 APIs for handling screen resolution changes. A great addition for further enhancing X11 apps under XWayland with Plasma.
– Support for the standard “reduced motion” setting to let apps know you’d like any animations kept to a minimum.
– Various other bug fixes.
More details on this week’s KDE Plasma 6.6 changes via Nate’s blog.
